Suspended Kickstarter Says They’re In An ‘Information War’ With Russia

With barely two days left in its controversial Kickstarter campaign to bring “a definitive spiritual successor to the cult hit S.T.A.L.K.E.R.” into the world, Areal developer West Games had the rug pulled out from underneath it yesterday when its project was suddenly suspended. But that hasn’t stopped the Ukrainian developer from trying to bring its…

A Shooter Where You Have To Cheat To Win

“Hey, stop looking at my screen!” is a pretty common refrain when people are playing competitive multiplayer games in the same room. In Screencheat, it’s the only way to win. The competitive multiplayer shooter may, at first glance, look like any other (albeit 17 million times more colorful), but there’s a twist: everybody is invisible.…

‘Quake Is Good For You’

Nowadays many video game ads are loud, in-your-face, and teeth-grittingly serious. Back in the day, though, developer id Software made the original Quake—an unabashedly gore-spattered first-person shooter—look like the perfect Christmas present for grandma and the whole (weirdly creepy) family. Courtesy of imgur user Paperkut, these Quake magazine ads from the ’90s are shotgun blasts…

I Wish Every Oculus Rift Demo Looked This Cool

I’ve seen lots of Oculus Rift-enabled games that offer players a glimpse (or more) inside immersive-looking spaceships and monster-infested hallways. The ideas that truly excite me, however, come from more experimental kinds of games that invite players to experience their own bodies from a new vantage point. Daniel Ernst’s The Shoebox Diorama does this in…

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The Uncharted Movie Snatches Spider-Man 3‘s Release Date

With the third Spidey movie pushed back to 2018 to squeeze in The Sinister Six movie, Nathan Drake’s turn on the big screen is slated to fill Spider-Man 3‘s June 10, 2016 spot. I smell a conspiracy. Here’s how things are going down, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Spider-Man 3 and 4 were originally scheduled…

A Pokémon-Style Game For Those of You Without A Nintendo System

It’s easy to blame nostalgia for the special place in our hearts that the original Pokémon games occupy, but Red and Blue genuinely have a lot of great elements that the modern games in the franchise don’t really offer anymore. Enter Collectems, a new game that blends what made Pokémon Red and Blue so great,…

Show Us Your Favorite Batman Story

According to DC Comics, it’s Batman Day today. So let’s talk about your favorite stories featuring the Dark Knight. For me, like loads of other fans, it’s really hard to pin it down from just one Batman story. I’m already on the record as a big fan of Venom, the 1991 story from the Legends…

The classic puzzle game The Room is finally making its way from the iPad to the PC next week. Developer Fireproof Games also said that the new version will be done in “fully enhanced HD.” So you know you’ll have something pretty to look at when you’re pulling your hair out in frustration!

Deals: PSN Play 2014, Humble Square-Enix Bundle, PC Parts Gold Box

This summer’s PSN Play promo begins next week with four big titles making (mostly) debuts across Sony’s three consoles in an ultra combo of Playstation Plus pre-order discounts, 3-way cross-buy, and a PSN credit reward for buying two games or more. Rogue Legacy and The Swapper are basically insta-buys if you don’t already have them,…

This Robot Is Probably Better Than You At Hearthstone

Last season in Hearthstone, Blizzard’s digital card drug, I hit rank 14 or 15—an impressive feat, I thought, considering I hadn’t bought any card packs since I started playing back in April. Here is video footage of a robot that just got to rank 4. 🙁 [via Reddit]