Good News, Vault Dwellers: The classic PC role-playing games Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics are once again available on Steam. All three games were pulled from online stores earlier this year after Bethesda obtained rights to the series from Interplay. No word yet on whether they’ll be back on GOG as well, but we’ve…

Watch Dogs Patch Promises Fixes for PlayStation, Xbox, PC Players

Watch Dogs ‘ first major patch is coming soon, says publisher Ubisoft. As soon as next week, players on various platforms will see improvements in the way the hit game looks and plays. Details on the patch appeared the company’s support forums today, listing fixes for players on PlayStation, Xbox and PC platforms. The update…

One iPhone Game That’s Worse With An Xbox Controller

When it comes to mobile gaming, there’s one complaint that has bubbled up for years now, and never seems to go away: touchscreen controls are a pain in the ass. See, for a lot of games, those touch-based controls are just straight-up inferior to buttons and joysticks, and to many gamers, recent iOS ports like…

The Amazing Story Of A Game That Took 13 Years To Make

Adam Butcher has spent half his life making a single game. Today, you can finally play it—and this is the inspiring story of why it took so long for Butcher to finish. The game, which is called Tobias and the Dark Scepters, might not seem impressive when you play it—it’s definitely a relic of the…

You have an extra week to play the beta of Battlefield Hardline The preview test of EA’s upcoming cops-vs-robbers FPS was supposed to end this Thursday but the publisher just announced that they’re extending it it until June 26.

The PS4 Now Supports Pre-Loading

You’ll now be able to download and install many digital PS4 games before they come out—like you can on the PC—thanks to a new pre-loading plan that Sony just announced You won’t be able to play those games until their release dates, of course. But if you know you’re going to buy a game, and…

Guy Turns Nintendo 64 Into Hot Pink Barbie Corvette

Your boring old grey console is totally lame compared to this hot pink Barbie Corvette that craftsman Robin Graves turned into an actual working N64. I met Graves, who asked that we not use his real name, at E3 last week, where he told me about this project and promised to send over some photos.…

Meet Far Cry 4’s Handsome Star

This is Ajay Ghale—aka who you’ll play as when you’re off exploding elephants or whatever it is you choose to do in Far Cry 4.

Goat Simulator Would Be Pure Chaos In Real Life

What if the absurdity and destruction of Goat Simulator bleed into real life? If this video is anything to go by, it would be kind of amazing. Stefman398 went ahead and made a live-action version of Goat Simulator, and the results are wonderful. This depiction even has some of the real achievements you can get…

Deals: Age of Extinction, PSN Update, Kerbal Space Program, Roku Mania

If you’re a Transformers fan and planning to see Age of Extinction, buying any of the other films will net you credit toward tickets for it. [Age of Extinction Promotion] Want all our deals in one ever-updating post every morning? Check out Kinja Deals There are a ton of great pre-order deals happening at the…

How Super Mario Characters Have Sex

If you’ve ever wanted to know how Thwomps make love, this is the video for you. Dorkly’s take on Mushroom Kingdom sex is about 10% as gross and 400% funnier than I expected it to be. Watch. Laugh. Enjoy. Squirm a little. It’s totally worth it. [h/t Buzzfeed]

EA Has a Good Plan To Make Their Games Better

EA is going to do some obvious things—and some unusual things—to make games that work better and that you’ll like more, the company’s CEO, Andrew Wilson, recently explained to me during an interview in L.A. If there’s a recurring theme, it could be summed up in a word: “early.” Or, maybe, “earlier.” First up, they’re…

Wondering when GTA Online will get those heists that Rockstar had promised for this spring? “We are very sorry for the delay, and are working hard to bring them to you as soon as we can,” Rockstar wrote on their blog this morning. No word on a new release date yet.

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Deface The Battletoads As Much As You Want, They’ll Still Be Cool

Here’s Rash, Zitz and Pimple, beat-em up heroes from the 90s, reimagined by artist K. Che as bloody, giant, realistic frogs. These guys would eat the Dark Queen alive. They might not be the foolish cartoony characters we remember from the NES era, but those goggles are still cool: Battletoads by K. Che [DeviantART, via…