A Delightful Look At The Opening Of The First Legoland In 1968

The Legoland amusement part in Billund, Denmark is holy ground for fans of the colorful plastic bricks. Back in 1968, when the park first opened, it was an opportunity for charmingly British narrators to say things like “sprawling landscape land of make-believe.” “But for the children, everything they see here is real. After all, they’ve…

Dark Souls II Players Have Collectively Lost 13,051,713,397,869 Souls

That. That is a big number. I had to turn my phone sideways and everything to work that out. I don’t even know how to say it. The staggering figure is the combined souls lost across both 360 and PS3, and the result of some 252, 163, 804 deaths overall. Suddenly that 20K lost in…

The Insides Of Video Game Hardware Make For Pretty Good Artwork

Consumer tech products are often imbued with a pristine, ornamental quality in our current design-crazed age. In spite of that, most gadgets aren’t exactly things that you could imagine hanging up on your wall to impress new guests. BRS Innovations, a small startup from Ottawa, Canada, wants to change that. It recently launched a Kickstarter…

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The Plants Vs. Zombies War Goes West With More Free DLC

Plants Vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare just keeps getting better and better. Today EA drops the free Western-themed “Zomboss Down” game pack, adding two maps, eight new characters and tons of new customization items. They’re also raising the level cap for all characters from 20 to 30, which means ten more levels’ worth of challenges to…

Professor Layton Would Be The Perfect Mastermind In Grand Theft Auto

Professor Layton is getting a proper crossover game this year, but the talented animators at Polaris have let their imagination run wild and put the archeologist gentleman and some puzzles into Grand Theft Auto V If you think about it, the professor’s calm, passive-aggressive behavior fits into a world full of mad criminals after all.…

Princess Peach Gets Her Own Damn Wii Remote Plus

I’ve managed to resist picking up the Mario and Luigi themed Wii remotes thus far, but the addition of a Princess Peach motion controller at the end of the month has the game paraphernalia collector in me twitching. Dammit, Nintendo. Showing up in stores later this month, the Peach Pink Wii remote isn’t just a…

There’s a Wii U GamePad… Racing Wheel

The wheel, of course, is the Wii U GamePad. Makes sense! Japanese peripheral maker CyberGadget is rolling out a “Handle Stand” for the Wii U. It comes with a clamp so the GamePad can be used with racing games. If that’s not your thing, it’s also bundled with a more traditional wheel that has a…