What Nintendo’s E3 Would Have Been Like In Tomodachi Life

Last week in my review, I described Tomodachi Life as “a bizarre, alternate universe where everybody had giant heads and spoke in ghostly robotic warbles.” If that’s not weird enough as it is (and it’s already pretty weird), imagine a veritable chorus of Nintendo developers chirping and prancing about in Mii form to hawk their…

Steam Sales Are Great For Counter-Strike Hackers

Everyone loves Steam sales. But wanna know who really loves Steam sales? Counter-Strike cheaters. Here’s why. PC Gamer reports that whenever Counter-Strike: Global Offensive goes on sale, cheaters take the opportunity to re-buy the game on new Steam accounts. Hackers do this so they can cheat on the new accounts, while keeping their “real” accounts—the…

Katmari Damacy + Mario = Katamario

Katamario by 8Bit-Artist via it8bit

July’s Playstation Plus Line-up Brings The Fireworks

Sony recently announced changes to Playstation Plus, and on July 1st we’ll see those in effect for the first time. However you feel about the more defined game availability window, you’ll probably be pretty happy with July’s list of free games for members, which includes Towerfall: Ascension and Muramasa: Rebirth. [Playstation Blog] PS4 Towerfall: Ascension…

Highlight Reel: June 25, 2014

Today’s gaming highlights: A Saving Private Ryan-style helicopter kill, a League of Legends pentakill, a tragic shot to the toe, and more! Battlefield 4 First up, TheMooclear was trying to take down a helicopter with his last stinger missile. When that didn’t work, he turned to his pistol: Next in “how to take down vehicles…

Heads Up, Bikers: A Master Chief Motorcycle Helmet Is On Its Way

Before he let himself go, Marlon Brando was pretty much the pinnacle of American masculinity. Too bad that Halo didn’t come out until a few months after the actor already finished his final role in the 2001 thriller The Score, then. Because you know what he could’ve used 48 years earlier on the set for…

Reminder: charity speedrun marathon Summer Games Done Quick is full of people doing and showing amazing video game things. Right now, they’re playing 1993 Data East oddity Ninja Baseball Bat Man, a game where heroes have to “recover various artifacts stolen from the Baseball Hall of Fame, a task prescribed to them by the Commissioner…

20 Years Later, There’s An Official Forrest Gump Video Game

If ever there was a movie that lent itself to the endless runner genre, it’s 1994’s Tom Hanks classic, Forrest Gump. And here we are, with Run Forrest Run. Currently available in the fertile app testing grounds of New Zealand:, Run Forrest Run is a free endless runner based on the running bits from the…

Electric Lady: Here’s some spiffy new concept art of Fetch, the star of the PS4’s upcoming Infamous: First Light.

Star Wars: Episode VII’s Cast, Now In Lego Form

We’ve already seen the cast of Star Wars: Episode VII. Here’s the LEGO version. (via LEGO’s Twitter)

Skyrim Will Never Stop Getting Prettier

It’s 2014—almost three years after Skyrim’s original release. Despite its age, the game can still look damn incredible thanks to modders. Mods like RealVision ENB have been around for a while, but this one in particular actually got an update recently—along with this swanky new trailer. You can download the mod here, where you’ll also…

August is going to be unbearably cute when Road Not Taken comes out on the 8th of the month. Click here for more about Spry Fox’s cartoony fable about life’s unexpected paths and saving lost children hits PS4 and PC.

Steam Summer Sale Day 7, PSN Update, GOG Summer Sale, Logitech Bundle

Steam Summer Sale Day 7 has rolled in with a set of fairly standard discounts, though $4 for Final Fantasy 7, while not unprecedented, stands out. The Banner Saga is also definitely worth its 50% discount. [Steam Summer Sale] Elsewhere, we’ll remind you again that GOG is having a Summer Sale of their own, and…

Poseable Street Fighter Plushies Have Some Epic Eyebrows

The lightest contact with Ryu’s eyebrows from Gaming Heads new line of poseable Street Fighter plushies can probably render a normal human unconscious. What hidden powers do Ken and Chun-Li possess? Rather than simply stuff some cloth with fluff, Gaming Heads fitted each of the new $19.99 plushies based on the legendary fighting game series…

Madness Is Watching The First Three Transformers Movies All At Once

Watching any one of Michael Bay’s Transformers films is enough to drive a person insane. In preparation for this weekend’s fourth movie, the brave men of Red Letter Media watched the first three simultaneously. They are probably all dead now. At least their assumed deaths were not in vain — we learn an awful lot…

​Legend of Korra Game Coming from Makers of Bayonetta

The hit animated series will be getting adapted to video games in a title being developed by Platinum Games. The Legend of Korra will be a third-person action game published by Activision for PC, current and last-generation consoles (except the Wii U), according to IGN. There’ll also be a strategy-centric 3DS game developed by Webfoot.…