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.…

​The Real Life Version of Pixel Sword-Fighting

A cult fencing game deserves a cute, choreographed fan film, doesn’t it? Yes, it does. This Nidhogg tribute is pretty fun, especially because it’s got a bunch of guys in brightly colored bodysuits stabbing each other Apsis Motion Pictures’ cinematic interpretation of Mark Essen’s indie swordplay title works because it’s essentially a live-action cartoon, with…

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The beautiful strategy game The Banner Saga is coming out for the iPad and Android tablets this summer, publisher Versus Evil announced this morning. In other words: soon all you Game of Thrones fans who own iPads won’t have any more excuses for not trying this game out yet. via Polygon

Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes Done Perfectly in Under Four Minutes

This is how Snake would handle things in real life. It’s a 3:54.870 run, to be exact, with an S Rank, so that means Mimalmo didn’t really make any mistakes and managed to finish the game perfectly. He says it’s the world record for an S Rank run, and while there are faster runs out…

Kill Bill Would Be Perfect As A 2D Hack’n’Slash Game

Of course the old-school SNES version of Tarantino’s Kill Bill would be a fast-paced hack ‘n’ slash with huge boss fights and little mini-games. CineFix summed up both movies—it wasn’t hard to include every scene though—in a 2-minute video as a game from the 90s. Kill Bill Vol 1 and 2 – 8 Bit Cinema…

Gamers Hit with Criminal Charges for Cheating Online [Update]

In Japan, online game company Nexon is pressing charges against three gamers, ages 17 to 18, for obstruction of business. In short, the gamers were allegedly using in-game cheats for online FPS Sudden Attack. That, it seems, was hurting the game and Nexon. Update: According to Nexon, it’s the police who are pressing charges. Yomiuri…

In Which You Pilot A Steam-Powered Victorian Spaceship To Mars

Two Victorian gentlemen take to the stars in this interesting-looking puzzle-adventure called 39 Days To Mars The game, which popped up recently on Steam Greenlight and is slated for a 2015 release on Wii U and PC, features two 19th century explorers—”Sir Albert Wickes and The Right Honourable Clarence Baxter”—on their quest to reach planet…

Zelda’s Quite The Warrior Princess In Hyrule Warriors

Yesterday we got to see Impa in action. Today, it’s Princess Zelda’s turn to show off her ass-kicking ability in the upcoming Zelda hack & slash game, Hyrule Warriors In one minute, we get to see the Hylian princess take on a small army using quick, acrobatic swordfighting and devastating magic alike. Really, lose the…

Do You Think the Lupin Movie Will Be Terrible?

This isn’t the first Lupin The Third trailer, but it’s the longest one to date. It also gives us a good look at the live-action version. Well, whaddaya think? Will it suck? The movie opens in Japan on August 30 and will be directed by Ryuhei Kitamura of Azumi and Godzilla: Final Wars fame. Kitamura…

Listen up, composers and music lovers: Following last year’s KORG M01D, Detune will be bringing the new KORG DSN-12 synthesizer to the Nintendo 3DS eShop in September. Check out the official website for some specifications, and give the trailer a watch above to see the new 3D oscilloscope in action.