Nintendo’s New Steampunk Game Looks Much Better In Action

Yesterday, we got our first look at Code Name: STEAM, a new strategy game for the 3DS. It sounded awesome—but the screenshots we got to see? They didn’t make the game look so hot. Fear not, though: Code Name: STEAM looks nice in motion. Here are forty-five minutes of the game in action, with some…

The Angry Birds RPG Is Here, And It’s Surprisingly Fun

Inch by inch, feather by feather, Rovio is turning Angry Birds into the bloody sword-fighting game it was always meant to be. The next step in the hit mobile gaming franchise’s evolution from a cute physics-based puzzle game arrived today in the form of Angry Birds Epic, out now for Android, iOS, and Windows Phone-powered…

Did you know there’s a Spider-Man Unlimited mobile game coming out? Gameloft is streaming it and Modern Combat 5 live on Twitch from E3 right now.

​Nintendo: Twitch Streaming Isn’t on the Wii U Because “It’s Not Fun”

Nintendo makes fun characters who do fun things in, for the most part, fun games. The House of Mario is all about the fun. But streaming yourself having fun playing a Wii U game? That is not fun, according to Nintendo president Reggie Fils-Aime. In an interview with Polygon, Fils-Aime explained why livestreaming services like…

The Games At E3 2014 Sure Had A Lot Of Dudes (Like Always)

It’s probably not surprising to hear that E3 heavily featured men this year—that is, unfortunately, normal—but still, after watching every dude one after the other in a supercut, everyone sort of starts blurring together as a blob of Stern Angry (And Probably White) Dude. It’s not as bad as when every protagonist ever started looking…

Deals: 3DS XL, Playstation Plus, Mario Kart 8, Attack on Titan, Blek

Surprisingly, Mario Kart 8, which is selling very well, is still on sale for $49. We don’t expect this to last too much longer, so grab the wheel while you can. As we’ve noted before you can still register your copy of Mario Kart 8 with Club Nintendo to grab a free game. [Mario Kart…

Pictures of People Taking Pictures of Things At E3 2014

Every year, when the weather finally starts to get warmer, we try to share our experiences from video gaming’s biggest conference: the Electronic Entertainment Expo. But instead of snapping pictures of the latest PlayStation 4 (there’s a white one now) or posting vines of the crazy lines for the Oculus Rift, I thought I’d show…

Sony: Nearly A Third of PS4 Owners Only Had a Wii or Xbox 360 Last Gen

Some 31% of people who have bought a PlayStation 4 had an Xbox 360 or Wii but not a PS3 in the last hardware generation, PlayStation’s American VP of marketing John Koller told me in an interview here at L.A. this week. That’s a decent amount of people making a switch to Team PlayStation and/or…

Vice’s Candy Crush Fashion Shoot Is Better Than It Sounds

It’s the week of E3, so of course Vice is covering the video game industry’s largest annual event in true Vice style: by writing about plastic cases that let you mold your very own 3D-printed dildos. Ok, I kid. The Brooklyn-based hipster media empire and current Gawker sparring partner did do something very cool and…

The New Crackdown Will Use The Cloud A Lot

The newest game in Microsoft’s open-world crime series, Crackdown, has been in development for about a year, Xbox chief Phil Spencer told me during an interview here at E3. It’s early, but Spencer didn’t want to have to keep quiet about it any longer. “Certain people say, ‘Why do you announce it? It’s not a…

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Broken Age Is As Charming As Ever On The iPad

The Double Fine adventure game that launched a million Kickstarter campaigns has finally made it to mobile, just as witty and charming as it was on the PC and a tad bit more intimate. Everything’s more intimate with touch controls, though not always more satisfying. I’ve found myself missing my mouse as I play through…

Mean Girls Would Make For An Action-Packed Visual Novel

When the fine folks at 8-bit Cinema remade a movie as an 8 or 16-bit game, they never really left side scroller or adventure game territory—until now. Here’s Mean Girls, the now ten-year-old Lindsay Lohan movie which keeps reminding us of how old we are, as a Japanese visual novel. I’ve never thought I’d see…

When Players Try Dota For The First Time

I’d say it’s the camera distance that’s a bit distracting when switching from LoL to Dota, but YouTuber Fortunatus Sean had other issues. His video is a great example that even with tutorials, it can be challenging to switch games within the same genre. What happens when a LoL player tries DotA 2 [YouTube] To…

Final Fantasy VII Bike Game Could Pave the Path to a Full Remake

Ever since seeing the intro to Final Fantasy VII remade in HD in that PS3 tech demo back in 2005, I’ve been silently, yet skeptically, hoping for an upgraded remake of the game. Well, it looks like the reality of such a remake may or may not hinge on Square Enix’s upcoming mobile game. Final…