Special Xbox 360 Controller Knows How You’re Feeling

We never did get that Nintendo Vitality Sensor (though the company is now working on something grander). A researcher at Stanford, however, has gone and done something similar, only for an Xbox 360 controller. Gregory Kovacs, professor of electrical engineering at Stanford, worked with Texas Instruments (and his students) to develop the pad, which takes…

​What Did You Think Of The Game of Thrones Premiere?

Everyone’s back, and everything’s different, and you can just tell that at some point soon, everything’s going to fall apart. Welcome back to Game of Thrones! Of course it’s all going to fall apart—what else would really happen in Westeros, after all? This isn’t really a place where things arrive at a comfortable status quo…

Goats With Friends: good news, there will be DLC for Goat Simulator, including a new map, local splitscreen, new achievements, more goats and more—all dropping in May, and all free. Woo!

Here is a lovely comic about ducks. Well, it’s about a lot more than that, really. Ducks is the latest from the brilliant Kate Beaton; it’s an unusually long work for her, a five-parter that tells the story of her time working at a Fort McMurray mining site in 2008. Find all five parts here

Luftrausers‘ Nazi Controversy Isn’t Censorship. It’s A Discussion

Giant Bomb‘s Patrick Klepek wrote a great piece about the Luftrausers Nazi kerfuffle, in which people pondered if the arcade-y shooter is about playing as a super cool, er, Nazi. Developer Vlambeer politely disagreed and explained its intentions, but also acknowledged the complaint as valid. That’s basically amazing. I highly recommend that you read Klepek’s…

​Guy Forges The Blade From Blade, Annihilates Watermelon With It

I haven’t seen Blade in a while, but one of my primary memories of the film is when Wesley Snipes whips out his multi-bladed chakram and wipes out like, five thousand vampires at once. Blood everywhere! Sunglasses! Trenchcoat! (My memory might be a bit spotty, it’s been a while.) The latest video from Man at…

​Fan-Made GTA V Trailer Makes You Want to Play It All Over Again

Feels like a lot like something Martin Scorcese would do, doesn’t it? Rockstar cuts some pretty great trailers for their games. This fan-created video is as good as the official teaser for the latest Grand Theft Auto game. It’s the work of Luke Ritson, who’s previously don alternative trailers for BioShock Infinite, season one of…

​Two Years Later, I’ve Found A Diablo III Class That I Really Like

It’s not that I have anything against monks, per se. They seem like cool enough people. And my Diablo III monk, Shan, was a cool dude. He just wasn’t a demon hunter, you know? Shan fought his way to the final boss of Diablo III, won the day, got some kind of cool unique staff…

2048 Is Harder When You Play It With Other People

Forget ‘Twitch Plays Pokémon.’ Now there’s another madness-inducing multiplayer take on a game that was never meant to be played by more than one person. Normally, you play 2048 as a puzzle game where you try to combine tiles that are multiples of 2. In this version, you still do that, only you have to…

Here’s How To Play Tetris And Asteroids On Lab Equipment

Reddit user IAmAHiggsBoson stumbled onto a little easter egg on his oscilloscope: apparently if you press the right series of buttons, you can play Tetris instead of measuring voltages, or doing some other kind of boring “actual work”. So if you find yourself bored at work, you can follow the instructions in the imgur album…

And Then X-Men’s Quicksilver Ate A Carl’s Jr. Biscuit Really Fast

In an effort to make me hate the Days of Future Past version of speedy mutant Quicksilver even more, fast food chain Carl’s Jr. went and did this. Note the X-tra bacon. Carl’s Jr., aka Hardee’s, has teamed up with some of the actors from X-Men: Days of Future Past to help promote its new…

Watch Final Fantasy‘s Brilliant Artist At Work

The folks at Ubisoft Montreal asked Final Fantasy artist Yoshitaka Amano to draw them some pretty pictures for their upcoming RPG, Child of Light. Watch him in action here.