Treachery in Beatdown City looks like it could be something special. The indie game from Shawn Alexander Allen is promising a fusion of strategic, tactical combat and side-scrolling brawling. In addition to the intriguing genre mash-up, Allen wants to give players a far more diverse cast of playable characters than most other games. If any…

Watch The New World Record For Beating Halo on Legendary

As of a few days ago, the fastest anyone has beat the original Halo: Combat Evolved is in one hour and thirty eight minutes—it’s a new world record held by Andrew “goatrope” Halabourda, and you can watch him nail it here. To be exact, the run takes 1:38:57. The previous world record for this run…

Do you still play The Last of Us multiplayer? I’m curious how many of you still sneak and creep on each other, given how many good multiplayer games have come out since last year. This trailer shows what’s new in this week’s DLC—new maps, new abilities, and new difficulty for the singleplayer campaign.

A Glimpse Of Gameplay From The New Adventure Time Mobile Game

TwinSky Games is currently working on upcoming mobile game Adventure Time: Time Tangle. The game’s core mechanic is punching, so the developers combined several effects to make the punching feel algebraic: Action briefly pauses on the moment of impact, bringing attention to it. Stronger impacts have slightly longer pauses. During the pause, a splash effect…

Fighting For Gay Marriage In A Nintendo Game

A new video game from Nintendo lets you have relationships and marriages… but only with people of the opposite gender. And at least one person wants to help change that. Tomodachi Life, an upcoming 3DS game that’s best described as The Sims meets Animal Crossing with a dash of hallucinogens, revolves around relationships you build…

Achievements Actually Matter On This Minecraft Map

Introducing “Captive Minecraft,” a Survival gametype that uses achievements and the world border to great effect. You start on a 1×1 box, and every achievement you get widens the world border by half a block in all directions. “As your captive world slowly expands, you gain access to more and more resources,” a post on…

12 Things You Might Not Know About Team Fortress 2

The Team Fortress 2 that we know and love underwent a ton of changes during development—enough that it’s fascinating to look back on the rich history of the game, if not the franchise itself. DYKGaming/Normal Boot’s informative video series is back, this time touching on awesome Team Fortress trivia such as: Which class is based…

Metal Gear: Ground Zeroes, 2DS, Logitech G930, Tales of Xillia 2 CE

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Gravity Changes When You Go Underground

Daniel Linssen took the theme of the latest Ludum Dare game jam — “Beneath the Surface” — quite literally. In this game, you hit a key to go through the walls and floor, where gravity reverses and launches you back out. The game is playable on the Ludum Dare site here, along with hundreds of…

Bound By Flame hits PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC and PlayStation 4 on Friday. Focus Home Interactive’s hack-and-slash action role-playing game is flying low under the radar — I had to look it up when I posted The Week in Games on Sunday. Strange, as it seems like the kind of game I’d really dig.…

The Norwegian Military Is Testing The Oculus Rift To Drive Tanks

Virtual reality and gaming technologies have been used by militaries across the world for training and therapeutic purposes. But the Norwegian military has taken VR-assisted combat to the next level with this Oculus Rift-supported rig used to pilot tanks through dangerous combat situations. According to a report from the Norwegian TV station TuTV, the country’s…

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