Dark Souls II Seems Like The Kind of Game Werner Herzog Would Love

A video game where a brutal, indifferent cosmology smacks players around. A director obsessed with the darker parts of man’s nature. A match made in purgatory! Now we don’t have to imagine what the acclaimed filmmaker would think of Dark Souls II. We can hear that tremulous voice praise the sun right now. This tongue-in-cheek…

The New Powerpuff Girls Game Is The Best Of Both Worlds

Coming March 14 to Steam from the fine folks at Cartoon Network and Radiangames, The Powerpuff Girls: Defenders of Townsville gives players the power to choose between the classic animation style from the series’ first run and the horrible new one. Maybe the new one isn’t so horrible. Maybe it’s just a huge fan of…

Magic The Gathering of Buttcracks

This weekend, there was a Magic The Gathering tournament in Richmond, Virginia. It was one of the biggest Magic tournaments ever. For posterity’s sake, one man set out to record the event in the most memorable possible: with buttcracks. Note: This article contains content some readers might find objectionable. “In an effort to document it,…

“Some say that space sims are niche. I’m not so sure.” Chris Roberts, veteran game designer, comments on the news of his game, Star Citizen, reaching the $40 million crowdfunding milestone and its website receiving 10,000 new registered users.

True Detective Goes Really Well With… Looney Tunes

Who would have thought that pulling key dialogue from the first season of HBO’s True Detective (which ended last night) and matching it up with Looney Tunes, the results would be pretty neat. Here’s the full clip (no spoilers), from last night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live. Sex and violence with Porky Pig: Kimmel Kartoon – True…

Titanfall‘s Backstory, Summarized In One Minute

So that’s why theTitan classes are called Ogre, Stryder and Atlas! Lore‘s here to summarize Titanfall‘s background story with a huge amount of references. LORE Titanfall Lore in a Minute [YouTube] To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

Filmed Footage That Can Be Controlled Like a Video Game

“Panomovie” is a 360-degree interactive panorama movie that allows viewers to look around via mouse or other interfaces. Kind of like a video game. Here, you can see a concept reel with clips of the Panamovie in action. Or, better yet, you can test some of the samples yourself (here and here). As TechInAsia points…

Don’t Move is supposedly a game about “ludonarrative dissonance and player investment manipulation.” What it actually looks like is a twisted social experiment of some sort. But in any case, it’s on Greenlight. And if it gets on Steam, it will cost a dollar, apparently. Hmmm.

Super Mario Bros. on Four Computer Monitors

Here is a full-screen version of Super Mario Bros. World 1-1 on several computer monitors. Just look at it all scrolled out before you. Do it! And here is World 1-2, complete with the exposed Warp Zone. These images come from Twitter user Morikuma_Works, who, when not unraveling Mario Bros., works as an engineer in…

Tetsuya Nomura Picks The Three Best Lightning Fanart

Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy character designer Tetsuya Nomura recently judged a fanart contest at deviantART, which featured the Final Fantasy XIII series’ recurring protagonist and costume aficionado, Lightning. After looking through literally thousands of submissions, he picked three. Here they are. The press release announcing the winners also had comments from Nomura for each…

Robots Can Not Beat Us At Ping Pong (Yet)

Man versus machine. It’s always the ultimate showdown, and in this case—where one of the world’s best table tennis players, Timo Boll, goes against one of the fastest ping pong machines out there—it makes for an intense match. While the robots don’t win this time—Boll barely wins by taking advantage of the robotic arm’s limitations—the…

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