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Cliff Bleszinski: ‘I’ll Never Make Another Disc-Based Game’

Interesting words from the man who designed Gears of War: “The whole ‘old guard,’ where you get a Game Informer cover and an E3 reveal, is dead… I’ll never make another disc-based game for the rest of my career, and [at E3] they’re trying to woo buyers from Target and Walmart?” At this point it’s…

Witness One Of The Fastest Hands In eSports

Recorded at the WCS Korea Qualifier by Khaldor, here’s a pretty impressive first person look at StarCraft II veteran Losira, who’s also one of the fastest players in eSports. And now you can see him at close range, unleashing his power. His APM (actions per minute) must be really really high (probably around 400?) and…

Three Pokémon: Latias, Latios and Kyogre, as modern aircrafts? That makes the Kalos Region Air Force a truly legendary one. DeviantART artist Dekus‘ piece is odd, but it’s totally awesome. And something like this would be a great mod in any flight sim out there. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing…

Watch Us Play the New Donkey Kong Country

Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze is the newest game in the long running series and the first on the Wii U. It has all the platforming you could want as well as returning characters Dixie Kong and Cranky Kong. Check out the video to see the game in action. Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze was…

My Favorite Part of the New Donkey Kong is Bouncing Like Scrooge McDuck

This past weekend, I sat down and powered through the newest Donkey Kong title Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze. And as I explored all the game has to offer, I found myself nearly giddy at Cranky Kong’s special ability: to bounce along on his cane like Scrooge McDuck in the NES classic DuckTales. I love…

Sony announced this morning in an official release that they’ve sold more than 5.3 million PS4 units worldwide as of February 8, 2014. That’s quite impressive if you consider it’s still not out yet in Japan for four days and only three months have passed since it’s November launch. Hopefully these numbers mean more games…

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A Hardcore Military Flight Sim That’ll Run On A Laptop

Modern flight simulators – not the recreational kind, the actual kind used to train pilots – are enormous, expensive things. They’re impressive, sure, but their cost and size mean they can’t exactly be used every day. Which is why a company has been given money by the US Air Force to develop something a little…

Nice View. Shame About The Neighbours.

Simon Robert is a freelance concept artist who has recently worked on the Game of Thrones TV series, Killzone (pictured above) and Ryse. You can see more of Simon’s work at his personal site To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you can save them as wallpaper),…

Valve Denies It’s Going Through Your Browser History

A user on Reddit has posted a decompiled module that claims Valve’s anti-cheat service, VAC, is quietly going through your browser history and sending results back to its servers. Something Valve boss Gabe Newell has made a public statement to deny. It’s technical stuff, but the gist of the original claim is that VAC is…

A Few Surprising Ways That Pokémon and Science Influenced Each Other

While the creatures in Pokémon aren’t real, that doesn’t mean they’re not based on real things or scientific concepts. Heck, there are even scientific concepts named after things in Pokémon, amusingly enough. DYKGaming walks us through a bunch of fascinating facts about Pokémon and science in this video and if nothing else, it’s harder not…

Curious how they made The Last of Us? The documentary Grounded: The Making of The Last of Us is now free on Amazon. Apparently it’s pretty good, too!