Sick of cusswords? There’s a movie-themed wordpack for The Typing of the Dead: Overkill in time for the Oscars. You can frantically pound out “I love the smell of napalm in the morning” to blow back the zombie horde. It’s $2.99, available now on Steam.

This Week in the Business: They Are the 0.15 Percent

STAT | 0.15%—Percentage of mobile gamers that provide 50% of the revenue for free-to-play games, according to analytics firm Swrve; this was taken from data for January from tens of millions of mobile game users Elsewhere in the business of video games this past week … QUOTE | “Every year there are fewer and fewer…

What’s gonna happen on True Detective? Who’s the Yellow King? What’s Rust been up to all these years? Your guess is as good as mine. If you DO have predictions, I hope you’ll share them here, and also check out this great Wired feature breaking down some of the most popular theories.

New Sports Game Is Wonderfully Stupid

The PES and FIFA games may be capable simulations of men running around a field kicking things. But there’s a new, more ridiculous football (soccer) simulation in town. Goofball Goals. Football, soccer, whatever you want to call it, is a sport that people seem to enjoy. It’s made all the more enjoyable when you have…

Good news for gaming headset owners: The Xbox One March update will bring with it support for optical Dolby audio output, meaning that your Astro/Turtle Beach/other gaming headset will finally get a full surround signal. Polygon‘s tested an Astro headset and they say it works great.

The Greatest X-Men Story Ever Told Is Getting A Video Game

Today Marvel Comics announced Uncanny X-Men: Days Of Future Past, a mobile game based on the dark future storyline from The Uncanny X-Men issues 141 and 142. Yes, it is a mobile game, but it’s a 2D side-scrolling mobile game from Glitchsoft, the folks behind He-Man: The Most Powerful Game in the Universe andDestructopus, so…

Toddler Does League Of Legends Impression, Nails It

Aww. This little girl’s impression of League of Legends character Teemo isn’t just adorable, it’s also spot-on. It’s also, thankfully, not just a riff of ‘What Does The Fox Say.’ Whew. Here’s Teemo’s actual voice acting, for comparison’s sake: Thanks for the cute send-off into the weekend, Sophie (and lewiegun!) (Via Reddit) Sophie’s Teemo Impression…

Why ​Mighty Avengers Is My Favorite Marvel Comic Right Now

I thought I was going to have to drop Mighty Avengers because Greg Land’s art is so off-puttingly plastic. (That great art above is by Ronald Wimberly.) But the series is too damn good for me to abandon. I might even like it more than Daredevil or Hawkeye. I love Mighty Avengers. Written by Al…

AATTVVV Defeats Lance And Earns A New Title

In the last battle of the Elite Four, our roster was cut down to only our last pokemon, AATTVV. And he rose to the challenge, earning himself a new title, All Terrain Dragonslayer

Old-School Gamer Hate Mail, Tim Schafer Edition

Here’s a fun little extra from my interview with Double Fine’s Tim Schafer that I couldn’t leave on the cutting room floor. It’s about one old-school gamer’s arguably-legitimate complaint about one of Schafer’s classic creations. To set this up, Schafer and I were nearing the end of a half-hour conversation in Las Vegas at the…

What is the time signature of Brad Fiedel’s original Terminator theme? Maybe you can tell by counting it out (123-123-123-12-12), but that doesn’t make this in-depth investigation at Slate any less enjoyable.

Why We Care About Video Game Characters

Just because they’re fictional characters doesn’t mean we can’t care about them—obviously, everyone knows that. But there are reasons that that’s true, you know! Scientific reasons, even. PBS Game/Show explains why we sometimes deeply care about game characters here, and then even lists some of their favorite non-playable characters in games. Makes me curious—what are…

Confessions Of A Final Fantasy Addict

When I was a kid, I sometimes took weekend trips to my grandparents’ house in Queens. I told my parents it was to “visit” and “spend time with them,” but really it was so I could binge on JRPGs. I get a little wistful thinking about those mini-vacations: I’d lug a big backpack with my…

Like Limbo, but with a tiny space probe. Color me intrigued! Created by Mixed Bag Studios, Forma.8 will be hitting PS4, Vita, iOS, PC, Mac, Linux, Wii U and eShop later this year. Xbox platforms are a bit conspicuous in their absence, huh?

Blink And You’ll Miss The First Shot Of TV’s New Flash In Costume

I’ve been waiting for this moment since Grant Gustin first showed up as Barry Allen in CW’s Arrow earlier this season — our first peek at the latest TV iteration of DC Comics’ scarlet speedster, the Flash. Spoilers follow. Last we saw Gustin he was being splashed with chemicals and struck by lightning at the…

The Lord of the Rings Collection You Want, Crazy 2K Bundle [Deals]

We’ve had quite a few deals on various permutations of The Lord of the Rings films, but many readers have been holding out for the blu-ray versions of the extended editions in one set. Well, today is your day, grab everything for $45 and prepare for a lot of time in front of your TV.…