Tests Are Even Worse When Dolphins Won’t Let You Cheat Off Of Them

In school I hated exams, tests, pop quizzes, they were all horrible and will forever haunt my dreams. But I’ve never had a dream quite like this Classroom Aquatic is a stealth trivia game…with dolphins. Knowing the answers may be handy but why bother when you could just peak over your dolphin friend’s shoulder and…

Playstation Vita Borderlands 2 Bundle Pre-Orders Are Live

The new Playstation Vita is lighter, slimmer, and has a better battery, and this bundle includes the excellent Borderlands 2, complete with cross-save functionality with the PS3 version. $200 gets you the console, the game, and an 8GB memory card, and you can pre-order now with price-match guarantee. No charge until it ships. [Amazon] This…

NBA Live 14‘s Latest Patch is Talkin’ About Practice

As promised, NBA Live 14 pumped out a very large patch today to address the many shortcomings, omissions or problems the title showed at launch. Straight away it includes something that should make the game a lot more understandable: A simple practice mode. “Shootaround” is the first thing you’ll see when you download the patch,…

​Former Jeopardy! Champ Says Arthur Chu Is Playing the Right Way

With 74 straight wins and millions of dollars in winnings, Ken Jennings has dominated Jeopardy! like nobody else. And he says that the current champ Arthur Chu—who’s been the subject of a lot of scorn lately—has been using a time-tested strategy that’s worked for people in the past. Jennings’s record-breaking run made him probably the…

Nas could be making his way to your Xbox soon—Deadline reports that the rapper is working on a 30-minute TV series with Xbox Entertainment Studios. It’ll be called Street Dreams, and set in New York during the 1990s.

EA: Battlefield 4 Is ‘An Exceedingly Successful Product’

Two of EA’s biggest games had rough launches last year, and although SimCity seems to be in a stable place right now, the Battlefield 4 issues (and patches) continue—to the point where EA won’t work on downloadable content for their shooter until everything is fixed Question is, how are they going to handle these sort…

Start looking for those Half-Life 3 clues that aren’t there, folks. Valve has put up videos for all the presentations that happened at their no-press-allowed Steam Dev Days conference. Be sure to check out Michael Abrash and Palmer Luckey‘s talks about VR and the various Steam Machine talks, too.

They Released Plush Doom Demons. He’s Here To Send Them Back To Hell.

Last year the folks at Gaming Heads brought upon this Earth a plague of cuddly, snugglyCacodemons and Pain Elementals. Here is their heartfelt apology, armed with with the fluffiest plasma gun ever. I know what you’re thinking. “This Space Marine plushie looks nothing like Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson or Karl Urban.” Oh come on, he…

New trailer: Disney Magical World—the life simulator that was a hit in Japan last year—now has an English-language promo clip.

Mystery Pokémon Found Hidden In X & Y’s Code Is Star of Upcoming Movie

Officially, there are 718 known Pokémon…unless you count the three mysterious Pokemon found in X & Y’s code, that is. While we reported the existence of unannounced Pokémon back in November of last year, it wasn’t until last night that we started hearing details about what the deal with these Pokémon is. Obviously, if you’d…

Half Price Final Fantasy XIV, Xbox One With a Free Game [Deals]

Like a Phoenix from the ashes, Final Fantasy XIV simply refused to die. The re-released MMO is getting great reviews, and is well worth picking up today for $15, or half off MSRP. It’s not free to play, so if you enjoy the initial trial, you’ll need to keep paying for access, but at least…

Activists Say Today Is The Day To Push Back Against NSA Spying

Last year, we stared the downside to living in the future straight in the face. After the NSA’s PRISM program was revealed—which worked via access to the servers and networks of major tech companies—it got a lot harder to deny the worst conspiracy theories about being surrounded by gadgets with all sorts of geo-tagging/always-online/picture-taking capabilities.…

One Easy Tip For Playing Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII

I might not have recommended Lightning Returns, but I’m not going to let those grabbing the game anyway enter the fray unarmed. Though it goes against the hardcore role-playing game fan’s pride, I’d highly recommend playing the game on Easy Mode first. Boo! Hiss! Easy mode is for newbies and communists! Sure it is, but…

Study Suggests iPad Gaming Makes People Feel Like Throwing Up

Researchers at the University of Minnesota say they’ve found a link between motion sickness and iPad gaming. The fact they played Gameloft’s Call of Duty clone,Modern Combat is delightful to me, but the game itself isn’t what makes people queasy. It’s how games are played on the tablet in general. In the study, half of…

Flappy Bird Creator Says He Pulled Game Because It was ‘Addictive’

Dong Nguyen, creator of the sensationally popular and excruciatingly difficult mobile game Flappy Bird, removed his game from Apple and Android marketplaces this weekend because he was distressed that people were becoming addicted to it, he told a reporter in his native Vietnam this week. “Flappy Bird was designed to play in a few minutes…

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