Giant Titanfall Action Figure Dropping On Your Wallet

threeA is one of the best toy companies on the planet. threeA has the license to make big, expensive Titanfall figures. This will only end well. You can see the first Titan/pilot pairing here. The Atlas stands an enormous 20.5″ tall, with a 6″ pilot scaled to accompany it. The pilot is unpainted in these…

The Sadness Of The New Tony Hawk Game

Oh, Tony. Your name was once synonymous with good games and even better soundtracks. Seeing your brand reduced to this, even after all the recent heartbreak, is just…sigh. Below is a clip of Tony Hawk’s Shred Session being played by, well, Tony Hawk himself. It’s a free-to-play mobile game. That’s an endless runner. Well. Skater.…

Elder Scrolls Online’s Grind Begins Before You Even Start The Game

Australian retailer JB Hi-Fi – never a bastion of serious business – has a sticker for The Elder Scrolls Online that is as funny as it is foreboding. And yes, Americans, that $88 pricetag is correct. That works out to be USD$81.50 by today’s conversion. Josh Whittington [Twitter]

The Next Call Of Duty Stars…Kevin Spacey?

UPDATE – Looks like Spacey is actually in the game. Way more here. There was a bunch of Call of Duty stuff teased earlier today that, yawn, was about as interesting as watching people complaining about Call of Duty. This little trailer, though, is interesting If there’s one thing that could revive my interest in…

Rock, Paper, Scissors: Ars Technica writes about the best strategy to use in RPS…well, assuming you’re playing best out of three, and assuming your opponent hasn’t also read the same article.

Blu-Ray Is Dying

It was once the future! A shiny (sort of) new physical media that would let us store so many gigabytes of data on our discs that we wouldn’t know what to do with it all! So it may surprise you to learn that Blu-Ray is already on the downward slide. Sony’s latest financial results are…

If Michael Bay Designed Yoshi

We haven’t been too impressed with how the Ninja Turtles look in the upcoming Michael Bay-produced movie. We aren’t the only ones, either — illustrator Shmorky tried to imagine what Yoshi would look like if Michael Bay redesigned him. via Shmorky To contact the author of this post, write to [email protected] or find him on…

Community Manager Fired After Calling Donald Sterling ‘A Victim’ [UPDATE]

Game studio Turtle Rock (Left 4 Dead, Evolve) has let go of their community manager following a controversial tweet in which he called disgraced L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling “a victim” who “has the right as an American to be an old bigot in the security of his own home.” Sterling, who has owned the…

Small Massachusetts Town Lifts 32-Year Ban On Pac-Man

Just in time for the arrival of next-gen consoles, residents in the town of Marshfield, Massachusetts are going to be able to play Pac-Man publicly for the first time in over three decades. According to a report from local newspaper The Patriot Ledger, Marshfield residents voted to overturn a 1982 bylaw that banned coin-operated arcade…

Turning The Game Boy Into Art

Ok, Game Boy, you’re 25 years old. Let’s turn you into awesome things. Back when Nintendo’s iconic video game handheld was an actively thriving platform, the Game Boy morphed into a variety of cool shapes and sizes. Luckily for us, artist André Farinha has plenty of Game Boy hardware, enough to modify it into an…

Sir, your game is ready today. The highly enjoyable first-person survival game Sir, You Are Being Hunted is officially out of early access andavailable on Steam today. It’s worth checking out – for more, watch our own Leo Wichtowski put the game through its paces.

Fetch Quest Fatigue: check out this write-up on The Witcher 3, where CD Projekt Red talks to PC Gamer about quests and how The Witcher 3 is going to try its best to have an open world like Skyrim without all the “unimaginative busywork” that can come with that sort of game.

Your PC Must Be This Beefy to Play Wolfenstein: The New Order

When Nazis take over the world, Xbox 360s all around the weep in agony. Wolfenstein: The New Order will ship with a hefty four discs for Microsoft’s last-gen game console. You’re going to need a decent chunk of space on PC and PlayStation hardware, too. Bethesda’s letting players know the requirements they’ll need to run…

Watch A Mariachi Band Perform Zelda Music At A Wedding

Geek nuptials can be wonderful when they’re done right. And what better way to celebrate a marriage than with a mariachi band playing Zelda music? Watch as a new wife surprises her Zelda fan of a husband with a big band version of the Gerudo Valley theme from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.…

The Best Way To Find Meth Labs: Arrest Everyone

YouTuber Things We Play takes a look at DEA simulator, where you look at a neighborhood and try to figure out which run-down house is hiding a methlab. It’s apparently not so easy. The game is another Ludum Dare entry by Siewart for the most recent competition. You can play it for yourself here, along…

Superman Isn’t Too Happy With The Lego Movie‘s Ending

You don’t just sideline the Man of Steel, guys… The Lego Movie may have had a lot more depth than folks initially expected but that doesn’t mean it didn’t have some puzzling plot holes. This new, all-stop-motion video from the How It Should Have Ended folks is basically touching on the “But, Superman…” problem that…

In Defense Of Zombie Games

Even in video game terms, this week has been chock full of zombie news. Sony and Microsoft, the dueling juggernauts of the console market, both offered up fresh and appropriately gory details about their respective (and exclusive) open-world games about killing the living dead—H1Z1 and State of Decay. Personally, I’m excited for both games. And…