May’s Games With Gold: Dust: An Elysian Tail and Saints Row: The Third

On May 1st (tomorrow), Dust: An Elysian Tail will be free for Xbox LIVE Gold subscribers, followed by Saints Row: The Third on May 16th. [Major Nelson] Let us know what you think of the selection in the comments and what you’d like to see come to the promotion in the future. This post is…

“I definitely came out as a gamer first.” A new, crowdfunded documentary called Gaming in Color gives insight into the lives of LGBTQ gamers and developers. You can pay what you want (with the minimum being a dollar) to stream or download the film here.

Watch Sony’s New Zombie MMO In Action [UPDATE]

Sony is continuing its semi-crowdsourced campaign to help develop and promote its new zombie MMO H1Z1 with a series of compelling public-facing initiatives. Yesterday, the Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) team ran a 12-hour live-stream of gameplay from an early build on Twitch. It’s still pretty rough around the edges, but you can watch some of…

How A Dumb Gaming Rumor Spreads

Let’s take a quick trip into the strange world of video game rumors—and see how easy it is for misinformation to spread across the web. Today, rumors about the next Call of Duty popped up on a website called Bubblews.com. According to the article—posted under the byline “newsoftheday”—the next Call of Duty will be set…

Here’s a new creeptacular trailer for Murdered: Soul Suspect, the game that’s like L.A. Noire but with ghosts. It comes out on June 3rd for PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, and PC.

Appropriately Dark Screens From The Canceled World Of Darkness MMO

We didn’t get to see much of CCP’s World of Darkness vampire MMO before it was officially canceled earlier this month. Now that early testers are no longer worried about breaking embargo, we’re still not seeing much. Damn these are some dark screenshots. Appearing on a Russian World of Darkness site and posted to Reddit…

Phillip K. Dick Predicted Disney Infinity

Phillip K. Dick wrote a short story called The Days of Perky Pat that anticipated games like Disney Infinity. The plot: In this story, survivors of a global thermonuclear war live in isolated enclaves in California, surviving off what they can scrounge from the wastes and supplies delivered from Mars. The older generation spend their…

A Link Between Snakes: check out this awesome artwork that applies the powers from A Link Between Worlds to Metal Gear Solid—it’s by Asif Siddiky and it’ll be displayed in anaglyphic 3D at the Comics vs Games 3D Gallery in Toronto. (Via Tiny Cartridge)

Mario Kart 8, PSN Update, Razer Blade, NVIDIA

Nintendo has announced that any purchase of Mario Kart 8 will net you a free game if you register by July 31. Free selection includes Wind Waker HD, Pikmin 3, Super Mario Bros. U, and Wii Party U. So yeah, that’s probably the best pre-order deal from Nintendo ever. [Nintendo] Nintendo has also announced a…

Artwork Made With Kinect Puts You Inside A Magical Forest

I’m not usually one for hyperbole, but this has to be the most stunning artistic use of Microsoft’s Kinect I’ve ever seen. Le Vent Nous Portera (French for The Wind Will Carry Us) puts users (for lack of a better word) inside a magical midnight forest that reminds me of Grave of the Fireflies, only…

Watch The Next Disney Infinity Reveal Live, Right Here

Teasers went out a few weeks ago and now it’s time to see what the next evolution of Disney’s hit collectible toy game will look like. Time to shout Excelsior? The House of Mouse will be hosting a Google Hangout at 10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET today that’s widely expected to introduce Marvel Comics characters…

Video Commentator TotalBiscuit Gets Personal About Cancer

“If you were hoping to hear about video games…” he says, pausing for a moment. Comically gruesome gameplay footage of a doctor clumsily fiddling with a half-excavated chest cavity continues to run uninterrupted on the YouTube video. “Not today. I think that needed a video of its own, to explain there.” The man talking is…

There’s Now A Real-Life Monument To EVE Online Players

Earlier this year, CCP Games announced that it would be building a monument to the players of EVE Online, to celebrate ten years since the release of the game. Well, today it’s finally done. The monument was announced earlier this year, and is being revealed today, the day before EVE Fanfest. Redditor Thorshamar has posted…

How to Use the PS4’s Fancy New Video Editor

The PS4’s most ambitious firmware update yet is going to let you make sharp-looking videos from your gameplay. Let’s take a look at how the ShareFactory editing suite is going to work. You could already do some rudimentary trimming of gameplay video clips on the PS4 but the ShareFactory upgrade lets you splice in your…