Playstation Plus Will Be Your Valentine In February

February brings another six free games to Playstation Plus subscribers, including Outlast on the Playstation 4 and Metro: Last Light on the Playstation 3. A wide variety of genres are represented, and what’s more, it’s a selection of quality games you probably didn’t play already- perfect choices for the service. Playstation 4 Outlast Playstation 3…

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Play Injustice: Gods Among Us on mobile this weekend, score 30,000 power credits. Warner Bros. celebrates one billion play sessions in the free-to-play mobile version of its superhero fighter, doling out in-game currency for anyone who plays the game on iOS or Android devices this weekend.

PlayStation Vita Slim Hits The UK Next Week

The thinner, non-OLED version of PlayStation’s latest portable makes its way from Japan to the UK next week. As we ponder a North American release, PlayStation Access celebrates with a Vita model comparison music video. The Vita Slim launches in the UK on February 7 with a suggested price of £180 (rougly $300). PlayStation Access…

Better watch out with those Skyrim mods. If you’re not careful you could end up with a glitched skeleton with Hatsune Miku hair. On the other hand, this opens up a whole new category in the catalog of terrifying, modded Dovakhiins. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest,…

The Entire Opening Of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, Remade In MS Paint

Microsoft Paint is probably not the best tool to remake anime openings (or anything), especially not the superb one for JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, and I’m pretty sure it took OurFinalForm a million billion hours to finish this masterpiece. It’s not just a replica of the original. The creators changed most of the scenes and filled…

DayZ Summed Up Perfectly

This is the truth about DayZ. No matter how good your gear is, how careful you are, death will find you wherever you are. And it will strike unexpectedly. And if you survived day 4 somehow, day 5 would be the following: “Met Friendlies – You are dead” Typical lifespan in dayZ [Steam Community] To…

DS Games Are Coming To the Wii U’s Virtual Console

Finally! The wait, it seems, is over. Nintendo announced today that it plans to bring DS games to the Wii U’s Virtual Console. Details are scant, but Nintendo president Satoru Iwata explained that getting DS games, with their dual screen gameplay, on the Wii U GamePad has created a hurdle. However, here you can see…

How Metal Gear Solid Has Changed in a Single Image

Metal Gear Solid has changed. It’s not about rudimentary polygons, or abstract graphics. It’s an endless series of awesome photorealism. Hideo Kojima recently tweeted this image from a Kojima Productions presentation titled, “The Present and Past of Game Development.” My, how far we’ve come. 新人朝会でのジョニーのプレゼン [Kojima_Hideo] To contact the author of this post, write to…

Hey there, tiny TRON arcade dog. What’s up? [Space Ghost Zombie]

Our Pirate Games Need More Kraken

Eduardo Peña is an artist who’s worked on games (that you do and don’t know about) and movies (that you certainly know about…like the Hobbit trilogy). Formerly of Immersion Games, he’s now at Singapore’s FZD School of Design You can see more of Eduardo’s work at his CGHub page (thanks Super Punch!). To see the…

Postal Worker Stole 200 Video Games, Sold Them

If you ever had a video game go missing in the mail in the Boston area, it may be because a former postal worker has pled guilty to stealing over 200 games from packages he was supposed to have been handling. James L. White, 68, was in a Federal court on Tuesday facing theft charges,…

One Awesome Way The Wii U Is Improving: Game Loading

Thank the maker. Realising that the Wii U is a drag to fire up then slog through to get playing, Nintendo is going to streamline the way you get into games and programs on the console. How? Like this. The video up top shows a new, simpler, faster way to get into your games. There’s…