Microsoft Wants To Reward Good Behaviour On Xbox Live

Microsoft is currently “brainstorming” ideas on how to reward well-behaved Xbox Live players. In other words, after a decade of policing Xbox Live’s worst offenders, they’re going to see if the carrot works better than the stick. Microsoft’s Frank Savage said at a GDC panel earlier today that the company is going to try and…

EA Server Hacked To Run A Scam (That’s Now Been Shut Down)

According to a report from internet security firm Netcraft, an Electronic Arts server was recently hacked, and until it was shut down was being used to run a phishing scam that targeted Apple customers The server in question was “used by two websites in the ea.com domain”. Netcraft says that the scam was trying to…

Milk and Cookies: remember those scrumptious-looking milk and cookie shots? You can make them too, using this guide/recipe by karinsurance.

Silly Titanfall Glitch Lets You Ride Enemy Pilots

Riding mechs in Titanfall? Great idea. Riding other people? Uhhhh. That’s a one-way ticket to sometimes disorienting hilarity (and being called a hacker, probably). Check out what happens when kensim28 accidentally finds themselves rodeoing an enemy pilot—amusingly, despite being so close to each other, actually killing the other pilot proves a tad difficult. And to…

Looks like the Splinter Cell movie might actually be getting made. The Hollywood Reporter says that Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity) will be directing, with shooting to start in August and a release planned for 2015.

10 Countries That Have Blocked YouTube (And Why)

Past or present, some countries haven’t been too happy with YouTube. Or, more accurately, with certain content that they’ve found on there. Which, if you really wanted to, you could probably find all sorts of offensive videos on there to get ban-worthy mad at. In Tina Country, for instance, there are only cute cat and…

Watch Valve’s Film About The Best Dota 2 Players, Right Here

At this moment, there are 385,000 people playing Dota 2, and millions more play it every day. Valve’s new documentary about the first major Dota 2 competition is a great peek at some of the players behind one of the world’s biggest games. The basic idea behind the film basically boils down to “Dota 2…

What An Honest Kickstarter Video Would Look Like

Something something we have no idea what we’re doing something something but give us all your money and we’ll probably never deliver on our promises. Also give us your money. Obviously not all Kickstarters are miscalculated judgments and ideas, failures or straight up scams. Some have been incredibly exciting and successful. It’s been a great…

Edward Pun offers a happy medium on the tv and comic book versions of Deathlok.

Much has been made about Dark Souls II‘s graphical downgrade between E3 2013 and final release. Here’s Dark Souls II developer From Software addressing things in a statement to Kotaku: “Throughout the game development process, a game is constantly being balanced not only in game playability, but also in the realm of resource management. A…

You’ll Never Guess Who’s Lending His Voice To Kinect Sports Rivals

Making his video game voiceover debut next month in Kinect Sports Rivals, the Tenth Doctor and the grumpy dying detective from Broadchurch, Mr. David Tennant. Isn’t he dreamy? Is it wrong that I suddenly want to give Kinect Sports Rivals more of a chance than I did before learning Tennant was providing his voice to…

​Let the Next-Gen Engine for The Division Blow Your Mind Even More

Quick, think of the burliest video game engines that you’ve seen lately. Frostbite 3. Unreal Engine 4. That Luminous Studio demo Square Enix showed off at E3 2012. Project Cars. Pretty soon, you’re going to have to add Snowdrop to that list. Ubisoft first showed the tech behind its upcoming Tom Clancy game at E3…

Sacred 3 Is Coming August 26. This Is What It Looks Like.

My favorite series of Diablo-clones continues on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC this summer. To celebrate, here’s out first look at Deep Silver’s Sacred 3 in action. The Sacred series has always come across as a bit more fun than Diablo proper, an impression that springs from the fact that it doesn’t have to…

Galactic Strongholds Adds Player Housing To The Old Republic In June

Teased earlier this month, Galactic Strongholds is the next major free expansion pack for Star Wars: The Old Republic, allowing players of the MMORPG to set up swanky digs across the galaxy. Every massively multiplayer online role-playing game needs player housing, if only to keep players from having cybersex in public (sorry, EverQuest players on…