Forget Barbie, Here’s A Doll Based On Real Humans

Criticisms of Barbie’s unnatural proportions and (usually) vapid lifestyle are nothing new; believe it or not, it’s been twenty years since Lisa Lionheart took on Malibu Stacey on The Simpsons. But there’s never been a rival doll that’s looked quite like this before. There’s currently a crowdfunding campaign going on to raise funds for “Lammily”,…

Humans Are The Worst, So We’re Sending Them To Die In Space

The UnEarth Initiative is an indie management/strategy game that puts you in command of a small group of humans trying to survive on an alien planet. What’s interesting about it is that the humans suck. The game’s got a humorous slant, so instead of giving you an experienced platoon of veteran space marines and engineers,…

Why Watch Dogs Was Delayed (According To The Guys Who Made It)

Watch Dogs was supposed to be out last November! Now, it won’t be out until May. Allow Ubisoft to explain, at least in Ubisoft’s public words, why that is. Senior Producer Dominic Guay sat down with the company’s official blog and gave his version of events. Those looking for catastrophic tales of mmismanagement or technical…

Naughty Dog Denies Uncharted Writer “Forced Out” By Last Of Us Makers

It was a bit of a shock earlier this week when we heard that Amy Hennig – creative director and writer on the Uncharted series – had left developers Naughty Dog. It was also a shock to read an initial report from IGN that claimed she had been “forced out by The Last of Us’…

A Collection of Painful-Looking Parkour Fails

Usually, when we show you parkour, it’s footage of successful, awe-inspiring runs. The point is to highlight finesse in movement. But actually getting to that skill level takes a lot of practice—and failed runs. And boy, do those failed runs look painful judging from this compilation video by Uniformedia. I couldn’t help but cringe at…

Gun Smuggler Uses Xbox 360s To Hide Illegal Weapons

Joseph Bunger, 34, faces up to 25 years in prison after pleading guilty to smuggling firearms internationally, with the parts hidden inside Xbox 360 consoles. He was arrested last year after Australian customs authorities opened one of the consoles he’d shipped from the US to find “a 9mm pistol, gun parts and two empty magazines.”…

So That Titanfall Xbox One WAS Real. Sort Of.

Back in January, there were rumours that Microsoft would be releasing a special Titanfall-branded Xbox One console. That machine never actually appeared. At least, it never did for consumers. At least one of the consoles was made though, as it was presented to Respawn today by Microsoft. You can see in the image above that…

The villainous Darkseid joins the roster of Injustice: Gods Among Us mobile. While console and PC players will have to make due with the characters they’ve already got, the free-to-play mobile game gets a brand new bad guy to fight as/against, with a gold card up for grabs in a special timed event running March…

One Man’s Quest To Rebuild Manhattan Entirely In Minecraft

The mere thought of 1:1 replicas of anything big in Minecraft always sounds crazy, but recreating Manhattan? NYU’s PhD candidate, Christopher Mitchell is just about to do that. He’s using a combination of data from Google Earth, Here.com, and even Microsoft’s Bing. If you zoom in, you can see right now it looks more like…

Nevermind, the horror game that gets tougher as you get scared, still has a few hours left to get funded. We played a demo of it recently and should have impressions up for you soon (heart monitor experience and all). For now, let’s just say it’s like if Telltale made a creepier, slightly more puzzle-oriented…

You’ll Probably Suck At Oculus Rift Games

Virtual reality is…different. It takes some getting used to. When I first tried the Oculus Rift last year, I found that even the most basic actions in games I tried—looking around, movement—were way harder than I was expecting them to be. Thing is, I’d built a certain muscle memory with buttons that prevented me from…

GTA Online, Summarized In 3 Minutes

When you play a game for long enough, you start noticing patterns, as well as certain types of people you seem to encounter regularly. In the case of GTA Online, you can basically expect a lot of death, chaos, and little kids trying to act tough. I guess that could describe any game with an…

Shaquille O’Neal Wants To Make Another Video Game [UPDATE]

Indie developer Shaquille O’Neal is taking to IndieGoGo for his latest project, a sequel to the critically-panned Shaq Fu O’Neal and crew want us all to give them $450,000 to make it happen. A trailer: And now for the obvious question: why is a multi-millionaire asking for money? Can’t he fund it himself? Here’s their…

​The Dream, And Horror, Of A Bacon-Scented Alarm Clock App

Nothing gets a red-blooded American going in the morning like the smell of bacon on a skillet. Unfortunately, actual bacon requires a fair bit of work to get started. What if you could set your alarm clock to wake you up with the simulated smell of bacon? What if, indeed. I initially had a hard…

Someone who’s helped get a lot of great video games in your hands needs your help now. Brandon Boyer—the chairman of the Independent Game Festival and a relentlessly exuberant champion of all sorts of video game creativity—fought off cancer last year. But the expenses of his medical care came out to a whopping six-figure sum…

What ‘Twitch Plays Pokémon’ Says About Humanity

Despite the chaos of having thousands of people try to control a single Pokémon game, one thing was was certain about the end of the first run of ‘Twitch Plays Pokémon’—it was damned inspirational and thought-provoking. Lots of folks were skeptical that finishing the game was even possible. Lots of comparisons were made. The entire…

An Animated History of Dark Souls

One of the best things about Dark Souls is how it handles backstory — which is to say it buries it in the woods upstate and hopes you find it. That is why this (mostly) accurate explainer is so rewarding! That’s not to say it’s intelligible, though! Dark Souls: In Summary by PlagueOfGripes takes the…