Candy Crush Wants To Claim The Word “Candy” For Games And Stuff

The people who made Candy Crush think they now own the word Candy, at least when it comes to games and a bunch of merchandise. How adorable. Seems that in February 2013, the game’s makers – King.com – submitted a trademark application for the word. One that on January 15 2014 was approved for publication…

Tetris Is So Much Harder With A Little Mario Mixed In

Scaffold Now makes me angry and I love it. From freeware designer Kenta Cho, Scaffold Now is what happens when you combine Tetris-like puzzle drops and strategic platforming. The result is an addictive yet infuriating hybrid of a game. See how long you can last before being crushed like a bug or falling behind. Play…

​A Montage Of Movie Characters Saying ‘Is That What I Think It Is?’

Yes, Beatrix, that is what you think it is. “Is that what I think it is?” is a good (and often overused) line because it suggests so much. Whatever object/thing is about to be revealed, it’s something with enough renown that the character speaking already has an idea of what it is. But it’s also…

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American Fantasy: can you guess which Final Fantasy Lupita Nyong’o from 12 Years a Slave played the first time she came to the United States?

Watch A Punch-Out Villain Recreated In 3D Chalk

Watch as artist Chris Carlson brings King Hippo from Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! to life using nothing but chalk on pavement. Not bad!

Yes, You Can Punch Birds In GTA V

Why would you want to punch a bird in GTA? Because it’s both kind of difficult to do, and because it’s funny, that’s why. Bird punching isn’t the only thing that DefendTheHouse discovers is possible in GTA V in this mythbuster video. You can, for example, land a fighter jet upside down…assuming you have the…

​Eight Bearded Clones Sing Secret of Mana Theme

It’s been a little while since we last posted an a cappella video-game arrangement from Mr. Smooth McGroove, but that doesn’t mean the bearded bard hasn’t been banging out new material. His latest is “Into the Thick of It” from the SNES classic Secret of Mana, originally composed by Hiroki Kikuta. It’s awfully lovely. Makes…

​Now This Is An Impressive Jenga Move

Watch as YouTuber Kaleb Vidal successfully pulls off a Jenga move that most of us have only ever pondered trying. I can’t help but think of Dr. Peter Venkman: “And the flowers are still standing!” [Via Viral Viral Videos]

​I’m Still Not Ready To Introduce My Three-Year-Old To Video Games Yet

Broken Age almost made me violate one of my golden rules about kids and video games. I almost let my daughter watch me play it. Friends and family have asked my opinion on when to let little Jenny or Johnny start controlling virtual figures on a screen ever since I started writing about video games.…

Sketchy Promo Plan Pays YouTubers For Positive Xbox One Coverage

A new Machinima promotion offers YouTubers cash in exchange for positive coverage of the Xbox One, opening up a whole host of questions about journalistic ethics in the world of YouTube personalities. It started on Saturday, when word leaked on NeoGAF that the video group Machinima had sent out e-mails to their clients offering cash…

‘I Bought My Boyfriend Call of Duty So [Our] Breakup Will Be Easier’

The last time we took a look at Whisper—a popular app that allows users to post text and photos with confessions—we saw that it was full of dissatisfied young women who get ignored by their significant others because of games. But that’s not the only type of secret that people share on the service. Some…

13 GB Dead Rising 3 Patch Raises Questions About Gaming’s Future

There’s a 13-gigabyte update live for Dead Rising 3 today, and if you think that seems kind of big, well, that’s because it’s kind of big. This is one of the biggest patches in video game history—our previous definition of “big patch” usually clocked in at 500mb or a gigabyte—and it’s designed to both fix…

Madden‘s Ratings Back Up Richard Sherman’s Trash Talk

Seattle’s Richard Sherman didn’t just swat away San Francisco’s shot at a Super Bowl, he also crapped all over the 49ers’ Michael Crabtree in a postgame interview straight out of Piper’s Pit. Sherman mocked Crabtree’s credentials while boasting of his own. So I wondered: Is there any objective proof for his claims? Why, yes! The…