In Which I Overreact To The Homeworld Remake Box Art

Look, I was happy enough that Gearbox was just going to be re-releasing Homeworld so that modern operating systems (and widescreen monitors) could actually play them properly. But that’s not what they’re doing. No, they’ve gotten carried away. In a good way. Instead of simply putting in some HD textures and optimising the code, Relic’s…

A Vita game I can’t stop playing: If you’ve got a Vita, check out Surge Deluxe, a highly enjoyable (and addictive) electro-charged tile-matching game from Futurlab. At a certain point it clicks, and you’ll be hooked. Futurlab’s next game will be Velocity 2X for Vita and PS4.

How To Get The Best Deals At GameStop: Dumpster Dive

Ever wonder what happens to your games and gear after you trade them in to Gamestop? Some games, obviously, get put back on the shelves—the hope is to resell them. But not everything gets resold. A fascinating report by IGN details the hidden world of dumpster diving—it turns out that Gamestop sometimes throws away games…

Killstreaks: Tell Us How You Really Feel

Ah, the killstreak. A single idea that changed the face of multiplayer shooters. All these years later, has its time finally come? Is it time for the world to leave the killstreak behind? The killstreak is a multiplayer game feature popularized by Call of Duty, but these days the concept turns up in other games…

Glitches Turn Surgery Into A Massacre

Surgery means dealing with blood, guts and sharp instruments. Playing a game means dealing with bugs and wonky physics. So it shouldn’t be surprising to hear that a surgery game might feature some bloody nightmare fuel whenever things go wrong. The glitches above come from the iPad version of Surgeon Simulator,the silly simulation game where…

A Game of Pac-Man That’s Also A Mesmerizing Symphony

It’s always lovely when the cultural iconography of gaming fuses with other forms of art to become something new, wonderful and different. Six Pacmen is one such work of art. Six Pacmen is an interactive performance piece by Tacit Group and an adaptation of a piano composition named Six Pianos by famed minimalist composer Steve…

The First Screen You See When You Start The New Yoshi’s Island

I don’t remember any other Nintendo games starting with the above message, but, hey, sure, Nintendo. Why not? I’ve rated a level or two in Assassin’s Creed. I’ve agreed to let my crash bugs be sent back to Microsoft. I just never thought that you, Nintendo, would need to see my gameplay data to make…

Long Gone

My first job out of college, I was fired. I used two words with my editor that proved career limiting. I have quit with no notice; I’ve given two weeks and had cake on my last day. I’ve signed paperwork at the long conference room table twice. And I’ve had a farewell so tearful I…

​Sam & Max Is Video Games’ True Detective

You all about that hit show True Detective on HBO, right? They solve crimes. They talk all the time and get on each other’s nerves. They meet some weird folks. They’re a dog and a rabbitty thing. No, wait… Dorkly brings us a vision of the pulpy, philosophical drama that swaps Matthew McConaughey’s Rust Coehle…

Child Of Light‘s Co-Op Channels The Spirit Of The Wii

While Ubisoft’s charming platform role-playing game Child of Light is skipping Nintendo’s last-gen console, the spirit of the Wii lives on inside it’s utterly charming co-op gameplay. The game’s circle of light co-op partner reminds me of so many Wii games — titles like Super Mario Galaxy, where player two could take up the Wii…

Comics Trivia: check out this fascinating video by Mental Floss all about newspaper comic strips—it’s full of stuff you might not know about. 27 things, to be exact, covering Garfield and Calvin and Hobbes and just about every comic strip in-between.

PSN and LIVE Updates, PS4 and PS4 Camera In Stock, Smallville [Deals]

Smallville certainly has its ups and downs, landing on io9 lists for Best Cliffhangers and Worst Final Battles, but the show remains a must-watch for Superman fans that won’t struggle to pull on your fanboy heartstrings. Today you can pick up all ten seasons for $110, which is the lowest this set has gone for.…

Guacamelee! is coming to the Wii U, PS4, Xbox One and Xbox 360 as Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition This version includes all previous DLC for the game and adds some new levels and boss battles. No word yet on a release date, other than “coming soon.”

Killzone Shadow Fall‘s first multiplayer expansion detailed, two free multiplayer maps released. Coming in April, The Insurgency Pack adds the Insurgent class, along with new weapons, abilities, and Elite Mode difficulty for single player. The Cruiser and Hangar multiplayer maps are available free today. Check out the PlayStation Blog for more info.

​Sequel to Game That Let You Kill Hitler Lets You Kill Him Again

Two years ago, a bonus mission in Sniper Elite V2 lets players intercept a Berlin-bound train and put a bullet in Hitler’s head, deviating from the real world event where the Third Reich leader killed himself in an underground bunker. Apparently, that headshot from Sniper Elite V2 didn’t take. When Sniper Elite 3 comes out…