​What might a Minecraft movie look like?

Looks like Mojang is working with Warner Bros. on a Minecraft movie. An actual finished film may or may not eventually materialize, but either way, you can’t help but wonder: What might a full-length, big-budget Minecraft movie look like? It’s not exactly a game that has an obvious cinematic counterpart, after all. The world of…

​Forget That New Rambo Video Game. Play This One Instead.

There was a Rambo game that came out recently. The quality of the title looks dubious, at best. Rambo: Last Blood—a new indie game featuring Sylvester Stallone’s iconic, burnt-out vet—is probably a whole lot better. I can’t describe much of what happens in Last Blood without spoiling it so let’s just say that it involves…

Grand Theft Auto IV Looks Marvelous in Black and White

Grand Theft Auto IV may be almost six years old, but its age doesn’t stop folks from doing all sorts of amazing stuff with it. Take, for example, this excellent noire “walkabout series” by gaming’s best screenshot artist, Dead End Thrills. The game looks gorgeous like this, no? At first glance, some of these excellent…

Warner Bros Is Working On A Minecraft Movie

Warner Bros. is turning Minecraft into a movie, creator Markus Persson said today on Twitter. The tweet speaks for itself: This might explain why Persson took action against the fanmade Minecraft film. Worth noting: movies enter development hell all the time, and “working with” does not immediately equate to “this is going to happen.” (Top…

​No, Staring At A Screen Won’t Ruin Your Eyes

“TV will ruin your eyes!” they warned us, “Stop staring at a screen!” Shows what those suckers know, because they’re wrong. Watch as Discovery News breaks down the history of an urban legend that just won’t die — that staring at TV will ruin your eyes. Sure, eye strain is real and you should still…

Republican Tax Plan Would Screw “Violent Video Game” Companies

Tax credits are the kinds of things that most video game lovers wouldn’t think about when considering where their favorite releases come from. But the publishers and developers that distribute and create games depend on them when figuring out the financials of their particular businesses. Now, a Republican tax proposal would deny that relief from…

When Teddy Bears Play Football, They Don’t Tackle, They Hug.

Football isn’t for everyone. But you know what is for everyone? Hugs. Hugby is a two-player android game where two teams of teddy bears play a game of football. Each player draws routes for their bears to run, then the two teams run their plays. If two bears touch, they hug instead of tackle. Take…

Surprise new Wii U game on the horizon: Swords & Soldiers II, a sequel to the very good side-scrolling real-time-strategy game that debuted on the Wii in 2009, is in the works for Wii U and will be playable at PAX East in April.

Someone Put a Bloody, Playable Flappy Bird In Grand Theft Auto IV

Welcome to Liberty City, where our bird-headed anti-hero can flap his arms to stay aloft and get points every time he bounces off a pedestrian. You know, same as how it works in Flappy Bird. This is a real GTA IV mod for PC, slated for release this weekend. The mod, called Flappy IV, was…

Top-down shooter Dead Nation will be out on PS4 next week. It’s free for PS Plus members in March, and the PS4 version has a couple of new features, like a broadcast mode in which viewers can affect the difficulty of your game.

The first Shin Megami Tensei comes to iOS next month. It’ll be out on March 18 for $8, Atlus says. Here’s hoping you don’t have to pay real money to negotiate with demons. That’d be kind of evil.

Lock Up Your Infamous Collector’s Edition, Humble Weekly [Deals]

The collector’s edition of Infamous is already going in and out of stock, so if you want one we suggest you pre-order while you can. If you don’t care about the collector’s edition, you can also pre-order the standard edition for a free upgrade to the limited edition. Edition edition edition. Yes, we know it’s…

If You Have A Friend That’s New To Dark Souls, Send Them This

Two things can happen if a Dark Souls newbie watches this video. One, they are gullible and go ‘wow that truly is One Weird Trick to becoming good at Dark Souls‘—meaning they’re likely to dedicate the rest of the playthrough to trying to find a coconut. Or two, they catch on that all of the…

If Star Fox Took Place On Earth, We’d Be Screwed

Count your lucky stars that Star Fox takes place in the Lylat system and not here, because if it did we’d all be screwed. In the video above, YouTube user Warialasky takes a look at the horrible, collateral damage that a Star Fox dogfight would cause on a major metropolitan city. Sure nobody dies, but…

Playstation Plus Marches On With Dead Nation And Tomb Raider

Sony’s Playstation Plus service brings six new free games in March, including Monster Hunter: Freedom Unite for Vita owners and Tomb Raider for those who still haven’t gotten around to playing it on PS3. Perhaps most exciting is Dead Nation: Apocalypse Edition, the PS4 port of the Housemarque co-op zombie shooter that will be free…