This Week in the Business: Not as Simple as It Sounds

QUOTE | “We are thinking about a new business structure. .. It’s not as simple as enabling Mario to move on a smartphone.”—Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata, on Nintendo’s loss for the year and what to do about it Elsewhere in the business of video games this past week … STAT | $766 million—Change in the…

Don’t Be Fooled By The Serene Start Of This Game

Secrets of Raetikon at first seems like a nice relaxing game about being a bird. A bird that can fly around, explore, and fling around the occasional rabbit. It’s all really lovely and serene, but this beautiful game about exploration soon turns to bird on bird violence. I didn’t know birds could hold so much…

Murdering Tiny Ninjas Has Never Been So Fun

I hope you’re ready to not get any work done, because Dojo of Death will absolutely eat up any productivity you thought you had. The game is a very simple one. You’re a ninja, against a horde of other ninjas. Click to slash through them or deflect arrows. One hit, and you’re Ninja fertilizer. Simple…

Lego Invasion: this cool video by AndrewMFilms proves that you should never steal all the golden bricks—that’s when the entire Lego universe comes after you. You also get a bunch of cool items, though, so maybe you should steal the gold Lego bricks…hmm.

The penny whistle is so hot right now. If you played the Bravely Default demo, chances are you were a bit swept up in the fantastic world-map music. Perhaps you were also reminded of Ni No Kuni‘s excellent world-map music. That’s probably because both compositions prominantly feature the penny whistle (or tin whistle), rising above…

What An X-Ray Of A PS4 Controller Looks Like

You could use an X-Ray to look inside someone’s guts. Or, you could use it to look inside a next-gen controller—because why not? The picture above was taken by Reddit user Jackatakk333‘s brother, though if you wanted to see what the X-Rays of other controllers look like, you should check this out.And now to wait…

​Here’s How Modders Are Building GTA V Inside of GTA IV

There’s no PC version of Grand Theft Auto V yet. It’s just a dream to the console-shunning gamers who want their turn to rampage through the streets of Los Santos. A team of modders is making that dream a reality. We got a glimpse in images and a short teaser yesterday but the more detailed…

Things We Do In Games That Are Creepy As Hell In Real Life

Our friends at Buzzfeed made this funny video about the ridiculous things we do in games, and you should watch it. Not that there’s anything really wrong with sneaking around in a box and listening to your friends’ conversations. It just sounds worse than it actually is. Right? Right?

​A School That’s Using The Walking Dead Game To Teach Ethics

Telltale’s The Walking Dead series is famous for putting the player in life-or-death ethical quandaries and forcing them to make difficult decisions. A creative teacher could probably use the game to identify moral dilemmas and explore those dilemmas with a class. As it so happens, one ethics teacher is doing just that. The video above…

A Star Wars Smash Bros Would Look Like This

We see a ton of crossovers in Smash Bros—that’s pretty much what the franchise is about. And while fans might clamor for all sorts of ridiculous inclusions in the franchise, there are some things we can realistically expect to never see. Like say, bringing Star Wars into the fold. No matter. James Farr‘s wild imagination…

Five Things You Might Not Know About The PS4

You might already have your hands on a PS4, but that doesn’t mean you know everything there is to know about the hardware. Thankfully, Vsauce3 is here to hit us with somewhat esoteric factoids about the PS4—not to mention a cool stop-motion animation of a PS4 teardown. You’ll be able to see exactly where that…

Nintendo has confirmed that Pokémon X is more popular than Pokémon Y, at least in the U.S. Here are the official U.S. sales figures from Nintendo through the end of December 2013: Pokémon X: 1.63 million, Pokémon Y: 1.54 million.

Nintendo’s Ideas Are Great For Games, Terrible For Life

Sure, Nintendo has some really fun—even family friendly!—ideas…for games. But they’d mostly be incredibly dangerous if ever incorporated into the non-virtually-rendered world. Watch as the always too-carefree Ash unintentionally demonstrates the dangers of a world run by Nintendo ideas in Freddie W/HAWP’s video above. Don’t try this at home is an understatement. Oh, and, here’s…

Battlefield 4 for $25, Splinter Cell Blacklist, Roku 3 [Deals]

If you haven’t picked up Battlefield 4 yet, Best Buy will sell you a PC copy for a record low price of $25, today only. Battlefield 4 [PC/DVD] | $25 In addition to looking cool, this flexible power strip can contort to fit your oversized power supplies and plugs. $18 is its lowest price ever.…

Finally, A Game That Makes You Feel Terrible About Liking Golf

Ah golf — the sport of kings! There’s nothing like a good day out on the golf course. That is, until all the wildlife and native peoples you’ve displaced start reminding you that there’s blood on your hands. That’s where Envirogolf comes into play! Envirogolf takes golf simulators to the next level. Instead of just…