Helpful Tips For Navigating Your Xbox One

The Xbox One’s interface has been a source of much delight and frustration in my household. Xbox Live’s Major Nelson put together this nifty video to help befuddled folks like myself make sense of it all. The Xbox One has quickly become the central hub of my living room — we use it for games…

The Strangest Wii U Peripheral of 2013 Looks Like a Toilet Plunger

It’s called Mike Cover for Wii U. And yes, it really looks like a toilet plunger. See? The Wii U-branded, officially licensed peripheral is designed to be used with Wii Karaoke U, the Wii U karaoke game. It’s basically a hunk of plastic you put over a microphone, but it apparently reduces noise, so people…

Why Bayonetta‘s Creator Isn’t Doing the Sequel

He brought us many memorable games like Devil May Cry and Bayonetta, but Hideki Kamiya doesn’t usually do sequels (though he did work on sequels before, including Viewtiful Joe 2). That’s not to say he doesn’t want to; he just has a greater calling. From early on in his life, Kamiya wanted to be a…

Akihiko Yoshida, a brilliant artist and character designer, is leaving Square Enix. Yoshida, however, said he will continued to work on Bravely series.

100 More Games in Steam’s Immediate Future, Including Space Minecraft

Well, if you wanna get technical, it’s not really space Minecraft. It’s more of a sci-fi sandbox RPG thing. But it’s pretty darn close. Apart from phr00t’s Space Minecraft 3089 there’s a whole bunch of other quirky and interesting titles in Steam’s latest batch of nearly one hundred community-approved Greenlight games. There’s a shoot-em-up starring…

You’ll Never Guess Where Puzzle & Dragons Is Hitting Next

Role-playing game Puzzle & Dragons, which features puzzles and, um, dragons, has been a smash hit mobile title. The game is getting a 3DS version this month in Japan. And next spring, it’s coming to Japanese arcades. Yes, arcades! Remember those? Developed by Square Enix, the arcade version is called Puzzle & Dragons Battle Tournament…

How Pokémon Battles Are More “Realistic” in the New Anime

It’s a subtle change. If you’re watching the new Pokémon anime, Pokemon XY, you might not have even noticed. But the battles are a little more “realistic.” The word is in quotes, because let’s face it, Pokémon battles by their very nature are not realistic (they are, of course, in relation to the actual game).…

Spencer Yip of Siliconera teamed up with a Sesame Street writer and a Simpsons animator to create a nice educational iOS game of their own: Nomnoms: Math Universe. As you might guess by the name, it has to do with adorable creatures, space, and math. Yes, math. Check out the trailer here

Galactic Princess Is A Space Game You Need To Keep An Eye On

Galactic Princess asks you to venture into space to rescue a princess. It’s not what you’re doing that sounds cool, it’s how you’re doing it. You have to design and build your ship, taking into account real physics. You need to hire a crew. You need to expand, you need to fight, you need to…

I’d Have Killed A Man To Go To Gran Turismo 6’s Launch

I’ve had a tumultuous relationship with Gran Turismo over the years. I used to love it. Then I hated it, bored of how sterile and lifeless it had become. Now…I appreciate it for what it is. I’ve got Forza for when I want to get behind a car and go “WWWAAHAHHHHAHAHHAH”. For those times I…

258 Of The Year’s Best/Worst Movies, All In The One Trailer

It’s been a great/good/terrible year for movies, depending on what you actually saw and how picky you are. So let’s relive the whole shebang with this clip, which combines footage from 258 movies and turns them into one very long trailer. It’s so varied. Shame this isn’t for Sucker Punch 2. 2013 Movie Trailer Mashup…

LoL Contracts Get Heavy With Players, Ban Rival Streaming

First reportedin a story on OnGamers, if you’re signed up to take place in League of Legends’ League Championship Series, your contract bans you from streaming any game that can even remotely be seen as competition for Riot’s online juggernaut. That doesn’t just apply to streaming other games alongside their LoL broadcasts. It bars them…