Olympic Speed Skating Would Be a Lot Better if It Was Like Mario Kart

After two weeks of hearing about sports you’ve never cared to follow in the past four years, you’ve probably wondered why the short track skaters don’t just … you know … throw a blue shell at the end? And here we can see what would happen if they did. Sochi 2014 — Speed Skating Double…

If you’d like to see four minutes of gameplay from Infamous: Second Son and you either speak Russian or can read the subtitles, here you go, almost a month before the game’s release.

Microsoft Teases JRPG Fans [UPDATE]

That’s Phil Spencer, one of Microsoft’s top gaming executives. Sakaguchi, of course, is Hironobu Sakaguchi, creator of Final Fantasy, now at Mistwalker, where he has released a few Xbox-exclusive JRPGs like Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon. Hope Phil isn’t just messing with us, because the Xbox One sure could use some JRPGs. (I’ve reached out…

Madden Needs Help With the Logos for Its Pretend NFL Teams

Madden NFL 25 brought back franchise relocation, allowing you to keep a club’s name and look in its new city or pick from two or three new nickname and uniform options. And yeah, some of those designs weren’t so great. The game’s fake Twitter feed would even say so. So EA Sports is looking to…

In advance of online support shutting down for Gran Turismo 5 at the end of May, Sony is removing all DLC for the game from the PlayStation Store on April 30. Some, but not all, DLC will be re-downloadable through PSN after then if you already own it. See this link for more details.

There’s a ’50/50′ Shot The Last Of Us Gets Another Game, Says Creator

It’s difficult to discuss why so many people would not want a sequel toThe Last of Us without getting deep into spoiler territory. Its story has … rather clear boundaries, let’s say. But the game’s creative director said in a Reddit AMA that there’s a 50/50 chance there’ll be another game in the series. Neil…

This Week in the Business: From a ‘Sea of Love’ to a ‘Pool of Hate’

QUOTE | “The Kickstarter experience had been wading in a sea of love … it was like being dumped from that into this cold pool of Internet Twitter hate.”—Tim Schafer of Double Fine, on the backlash to the announcement that the Kickstarter-funded Broken Age game would be split into two parts Elsewhere in the business…

The Creationism Debate…For Pokémon

Do Pokémon really evolve? How do we know that? Do we have actual science to prove that Pokémon evolve? Or do new Pokémon just appear in a flash of light sometimes? (I’m joking, people. Joking.) It’s kind of hilarious to think the Pokémon universe might have debates like the one in this video by The…

This Dating Simulator Makes It Incredibly Difficult To Find Love

Save the Date is a text-based dating simulator. It’s also a really funny comment on how we play games. We’ve posted about it before, but I finally got to play it, and I had to record some highlights to share. Check it out! You get the idea of where the game is going pretty quickly,…

​If The Dark Knight Returns Were About Donkey Kong

Take Batman out of Frank Miller’s classic story about an older Batman coming out of retirement. Replace him with Donkey Kong. And you get something that hopefully exists in some more blessed alternate universe: The Donkey Knight Returns Gaze upon the work of Brazilian artist Bill the Butcher—who we’ve featured before—and despair that you can’t…

Framed For Murder: 7Framed, a game where you play as a normal everyday person who is suddenly framed for murder by a mysterious enemy, looks interesting (the fancy motion capturing probably helps). The developers are trying to raise $300,000 on Kickstarter—check it out here.

First They Were Banished. Now They’re Dying, Thanks To Me.

In Banished all the townsfolk have been thrown out of their nice, comfy homes. It’s up to you to help build them some place new and ensure they survive. I took to Banished to see if I could begin anew and create the ultimate safe haven: Leotopia. Banished is a city-building game with no combat.…

Developer’s Freak-Out Might Make a Robotech-Style Shooter Even Better

If you’ve been keeping tabs on Galak-Z, then you know that the upcoming space combat game drinks deeply from the sweet well of 1980s era Japanese animation. When it was first conceived, Galak-Z was going to feature the same cat-and-mouse starfighter showdowns for everybody. But the game’s vision of space combat has changed and it’s…

Zelda… In First Person…On The Oculus Rift

Maybe changing the perspective on the original Legend of Zelda is a little weird—everything looks so different here—but that’s exactly what makes this Oculus Rift version of the game interesting. Its almost like you’re playing (or in this case, watching) an entirely new game. Right now, this version of Zelda is in beta according to…

JRPG That Mocks Boring JRPG Tropes Turns Out To Be Pretty Boring

For as long as there have been RPGs, there have been people making fun of RPG tropes. The Internet is sprinkled with jokes about level grinding and home invasion, to the point where Jokes About RPGs deserve their own slot on the Grand List Of RPG Clichés So if you’re going to do RPG humor,…

Top-Notch Spelunky Player Just Broke The World Record Score

Bananasaurus_Rex is easily one of, if not the, best Spelunky players out there. And right now he’s in the middle of an incredible run to rack up a record score of $3 million, which means getting every single piece of treasure in every level. UPDATE: He broke the record, and hit $3 million, a score…

Bargain Gaming Headset, LIVE Deals, 10GB Free Cloud Storage [Deals]

We’re bullish about the importance of audio around here, but we’re also passionate about saving money. Balking at spending $100 or even $300 on a headset was a frequent refrain in our Best Gaming Headset voting, and we can’t blame anyone for not wanting to dive down that rabbit hole. The G430, a step down…