World Of Warcraft‘s New Orc Female: Now 100 Percent Less Stupid

Of all the race/sex combinations getting a graphical overhaul in World of Warcraft’s upcoming Warlords of Draenor expansion, none needed it as much as the female Orc. How I hated her stupid old face. The body was fine — a powerful frame with well-defined muscles. Sure, she had no fingers, but who did back in…

​A Comic That Perfectly Captures The Evil Genius Of Eve Online Players

One giant, horrifically expensive space ship destroying another, while its crew erupts in gleeful laughter. Yep, that sure looks like EVE Online. Starting today, you can get the first issue of a new comic-book series based on the infamous sci-fi corporate warfare MMO for free. Created by Daniel Way and Tomm Coker, EVE: True Stories…

All The New Features In Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD

HD visuals, new dress-spheres, a crazy new tower dungeon in which every action is turn-based… these are the new features in the upcoming remakes of Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2, which are out on March 18 for PS3 and Vita. Really, the only thing not to be excited about here is that you…

What’s In The Box?! Oh, It’s A Playable Flappy Bird.

The original Flappy Bird may be gone, but it continues to live on in all sorts of tributes—and not all of these tributes are digital. Take this awesome cardboard box contraption, for example—it’s a machine that lets you play Flappy Bird ‘in real life.’ It’s also just as tough as the original Flappy Bird. Excellent!…

Gearing up for the release of Reaper of Souls, Blizzard is showing off the new Clans and Communities features coming to Diablo III in patch 2.0.1. Clans are guild-like invite-only affairs, while communities are more casual groups sorted by interests, geographic location and the like. You can find out all bout bothon the Diablo III…

Someone Made It So All The Cars In GTA V Try To Kill You

The only thing better than Grand Theft Auto V is Grand Theft Auto V with cars that go crazy and try to murder everyone on the streets. The GTA V Carmageddon mod has been around for a while, and this new video by taltigolt does an awesome job of showing it off. Watch and enjoy:…

I Didn’t Even Know I Wanted A Spelunky Metroid Mod Until Now

I don’t know how this game went this long without this mod, but that doesn’t really matter: Here it is, at last, Spelunky done Metroid-style. The title screen and music alone should fire you right the hell up. Wait! What? Where do I get it? Unfortunately, the mod maker, joey4track, has not made it publicly…

RoboCop Caused $8 Million Worth Of Damage By Today’s Standards

How much property damage could one cybernetic cop possibly do? Quite a lot, it turns out. The keen-eyed CinemaSins folks break out their fancy calculators once more, this time calculating the property damage wracked up in 1987’s original RoboCop. The actual figure they come up with might not be all that impressive, really, but remember…

Valve’s Movie Comes Out In March

Free To Play, the ominously-titled documentary about professional Dota 2 players, will be out on March 19, Valve just announced. It’ll be Free To Watch on Steam. The movie follows three professional Dota players—one in Asia, one in North America, and one in Europe—and documents their challenges, sacrifices, etc. Free To Playwas totally produced and…

A Watchmen Cartoon That Stars Spongebob Characters. I…What?

Patrick as the Comedian? Spongebob as Rorschach? Gary as Dr. Manhattan? Um. What in the world? And yet! This weird mash-up by El Cid works weirdly well thanks to all the silly Spongebob gags. Man, that show was really great, no? Now I really wanna re-watch Spongebob. It’s been forever. SpongeMen SquareWatch [El Cid]

50 of the Best Movies Ever, PSN and LIVE Updates [Deals]

The Best of Warner Bros. 50 Film Blu-ray Collection is one of the most popular entertainment items we’ve ever listed, and today it’s down to its lowest price of $179. This set includes digital copies in addition to the blu-rays, and features films like Inception, The Matrix, Lord of the Rings, and The Dark Knight,…

Sacred 3 brings its colorful co-op Diablo-esque gameplay to PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC this summer. With four-player drop-in, drop-out online multiplayer co-op and two-player splitscreen, Deep Silver’s latest foray into the world of Ancaria should be a blast to play with friends and strangers alike. Check out fresh screens below.

What Are The Worst Multiplayer Faux Pas?

We all have them: pet peeves that drive us up the wall when playing a multiplayer game with a bunch of folks. Sore winners. Loot stealers. Lone wolves who screw everything up. They make us crazy. Let’s talk about them. A discussion about the most aggravating behaviors in multiplayer games happens in the video above,…

What Next For Dozens Of Ex-BioShock Game Creators?

Yesterday’s surprise news that Irrational Games, the studio behind the lauded BioShock series, is shutting down raised a number of questions, including what will become of the people who worked there making games. While Irrational creative director Ken Levine will forge a new, much smaller outfit dedicated to making downloadable narrative-based games, most of the…

Here’s a look at Agent 47 as portrayed by Rupert Friend in the next Hitman flick, courtesy of a mole who leaked the pic to IGN.

Strike Suit Zero Transforms Into A PS4 And Xbox One Game

With fast paced action and mecha that transform into spaceships, there wasn’t a lot not to like about Born Ready Games’ Strike Suit Zero, and what little there was is being addressed in next month’s Strike Suit Zero: Director’s Cut for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Born Ready has polished up the textures, restructured…

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