10 Things You Might Not Know About South Park

South Park: Stick of Truth doesn’t come out until next month—why not take a moment to learn some trivia about the show in the meantime? Alltime10s compiled a list of neat facts about the show, including where Kenny comes from and even that the church of Scientology tried to uncover dirty details about Matt Stone…

Your Strategy Guide To Life

Real life is the game that everyone is playing. But it can be tough. This is your guide. Basics You might not realise, but real life is a game of strategy. There are some fun mini-games – like dancing, driving, running, and sex – but the key to winning is simply managing your resources. Most…

Battle Of The $150 Video Cards: GeForce GTX 750 Ti Vs. Radeon R7 265

Marking the introduction of its Maxwell architecture, Nvidia has targeted AMD’s $150 Radeon R7 265 with the new GeForce GTX 750 Ti, a card that promises to be more than another rebadge. The GTX 750 Ti’s GM107 is meant to make Nvidia’s 28nm design process as efficient as possible by splitting Kepler’s 192-core streaming multiprocessor…

Why a Train Wreck Can Still Be One Of Madden‘s Most Popular Teams

Barely a week after the Super Bowl ended, fans of the Cleveland Browns got confirmation they were functionally eliminated from contention next year, too. The team’s president and general manager resigned after hiring a new head coach, a comical sequence that is so bass-ackwards you can’t even repeat it in Madden Since re-entering the league…

Ken Levine’s New Game Could Be Really Fascinating

It really sucks that Irrational Games is shutting down, and I hope that everyone who was laid off finds new employment soon. It’s a bad situation, yes, but for gamers, there’s something to be optimistic about—a new digital game by Ken Levine. Levine, an undeniably talented writer best known for his work on BioShock, also…

Tomb Raider: Definitive, New Humble Bundle, LIVE Gold [Deals]

Amazon’s gold box deal is Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition for $20 off. In gameplay terms, it was among the best of the major releases last year, with a single-player campaign that, if anything, was too long, and tons of collectibles for those that sort of thing appeals to. The next-gen port treatment is a great…

A Game That Lets You Swing Trash At Your Friends

Deathmatch comes in all shapes and sizes, but some of the most satisfying modes are the ones you don’t expect. Particle Mace knows this, and lets you swing lo-fi garbage at your friends. At Indiecade East, a yearly conference for indie game developers in New York, I interviewed designer Andy Wallace about his game Particle…

BioShock Studio Irrational Games Is Shutting Down

Irrational Games, the studio that makes BioShock, is shutting down. BioShock creator Ken Levine said today that he plans to move on to smaller, narrative-heavy games that will be released digitally. Levine, who ran Irrational, announced the news on the Irrational Games website today, noting that he’ll be starting “a smaller, more entrepreneurial endeavor at…

Ice-T Doesn’t Actually Hate D&D

After his comments about recording a D&D audiobook, you may be under the impression that Ice-T thinks the venerable role-playing universe is whack. Nah, that’d be dead wrong. In fact, the rap legend says “that s**t sounds dope to me.” The hip-hop icon has another episode of his Final Level podcast coming up and he…

Relativity Puts You In An MC Escher Drawing

How do you design a building when gravity can change at any time? Willy Chyr is figuring that out with his first game, Relativity. Think about it as if GLaDOS gave you control over gravity instead of portals (minus the evil AI narrative). Somehow, Willy he decided that his first project should be a game…

Miyamoto: The Year of Luigi Will End On March 18

Remember when we thought the Year of Luigi was over? We were wrong. Shigeru Miyamoto has just declared that it is still, in fact, the Year of Luigi, up until March 18, when we will enter the next Year, whatever that may be. The Year of Luigi began on February 14, 2013, and it will…

Cool Anime Toys We Saw At Toy Fair

Yesterday, we showed some cute/sexy Nintendo toys from Good Smile. They do other stuff, too, like figures and statues for Attack on Titan, Steins;Gate and Bayonetta. A giant Bayonetta. Almost as big as a Titan. Go on; take a look. You’ll also see some Kill La Kill, Hatsune Miku and Ghost in the Shell stuff…

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Cliff Bleszinski: ‘I’ll Never Make Another Disc-Based Game’

Interesting words from the man who designed Gears of War: “The whole ‘old guard,’ where you get a Game Informer cover and an E3 reveal, is dead… I’ll never make another disc-based game for the rest of my career, and [at E3] they’re trying to woo buyers from Target and Walmart?” At this point it’s…

Witness One Of The Fastest Hands In eSports

Recorded at the WCS Korea Qualifier by Khaldor, here’s a pretty impressive first person look at StarCraft II veteran Losira, who’s also one of the fastest players in eSports. And now you can see him at close range, unleashing his power. His APM (actions per minute) must be really really high (probably around 400?) and…

Three Pokémon: Latias, Latios and Kyogre, as modern aircrafts? That makes the Kalos Region Air Force a truly legendary one. DeviantART artist Dekus‘ piece is odd, but it’s totally awesome. And something like this would be a great mod in any flight sim out there. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing…