A Battlefield 4 Item Worth $2500, And You Can’t Even Use It

A gold battlepack in Battlefield 4 – full of the game’s best gear – is a rare and wonderful thing. But not as rare and wonderful as a gold-covered version of it worth $2500. Art dealers Cook & Becker are selling some expensive prints of some of the game’s concept art, but alongside those images…

Classic Wolf: Philipp Smart re-imagines Telltale’s Fables game The Wolf Among Us as a classic 90s Lucasarts adventure game. I’d play the hell out of it.

​Buggy Game Pulled From Steam, Funny Videos Remain

Yes, the following videos are from a game that is (or, was) available for purchase. Specifically, from Ashes Cricket 2013, which was released in a sad state and then unceremoniously pulled from Steam. Rock, Paper Shotgun‘s got the whole story, and also shared this video from Matt Whitehorn: I’m no Cricket expert, but I’m fairly…

Activision Is Going To Make So Much Money From This Skylanders App

Available today for iOS, the Skylanders Collection Vault is an app that tells kids exactly how many Skylanders their parents still need to buy them, while letting them compare their paltry collection to the kid down the street whose mom and dad love him more. It’s so awesome. No really, it’s brilliant. Call of Duty…

Lil’ Guardian Pyro has been named the overall winner in this year’s Saxxy awards. You can check out the other winners here, and the complete list of nominees here

What The Inside of an Xbox One Kinect Looks Like

We’ve seen what’s inside an Xbox One.What about the Kinect it comes bundled with? That part of the hardware has bits and circuits in it, too! And now, thanks to iFixitYourself, we can see what’s inside the new Kinect. They also break down some of what’s changed from the first Kinect, too—like for instance, did…

‘School Shooting’ Video Game Also Found at Sandy Hook Killer’s Home

Yesterday, we sought to list all of the video games investigators found in the home of Adam Lanza, the shooter who killed 26 people—20 of them children—at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14 last year. We missed one and, as its title suggests, it’s kind of important: “School Shooting.” But we’ve never heard of…

The guys over at the indie gaming collective Babycastles have just announced that they are seeking donations for a permanent gallery space in New York City. We have covered some of their events before, including a game of Pac-Man projected on an entire room. For more, visit their site

​Super Mario 3D World Gets The Musical Treatment It Deserves

Sure, Super Mario 3D World is a great game — but how is it as a musical? From the people that brought you Pokémon – The Musical, comes a musical tribute to the recently released Super Mario 3D World. It’s energetic musical theatre, features a badass Princess Peach, and makes me wish these guys would…

Mod Skyrim, Get Job At Bungie

Want to get a job at Bungie, one of the world’s most respected video game studios? Easy. Spend thousands of hours writing a Skyrim mod so detailed and intricate, it feels like an expansion pack. That’s what Alexander J. Velicky did, and now he says he’s taking a designer position at the studio best known…

Even The Most Promising Game Can Be Ruined By Free-To-Play Foolishness

Dammit, Tank Nation — why won’t you just let me love you? I wanted to spend hours flinging projectiles at challenging enemies against lush 2D backdrops, pausing only to use my amassed resources to fit new parts and upgrades onto my fantastical tank creations. I wanted to progress through the expansive story, discover new lands…

Pokémon X & Y, Summarized In A Single Minute

Story has never really been Pokemon’s strong suit, but even so, LORE manages to condense the 30+ hour Pokemon X & Y adventure into one minute. Better yet, they somehow manage to tell the story better than the actual games do. Neat. LORE – Pokemon X and Y Lore in a Minute! [LORE]

Grand Theft Auto V $34, Dark Souls $6, Bioshock Infinite $20 [Deals]

Our Black Friday Deals Guide is coming later today, but there’s no need to wait for that, because three of the biggest games of the year are all on sale at historic low prices, in addition to a slew of blu-rays. Friendly reminder, follow us on Twitter or you will miss time-sensitive deals. Update: Ghosts…

Borderlands 2 Grandma Drops Some Serious Indie Game Knowledge

Imagine Mr. Torgue in a tight pink shirt and hair curlers, it’s as unsettling as it sounds. That, plus a love of indie games is basically Grandma Flexington, the newest character in Borderlands 2‘s latest Thanksgiving-themed DLC. The DLC itself is only about an hour long, dropping you into Mr. Torgue’s Hunger For Violence Extravaganza…