Nintendo will license its character to new partners, says company president Satoru Iwata. There’s a precedent for this: Nintendo has already done the same for arcade games.

Nintendo Knows The Wii U Is Struggling, Promises Improvements

The 3DS is doing pretty well! The Wii U, however, is not. You know it, I know it, and you bet Nintendo knows it, because the company just announced a raft of changes and improvements they’re bringing to the system (and the way it’s marketed). Recognising that the console needs to be marketed better, president…

Snowball Fights Are Better With Team Fortress 2

You could have a normal snowball fight. Or…you could go all out and dress up like Team Fortress characters and then frolic in the snow. The choice, I think, is obvious…or at least it is for CorridorDigital Though you might wanna be extra mindful about the sniper’s whereabouts in this situation—otherwise things will get gross!…

Mario Kart 8 will be released in May, Nintendo revealed at a financial briefing in Tokyo today. No word if that includes the Western release as well. (Note: It’s worldwide!)

Skeletor’s Voice Actors Play With Skeletor Action Figures

Yup. This is Alan Oppenheimer (80s Skeletor) and Brian Dobson (2000s Skeletor) reprising their roles while…playing with action figures. It’s like the greatest toy commercial that never was. Skeletor Actors Play With Action Figures [YouTube, via Topless Robot]

​The First And Only English-Language Review Of Super Mario Bros.

These days it can feel like half the internet is made up of video game reviews. That wasn’t always the case—after the video-game crash of the 1980s, there were so few video game publications that one of the most important games of all time was barely reviewed at all. In the video above, cat-owning video-game…

A look inside the $80 Diablo III: Reaper of Souls collector’s edition, aka the big box special. It’s everything in the $60 digital deluxe version, plus circular pieces of plastic, a square of colorful cloth-covered gel, and a hardbound art book that makes the whole thing worthwhile-ish.

The LEGO Blowjob Competition Is Cancelled

Last week, porn star Christy Mack announced a competition for the ages: whoever built her “the coolest LEGO creation” to put in her house won a prize. And that prize was a blowjob. Note: Yes, the Twitter feed in question has some NSFW stuff on it. It’s the Twitter feed of a porn star. It…

Video Games That Are Awkward To Play In Public

For most portable video games, you’re not being particularly brave when you play them out in meatspace. The button-pressing and D-pad-pushing is fairly surreptitious in the vast majority of on-the-go titles; you can play without making too much of a spectacle of yourself. But other games make you look like an idiot during your morning…

EVE‘s Giant Space Battle Is Getting A Memorial: “Titanomachy”

EVE Online will erect a memorial to the 21-hour, all-out space battle that spanned Monday and Tuesday, commemorating the loss of 75 Titans—the largest ship in the spacefaring MMO. The total damage done may translate to more than $300,000 in real money, but it is the loss of the Titans that defines the Battle of…

Rock, Paper, Scissors Like You’ve Never Seen It Before

How do you improve on a game like Rock Paper Scissors? Add a pinch of Ryan Gosling in Drive, that’s how. Restricted-RPS is described as “an online multiplayer swindle’emup.” It takes the very basic concept of the old-as-hell classic and adds gambling, collusion and misinformation. Watch the trailer above to see it in action. You…

Someone Made Minecraft In Project Spark (Complete With Cow!)

So we’ve seen plenty of other games recreated within Minecraft, but now we’ve finally come full circle, and Minecraft has been recreated in Project Spark. How long until they get redstone functioning and create a working computer? Project Spark Showcase via @tomwarren

​The Next Tomb Raider Story Starts Here

If you liked last year’s Tomb Raider reboot, you’re probably hungry for news on a sequel. Dark Horse Comics’ upcoming comic adaptation isn’t something you can slide into a console or PC disc slot but it does show what happens next to the young explorer. Warning: the preview below contains spoilers for last year’s Tomb…

Can’t get enough Jack and Bigby? Here’s the trailer for episode two of Telltale Games’ The Wolf Among Us Will Jack get his ass-kicked by the big bad in Smoke & Mirrors? Next week is far too long to wait for an answer. Just imagine it in your head until then. (via IGN)

What Gaming Could Look Like On Google Glass

Google Glass isn’t just for hands-free computing and getting dirty looks from folks who think you’re filming them. Google thinks it’s a good gaming platform as well, and its engineers have built five simple games, hoping others will start thinking in that direction, too. This video, posted to the Google developers’ blog, shows the five…

Pokémon NPCs Say The Most Bizarre Things

The characters populating the world of Pokémon are kind of…special. Some will make you laugh. Some will make you scratch your head. Some will just be kind of random—but that’s exactly what makes them so good, as far as fans of the franchise are concerned. I mean, how iconic is the line about comfy shorts?…