The Colbert Report Was Ripped Off By a Chinese TV Show

A Chinese show called The Banquet is being accused of ripping off The Colbert Report‘s opening. For good reason! As The Atlantic pointed out late last week, the show is called The Banquet and broadcasts on Ningxia Satellite TV, so it’s more of a local production. However, The Colbert Report does have a sizeable following…

Beautiful Video Game Sword Becomes Beautiful Real Sword

This is Sophita’s Omega Sword from Soulcalibur IV. In the flesh. It’s made not from polygons, but resin and styrene. Buily by Harrison Krix, from Volpin Props, it’s incredibly lightweight, and from his build log looks to have been as hard to construct as a real sword. Sophitia’s Omega Sword, Soul Calibur IV [Volpin Props]

Finally, Civilization Gets The Best Playable People On Earth

You British and Americans and Germans and Japanese and Greeks and…Babylonians have had it pretty good when it comes to Civilization games. You get to play as your own people. But what aboutme? Australia has never been in the game. And don’t give me that crap about being a country and not a Civilization. If…

​The Perfect Place for a Horror Game? Pennsylvania, Says Google

We live on the internet nowadays. And there’s some thinking that suggests you can get a peek into the psyche of large groups of people by parsing what people search Google for. A new map based on this idea shows that a lot of people want to know why Philadelphia is so haunted. Sounds like…

Titanfall is going to have a beta on both Xbox One and PC. Bet you never saw that coming.

Full Metal Blacksmith: Tony Swatton is back, this time forging Elric’s Spear from Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. And after he’s done making it, as is customary, he uses the weapon to break some stuff. Ah, catharsis.

​One Next-Gen Voice Command I Can Do Without

I can understand why game developers working on next-gen games might be psyched to play around with voice commands. They represent an interesting and relatively new way to let players interact with games. But there’s at least one next-gen voice command I can happily do without. Every Xbox One owner (and every PS4 owner with…

Imagine Pikmin, But With Greek Philosophers

What happens when you take the all-stars of Ancient Greek philosophy, mythological heroes and throw them into a pixel-art version of Pikmin? Okhlos, that’s what. In the video above, I play a bit of a very early preview build of a charming-as-heck indie game Okhlos by Coffee Powered Machine. It plays a bit like Overlord,…

This amazing, detailed artwork made by illustrator Chester Ocampo keeps reminding me how hyped I’d be for a game with a similar art style. Something with a bit of that early 90s Ghost in the Shell touch, with a protagonist similar to Major Kusanagi or even Konoko from Bungie’s 2001 Oni Also, are those heels…

Check out this awesome fan-made Fallout figure: it’s Yes Man, the Securitron that can help you take over New Vegas. It was made by Reddit user Webberley using card, wood, plastic, epoxy and a Doc Ock figure. You can look at more shots here.

Lawsuit Against Bethesda Over Oblivion Bugs Went Nowhere

In 2012, Colorado resident Landis Edwards sued the folks behind The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion over a bug that erased one of his game files. The bug, Edwards said, violated the marketing copy on the back of Oblivion‘s box, which promised “open-ended” gameplay with “unlimited possibilities.” Edwards filed the suit as a class-action with a…

How Fast Can You And Your Friends Defuse A Bomb?

Pop Quiz, hot shot. Can you talk your friend through defusing a bomb that you can’t see? Keep Talking And Nobody Explodes is a Spaceteam-like game where one person gets to be Keanu Reeves and their friends get to be Jeff Daniels. Right now, the game only works with the Oculus Rift and Razer Hydra,…

First News on MLB 14 The Show Comes From Taiwan, Not Sony

Assuming MLB 14 The Show releases on the first Tuesday of March, as the series has since 2008, then we’re five weeks from its anticipated launch and we have to go to freaking Taiwan for our first look at gameplay video. The game hasn’t even gotten an official release date. Sony, you owe baseball fans…

13 Facts About Pixar That You May Not Know

You can probably guess a few of these facts—like the ones referencing how successful the company is—but there ought to be a few you didn’t know. I certainly didn’t know that the studio has a cottage for their employees to work out of that’s modeled after a pink unicorn theme, but, hey! Thanks to Buzzfeed,…

Good Thing Attack on Titan Villains Aren’t Precious Babies

Aberrant titans can come in all sorts of forms, but thankfully that usually means we see kind of weird titans—not something resembling a toddler. That’s good. Babies are cute, you see. And a cute baby titan could totally cloud the judgement of Eren and co, like in this silly video by Animation Domination High-Def. And…