The Internet Reacts To Pokémon X & Y’s Silliest Feature

If the fantasy in Pokemon is that we get to travel the world with our trusty monsters by our side, it only makes sense that we’d get to play and pet them too, right? Now, with Pokemon Amie—a new feature in X & Y—we finally do exactly that…and the good people of the internet have…

The PS4 Sure Makes Basketball Look Good

Okay, yes, this is a marketing video by the folks who make NBA 2K14, which is already out on current-gen consoles and will be released for Xbox One and PS4 later this year. The real game might not look this good. But still… they’re claiming this footage was captured off a PlayStation 4. It’s pretty…

If LucasArts Made A Game About The Shining…

The remote hotel, where Jack Nicholson and his family spent the winter in Stanley Kubrick’s movie adaptation would have been a pretty cool setting for a point and click adventure game. Thanks to the creative minds at CineFix, I’m feeling slightly guilty for feeling all warm and fuzzy inside what with all the adventure game…

The Video Game Studio From Hell: Four Months Later

The people who run Trendy Entertainment want you to know that things are better. Or maybe they want you to think things are better. Maybe they just want you to play their game. Trendy, the Florida-based game developer that we once labeled “A Video Game Studio From Hell,” has gone through quite a few changes…

Fans of Cole McGrath will be able to find out what happened after Infamous 2. Yay! But the only way to get the Cole’s Legacy DLC is to pre-order the Infamous: Second Son limited or collector’s editions. Boo!

Toy Story in Space Brings The Disney Infinity Saga Full Circle

It was Avalanche Software’s innovative Toy Box Mode for the Toy Story 3 video game tie-in that lead to the creation of the toy-driven Disney Infinity. Next week Buzz, Woody and Jessie come home, and it goes a little something like this. Priced at somewhere between $35 and $40 when it hit store shelves next…

Calvin & Hobbes Creator Pretty Much Dashes All Hope of Animated Movie

Bill Watterson is cartooning’s J.D.Salinger: creator of a genius-level touchstone work who’s practically disappeared from the public eye. But, somehow, Mental Floss scored an interview with him. Watterson sounds just dandy overall but crushes the dreams of anybody hoping that Pixar or any other animation house would ever get the chance to adapt Calvin &…

This might be the weirdest —or at least the most surreal—gun in video games. The freak-science invention in Scale lets you shrink and grow just about anything the game’s world. The indie title looked awesome every time we’ve seen it and now dev team CubeHeart has launched a Kickstarter campaign to help get the game…

Blizzard’s Diablo/Starcraft/WoW Crossover Has a New Name

The game once known as Blizzard DOTA changed its name to Blizzard All-Stars after a dispute between heavyweight publishers Valve and Blizzard. Now, the Warcraft company has settled on a new name for the competitive online game. It’s going to be called Heroes of the Storm The trailer above debuts the MOBA game’s new name…

Try To Think Your Way Through The PS4’s First Big Puzzle Game Right Now

We’ve been talking about The Witness, the upcoming puzzle/exploration game from Braid-creator Jonathan Blow, for some time now. But for all the words we’ve spilled and the concept art we’ve shared, it can still be difficult to explain just how the game’s puzzles work Yesterday at a Sony-hosted PS4 preview event, I chatted with Blow…

An Ode To Magikarp, The Saddest Pokémon Of All

Poor Magikarp. Over the past decade and a half, the flopping fish has been verbally walloped not just by Pokémon players, but by the creators who made him so pathetic in the first place. Granted, it’s true: Magikarp is generally considered the weakest Pokémon, and his abilities totally suck. But his flopping is kind of…

Can You Name All The References In This Gorgeous Super Mario Art?

Since 2006, over a dozen artists from a Mario forum collaborated on a number of eBoy-esque isometric Mario worlds, like the one you see above—and the results are pretty fantastic. The long, curious history of the Isometric collaborations on the Mario Fan Games Galaxy Forums is documented on this Wiki, if you’re curious—just know that…

The Best Small Form Factor PC Case And A Bunch Of Pre-Order Discounts

The BitFenix Prodigy changed the Mini-ITX game when it hit store shelves a few years ago. It’s a beautiful and intuitive case, intelligently designed to maintain a slim form factor while still allowing for the installation of components like watercooling radiators and long graphics cards. On top of all that, it debuted at a very…

The My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic game suffered from a severe lack of dancing mini-games. It suffers no longer. The movie-themed Equestria Girls update is live for iOS and Android, turning ponies into real girls and making them dance for your amusement. Love or hate the movie, that song is pretty catchy.

PlayStation 4 Will Cost $1,850 in Brazil

And we thought Argentina had it bad. In Brazil, the land of high video game import taxes, PlayStation fans will have to shell out 3,999 Brazilian Real for Sony’s next console come November 29. That’s roughly $1,850 USD. Ouch. The $100 price advantage the $399 PlayStation 4 enjoys over the $499 Xbox One here in…

How We’ll Create The Prettiest Elder Scrolls Characters Ever

As versatile and deep as the series is, it wasn’t until Skyrim that The Elder Scrolls started generating somewhat attractive player characters. Looks like they’ve nailed attractive character creation for The Elder Scrolls Online. The Elder Scrolls characters really have come a long way. Here’s character creation from 2002’s The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind: The…

Someone Tried To Beat Up Michael Bay in Hong Kong [Update]

Earlier today, director Michael Bay was attacked on the streets of Hong Kong, where he is filming Transformers 4 According to Reuters and Chinese reports, two brothers, both in their late 20s and both surnamed Mak, appeared on set and demanded HK$100,000 ($12,900). The elder brother then attacked Bay as well as three police officers…

A Game Where You’re A Rotating Limo Shouldn’t Make Sense But It Does

Is this real life? Of course not, because this is exactly the kind of scenario that could only work in a video game. And isn’t it wonderful. Your name is Georgio Manos and you’re a chauffeur driving around in a revolving limousine. Which actually makes perfect sense, because the 1977 town of Roundabout is full…

PS4: Everything We Know

The fourth PlayStation is out this fall. PlayStation #4. Pl4St4tion. PlayStation: The Fourth of Its Name. Sony’s next console will be out on November 15, and they’ve told us a whole lot about the PlayStation 4 so far. We’ve got a full round-up for you right here, with updates as we continue to learn more…

Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: Even more excellent Last-Gen Heroes/Zeroes posts have sprouted up in TAYland. Aikage sings the praises of Operation Rainfall. Voltaire Crescent lavishes love all over Pokemon Red & Blue. Viexi asks what happened to Cube World. And reader Aldo shares progress on Transcenders, a sci-fi puzzle…