Founder of Ultra-Arcade Cabinet Company Gets Two-Year Prison Term

The founder of the Ultracade, a MAME-type arcade cabinet that once was a status item among video game connoisseurs, will spend the next two years in a federal prison for secretly copying and selling video games and code whose rights he had sold to another company. The sentencing of David R. Foley concludes a legal…

​Crap, We’re Going to Have to Go Down That Tunnel, Aren’t We?

Clumps of probably-sentient, probably-murderous super-fungus. A vent that looks to have been violently wrenched open. A space suit with some kind of tentacles growing out of its head-place. And a dead body off in the distance. Yup, that’s where you’re supposed to go. The screen above is from Soma, the sci-fi horror title coming from…

A Nice Assassin’s Creed IV Moment That I Didn’t Expect

As I continued my new year’s tradition of playing the rest of the previous year’s Assassin’s Creed, I finally played the PS3/PS4/PC-only missions of ACIV. Good timing, if I dare say so. The missions star Aveline, the assassin who also stars in AC: Liberation, the HD version of which I just played right before trying…

New Gameplay Changes Will Make Super Smash Bros Wii U A Lot Harder

One of the well-known techniques of Smash Bros, “edge-hogging,” will be revamped for Super Smash Bros Wii U, as a recently released screenshot and comment from Masahiro Sakurai shows. Edge-hogging, or edge-grabbing is one of the more advanced (and funny) techniques in Smash Bros where you hold onto a ledge so that the other player,…

Candy Crush Makers Say They’re Going After Copycats, Not Banner Saga

The makers of Candy Crush Saga, who have filed for a trademark on video games with the name “candy,” and are opposing the trademark application of The Banner Saga, (pictured) say they are “not trying to stop Banner Saga from using its name,” but are compelled to defend their position under trademark law. “We do…

Why StarCraft Pros Apparently Make Good Poker Players

Listen up. If you are world-class StarCraft player, then you’d probably make an excellent poker pro. So says Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier (pictured), a former StarCraft pro-gamer who’s gone on to make over US$11 million as a poker pro With the news that former StarCraft player BoxeR was turning to poker, Grospellier told website PokerListings why…

“Virtual reality really is going to take over the world… it was better than real life—people will get lost in this and not want to leave.” Indie developer Lee Vermeulen, in a blog post about his experience with Valve’s Virtual Reality tech at Steam Dev Days.

You Don’t Want To Live Next to China’s “Bacon Apartment”

Some people hang clothes on their balcony. This resident, it seems, hangs meat. Lots of it. Online in China, photos of what looks to be a butcher working out of an apartment have popped up online. If this resident is not a butcher, then he or she certainly has an interesting hobby. Large amounts of…

Next-Gen Historical RPG Gets “Surprise” Kickstarter Campaign

For the past week or so, Warhorse Studios has been teasing some new information about their upcominghistorically-inclined RPG, Kingdom Come: Deliverance, on their website. There was a big countdown clock and everything. And now, the cat’s out of the bag: Kingdom Come will be crowdfunded! Surprise! Now, from our standpoint, there are advantages to this,…

Taking a break: Daniel Benmergui, the developer behind Storyteller, the story-building puzzle game for PC and iOS, is putting his game on hold to work on another project of his, titled Ernesto – A Quick RPG. He expects to go back to working on Storyteller in “less than three months.”

When a PC Game From 2001 Masquerades as a Next-Gen Game

The creator of the ENB series of mods, which serve as foundation for some of those quite impressive graphical enhancements for GTA IV and Skyrim, among other games, is now going after a not-too-well-known hack and slash game from 2001. The results… well, you should probably take a look. The game, Blade of Darkness, is…

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​A Brief Refresher On Xenogears

I have never played Xenogears (I know!) and so I never actually knew what the games were all about. Now, thanks to Lore, I do. A hamster on a cross, eh? Okay…

Those YouTube Promo Plans Are A Lot More Common Than You Might Think

“This happens every day on YouTube.” Boogie, a popular gamer and personality on YouTube, is right. He’s talking about the Xbox One promotional contract that YouTubers were recently offered to sign in exchange for extra cash. But in the world of making YouTube videos, these kind of promos are actually a lot more of a…

Capcom Trying To Make Amends For One Of The Worst PC Ports Ever

If you never had the misfortune to play it, know that the PC port of Resident Evil 4 was one of Capcom’s (and Ubisoft’s) darkest moments. So shoddy was the coding that it turned one of the greatest games of all time into a poorly-optimised, bug-riddled joke. Now, so as to squeeze a few more…

At Least Call Of Duty’s Commercials Are Still Fun

Say what you will about Call of Duty’s diminishing returns as games, but even those unmoved by perks and tangos can usually enjoy the ridiculously OTT trailers Activision puts together to sell the series. Take this new one today. It’s for some DLC. A few maps, that sort of stuff. But they went out and…