Elves Make the Best Flight Attendants

Middle-earth is spilling over into New Zealand. Again. Air New Zealand is back with another excellent Middle-earth-themed commercial, showing a day in the life of an airport where people get busted for smuggling mithril gear, dragons selfishly occupy hangars with all their gold, and elven employees are routinely discriminated against for their looks. I mean,…

Decades of Horror Game History, Condensed into Three Gory Minutes

I love this, but where do I go to complain about the lack of System Shock 2? NOTE: This video is NSFW. It is also not for the squeamish. Lotsa gore in here, folks. The short was created by a UK-based three man group to accompany their Kickstarter for a documentary series about horror video…

All 3 Bioshocks For $15, And A Few Hundred Other Games On Sale [Deals]

Amazon’s digital games department has started their march toward Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and holiday shopping discount craziness, and already there are some killer prices to be found. There are a ton of games on sale, so as usual we’ll outline our best picks below. You can jump to the hub page to see everything,…

In New Zealand You Can Play Video Games On Your Pizza Box

I have no idea why, but video games and pizza have always gone together. Have you ever, ever been to a LAN where pizza wasn’t ordered? This is why this new app makes so much sense. If you live in New Zealand and you buy from the ‘HELL‘ pizza chain, you can use the box…

Zelda Meets Macross, 80’s Child Brains Explode

These illustrations of Link and Zelda were done by Haruhiko Mikimoto. You may not know him by name, but if you’ve ever seen Macross, you’ll know his work. Mikimoto was character designer on the series, meaning if your heart has ever fluttered for Roy Focker, he’s the man to thank. He never worked for Nintendo,…

Nathan Drake Action Figure Replicates Half-Tucked Shirt Perfectly

It’s been two years since last saw Nathan Drake. Enough time for hearts to grow fonder, start to miss the man, miss the adventures, miss the half-tuck. To help fill the void, Sideshow have a giant $160 action figure on the way. For that price you get a posable 1:6 scale Drake, accessories, weapons, crate,…

Have Your Animal Crossing Character Brought To Tiny Life

Edberg Panganiban is now selling maybe the best Christmas stocking stuffer of them all: little resin Animal Crossing figures, hand-painted to match your own character’s design. While he sells ready-made figures – all of which are pretty cute – it’s the option to have him paint your own custom guy or girl that makes it…

Bill Gates Murders For Xbox One On South Park

Spoilers for tonight’s South Park Poor Steve Ballmer. He’s out of Microsoft in real life, and he’s out of real life in tonight’s South Park, all because he wants to find a little peace in this brutal console war. Tonight’s South Park was part two of what will likely be a trilogy of episodes dedicated…

Can you find the cow? It’s invisible, so it won’t be easy. But believe you me: There’s a cow out there. Play Find the Invisible Cow in your browser and test your cow-finding abilities. Also, your patience. (h/t Ian Bogost)

Fresh Prince + Super Mario 3D World = This song by BotanicSage. An unlikely mix, but it works!

You can own a copy of Earthbound signed by creator Shigesato Itoi—the website Fangamer is putting up an auction for it on December 1. All proceeds go to James Hensiek, a big Earthbound fan who was recently diagnosed with cancer.

You Can Rob A Store Using Your Dog’s Ball In GTA V

You couldplay fetch with your dog in Grand Theft Auto…or, you could use the ball to threaten people and force them to give you their money in a robbery. Because that’s possible in this game, for whatever bizarre reason. Dunno why this is possible, but either way, the latest round of myths tested by the…

Time for another big TF2 update, Valve kicking off something called “Two Cities“. There’s new maps, new weapons, new achievements.

Borderlands 2 Serves Up a Thanksgiving-Themed Episode Next Week

As only it could do, Borderlands 2 is desecrating a sacred family tradition for millions with its next wildass set of missions, “The Horrible Hunger of the Ravenous Wattle Gobbler.” available on Tuesday for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360. It sounds nuts. The pretext for all of its Thanksgiving imagery is a “hunger-themed competition,” being…

How To Get Your Cable TV Surround Sound Working On Xbox One

There’s been some confusion about whether the Xbox One can play cable TV in surround sound. It can. There’s a catch—a presumably temporary one. As I wrote in the New York Times last week and as we mentioned in our review of the console, the Xbox One will downgrade any surround sound audio that comes…