Did anyone actually choose Uplay? The “Thank you for choosing Uplay” message that pops up every time a game is launched from within Ubisoft’s game control service gets funnier every time I see it. Redditor Purkle agrees.

America Pays More For Slower Internet and Less Capacity

The average Internet connection speed in the United States may be well more than what’s needed for multiplayer gaming or watching streaming video. But the country’s infrastructure still lingers well behind what other nations enjoy, according to a slew of recent studies. It’s a textbook your-mileage-may-vary setting, of course, but the average U.S. connection speed…

Here’s what’s going on Talk Amongst Yourselves, our reader-written blog: E1Salvador rounded up the 10 best answers to some random questions, including Luminous on starting Pokémon and Spacegar on the Iron Chefs. Dexomega just up and reviewed Gundam 00: A Wakening of the Trailblazer And Steve Bowling examines whether Nintendo is hungry or desperate. Don’t…

A reader asked why I left BioShock Infinite out of my top 10 games of the year. Good question, especially since the game got hit with some rough backlash. I liked the game! Over the weekend, I explained the omission. Read my take right here. Warning: vague spoilers for the game.

Stereo Pixel-Art GIFs Sure Look Like Classic Adventure Games

Remember Dark Seed, Harvester, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream and all those other horror point-and-click adventure games from the 90s? These giffy photos, taken and edited by photographer David Alexander Slaager, have absolutely the same atmosphere. These could be great backgrounds for a horror adventure game, or serve as homage to a…

A Moment Of Silence For The MMOs That Died In 2013

With their reliance on a large, stable online player base to survive, every massively multiplayer online game is destined to die — the only question is when. Will they last ten years, like Disney’s Toontown Online, or die in beta like The Mummy Online? Here’s to the MMOs that didn’t make it past 2013. The…

China’s Video Game Industry Pulled In Over $13 Billion. Yes, Billion.

As the year comes to an end, year-end statistics are trickling out from every which way. Over the weekend, the China Game Industry Annual Conference’s China Games Party has released info on how much revenue the Chinese game industry has brought in over the course of 2013. Chinese video game companies pulled in over $13…

Hong Kong’s Government Explains Money Troubles… With Cartoons

In Hong Kong, government-provided public services are considered pretty good. Supposedly, the social welfare net is also pretty good. Technically being part of China but with a passport that is accepted by many western countries, Hong Kong is overall a pretty good place to live. However, in recent years, the local government’s pockets have been…

Movies & TV Get More Viral With Upworthy Headlines

We’ve seen what happens when video games get Upworthy-style headlines. What happens when sci-fi and fantasy movies get them will amaze you. SFFWorthyslaps the low-hanging fruit by giving your favourite movies and TV shows headlines in the style of the infamous viral site. This joke will get old very quickly. So let’s enjoy it while…

Kid Stays Up Late Gaming, Saves Family From Burning House

If you’re still young enough to have someone telling you when to go to bed, remember this story the next time your mother tries to tell you enough’s enough for one day. 12-year-old Jaxxyn Wood, from Kentucky, was up at 3:30am playing video games when he “smelled something really bad, like Legos on fire”. What…

Call of Duty, BioShock Infinite More Enjoyable As Text Adventures

As they did lastyear, the team at PC Gamer are ringing in the new year by celebrating the biggest games of the old year. And by celebrating, I mean re-doing them as text adventures. There are two of them so far, both of them shooters, one which was fairly terrible, the other which, well, let’s…

NSA Accused Of Hijacking Laptop Shipments, Spying On Undersea Cables

In case you weren’t scared enough of the reach of the US National Security Agency, reports coming out of Germany are accusing the intelligence agency of literally seizing shipments of computers, installing malware and sometimes even hardware bugs on them. The allegations have been published by German news site Der Spiegel, and are reportedly based…