Legolas Meets His Ultimate Enemy… The Friend Zone

Alas, poor Legolas All he wanted was to be a happy couple with Freckles Tauriel. But nope, “brother she’s never had.” Truly awful. The Brotherhood Workshop, responsible for the excellent LEGO version of The Hobbit’s trailer, this time went more a more focused short about Legolas’ love life… or lack thereof. To be fair, he…

Nintendo just bought a stake in NicoNico Douga’s parent company Dwango. The company provides content via smartphones, but Nintendo says it won’t be using Dwango for that. More on Siliconera.

The Best PC Patch Notes Keep Getting Better

It’s OK, Crusader Kings IIisn’t for everyone. I get that. But I’d like to think we can all at least find common ground and enjoy the game’s patch notes, which continue to be the very best Having earlier fixed such glaring errorsas “If married, women now fool their husbands about the parentage of children born…

Fable Re-Rated Because Sex is A “Reward”

This is strange. Very strange. When Fable was originally released on the first Xbox the game’s Australian rating was ‘M’. Today the Australian Classification Board revealed that Fable: Anniversary, the HD remastered version of Fable for the Xbox 360, would be rated R18+. Adults only. The reason? “Sexual activity related to incentives and rewards”. Very…

Tragic Robot Suicide Stuns Small Town

A Roomba in the Austrian village of Hinterstoder has, according to its owner, woken up from being powered down and hurled itself upon a working stovetop, incinerating the device and leaving naught but a pile of ashes behind. Helmut Kniewasser, one of the firefighters attending the blaze, has the story (courtesy of the Daily Mail).…

The Same People Worked On The Xbox One And PlayStation Commercials

The guys at Bluraren’t the only studio making top-shelf commercials for the video game business. The team at visual effects outfit The Mill have worked on loads of them as well, including some of this year’s best and most prominent. The video below is the studio’s showreel for the year, and while it contains footage…

Class Acts

PS4 Sizzle Reel Teases What’s Coming Next

The PlayStation 4 is officially on sale. Next-gen is now current-gen. Here’s a three-minute sizzle reel, shown off on SpikeTV tonight, that teases what’s coming in the near future for the newest video game console out there.

Metal Gear Solid V‘s PlayStation-Exclusive Mission Stars Classic Snake

The fifth Metal Gear Solid is getting a “Deja Vu” mission, and it’ll have the totally next-gen graphics of classic Snake, as you can see above. Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes is out this spring for current- and next-gen systems.

Sony Teases The Last Guardian In Excruciating Fashion

When Spike’s Geoff Keighley asked Sony’s Shuhei Yoshida and Adam Boyes about the enigmatic Last Guardian, I didn’t expect much of a response. And of course… we didn’t get much of a response. Enjoy.

The first buzzworthy game on the Ouya, the four-player competitive archery-combat game Towerfall, will be coming to the PS4 with some 50 new levels. It’ll be called Towerfall Ascension. More details here

Destiny Beta Coming First To PS3/PS4

Tonight at Sony’s PS4 event in New York, Bungie announced that PlayStation owners will get to play the beta of their multiplatform online shooter Destiny first. The game will be out in 2014 and is also coming to Xbox One and Xbox 360.

Infamous: Second Son Is Coming In March 2014

At Sony’s PS4 press event, Sucker Punch unveiled this new trailer for their open-world superhero game Infamous: Second Son, and announced that it’ll be out on March 21, 2014. In other news, I am psyched for this game.

The Last of Us Story DLC Is A Prequel Featuring Ellie

Today at Sony’s PS4 event Naughty Dog revealed Left Behind, the first story-based DLC for The Last of Us. The teaser trailer showed Ellie along with Riley Abel, her friend from back during her school days in the Quarantine Zone. Those who have read the Dark Horse comic run of The Last of Us: American…

How To Use The PS4’s New Features

The PS4 has added some features, and they aren’t all so obvious. You might want to know how to turn off that speaker in your controller when it starts making noise during a game. You might want to find out how rare is that trophy you just got. Let’s take a look. First up is…

NPR Unboxing The PS4 Is As Hilarious As It Sounds

“Knack looks a little… too benign.” If you’re going to watch a PS4 unboxing video, make it National Public Radio’s PS4 unboxing video.