Xbox One Has The Best Error Messages

Via Twitterer @getB3NT, behold the greatest error message on any video game console. “Because of your past behavior, you can’t Xbox Live Gold is required to use Skype for Xbox One.” (Note: @getB3NT says you get that error message if you swear in a private Skype call, but I just spent like five minutes cursing…

Remember the developers who are famed for being ripped off? Someone made a game about that: now you too can rip off Vlambeer games (like Ridiculous Fishing) and get away with it. Heh.

A New Doctor Who Game, Just In Time For A New Doctor

At this point, between this past weekend’s 50th Anniversary special and the upcoming regeneration of the 11th (or 12th) Doctor, my Doctor Who excitement level is so high I don’t care that this week’s mobile game release looks like Puzzle & Doctors. Doctor Who: Legacy, developed by Tiny Rebel Games and Seed Studios, looks a…

Valve Announces Steam Reviews

Valve is launching a crowd-sourced review system on Steam, and it’ll let you give ratings to any game in your library on the PC distribution network. The beta goes live today You’ll also be able to rate other peoples’ reviews, like you can on networks like Amazon. Presumably this will work better than the infamously…

Stock Up On Next-Gen Games And Classic Board Games [Deals]

There are physical games, and then there are physical games. In addition to a long list of current-gen, next-gen, and movie and TV discounts for you today, Amazon is also running a buy one, get one 50% off promo on board games including Ticket to Ride and Catan. [Amazon] From Up On Poppy Hill [Blu-ray/DVD]…

The Average Price of a PS4 Sold on eBay is $425. So Far.

Though major retailers have been cleaned out of their launch-day stock, and supply is expected to be tightly manipulated through the holiday shopping season, the gray market has seen brisk business for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, and unlike past console launches, prices have not been alarmingly out-of-hand. While there are numerous eBay listings for…

Proof That ​Star Wars‘ Death Star Design Looks Great Anywhere

You know, before it got blown up, the Death Star sported some pretty eye-catching aesthetics. Sure, it stood for the total oppression of intergalactic freedom but The Empire’s ominous architecture would look cool in your home, wouldn’t it? Damn straight it would. When a client wanted to create the ultimate sci-fi-inspired home theater, studio Tom…

Here’s what’s going on Talk Amongst Yourselves, our reader-written blog: GiantBoyDetective aggregates critical reaction to the exclusive games for the Wii U , PS4 and Xbox One to see whose only-on line-up was the best. Raw Danger critiques the plot of Batman: Arkham Origins, finding a little too much familiarity in the Dark Knight’s latest…

Should you play Tearaway or The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds? Why not both? TDZDaily.com‘s video game editor Derrick Dover used Tearaway‘s character editing tools to bring two of the year’s best portable games together as one. I’d play the heck out of The Legend of Tearaway: Iota’s Awakening.

There’s A New Final Fantasy Out Today, And You Should Stay Far Away

Final Fantasy IV: The After Years hits iOS and Android today, and while it’s not as egregiously offensive as some other games in the once-beloved series (like the microtransaction machine All The Bravest), it is a terrible game and you should stay away. I wrote a little bit about The After Years last year, so…

EA Sports Sacks FIFA Manager After 13-Year Run

EA Sports will cancel FIFA Manager, its football management sim for the PC, ending a 13-year run for the series that lately saw it finishing a distant second to Sega’s better regarded Football Manager In an open letter to fans, Gerald Köhler, the founder of the game (known as Fussball Manager and then Total Club…

Well, well. That LEGO The Hobbit rumor this weekend is true after all. Warner Bros. just announced the game but not a specific launch date for it next year. And it will release for Xbox One and PS4 as well as Wii U, 360, PS3, PC, 3DS and PS Vita. The game is based on…

Your Adobe Passwords Make For An Incredibly Easy Crossword Puzzle

When life gave him 153 million leaked Adobe accounts, complete with emails, encrypted passwords and password hints, engineer Ben Falconer made a crossword puzzle. A pathetically easy crossword puzzle. As the nice folks at Rock, Paper, Shotgun point out, the first thing you should do before playing Adobe Crossword is tocheck to see if your…

Battlefield 4 Jet Swap Shows Everyone How Teamwork is Done

Now, that is one impressive Battlefield 4 moment right there. One guy comes in low with his jet and jumps out while his teammate jumps into the abandoned plane and moves on (the GIF shows both players’ view). Switching jets like this really requires superb skills and teamwork. It’s even better to watch the full…

So, Which Pokémon Would You Say Is The Sexiest? Just Asking.

I love Pokémon. YouTuber Chris Sanders loves them too. Maybe a little too much. The creator of Pokémon First-World Problems returns with an all-new, all-different set of problems, and while I have to concede his points on at least number 10 and 1, the rest of his picks I find a little Farfetch’d. Awwww, yeah.