How These Guys Made A Music Video Using Kinect

The Xbox 360 Kinect camera may have been intended for use with video games, but many of its most interesting uses were unlocked once the device was hacked. Suddenly, people had access to a cheap, relatively easy to use motion capture device. Nice! Film director Andrew Gant used the Kinect, along with several other cameras,…

Watch The Fastest Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker Run In The World

Speedrunner Cosmo Wright is on a roll—last week, he was able to nab the world record for fastest Ocarina of Time run, beating it in nineteen minutes and fifteen seconds. Today he’s back with another record: the fastest Wind Waker playthrough as of this writing. You can watch it for yourself. The time is four…

Dragon Age‘s Save File Solution Lets You Rewrite Your History

For those who haven’t fully completed both Dragon Age I and II or, worse, lost or deleted their save files, the third installment of the series will let them build (rebuild) an entire backstory before jumping into Dragon Age: Inquisition This is good because it doesn’t appear they have a clear solution for actually importing…

These Conversations Remind Me Why I Love The Ninja Turtles

I was trying out the new game, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out Of The Shadows and after hearing a couple of these conversations between the brothers I decided to just stop and record them all. Take a look! Oh, and Mikey is obviously still the best turtle. TMNT: Out Of The Shadows is out now…

Calvin & Hobbes Creator’s Life Lessons Become Beautiful New Comic

Not a day goes by that I don’t somehow, consciously or subconsciously, live out a lesson I learned from Calvin & Hobbes. I sense I’m not alone in this. As much as I’d have loved it if comic-creator Bill Watterson had kept working forever, there’s something bittersweet about the fact that Calvin & Hobbes is…

The Internet Reacts To The 2DS Reveal

Think what you will of the recently-unveiled Nintendo 2DS, but at the very least we can’t say that it’s a hardware reveal that went unnoticed—Nintendo’s curiously-designed budget handheld started getting reactions from the internet almost immediately. Even just the headlines announcing the handheld anticipated bafflement or reacted to the console—we wrote that the 2DS name…

Oh God, Uwe Boll’s on Kickstarter, Raising Money for Postal 2

Well, it finally happened. Uwe Boll, maker of terrible movies in general and terrible video game adaptations in specific, has gone to Kickstarter in search of money for his next flick, which of course is a sequel to 2007’s wretched Postal. He’s raised $2 so far. Boll, the creative force behind flops based on House…

Good Lord, The GTA V Soundtrack Is Going To Be Amazing

Long have the Grand Theft Auto games existed in their own musical stratosphere, so far beyond other games’ soundtracks that a comparison seems almost unfair. It’s no surprise to hear that GTA V will have a phenomenal soundtrack, given the tracklist info that’s already leaked. But now that Rockstar has begun to announce official info,…

Readers of our sister site Lifehacker are sharing the secrets of How They Work—detailing the gear, the software and whatever else gets them through their day. One of those readers helps make Call of Duty. This is how he works…

$30 Price Point Justifies Digital-Only Phoenix Wright 5

Much rabble has been roused about Phoenix Wright: Dual Destinies, the fifth Phoenix Wright game and the first in the series to be digital-only. When it comes out this fall for 3DS, it will be an eShop exclusive. No physical copies. The downside of this arrangement is that your digital copy of the game is…

Ben’s Chili Bowl Half-Smokes and Chili Sauce: The Snacktaku Review

There’s a place called Ben’s Chili Bowl on U Street in Washington D.C. that’s been the talk of the town since 1958. Ben’s half-smokes and chili sauce — a riff on the traditional chili dog — has been raved over by the rich and famous and showcased on any number of popular cable food programs.…

Nintendo 2DS vs. 3DS: A Direct Comparison

Wondering how Nintendo’s newest piece of portable hardware stacks up to their older pieces of portable hardware? Via Nintendo of Europe, here’sa nifty little chart to show you all of the differences between the company’s three different 3DS models. Yes, the 2DS is a 3DS model. If you find that confusing, well, you’re not alone.

Top Smash Bros. Fan Sites Knocked Offline, Hackers Blamed

Having a single website go down isn’t so unusual. But in this case, bizarrely, the Smash Bros community has allegedly become a target for multiple distributed denial of service attacks (which disable a website’s server with high traffic). Meaning, we’re not just dealing with one downed website. We’re dealing with multiple out of commission websites.…

The Last of Us Getting Free Update, Sharp New Multiplayer Mode

When I reviewed The Last of Us earlier this year, I may not have given its multiplayer portion enough credit. The stripped-down deathmatches were enjoyable enough at the time, but the more I play, the more fun I have. And with a coming free update, the whole thing is gonna get bigger, more tactical, and…

Moneysaver: PSN Pax Sale, Madden, iTunes Money, 24, Castle of Illusion

The discount’s pull, the discount’s pull, click click click ’till the cart is full. The cart is full, the deals are new, and all the games are waiting, waiting on you, and you’ve got Pri-i-iime Deal Leaderboard Madden 25 + NFL Sunday Ticket [PS3/360] ($100) | Amazon | Coverage here Grab the rarely discounted Das…

Famous Cosplayers Become Video Game Butt-Kickers

Everyone knows cosplayers often dress up as video game characters. But what happens when a video game features characters based on cosplayers? Madness, that’s what. Dogs and cats! Sleeping together! Mass hysteria! The game in question is Comic Conquest, an upcoming tactical RPG that takes place—where else?—at Comic-Con. The game, coming to mobile devices, tablets…

New Zelda For 3DS Gets Handsome Boxart With Intriguing Icon

Here’s the excellent box art for November 22’s Nintendo 3DS (and 2DS—wow that feels weird) game The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds. Hey, listen! What’s that orange icon in the top right corner? Why, that’s the logo for the Nintendo Network, which indicates that a game might have online multiplayer or support DLC.…

The Original 151 Pokemon, Drawn From Memory, Without Erasing

Normally having gaps in your memory is a bad thing, but in the case of blayzeon‘s sometimes-faulty memory? It’s pure entertainment. You can see that in action in this Pokemon project, where blayzeon drew up all the original 151 Pokemon from memory—which we’ve seen before—but this time, there was no erasing. Whatever was drawn out…

Test Your Powers of Observation with NBA 2K14‘s First Big Trailer

There’s always a little bit of a Where’s Waldo game when NBA 2K releases its first big trailer in the summer. New inclusions are featured without being highlighted or called out with text. So what can you spot in this reel? Well, there appear to be customizable wristbands (as has been hinted at before); probably…

First Look at South Park: The Stick of Truth Gameplay [Video Removed]

We’ve seen hilarious trailers and controversial screenshots for Obsidian’s upcoming South Park game. But there hasn’t been a lick of gameplay to be found for The Stick of Truth. But now we get to see it in action, thanks to one enterprising attendee from this weekend’s past Fan Expo in Toronto. In the almost eight-minute…