New Video Game Shows How Thrilling It Is To Text While You Drive

This game, designed by my friend Holden Link for the Ludum Dare jam this past weekend, is a more effective tool for caution than any PSA or lecture. Send it to every teenage driver you know. Please don’t download it on your phone and try to play while driving. Download right here

This Game Uses Your Hard Drive’s Files to Build Its Levels

Yeah, you just stay the hell out of my porn folder, AdventureOS; I’m not interested in a boss battle with Peter North. OK, that’s not actually how AdventureOS works. The files themselves don’t actually come (heh heh) to life, the game uses a folder to create a room in a castle and stock it with…

The Angry Birds Star Wars II Toys Are Out. Let’s Play While We Wait.

While Angry Birds Star Wars II isn’t out for iOS and Android until September 19, the toys you can scan into the game are already out. Why? Because unlike Skylanders and Disney Infinity‘s toys, these are bursting with playability. See for yourself! These little dudes were on the shelf at my local Wal-Mart last night.…

Your Microsoft Points Will Be Exchanged for Real Money Today

If you haven’t already, when you connect to Xbox Live today, you’ll get the console update that finally does away with Microsoft points. I logged in just now and had 680 points turned into $8.50. Microsoft has said this was coming for some time, but now it’s official. There are still a few quirks with…

Hideo Kojima Keeps It Short And Sweet For His 50th Birthday

All-star game designer Hideo Kojima turned 50 on Saturday, so consider this a belated happy birthday to the Metal Gear mastermind and your opportunity to wish him a happy 50th. What did the man himself have to say about 50? Not a ton. He tweeted this early Monday morning in what was either a delayed…

Who Wins When The Avengers and Mortal Kombat Have a Hoops Showdown?

When you have Sub-Zero wearing #23 for the Chicago Bulls, coach only needs to say one thing during a fourth-quarter timeout: Finish Him! This mod for the PC version of NBA 2K13—just spotted now, despite apparently being around for about two months—turns ordinary b-ballers into superhuman characters from Marvel Comics and Mortal Kombat. Sadly, modder…

Grand Theft Auto V: Do We Really Want to Know?

This is an article about spoilers, though there won’t be any spoilers in it. This is a piece about Grand Theft Auto V but really about what we—what you—want to know or not know. This is a piece about knowledge, about information. It’s about that seeming law of physics that guarantees that secrets can and…

Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: More from JJtheTexan on Nintendo’s lost games, focusing this time on DS games. Doopliss77 talks about experiencing Star Fox for the first time. And, DamsonRhee discusses Cytus, a game that she bought got on a random whim And you can always go join the voices…

The Pokémon Theme Song Is The Right Choice For An Adorable Proposal

Things can go easily wrong when you’re using the Pokémon theme song at a convention to propose to your girlfriend, but in this case it was absolutely just the opposite. A young guy named Michael surprised his girlfriend Rebecca, and the cameras of GeekBomb were lucky enough to capture it. Pokemon Proposal at PAX Australia…

Don’t Worry, We’ve Got Final Fantasy XIV Covered. Well, Mostly.

Certainly more covered than my level 14 Miqo’te archer, who spent the weekend looking for pants while everyone else was having trouble playing. I was actually rather surprised to learn that folks were having connection issues with the early start of Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn. I downloaded the client on Saturday morning, logged…

Quite a smart Mass Effect and Bioshock Infinite crossover from digital artist Charles Wilcher,starring the two Commander Shepards, Mass Effect 3‘s endings and the Lutece twins. It fits—Rosalind and Femshepshare a voice actress, after all! Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest,funniest game-related screenshots and art that we…

There’s a New Layton Game. It’s…Different.

Tonight in Japan, Level-5 just revealed the latest entry in its Layton puzzle series. It’s titled Layton 7. It looks, well, different. According to Famitsu, this is the “latest entry in the Professor Layton series.” The game is headed to iOS, Android, and Nintendo 3DS. Details are scant, but the design looks to be a…

New Inazuma Eleven is coming to Japan this fall…as an online game. And it’s name? Inazuma Eleven: Online. Now, that’s clever. Starting this winter on PC, it’s free-to-play with microtransactions. No word on Western releases.

Even the Deer Are Polite in Japan. (You’re Kidding, Right?)

Just look how this cute critter bows. This Japanese deer must be so polite. All Japanese deer must be so polite. Ha. Ha, ha! Um, no. In Nara, Japan’s ancient capital, there is a public park filled with deer that roam freely. In the past, the deer were considered sacred—messengers of the Gods! And look,…

The Robo-Bug-Aliens Are Coming, Time to Get Out The Laser Beams

Currently seeking funds on Kickstarter is Tetrapulse, a PC co-op shooter taking place on a planet where the scary robot aliens are many and the resources are few. Which is probably why the heroes are forced to use their own health as ammo. Tetrapulse uses procedural generation for its levels, where the goal is to…

So many platforms! Next year in Japan, Level-5 is bringing its mobile RPG Wonder Flick to the PS3, the PS4, the PS Vita, the Wii U, and the Xbox One. No word on a Western release.

Watch the Birth of the Yu-Gi-Oh Championships’ New ‘King of Games’

With all the world championship tournaments going on over the last few months, one tournament was sort of left in the wind. While this might have happened earlier this month, it’s still interesting. During this year’s Yu-Gi-Oh World Championships, a new King of Games was crowned. After a two-day tournament between 26 expert “duelists”, Taiwanese…

Anger Over Korean Poo Wine Video

Earlier this month, Vice released a video purporting to introduce a “traditional” Korean drink made from human feces. Online in South Korea, people are reportedly not pleased. On Korea’s Chosun TV, the clip was dubbed “derogatory.” Korean site Dailian said the clip lacked proper fact checking. Other Korean sites also criticized the “poo wine” video.…

Part 3 of the World’s Best Half-Life 2 Movie Is In The Works, But…

There’s a catch. There’s always a catch. Released in 2009 and getting a second part two years later, Escape from City 17 was an excellent Half-Life 2 fan film notable for its nearly blockbuster-level CG effects. Ironically, it is the CG effects themselves that are keeping Part 3 from being released. But have no fear—there’s…

China’s Military Says Pacific Rim Is American Propaganda

Pacific Rim is doing very well in China, despite some tiny subtitle problems, proving again that the Chinese love giant robots. However, even with all the popularity, the Chinese military isn’t very happy, claiming that the movie is nothing more than propaganda to spread “American values and ideas”. Last Friday, an article appeared in the…