This Is Valve’s Steam Machine Prototype

Via The Seattle Times, here’s your first look at Valve’s Steam Machine prototype—a super-high-end machine that will be sent out to 300 beta testers later this year. (Those are Valve employees standing with it: from left to right, Eric Hope, Anna Sweet, Greg Coomer and D.J. Powers.) If you’re one of the lucky few beta…

Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: Quiddity gets all charged up about how Last-Gen Hero Infamous 2 made him feel all empowered. What would Sephiroth do? Marsh Naylor invokes FFVII’s memorable villain in his latest video game advice column. And Rathorial declares the mushy design of contextual actions a Last-Gen Zero.…

‘World’s Thinnest 17-Inch Gaming Laptop’ Comes In Any Color

Those are Maingear gaming laptops right there. That’s ridiculous. Also a beautiful trend that needs to be encouraged until our gaming laptops only exist in one dimension. Maingear’s new Pulse 17 is getting there. Riding on the wave generated by Razer’s 14-inch Blade and 17-inch Blade Pro, as well as its own Pulse 14, Maingear’s…

Civilization V‘s Attack on Titan Mod Adds Giant Walls To Your City

If you think about it, the world of the popular anime Attack on Titan, where people live behind giant walls, would fit into Civilization V really well. So it was only a matter of time that someone added Eren Jaeger of The Walls as a civilization for the game. Steam Workshop user Yuuko, who created…

Chinese Players Call Out International DotA Players: China’s The Best

MOBA games are super popular in China right now. Sure, they’re super popular everywhere, but they are particularly popular in China—that’s why, when a netizen asked online what China does better than the US, the most popular answer was Defense of the Ancients Earlier this year, a question appeared on China’s answer to Quora, Zhihu.com,…

One of the World’s Best Tekken Players Is a 13 Year-Old Kid

At the recent Tekkeg Tag Tournament Global Championship in South Korea, 13 year-old Alexander “AK” Laverez sure has remarkable skills when it comes to fighting games. The young Filipino was able to beat Japan’s favorite Nobi as well as one of the top Korean player Help-Me!! Although he finished third (that means $1000 and a…

Check Out the Rejected Lightning Returns Logos

This is the Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy logo. You might have also seen this logo with an all-black background. But have you ever seen the rejected ones? At a recent event in Tokyo for Lightning Returns and Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD, Square Enix showed off the Lightning Returns logos it didn’t end up using. Below,…

FlatOut developer Bugbear Entertainment’s Next Car Game is now on Kickstarter. The group aims to raise $350,000 to create what they call “Destruction Racing Perfection,” with a next-gen console port of the game promised should the campaign manage to gather $1,500,000. You can take a look here

Becoming a Demigod: Tencent’s Asura Online Ascends Chinese MMOs

Journey to the West is a classic Chinese tale that has been retold millions of times. It’s been referenced by a variety of media, from the movie the Forbidden Kingdom to even Dragon Ball. But despite all the awesome adaptations of the main subject, Tencent’s Asura Online might just be the coolest one yet. Released…

The Chinese Gaming Console with the Jackie Chan Seal of Approval

Chinese super star Jackie Chan, singer, dancer, and all around movie star, has endorsed loads of products in his lifetime, and will probably endorse many more to come. Recently in China, Chinese netizens have been going over some of Chan’s earlier product endorsements, including one that should’ve been banned. While the game console ban has…

Blasting Through Doom’s Levels as Duke Nukem? There’s a Mod For That

What do Duke Nukem, B.J. Blazkowicz, and Doomguy have in common? They’re all stars of a pretty sweet-looking Doom mod, that’s what. As you can see in the above trailer, the aim of Samsara is to take locales and/or characters from the FPS games of old—Duke3D, Heretic, Hexen, Marathon, Chex Quest, Quake, Wolfenstein 3D, and…

This Persona 5 “Leaked Image” Looks Really Fake

Over the weekend, a “leaked” Persona 5 image appeared on Reddit. It looks super duper fake. So, so, so fake. Did I mention that it looks fake? A Redditor said the recently uploaded Atlus teaser site looked like this for “a good minute.” If that’s the case, it was created by Japanese people who have…

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Someone Put A Spaceship On This Beautiful Video Game World, Right Now

Outerra, an engine that has the potential to change the way we play certain genres of video games, just keeps looking better every time we see it. This new video highlights the massive engine’s ability to generate and distribute vegetation as it flies over Mexico. Not a tiny, artificial caricature of Mexico. A 1:1 recreation…