This Comedian Thinks Video Games Are Done

As games get more immersive, and technology becomes more advanced, sometimes you wonder “Where do we go from here?” Well one comedian thinks video games are done. In the video above taken from last night’s Conan, comic Dwayne Perkins goes through the absurd history of technological advances in console gaming and wonders where we’re going…

Here’s a Quick Glimpse at Neil Gaiman’s First Video Game

Yesterday morning saw the news of Wayward Manor—the video game debut of beloved writer Neil Gaiman—breaking all over the internet. The site for the game has launched after word got out and it’s got a message from the Sandman creator and info on rewards available for various crowdfunding tiers. Of note is the fact that…

Toki Tori 2+ Stands Up For Social Bird Issues

Toki Tori 2 may have been out on the Wii U for a while, but now we can enjoy Toki Tori 2+ on personal computers. So if you’ve ever dreamed of being a flightless yellow bird who lives in a world filled with puzzles, then perhaps my video above will pique your interest. It’s also…

The Next Big Adventure Time Game Is Missing Something

Adventure Time: Explore the Dungeon Because I DON’T KNOW! allows up to four players to step into the booties of their favorite characters, taking on 100 randomly-generated dungeon levels filled with monsters, treasures, and all sorts of Gauntlet-style coolness. It would be the perfect online multiplayer dungeon crawl — if it had online multiplayer. Online…

Stealth Inc. Is A Brutal Puzzle Platformer That Mocks You When You Die

Formerly Stealth Bastard, the indie puzzle platformer from Curve Studios is now on PS3, Vita, and home computer systems. It’s got 80 levels, a level editor, and handy messages to demoralize you for making mistakes.

This Stop-Motion Donkey Kong Is Almost Better Than The Real Thing

There’s a clarity to this version of the Donkey Kong arcade game that the original arcade cabinet just can’t match. Something about using thousands of perler beads instead of sprites, I’d imagine. GuizDP, who you might remember from his stunning rendition of one guy playing five guys playing the Tetris theme on guitar, proves once…

New Monopoly Board Lets You Play As An Xbox Controller

Have you ever thought, “Boy, Monopoly™ is cool and all, but you know what would make it better? More Brands™!” Well I’ve got good news for you. Now, thanks to Monopoly™ Empire (h/t Consumerist), you can embrace corporate sponsorship and add some Xbox™ and EA™ to your Family Board Game Nights™. You can even play…

Old-School Strategy-RPG Quadruples Its Kickstarter Goal

I’ve always been hesitant to get too excited about Kickstarter projects that promise to be “love letters” to the old-school RPGs that many of us love and cherish. It seems like every week there’s a new group of indie developers promising to make the next Lunar or Final Fantasy VI. It can get a little…

Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: The Agency Group—Sir Trey’s imaginary video game Criterion Collection—has another classic—Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee—joining its ranks. AstroKid248 writes the second I Know Mortal Kombat post in her series about physical skills she’s learned from video games. This one’s about Tomb Raider and archery And InvadingDuck offers…

A First-Person Look At The World’s Best StarCraft Player’s Skills

Those are the blazing hands of the current StarCraft II World Champion and by far the best player in the world, STX_INnoVation, participating in the WCG Korea Qualifiers. He’s easily tearing apart a Protoss opponent with his unmatched Terran skills and rapid-fire decision making. He probably doesn’t even recognize that GomTV’s own StarCraft II caster,…

Chasing Aliens Leads to Something Disturbing in Live-Action XCOM Video

If you’ve been watching the YouTube series attached to The Bureau: XCOM Declassified, you know that agent Ennis Cole is obsessed with hunting down the aliens among us for very personal reasons. Well, in this latest episode, he finally tracks one down. Then he probably wishes he hadn’t. You can watch the rest of Ennis…

One Piece‘s Creator Still Sidelined Amid Concerns

Eiichiro Oda, the creator of One Piece, skipped the deadline for several issues of his popular manga earlier this spring due to illness. It seems he is still recovering. According to the latest issue of Shonen Jump, One Piece will once again be missing an issue. Originally, Oda was hospitalized in May for a tonsil…

Euro Truck Simulator 2 isn’t just about piloting our rigs across Europe, visiting world famous landmarks. On rare occasions we have to deliver cargo beyond the bounds of this dimension. Call it extreme off-roading. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest,funniest game-related screenshots and art that we can…

Let’s Spend Some Hands-On Time with Dragon’s Crown

While the release of Dragon’s Crown in North America is still a few weeks away, Vanillaware’s newest title hit Japanese shelves yesterday—a copy of which has already found a new home in my PlayStation 3. So click the video above and let’s sit down together and look at Dragon’s Crown‘s single player and online multiplayer…

Giant Mobile Battle Suits Overrun Hong Kong

Starting this week, if you head down to Hong Kong’s Time Square Shopping Center, you’ll see more than chic retailers. You’ll see giant mecha. The “Gundam Docks at Hong Kong” exhibit kicked off on July 26 and will run until the beginning of September. In front of the Time Square Shopping Center, you can see…

Amazingly, A One-Man Studio Is Responsible For This Beautiful RTS

Slated to arrive next year, Elder Games’ Meridian: New World is already looking great. Especially for a one-man game. Meridian is described as a single-player Sci-Fi RTS with a focus on storytelling and careful strategizing. Your in-game avatar, Commander Daniel Hanson, leads the very first expedition to the alien planet of Meridian, to explore the…

Valvrave Mixes an Over-the-Top Premise with Real World Consequences

Back in the middle of the spring anime season, I called Valvrave: The Liberator one of the five anime you should be watching. Now that all the episodes have aired, I can understand that it may not be for everyone; but for me, it was one of the most crazy and utterly enjoyable anime of…

Cyberpunk RPG-brawler thingamajig Mars: War Logs is now out on Xbox 360 via the Live Arcade. Its PS3 version is expected to arrive on August 7 in Europe, and later that month in the US.

Old-School Charm and A Deep Crafting System Meet In This Fantasy CRPG

This is Balrum. It’s a top-down RPG, and it looks absolutely phenomenal. Sadly, it still needs to be funded The developers of Balrum, who call themselves Balcony Team, are promising a veritable bevy of features; a world filled with living NPCs, turn-based combat with over a hundred different spells and abilities, survival gameplay elements such…

Why I am Reluctantly Okay With Cutting the Sex Out Of Visual Novels

Late last month, If My Heart Had Wings, a winner of several visual novel related awards, was released in the United States. This English version of the game has all the sex scenes removed and numerous scenes and lines of dialogue edited to fit a “T for Teen” rating. And while I stand by what…