The Best Matches Of The StarCraft II World Championship Finals

As this dramatic recap footage shows above, StarCraft II and the Season 2 finals of the World Championship series took over Gamescom 2013 for the weekend. A new world champion was crowned and incredible games were played. We selected the best ones below. The Two Best Terran Players In The World Face Each Other Possibly…

Moneysaver: Madden 25 + NFL Sunday Ticket, SteelSeries Keyboard, PS+

He could save all the way! Note: Today is the last day to pre-order Madden 25, as it comes out tomorrow. Deal Leaderboard Madden 25 + NFL Sunday Ticket [PS3/360] ($100) | Amazon | Coverage here Pre-Order Weeds: The Complete Collection [Blu-Ray] ($34) | WalMart via Deals Kinja | Amazon’s selling it for $84 Walking…

‘If fighting games didn’t exist, I’d have probably gotten into Karate’

Our weekly Quick Q&A series is only ever four questions long, which should make it the perfect format for a man who came up with a minimalist fighting game that requires only two buttons. Today, that man, Adam Heart answers our four questions and poses one to you. 1. Your new fighting game, Divekick, has…

An Adventure Time x Pacific Rim Crossover Might Look Like This

Jake would make a good Jaeger, I think. Alas, this this illustration by Larry Quach isn’t directly connected to Pacific Rim—it’s just Adventure Time as a mecha show—but still. Your mind goes there too, right? Regardless, I’m sure we can all agree that Quach’s work is awesome. Here are a couple of in-progress screenshots for…

Grand Theft Auto Blamed After Eight-Year-Old Shoots Grandmother

Last week, an eight-year-old boy picked up a loaded gun and shot his grandmother in the head a few minutes after playing Grand Theft Auto IV. You’ll never guess which part of that sentence has become a talking point for pundits and media analysts over the past couple of days. On Thursday, just after 5pm,…

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…