Not Sure If Next-Gen Mirror’s Edge Or Real Life

Boy, these guys did a damn fine job nailing the game’s trademark style, from the outfit to the obstacles to the field of view on the camera they used. Mirror’s Edge Parkour POV [Youtube]

2K Drive skids onto iTunes at $6.99 this morning. 2K cares not for your traditional free-to-play nonsense, and so far the results have been pretty stellar. Hopefully the trend continues with 2K Drive, the ambitious racer/car fanciers’ club from former Bizarre Creations folks, which should be available in the app store within the next few…

First Xbox One Units Packed, Ready For Launch

Microsoft wasn’t kidding around when it said yesterday that the Xbox One was in “full production”. One day later, and we’ve got shots of the very first retail units (like, the very first), boxed, sealed and on their way to…well, warehouse, I guess, since the console doesn’t go on sale for over a month. [Microsoft]

Your Games Will Look Way Better With Custom Covers

Despite the best efforts of publishers and their art teams (or clients), a video game collection can rarely look as impressive as a good stack of books. Which is why, if you’re concerned about that sort of thing, it’s a good idea to print off your own custom covers, which often look waaaaaay better than…

Incredible Star Wars Cosplay Just Tore All Other Cosplay’s Arms Off

Remember earlier this year when reader Julian Checkley showed us his Darth Malgus costume? As jaw-dropping as it was, this beats it. This Tarfful suit is actually older than the Malgus outfit, but Julian’s only just put a video together showing how it all works. Taking over three months to build, it stands a whopping…

A Ridiculous Fan-Made 3D Grand Theft Auto V Map

We still have two weeks left till the release of Grand Theft Auto V, and speculation on what the game’s map will look like is still healthy. Based on the trailers and screenshots previously released by Rockstar, Sketchfab user cbush uploaded this 3D map, which looks, well, accurate enough. We can’t tell how accurate it…

Acapella Tetris Theme Is Way Catchier Than The Original. Somehow!

Here’s a challenge: listen through this fantastic rendition of the original Tetris theme by Smooth McGroove, and see if you don’t end up with the song stuck in your head. Bet you can’t do it. Okay, well, some of you will. Still, it’s a catchy-as-hell acapella, right? Great work as always, McGroove. Tetris – Theme…

Beating People To Music Is One Way To Appreciate It

Zen Studios’ KickBeat hit the PlayStation Network for Vita and PS3 this week, giving me a chance to kick Celldweller’s ass, at least in spirit. The core game features more Celldweller, that one POD song that whores itself out to every rhythm game, Marilyn Manson, because it was just sitting there looking lonely, a bit…

Holy Cow, It’s Star Trek’s USS Voyager, Recreated In Minecraft

The things people manage to do in Minecraft never cease to amaze—case in point, this fantastic Star Trek creation by Maravrin—which used original deck plans such that the ship is at a 1:1 scale. If that initial image doesn’t seem impressive, you need to check out some more pictures of this thing—here are a couple…

Popular Websites, Drawn As Anime Characters. Because, Um, Internet.

I don’t know that I’d watch a show that personifies the internet like this, but at least now, thanks to Jon-Lock, I know what such a thing would look like. As I’m sure the “Chrome” man up above lets on, it’s pretty anime. But, hey, it’s also kind of cool, no? Maybe it’s just that…

Cops Say NBA Player Beat His Girlfriend With an Xbox 360

DeAndre Liggins, a two-year benchwarmer currently with the NBA’s Oklahoma City Thunder, is accused of assaulting his girlfriend by, among other things, dropping an Xbox 360 on her head, according to police. If true, it’s the second incident in six months in which a video game console was the weapon itself in a headline-grabbing domestic…

Rome II is Busted. Hopefully This Patch Can Help.

Total War: Rome II is getting a patch this Friday. Which is good, because as it stands, the game is a mess Here’s the complete update info from developers Creative Assembly: At Creative Assembly we are very pleased with the response to ROME II, with hundreds of thousands of players enjoying the game so far;…

There May Not Be Enough Reasons For Everyone To Go Next-Gen Yet

Me, I write about games. That alone, arguably, is a good reason to buy a next gen console. But you, dear reader—are there enough reasons for you to buy in? In an interview with Eurogamer today, Yusuf Mehdi, the Xbox chief of marketing and strategy told Eurogamer that Microsoft plans to support the Xbox 360…

Play the 2013 NFL Season with 22-year-old Tecmo Super Bowl

The mad magicians keeping Tecmo Super Bowl alive nearly 22 years after its debut have released their latest mod—Tecmo Super Bowl 2014, featuring all of the teams and players of the current league, just in time for the NFL’s season opener tomorrow. This is the seventh update of the NES classic, thanks to the merry…

The Classic PC Games You Must Play

There are many reasons one could argue that the PC is the best way to play video games: Better visuals, cheaper and more interesting games, a wide-open platform, and so on. But one of the best arguments for PC gaming is simple: The massive back-catalogue. No other gaming platform can field a game library that…

Thank God Star Wars Got a Second Draft

If you’re a well-heeled sci-fi fan, you probably know about the rarely-seen rough draft of Star Wars. It’s crazy different, with characters that have similar roles but different names, among other things. Today, Dark Horse Comics’ adaptation of that early pass hits store shelves. Myself and Mike Fahey have read through the miniseries’ first issue…

The “invasion” levels that are missing from the Vita version of Rayman Legends will be”added via a free patch, at a later date” the company decided to reveal on its official blog today rather than, say, on the back of the Vita game’s box or in ads for the game.

These Guys Want To Bring Their Classic Platformer To HD Consoles

Everyone’s favorite half-genie belly dancer looks pretty good in HD. Shantae, the star of games like Shantae and Shantae: Risky’s Revenge, wants to hair-whip her way to HD platforms, and the developers at WayForward are asking for $400,000 to make that happen. WayForward says they’ve already got deals in place to take the portable star…

Dying Light‘s Nighttime Zombie Chase Almost Gave Me A Heart Attack

There are precisely one billionty video games out there that ask you to imagine what it would be like to survive the zombie apocalypse. But it’s rare to find one that makes the setting feel like anything more than just morbid fun or creepy explorations. It’s hard to inspire genuine, adrenaline-rushing fear. The kind of…

Saints Row‘s Hilarious Dubstep DLC Ad Disguises Its Obnoxious Intent

I’ve gotta hand it to Saints Row IV. Three bucks for four sound effects (OK, and some weapon skins) is pretty fucking obnoxious, when you think about it. But when you pitch it like a blue-screen ad from a 1980s UHF station, it suddenly becomes hilarious. I’m not even sure that $3 for four sound…