Ten Years Later, A Terrible Game Is Not So Terrible Anymore

In a rush to cash in on the popularity of the first Pirates of the Caribbean film, publishers Bethesda and developers Akella released in 2003 a very strange game. It wasn’t really a Pirates of the Caribbean game. It had been in development as a sequel to Sea Dogs, a 2000 game that itself was…

Forget Call Of Duty, I’m Hanging Out For This Hardcore PC Shooter

Bohemia Interactive’s ArmA III is out later this year, and while for many the series’ super hardcore simulation slant is off-putting, for me it’s just about the perfect implementation of a military shooter. Or tank sim. Or jet combat game. Or truck driving simulator. While the finished game isn’t out for another few months, an…

You Can Now Buy The Internet. The Whole Damn Thing.

If you’ve never seen The IT Crowd, I feel bad for you, son. I also suggest you watch this Up to speed? OK, awesome. Aussie artist Mike Jenkins has started building his own replicas of The Internet, complete with blinking red light, and is selling them for roughly $30. $30, for the entire internet. Bargain!…

Up Close, The Last Of Us’ Infected Are Even Grosser

You only really see them in the dark, or moving fast, or when their heads are exploding, so there aren’t many points in The Last Of Us you can really appreciate how gross the infected really are. Let’s fix that. These 3D renders are the work of Mike Svymbersky, an artist who helped out Naughty…

Someone Finally Built Homer Simpson’s Hideous Green Car

One of the greatest Simpsons episodes all time was Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?, famous at the time for Danny DeVito’s cameo as Homer’s brother Herb, but more famous now for the legacy of the car that stole the show. Asked by his brother to design a new car, Homer comes up with…The Homer, a…

Mass Effect Cosplay, Done Right

Anatomic Latex is a store that specialises in, well, latex cosplay gear. For those sci-fi and comic book characters whose outfits can’t be matched with cloth and fabric. You’d think that would be an in for a cheap and pervy cash-in, something more “fetish” than “cosplay”, but surprisingly, these guys take their craft real serious,…

Dragonborn Street Musician Plays AC/DC On Flaming Bagpipes

The headline says it all, people. I mean, he’s not really Dragonborn. (Though kudos to commenter Andres Cordova for pointing out how obviously Dovahkiin this dude is.) But you’d never know it from watching this kilted, tattooed ass-kicker play AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck” in Fremantle back in May. It’s almost enough to make me want to learn…

A Seth Rogen Uncharted Film Could Have Happened. Imagine That.

If an Uncharted movie ever materialized, there are a number of directors that would come to mind before Seth Rogen. But it’s Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg that Naughty Dog has sought out specifically multiple times in the past, according to IGN. “They’re constantly asking me and Evan to make the Uncharted movie,” Rogen told…

An Amazingly Detailed, Helpful Guide To Every Valve Voice-Actor

From Half-Life to DotA 2, Valve’s games almost always have really strong voice acting. And that is, of course, because they hire great voice actors. This helpful guide by Michael Godlewski shows every voice actor to appear in a Valve game, broken down by which games they were in. It’s pretty brilliant. Click to embiggen,…

Moneysaver One-Shot: Great Deal On A Playstation 3 Bundle

Next-gen may be coming but you still need one of these. Head on over to eBay to grab the 500GB Playstation 3 “Super Slim” along with Assassin’s Creed 3, a month of Playstation Plus, and of course a controller for $230. The seller is Newegg so you can buy with confidence, shipping is free, and…

The Silly Conversations In Animal Crossing: New Leaf

Come on and slam! In Animal Crossing: New Leaf, our actions and the reactions of the animal citizens can trigger some pretty terrific dialogue. Managing our town wouldn’t be the same without these characters and their rather interesting personalities. So here are some noteworthy examples from people who are already deep into the game. I…

Looks like Paramount is going to be pulling the Terminator franchise out of that pit of molten lava and rebooting it, with a new movie coming in 2015. Yay, another classic sci-fi series gets a reboot! Wait, did I say yay?

Is There A Valve-Related Alternate Reality Game Going On? [UPDATE: Nope.]

And so the speculation continues! The other day, we wrote about a Half-Life 2 update that featured Korean audio. It was a mistake according to Valve, and they fixed it—but that didn’t stop fans from freaking out. Now fans found something else that looks suspicious in a different game, Surgeon Simulator 2013. Earlier today, a…

Maybe Watch Dogs’ Protagonist Isn’t Actually The Good Guy

There are always those places that you can’t walk through without quickening your pace, without gripping some makeshift weapon in your pocket. You know—the “bad part of town” that your local news loves to spew crime statistics about. All it takes is some shadowy figure trailing behind you late at night for all pretenses of…

Report: Google Is Making A Video Game Console

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google is working on a video game console. What a world we live in. They say the console will be powered by the company’s Android operating system, and seems inspired partly by the relative success of other cheap, simple Android-based consoles like the Ouya and Gamestick. Interesting, the…

Atlus USA Says They’re Currently ‘Unaffected’ By Financial Troubles

Early this morning we caught wind of bankruptcy-like “civil rehabilitation proceedings” at Index Corporation, the Japanese parent company of Persona-makers Atlus. But their subsidiary, Atlus USA, says they’re “unaffected” by those proceedings and will be carrying on day-to-day activities. Atlus USA is a California-based publisher that localizes and distributes both their Japanese parent company’s games…

Some Goofy Flyers From Your Animal Crossing Town

Strange things happen in Animal Crossing: New Leaf. Things that wouldn’t make a lot of sense in an ordinary town. The always-enjoyable miscreants at Dorkly have helped capture some of those moments in this collection of flyers, ostensibly found on the bulletin board in an Animal Crossing town named, what else, FARTASS.

Six Reviews Agree That The Best Part of Deadpool Is… Well, Deadpool

What the reviews can’t agree on, however, is how good the rest of the game is. High Moon Studios’ third-person action game, you see, has its fair share of problems. Deadpool is marred by overly conventional design—mostly level design, which can get boring at times—and technical issues, such as a wonky camera, oddly-behaving AI and…

A Game Where Having OCD Makes You Stronger

This is Rogue Legacy, an indie roguelike side-scroller in which you slash your way through randomly-generated dungeons to fight monsters and earn treasure. Here’s the big gimmick: if you die, you get to play as your character’s child, and then when you die again, you’ll play as that character’s child, and so forth. Every generation…

The Last Of Us‘ Climactic Moments Could Have Been Very Different

Any story, no matter how assured the final product, goes through revisions. And The Last of Us is no different. The game’s closing hours may be among gaming’s most confident, but as I learned speaking to its creators, it all could have come together quite differently. BIG SPOILERS COMING FOR THE LAST OF US. YOU…