Murder Room

I visit my friends house and all she wants to do is strangle me.

Mmmm Dat Wooden Box

I love that the recycled lines sometimes make your citizens say the silliest things. OH I COULDN’T POSSIBLY PASS UP SUCH A GREAT DEAL ON THAT…WOODEN BOX.

Coffee Addicts

I’ve turned everyone in town. They’re all coffee addicts. They howl at the Roost Café and everything. GIF form cause I’ve been having fun with it:

The Extremely Rare Mario Opera Returns For One Night Only Next Week

It’s okay if you didn’t even know that there was a rock opera based on Nintendo’s most popular character. The Mario Opera has only ever played once and that was eight long years ago. It’s coming back next week but you’ll need to be in New York City to see it. The stage show is…

What Is This Abomination That Moved Just Moved Into My Town

Pietro is a scary, creepy clown and I’m not sure if I should harass him to leave town or stay very far away for fear of DEATH.

The definition of “getting up on the wrong side of the bed”

Just drinkin’ some coffee

Just got the to-go option unlocked!

PC Game Helped NASCAR Driver Dominate Its Famous Road Course

NASCAR, commonly derided as turning left for 400 miles, does feature a couple of road courses in its top circuit. Reigning Sprint Cup champion Brad Keselowski has had unusual success at one of them, Watkins Glen International, and he attributes it all to playing a PC video game as a teenager. Keselowski won the Nationwide…

How The Xbox One Controller Has Changed

For more than two years, 105 people at Microsoft have been trying to improve the video game controller. The results go on sale this fall in the form of the Xbox One’s gamepad. The new controller sports changes big and small—but, thankfully, it won’t emit smells. Yes, they actually tried that. At a glance, the…

A Huge Roster Delivers ’30 Years of Wrestlemania’ to WWE 2K14

WWE 2K14 will deliver more than 45 all-time great bouts and a roster loaded with Wrestlemania’s greatest superstars in a showcase mode that pays tribute to three decades of wrestling’s premier spectacle. “30 Years of Wrestlemania,” is the title of the mode, and the big takeaway for gamers is what it mean to the game’s…

This Comic-Con Panel Starts a Crisis of Infinite Mash-Ups

It’s great when a clever comic-con cosplay combines the best stuff from random, unrelated universes. Like, say, a Papa Smurf Nightcrawler. “Bamf, my little Smurflings!” But it might be super-annoying if all you saw were mash-up costumes like that. This College Humor video teleports you into just one such scenario, filled with crossed-over personas that…

Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: Zarnyx went to the NintendoWorld launch for Mario & Luigi: Dream Team in New York and wrote all about it.. AstroKid248 writes another I Know Mortal Kombat post in her series about skills learned from video games. This one’s about whether video games can teach…

The PixelJunk Folks’ Visualizer Makes The PS3 More Fun At Parties

For six years I’ve been streaming music to my PlayStation 3 using the same old trio of launch visualizers, which is a sadness. This week Q-Games makes me happy again, with a new PS3 app simply called Visualizer. Having sights to go with my sounds has been important to me I installed my first CD…

Pokémon World Championships Result In Unexpected Winner

That was quite the victory: Italian Masters Division player Arash Ommati beat Japanese champion Ryosuke Kosuge in the finals of the Pokémon World Championships this weekend. This video, uploaded by YouTuber DaringNite, shows the entirety of Ommati’s impressive, mistake-free win. Ommati is the first player from Europe to win this tournament, and it’s particularly impressive…

Enjoying your fireworks?

This has to be a good omen for my Nets, right?

Quick Q&A: Things I Didn’t Know About Bank Robbery

The ever-quotable David Goldfarb used to write poetry and now makes shooter games. For a long time, those shooters had the world Battlefield in the title. These days, he’s the game director for this week’s co-op bank-robbery shooter Payday 2. He’s got four answers for us…and one question for you. 1. There are a lot…

So that’s why Grand Theft Auto V has three main characters! Rockstar takes advantage of the Figueroa Hotel’s unique triple ad space to make sure no one in downtown L.A. can escape from Franklin, Trevor and Michael. It sure is nice to see games back on the Figueroa. GTA V will be out in barely…

Kaze Tachinu Called a “Right Wing Japanese Movie” in South Korea

Never mind that Studio Ghibli’s newest anime Kaze Tachinu was dubbed “too liberal” by some in Japan and its creator Hayao Miyazaki was called a “traitor.” In South Korea, the movie is also being criticized, but for the opposite reasons. Hayao Miyazaki really can’t win, can he? Online in Japan, the movie was blasted and…

How One Chinese Publisher Is Going Global

The Chinese game market is a crazy and chaotic one. With consoles banned and rampant piracy, it’s hard to imagine breaking into the China market. Yet, the market is growing at such a rate that it’s impossible to ignore. Enter Chinese gaming publisher Yodo1. The publisher is helping Western studios tap the “gold mine” that…

The Most Terrifying Fast Food Employee in Japan

In Japan, fast food chain Lotteria had a special store manager last Friday for one terrifying day only: Sadako from The Ring At the Lotteria in Tokyo’s Ikebukuro neighborhood, Sadako worked the register by popping out, frightening customers, and serving up a special shake created in her likeness. What better way to send a chill…