I Swear To God, They Had Better Not Kill Call of Duty Dog

Yesterday, when we all met Call of Duty Dog for the first time, the first thing we said was, “Aww, a dog!” The second thing we said was, “Too bad they are going to kill him.” Every comment, every video, every Call of Duty Dog joke made has been accompanied by the implicit assumption that,…

The Moneysaver: Alan Wake, PSN Ultimate Editions, The Twilight Zone

You’re traveling through another dimension — a dimension not only of deals and discounts but of freebies. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of your wallet. That’s a signpost up ahead: your next stop: the Moneysaver. It’s a good day to be a console owner. Alan wake is $5 digitally on…

Only Fox News Can Save Us From the Tyranny of Xbox One

Microsoft says the Xbox One won’t need an always-online Internet connection. But if you want to play it, the thing might need to check in with the home office once a day. Playing used or borrowed games also sounds like a real bitch. Only one thing that can save gamers from this: our old enemy,…

A Dramatic Reading of Ridiculous Grand Theft Auto V YouTube Comments

You can’t have a trailer for a high profile game on YouTube without having the comments sometimes becoming strange, weird, and downright trollish. Grand Theft Auto is no exception, as shown by this funny dramatic reading of YouTube comments done by Shesellssheshells Previously: a dramatic reading of BioShock Infinite YouTube comments, and a dramatic reading…

Hey, Facebook. Your ‘Like’ Button Is Ugly. Here Are Better Options.

Can you guess which games each of these icons represent? I don’t know about you guys, but I’m pretty tired of seeing the bulky, medical-blue ‘Like’ button on every website and, increasingly, coffee shops and other random locations boasting their profile pages and begging for interest. But if they were video game-themed, like those above,…

What’s In A Name? ‘Xbox One’ Could Confuse Average Gamers

Yesterday, when Microsoft finally announced the successor to their Xbox 360, Don Mattrick took the stage with a giddy grin. “Today, we’re thrilled to unveil the ultimate all-in-one home entertainment system,” the Microsoft executive said. “The one with the power to create experiences that look and feel like nothing else. The one that makes your…

Google Play Is Messed Up, Like This Poor Girl’s Disfigured Face

“Why don’t you review more Android games?” is a question I get on a daily basis, and it’s a question I never ignore. Every time I get it, the first thing I do is go to Google Play on my phone and see if there’s anything new worth taking a look at. The service doesn’t…

Moneysaver One-Shot: Sony MDR-V6 Headphones For Cheap

Can you hear the savings now? Amazon has Sony’s MDR-V6 headphones for a low $54 today. That’s squarely in impulse buy territory, and a no-brainer if you need a new pair. We love headphones at the Moneysaver, and we’ve found that you do too. Our Audio-Technica ATH-M50’s and ATH-M30’s were some of our most popular…

The Big Xbox One Announcement, in Helpful, Hilarious Abridged Form

If you didn’t see any of the Xbox One announcement yesterday, you may be of the impression this morning that Microsoft must have gone on stage and urinated on a picture of Mister Rogers while—wait a minute, was Phil Spencer really wearing two watches? VideoGamer, which also abbreviated Sony’s PS4 announcement back in February, provides…

Microsoft Plotting a New, Friendlier Xbox Live for Xbox One

Microsoft is taking steps to elevate the reputation of its popular but notorious online service, Xbox Live, for its third console, this fall’s Xbox One. If they pull this off, the more positive gamers of the world might enjoy their online gaming sessions a little more. A chief change involves a new, improved reputation system…

Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: Nicholas Payne thinks the Xbox One may not be so bad. And there’s not one but two Japanese animation posts for you to catch up on. And you can always go join the voices talking about video games and life in TAY Classic and in…

PC FIFA Won’t Get EA Sports’ Next-Gen Engine

Sorry, Master Race. That superduper Ignite Engine that EA Sports is bringing to its next-generation games? Yeah, it’s not going to power any upcoming PC version of FIFA. That’s per FIFA community manager Rob Hodson, who had this to say on Twitter. Naturally, PC gamers did not react well. The truth is that PC has…

Report: Indie Developers Won’t Be Able to Self-Publish on Xbox One

The solo and small-team game-makers who’ve made games like Fez, Braid and Limbo won’t be able to control their own destinies on Microsoft’s next game console, according to a Shack News report. The article quotes Matt Booty, who is Microsoft’s general manager of Redmond Game Studios and Platforms, as confirming that indie devs will still…

Wildstar‘s Path System Might Be The Coolest MMORPG Feature Of The Year

Carbine Studios has already won me over with the Ratchet and Clank-style promotional videos and animated movie feel of its upcoming massively multiplayer online sci-fi role-playing game. WildStar path system, rewarding players for playing how they want to play, is a think, creamy layer of frosting on an annoyingly distant cake. When I play an…

Barry Allen’s Greatest Enemy Gets a Creepy Upgrade in The Flash #20

You don’t need to feel sorry for the Flash. Despite what it looks like, he’s doing okay. The Flash series has been one of the quieter success stories of DC Comics’ New 52 reboot. The Fastest Man Alive hasn’t had the kind of high-profile crossovers that Batman, Superman or Green Lantern’s books have had. Hell,…

The Graphical Overhaul Of Super Mario Land Is Adorably Presumptuous

Super Mario Land, the iconic Mario game for the original Game Boy, is not the typical target for player-crafted redesigns, but here we are. Arne Niklas Jansson has taken a a 24-year-old classic portable game and made it look like an indie PC game released last week. Jansson explains the entire process of tweaking a…

Chinese Newspaper Confuses the Japanese Military with…DeviantArt

A website for Chinese newspaper Global Times recently published photos of a new Japanese military helicopter “design concept”. Too bad it’s not real. It’s not even made by the Japanese military. On Global Times’ website Huanqiu.com, the text reads, “This appeared online today; it seems to be a concept for a Japanese Self Defense Force…

EA’s Chief Financial Officer Blake Jorgensen has recently said that they “are building titles for the Nintendo consoles, but not anywhere near as many as we are for PS or Xbox.” This seems to contradict the stance they took last week, when they stated that they are not working on any games for the Wii…

This Game Shows That Being a God is Just Like Playing a Board Game

From A Valley Without Wind creator Arcen Games comes Skyward Collapse, a turn-based god game for the PC that entices not with its looks, but with its premise. As the Creator, your job is to keep the two factions living on your floating continent alive by preventing one from overpowering the other and protecting them…

“Offensive” Sex Buddha Statue Removed from Bar

A statue of Buddhist deities engaged in what looks like sexual intercourse was dubbed “crude and blasphemous” in China. According to Xinhaunet and ShangahaiIst, a bar in Lijang, Yunnan province commissioned the four-meter tall statue. It has since been removed after complaints. The bar’s owner decided to have the statue removed after repeatedly having to…