Everything Wonderfully Insane About Harley Quinn In One Perfect Figure

I’d say the exclusive head on Sideshow Collectibles’ new Harley Quinn figure has a face only a deranged lunatic could love, but I’m worried about what that says about me. Sporting a full cloth costume, a giant wooden mallet and her trademark jester headgear, the standard version of Sideshow’s premium format rendition of Harleen Quinzel…

The Moneysaver: Super Metroid, Mechanical Keyboard, Wii U, Roku 3

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I- I took the one that cost less, And that has made all the difference. Needless to say, today’s deal selection is dominated by the 1500 games on sale at Amazon. See our coverage right here Aside from all those, dive down to the Tech section to grab…

Warren Spector Sure Wishes Metacritic Was Less Relevant

Add Deus Ex and Epic Mickey creator Warren Spector to the list of people who think the video game industry should stop caring so much about Metacritic. In his column for GamesIndustry.biz this week, Spector goes after Metacritic, a website that aggregates review scores for movies and video games and ranks them with a single…

Creators Discuss How Awesome Diablo III Will Be On The PlayStation 4

As part of its continuing mission to make sure everyone’s all excited about the next console, the PlayStation Blog has posted seven minutes of three Diablo devs talking about how great Diablo III is going to be on the console oh my god you guys. They’re excited.

Thirteen Types of Ridiculous Female Armor In MMORPGs

It’s no secret that female armor in games can sometimes be ridiculous and unrealistic. The Repair Her Armor Tumblr recently put together a list of thirteen types of ridiculous female armor you come to expect in MMORPGs—the commentary being less serious than it is for fun. “Don’t take it too seriously,” they write. “But I…

Show Us What You Love And Hate About Nathan Drake’s Character Design

Ah, Uncharted’s Nathan Drake — The everyman’s adventurer. In a gaming landscape populated with neckless, ‘roid-filled space marines and cyborg ninjas, you’re here to remind us that being a regular joe on a mystical adventure is its own kind of cool. Drake has gone through a lot of small, tiny changes over the years, but…

Talking To The PS4, Hints Of Rockstar’s Agent And Other Secrets

Editor’s note: The mysterious figure known as Superannuation digs through the Internet to find secrets companies don’t want to announce yet. All of what Superannuation finds is available to the public. Are these true gaming secrets? Or are they gaming red herrings planted to throw Superannuation off? Read on… On his CV, a staffer at…

Space… The Final Fantasy Card Game… This Is Star Trek Rivals.

If you loved Triple Triad and Tetra Master, the collectible card games included in Final Fantasy VIII and IX respectively, then you’ll probably be quite annoyed by the format being utilized in this cash-hungry free-to-play movie tie-in. Just in time for the theatrical release of Star Trek: Into Darkness, Rivals takes pictures of people and…

The Glitchiest–And Sometimes Very Painful–Fails Of April 2013

Falling on your crotch is funny, when it’s in a video game. So is dying multiple times over for no apparent reason. Achievement Hunter hosts a separate YouTube channel, called Game Fails, that they fill with random deaths, glitches, and outright outrageous instances in all sorts of games. It can sometimes be hit or miss.…

Now Angry Birds Seasons Is Thinking With Portals

Today’s free “Abra-Ca-Bacon” to Rovio’s Angry Birds Seasons adds magical apertures that transcend spatial boundaries. You can get ithere.

Looks Like EA Is Making A New Online Game Called Dawngate

Ahh, the video game industry, where people come up with names by smashing random words together. Today’s entry: Dawngate It looks like EA didn’t mean to announce Dawngate just yet, as they haven’t, well, announced it, but Kotaku columnist Superannuation discovered that the Dawngate website is up and running nonetheless. Dawngate is a MOBA—that is…

Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: Ueziel runs down his progress on his personal backlog, which includes Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts And E1SALVADOR writes about Code:Breakers and all the other anime he’s been watching. And you can always go join the voices talking about video games and life in TAY Classic…

New Nintendo Direct. Friday, May 17. 10am Eastern. “Updates on Wii U and 3DS games launching this summer.” Right here

Make Your Puny Human Video Game Into a Superhero Adventure

Why play as Rico Rodriguez in Just Cause 2 when you can be the Punisher? If there’s one huge advantage that PC releases of multi-platform titles have over their console brethren, it’s the modding community that bends, twists and re-configures them into different shapes. Superhero fans from all over have figured out ways to put…

Assassin’s Creed IV‘s Hero Is One Incredibly Salty Dog

It better be sea salt Bashir Sultani is using to recreate the piratical Edward Kenway from the upcoming Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag. What a fascinating process. I especially like the tiny additions he makes at the end on the guns. It took him two hours to create this salt art, only to wipe it…

The launch trailer for Fuse is sufficiently shooty and explodey. Insomniac’s new co-op shooter will be out May 28 for Xbox 360 and PS3.

It’s a jam-packed Nintendo Download this week, with Level-5’s The Starship Damrey for 3DS, Super Metroid on the Wii U Virtual Console, The King of Fighters ’99 for the regular old Wii and so much more.

Modern Family Is Already Enjoying Nvidia’s Shield

Mere days after the announcement of its $350 price tag and June release date, Nvidia’s Shield Android handheld is already showing up in the background of popular television shows. Look what Modern Family‘s Luke Dunphy has traded in his Nintendo 3DS for. As spotted over at Game Usagi, Lucas brings Nvidia’s new portable along for…

What Japanese Devs and Players Think of DLC

Downloadable Content can be a controversial topic. On the one hand it can feel like a developer/publisher nickel and diming the player, and on the other, it can also help to enhance a game experience and lengthen a game’s play-life. In this week’s issue of Japanese gaming magazine Weekly Famitsu, developers and users were presented…

Father Asks for Paternity Test Because of Wife’s Plastic Surgery

If you get plastic surgery, that’s fine. Go for it. Just know that you’re not getting plastic surgery on your DNA. Recently in Wuhan, China, a man surnamed Huang (not pictured) was worried that his wife was being unfaithful. He phoned Wuhan Central University’s Hospital and asked for a paternal test for his three year-old…