Celebrate Paying Your Taxes By Shooting At People Who Don’t

A flash game called Tax Evaders, designed with the help of Molleindustria’s Paolo Pedercini, is probably the most educational Space Invaders game you’ll play today. It’s also the most depressing, at least if you’re an American taxpayer. The point is to draw attention to the fact that while Average Joes and Janes across the United…

More Beautiful Art From Hardware. Enjoy.

In case you couldn’t tell from the last time I featured this game on Fine Art, regardless of whether Hardware (or Hardware: Shipbreakers as it’s now known) turns out to be amazing or awful, I will be praying for an art book. Because the concept art for the game just takes my breath away. It’s…

Nintendo Would Never Have The Guts To Release A Zelda Game This Cool

It’s weird. When it comes to hardware, Nintendo is the most daring video game company in the world, hands-down. You don’t come up with stuff like the DS or Wii unless you’re slightly mad Yet when it comes to software – and I’m especially talking about its older series like Zelda – Nintendo is unusually…

You Can Now Buy GTA’s Soundtracks On iTunes (And Listen On Spotify). You Really Should.

Sorry if that sounds like I’m pressuring you, but when it comes to video game soundtracks, there is Vice City’s inhumanly perfect collection of licensed tracks, there is daylight, and then there is everything else. I’m lucky enough to own the box set of them on CD (physical media!), but now everyone can get them,…

The Spirit Of Homeworld Lives On In Hardware, A Bold New RTS Universe

Given the abundance of expensive pre-rendered trailers and live-action commercials gamers are bombarded with these days, it was surprising to see people go so crazy last month over a clip that was nothing but slightly-animated concept art. Well, surprising to anyone who has never had the pleasure of playing the Homeworld series, a classic trifecta…

Video game rapmaster Dan Bull has brought his trademark bombastic style to this tribute to BioShock Infinite. Come for the nasty rhythms, stay for the concise explanation of game mechanics.

Five Minutes of Cinematic Badassery In Battlefield 3

This isn’t a Battlefield moment—it’s obvious that most of this is staged by YouTube user Lupey19.And yet that doesn’t matter at all. That’s just how awesome this video is; it practically looks like an action movie once it gets going. Battlefield 3: GYMKHANA EDITION [Lupey19]

Happy Birthday, Commander Shepard

Do you know what today is? Why, it’s Commander Shepard’s birthday! I can’t believe some of you forgot. And if you didn’t forget, why aren’t we celebrating? According to the Mass Effect Wiki: Shepard was born on April 11, 2154[1], is a graduate of the Systems Alliance N7 special forces program (service no. 5923-AC-2826), and…

How Sweet, This Husband Gave His Wife A Handmade Fallout Monopoly Set

We’ve written about Fallout monopoly sets before, but this one right here, by Reddit user XsimonbelmontX, is special. He made it by hand for his wife’s birthday. His wife is a huge Fallout fan you see, which makes this an amazing and fitting gift. “I spent about 8 months making this. It is a birthday…

‘Now Is The Best Time’: A Critique Of BioShock Infinite

I always found Metal Gear Solid 4 to be not a brilliant game, but a fascinating one. A mad ideologue glutted with tech retreads, again and again, the narrative he’s always dreamed of, and has never been able to get quite right. The metanarrative eats itself, strains the game until through its seams you can…

Mass Effect‘s Awkward Land Rover Was Goofy, But It Made The Game Better

The following is an excerpt from a newly announced book about Mass Effect “What is the point of the Mako?” It’s impossible to examine Mass Effect 1 in any kind of complete fashion without grappling with this question. In fact, there are times when I think that it might be the question that most needs…

Hello Kitty Sakura is Justification For Every Frivilous Piece of DLC Ever

There’s a new $2.99 costume pack available for Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3 today on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, but that’s not important right now. What’s important is the follow-up outfit for the pink-haired Sakura coming later this month. It’s everything I ever wanted. Perhaps that’s a bit of an overstatement. No, it…

Holy Crap, This Entire Game Is Drawn In Ballpoint Pen

Ballpoint pens: bad for math class, good for having a gorgeous visual aesthetic in a game. Case in point: Ballpoint Universe, an indie sidescrolling shooter drawn entirely with ballpoint pen. You play as a doodle called…Doodle. Check out the trailer. If this looks good to you, you can try out the demo here and vote…

Gamer Accused of Faking Disability to Attract Donations on Twitch

Most people online knew Angel Hamilton as zilianOP, a disabled man in a wheelchair who loved to stream games live on the Internet. Like many Twitch users, zilianOP allowed viewers to donate money,and some people did. Then on April 5, viewers watched in shock as Hamilton stood up from his wheelchair mid-stream. Footage of the…

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“The spirits… are dying.” Check out this new US trailer for Tales of Xillia, which comes out for PS3 on August 6. (August 9 in Europe.) Looks good!

The Corporate Side Of Mass Effect

Corporations play a huge part in the Mass Effect series. Some of them take on more passive roles, like creating weapons and armor. Others, however, like stirring up trouble with their shady little schemes—or simply get in trouble often. Here’s a look at the corporations which had the most profound effect on our adventures. Note:…

Toy Darth Vader Gets His Ass Kicked By Indiana Jones And Albert Einstein

Who would win, Indiana Jones or Darth Vader? Filmmaker Patrick Boivin thinks he knows how it’d go down. The above clip is one of a just-released trilogy called Don’t Use The Force, which also includes the dark-helmeted one getting whupped by Jack Torrance from The Shining: As well as by Albert Einstein himself: I didn’t…

Hawkeye Misses His Target in My Favorite Panel From This Week’s Comics. What’s Yours?

So far, Matt Fraction’s writing on Hawkeye has been shot through with a rough-and-tumble, devil-may-cay energy, where Clint Barton plows through overwhelming circumstances with little forethought. It’s been a fun read, filled with great banter and amazing minimalist art from David Aja and other contributors. But this week’s issue #9 takes an unexpected turn into…

What You Missed in the Mass Effect Comic Books

Everything is better with comic books. This is a universal truth, and it’s doubly universally true for the Mass Effect trilogy. Between digital comics and Dark Horse’s series, Mass Effect series scribe Mac Walters and some excellent artists and writers have added magificent layers of depth to the series you’ll never see unless you read.…