Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: contributor PocoGrandes offers up his own personal review of Thomas Was Alone, the charming minimalist indie platformer that wound up being one of my favorite games last year. It just came out for PS3 and Vita this week, so check it out if you’re curious.…

Skyrim ‘Legendary Edition’ Is Coming June 4

A new version of Skyrim containing all of the game’s DLC will arrive this summer for $60, Bethesda announced today. June 4 for North America; June 7 for Europe and Australia. The Legendary Edition of Skyrim will be released on PC, PS3, and Xbox 360. This edition of the massive RPG will include the game…

Phoenix Wright HD iOS Port Delayed Yet Again

Remember when we said you’d be able to play HD remakes of the first three Phoenix Wright games on iOS last fall? That never happened. For some reason, Capcom has stealthily delayed the HD port of their lawyer adventure games, first to April, and now… to July. Responding to a fan question on the company’s…

Mega Man 4 leads off a light week for the Nintendo Download. Time to catch up on that backlog, eh? Check out all the coming week’s digital Nintendo offerings right here

Amazing Tech Demo Shows All Sides Of The CryEngine

CryEngine 3, Crytek’s top-tier game engine that made Crysis 3 look so pretty, can be handy modeling streets, disassembled cars and entire cityscapes. French company Enodo utilizes the game engine exactly like this, and it has massive video game potential. Have a look at the scenes with tilt-shift added at 1:11, I could go crazy…

Everything We Know About The Next Xbox

May 21. That’s the day that Microsoft will, finally, put an end to all the rumours and speculation and heresay and whispers about the successor to the Xbox 360 and actually show us something. Or at least tell us something. Either way, make it official. More so than the reveal of the PlayStation 4 earlier…

There are going to be new Grand Theft Auto V trailers—apparently, one for each of the three protagonists—next week on April 30th, according to Rockstar Games’ official site.

Transformers Legends Is Now On iOS. Here’s How to Play It.

The Android release of Transformers Legends went a long way towards helping me accept the mobile collectible card game genre, easing me into the experience with familiar characters and themes. Now the free game is out on the iPad and iPhone, giving the Apple side of mobile gaming a chance to collect and battle iconic…

Attack On Titan‘s Amazing Opening Gets Hilarious Edits

The anime adaptation of Attack on Titan (Shingeki no Kyojin in Japanese) debuted early this April, and it has a powerful opening. Users of the Japanese website Nico Nico Douga jumped on it immediately and made crazy awesome remixes. Some of these mix the opening song (on top) with other anime intros or with other…

Conference or Not, We’ll Cherish These E3 Nintendo Memes Forever

Nintendo is not holding a big time E3 press conference this year. Bummer! Know why that’s a bummer? The memes and the memories, that’s why. In the past, Nintendo’s E3 press conferences have given birth to some of the best gaming memes the internet has seen. Thus, this summer could see a huge hole in…

Rayman Legends‘ stand-alone online Challenge Mode, promised as compensation for the game’s delayed Wii U release, is launching today on the Wii U eShop as a free app. Ubisoft has put out a trailer showing off what it looks like.

The Evil Within Will Be More About Using Your Brain Than Your Gun

Shinji Mikami, creator of the Resident Evil series is making a new survival horror game, The Evil Within. You’ve seen thetrailer, now let’s see what the man behind the madness has to say about it. The Evil Within – titled Psycho Break in Japan – will supposedly be a return to the more “horror” side…

U.S. Ambassador: Stop Pirating Game of Thrones, Australia!

Jeffrey Bleich, the U.S. Ambassador to Australia, has sent out warning. It’s a matter of foreign policy. Serious stuff! Bleich doesn’t want Australians to pirate Game of Thrones. On his official Facebook page, the one that actually says “Ambassador Bleich”, there is a post titled “Stopping the Game of Clones”. I have taken a screen-cap…

Done With SimCity? Check Out This Very Different Alternative.

Shining Rock Software is a one-man studio currently working on a game called Banished—a city-building strategy title that promises to show us the wild, rough world of frontier colonization. In Banished, your objective is to help a group of exiled travelers establish a sustainable colony. What sustainable means here is that basically every action is…

See What a Difference 0.33 Makes With the New Evangelion Movie

The third Evangelion movie, Evangelion: 3.33 YOU CAN (NOT) REDO, was released on Blu-ray and DVD in Japan yesterday (along with promotional cheeseburgers). It’s been 5 months since the movie hit theaters, so what’s been changed between the original 3.0 and the current 3.33? According toJapanese websites comparing the Blu-ray version to the original theatrical…

Another Japanese Schoolgirl Photo Meme to Sweep the Internet

It all started with Japanese schoolgirls doing Dragon Ball attacks. That spread to people doing Street Fighter and Star Wars moves. And Japanese schoolboys playing fake Quidditch. Where to go from here? A little after the schoolgirl Dragon Ball meme first blew up this spring, the below photo popped up online in Japan. It shows…

Famitsu reports that Etrian Odyssey: Millenium Maiden, the new, story-focused dungeon crawler coming out in Japan on June 27, will have cutscenes and an animated opening. Cutscenes and an animated opening done by Madhouse, of Trigun, Cardcaptor Sakura, and Paprika fame, no less.

Parents Ask Vladmir Putin To Ban Death Note in Russia

This past February, a fifteen year-old girl jumped to her death in Yekaterinburg, Russia. In her room, four copies of the wildly popular Japanese manga Death Note were discovered along with a suicide note that read, “I don’t want to live anymore”. Some blamed the comic for the girl’s death, and now a group of…

Japan Has a Giant Godzilla You Can Play With

Kurihama Flower Park is not safe! Actually, it is. The giant Godzilla that towers above the play area doesn’t breathe fire. Heck, it doesn’t even move. But, the kaiju does have an unusual secret. This nine meter tall, five ton Godzilla is actually playground equipment. The monster’s tail doubles as a slide for children. However,…

At a recent meeting, Nintendo honcho Satoru Iwata said (via Reuters Japan and Business Week) that Nintendo isn’t currently planning on lowering the Wii U’s price to improve sales.