They Make Some of the Best Adventure Games. Now They’re Taking on Turn-Based Tactics.

Germany’s Daedalic Entertainment has spent the past several years making a name for itself as one of the top adventure gaming companies, consistently hand-crafting unique point-and-click experiences for fans of the genre. Now the developer prepares to wade into deeper waters with Blackguard, its first tactical turn-based role-playing game. I’m in. If Daedalic applies the…

Valve’s just launched an Indie Spring Sale on Steam just in time for next week’s Independent Games Festival

Oh God, What’s Nic Cage’s Face Doing On All These Pokémon?

Nic Cage’s face must go on everything. It’s the law. Not even Pokémon are exempt. Someone started a Pokémon x Nic Cage Tumblr and it is glorious. They’re going through the original 151 Pokemon, and so far what they’ve created is amazing. Check it out: You can view more…uh, Cagemon? Over at this here Tumblr.…

Ultima Creator Richard Garriott Says His ‘Game Designers Suck’ Comment Was ‘Taken Out-of-Context’

Yesterday, game-makers and fans were all up in arms over comments made by Richard Garriott to PC Gamer, where he said, among other things, that “most game designers really just suck.” Now the man best known for his ground-breaking work on the Ultima games has issued a clarification. On the website for his Portalarium dev…

Star Trek Online‘s Largest Expansion Yet Unleashes Playable Romulans

R-R-Romulans have r-r-ridges. Perfect World Entertainment’s is gearing up to launch the most ambitious Star Trek Online expansion to date in May, giving players tired of making excuses for their Vulcan characters to roleplay space sex a more passionate alternative with Legacy of Romulus. And hey look — Tasha Yar is back! Or at least…

Watch These Top-Level Call of Duty Players Go Apesh*t

If you’ve played a game online, chances are you’ve experienced ragers in their full extreme, screaming glory. So it shouldn’t be surprising that even top-level players rage, as Eurogamer discovered. Here is a compilation of (sometimes celebratory!) rage moments during a European Call of Duty championship. One of the competitors notes that raging is done…

Might & Magic X Legacy is the Old Might & Magic, Only So Much Prettier.

It’s been over a decade since we last saw a proper single-player, first-person PC Might & Magic game. That’s far too long. Thankfully Ubisoft and developer Limbic Entertainment agree, and Might & Magic X Legacy is on its way. Picking up after the events of Might & Magic Heroes VI, X Legacy puts players in…

Luftrausers—the retro dogfighting game from the makers of Ridiculous Fishing—is coming to PS3 and Vita this spring.

These Computer Graphics Are So Incredible, It’s Kind Of Creepy

Speaking at the GPU Technology Conference in California this week, hardware company NVIDIA talked about their much-vaunted Titan graphics card, and showed off what they can do with it. The whole video is interesting, but the best part is virtual Ira, who you can see above. Terrifying/awesome/creepy/impressive.

Why Do People Love To Draw Dicks in Games? An Investigative Report.

On November 6, 2012 a profoundly simple game called Curiosity was officially launched on iPhones, inviting people to chisel away at a massive cube composed of millions of blocks. Players from around the world started poking at the cube. There was a stupendous prize inside that would take players, working in unison, ages to unlock.…

When I Imagine Cyberpunk-Style Hack Battles, This is What I See

Since the early days of the Cyberpunk pen-and-paper role-playing setting, I’ve been fascinated by the idea of highly-skilled computer hackers roaming the plains of cyberspace looking for a fight; digital cowboys with their fingers twitching inches away from their plastic 101-shooters. The realization that real hackers are just normal people tapping away at standard keyboards…

Final Fantasy‘s Lightning Doesn’t Like Sand. It’s Coarse and Rough and Irritating.

Also there are sand dragon things, which are not soft and smooth. The latest batch of screenshots for Final Fantasy XIII Sequel Two: I Guess You Guys Wanted to Play as Lightning shows off the Dead Dunes, a land of dunes and deadness in the world of Nova Chrysalia. Sand is pretty great. It’s easy…

StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm sold 1.1 million copies in its first two days, Blizzard said in a press release today.

The new Star Trek game changes the evil Gorn from rubbery and goofy to angry and snarly. Oh, and they’re naked.

New Trailer Shows What Kingdom Hearts Looks Like In HD

Square Enix says the name for this game is Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 ReMIX, but I’m not going to call it that. Let’s stick with… Kingdom Hearts 1.5 Here’s the official PAX trailer for Kingdom Hearts 1.5, an HD remake of the first Kingdom Hearts that also includes Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories, cinematic scenes…

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I Would Cry Real Tears Of Joy If I Could Ride This Minecraft Beetlejuice Roller Coaster

Wow. This thing is elaborate! (Word of warning, if you don’t like dubstep or anything like it, you should just mute the video now. I personally like the song just fine.) According to YouTuber nuropsych1, it took their team roughly two months on the Xbox 360’s creative mode to create this beast. It would probably…

Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon and a new Pokemon game lead off this week’s list of upcoming Nintendo downloadables

This Real-Life World of Warcraft Quest Changed Two People’s Lives Forever

World of Warcraft player Alex found a really creative way to present an engagement ring to his girlfriend Clara, who also plays the game: A quest chain, which includes some romantic real-life activities. All he needed was a papercraft template for a chest, a site where he could make custom WoW tooltips, and of course…

Unfinished Swan creator Giant Sparrow has announced a new game. Its page is titled “Edith Finch,” and features a mirror.