Team Fortress 2 Gets Its Very Own TV Commercial

During Sunday’s episode of Venture Bros., Valve’s long-running multiplayer extravaganza Team Fortress 2 got its very own television spot. Not bad, for a nearly 6-year-old game! Watch it here: There are also some new Venture Brothers-themed items in the shop, and every Adult Swim item is on sale.

Why People Rage Quit Games

Last night, after a grueling episode of Game of Thrones, a good number of people swore they would never watch the show again. Take a look at the retweets on thisTwitter account, which chronicles the extreme reaction to the Rains of Castamere episode, to see what I mean.(Don’t visit the link if you’re trying to…

Looks Like The Next Walking Dead Game Features A Dude Named… Vince

Three (Fast) Facts You May Not Know About Xcom: Enemy Unknown

Did you know that while developing last year’s Game of the Year-winning Xcom: Enemy Unknown, the team at Firaxis played the original X-COM every week and made new hires complete the entire game? I did not know that. Here are three “fast facts” about XCOM from the people who do Lore in a Minute.

Peanut Butter Pop-Tarts: The Snacktaku Review

Stop — just stop. I know what you are going to say. “Fahey, you already reviewed Pop-Tarts. You even suggested a new slogan for Kellogg’s — I believe it was ‘Pop-Tarts: F*** Breakfast.'” That’s true, but these are not Pop-Tarts. These are new Pop-Tarts Gone Nutty Exclamation Point, and they are beautiful monsters for your…

Police Trainer Tells Cops to Quit Throwing Guns Like It’s a Video Game

Today’s cops are, apparently, throwing their guns all over the place, says a police training expert. One guy threw it behind cover before diving after it. Another guy ditched his weapon in a struggle for a rifle. These are poor decisions, says the expert, and he thinks he knows what’s behind them. Yup, video games.…

Gaming Contractors May Not Be Superstars, But We Don’t Need To Strike

There was recently an article published on this very site, written by Nathan Peters. It was a description of his experience as a contract employee in the video game industry; specifically in the QA department of Certain Affinity, a studio that worked on multiplayer aspects of Halo 4. The summary of the article is that…

One Author Breaks Down the Reality of Violent Games in the Media

The sober truth of the world is often a hard thing for the 24-hour TV news cycle to stomach. Blaming violent games is easy, so it’s refreshing to see someone break down the reality of the situation in one fell swoop. In the clip above, taken from C-SPAN 2’s Book TV, author Karen Sternheimer gives…

Massive Layoffs At Zynga

The company behind FarmVille just got a little smaller. Zynga, the troubled developer responsible for a number of social games, laid off 520 staff today—18% of the company’s employees. The goal: refocus on mobile gaming. “None of us ever expected to face a day like today, especially when so much of our culture has been…

What’s Defiance‘s Next Big TV Show Tie-In? Zombies.

What, you think just because SyFy and Trion Worlds’ cross-media project Defiance is set in the future it’s immune from rotting, shambling, flesh-hungry beasts? The game plague reaches the show in two weeks, unless the players can stop it! Well, that’s probably not true. I’m sure the June 17 episode of Defiance has already been…

The Moneysaver: Singularity, Fightsticks, Jurassic Park, SSD’s, IHOP

I just wrote this, and this is crazy, but these deals are awesome, save money maybe? We’ve got quite a post to start off June so let’s get right in to it. We’ve got a whole new of deals for the PS3 and 360, not only on games, but on arcade sticks, 3D glasses, and…

Artist Elizabeth Simins has completed the final chapter of her wonderful four-part series Manic Pixel Dream Girl, in which she takes a long look back at her life growing up as a girl who plays video games. I recommend reading the whole thing from the top, and you can read the final chapter on its…

Steam Greenlight Users React to “Gayest Game Ever Made”

What you’ll initially notice about My Ex-Boyfriend The Space Tyrant is one of two things: the “Approved for distribution by the Ministry of Homosexual Pornography” screen on the trailer, or the sometimes nearly naked hot men prancing about. This, I assume, is intentional—the recently-launched Steam Greenlight page boasts that My Ex-Boyfriend is the “gayest game…

The 3D remake of Final Fantasy IV is now available on Google Play for Android devices. For $15.99, I’d make damn sure your device can run it before purchasing.

One Year Later, Did Sony Keep Their E3 2012 Promises?

E3 is just around the corner and, for the fifth year in a row, we’re taking a look back at the big three’s big E3 promises. What came true, and what didn’t? First up is Sony, with Nintendo and Microsoft following suit tomorrow and Wednesday, respectively. E3 is fundamentally about video games. Thus, Sony tried…

The Supervillain Who Makes You Want to Puke Returns in Green Arrow #23

Count Vertigo’s always been a weird supervillain. Think about it: his power is essentially to make you epically dizzy. But, if you’ve ever been really, really disoriented—like, Tilt-a-Whirl x 1,000—you know it’s nothing to laugh at. Even if the guy doing it to you is wearing a skirt. It wasn’t just his disorientation super-powers that…

Interested in Tegra 4 gaming but don’t want to drop $350 on a Shield handheld? Asus’ newly-announced Transformer Pad Infinity will be one of the first non-Nvidia devices to feature the world’s fastest mobile processor.

I’ve Never Played With Color And Shapes Quite Like This

Show me a collection of squares arranged on a grid and filled with color, and I’ll show you a game I’ve played before. That’s what I was thinking as I downloaded Blip Blup, a game that would shortly be proving me wrong. Created by ustwo Studio, the developer behind the popular Whale Trail, Blip Blup…

Moneysaver One-Shot: Playstation Vita With $50 Credit

Viva la Vita. No need to wait for a price drop that may not come at E3 or a holiday value bundle with games you may not want. Amazon is giving $50 in credit to anyone who buys a Vita, and there are two options to choose from. • Playstation Vita Wifi + $50 Credit…

Tell Us What You See in this Map of Los Santos [Update]

Rockstar has—probably deliberately—been doling out snippets of the Grand Theft Auto V map for some time. The ultrafans on GTAForums have been collecting them and finally stitched all of them together, giving us what appears to be a map of Los Santos and its surrounding area. [Update: This is not an official map; it’s the…