Hacker Ports Xbox 360 Game to PC, Calls It ‘Justice’

Some Russian hacker, unilaterally deciding that PC gamers have the inalienable right to play the 2011 Xbox 360 game The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile (pictured), just up and ported the thing, saying “This is not piracy, this is restoration of justice.” According to a translation of the GameDev.ru forums, the hacker, named Barabus, said “the authors…

Free Copy Of Saints Row IV With Purchase Of This $99 Dubstep Gun

What an amazing deal! Not only do you get a 12-inch replicaDubstep Gun with lights and sounds for $99, you also get a Johnny Gat memorial statue, a Dubstep Doomsday Button and a copy of Saints Row IV for good measure. Neat! The coolest (and possibly cleanest) Saints Row collector’s edition in game history, ladies…

Kinect-Enhanced Doodle Jump Lands On Xbox 360 This Summer

It’s been two years since Lima Sky announced it would be bringing mobile sensation Doodle Jump to the Xbox 360 as a Kinect-powered downloadable game, and the thought tickles me just as much today as it did back then, only now there are pretty screens to temper my amusement. They’re pretty sharp screens as well,…

The World Is Yours In This Massive PC Strategy Game

If you’re new to the world of grand strategy games having picked up the gateway drug that is Crusader Kings II, may I suggest you look into this, Paradox’s big follow-up game, Europa Universalis IV. It’s lacking in Crusader King II’s intimacy, but shifts its weight by letting you control just about any faction of…

China’s League of Legends Clone Is A Bootleg Wonderland

300 Heroes proves, as CrusaderCast puts it so well in this video, “there is no Mandarin word for copyright”, because it doesn’t just copy League of Legends (literally, it re-uses LoL’s textures), it makes use of as many famous characters from properties it didn’t pay for as it can get its hands on. There seems…

Surely The Dalai Lama Would Approve Of This DOTA Character

It takes a lot to make me laugh out loud at some video game character design. Game artist Hunter Mortenson and his wife Sadies have recently created this DOTA 2 courier, and he’s available in the Steam Workshop. His name? The Dallying Llama Courier (though sadly, it appears as though Valve has renamed him Llama…

Ladies And Gentlemen, Abraham Lincoln

This is not a retouched photo. It’s not a 3D model, or an actor dressed as perhaps the United States’ greatest ever President. This is a sculpture, done by veteran Hollywood effects man Kazuhiro Tsuji. It was part of a display held earlier this year at the Copro Gallery in Santa Monica. Tsuji, who moved…

The Fastest Way To My Heart Is With Giant Battleships

I don’t give a damn that this trailer for World of Warships – an upcoming game from the same guys behind World of Tanks – has no gameplay in it. What it does have are lots and lots of battleships. Battleships are awesome. More video games need battleships. Developers, note: more games need battleships.

Earthworm Jim, You’re Looking…Different

Emerson Tung is a concept artist who has worked on properties like League of Legends, Warhammer 40K and Transformers, while having also done some stuff with tabletop giants Fantasy Flight Games. He’s currently an artist at mobile gaming company TinyCo. You can see more of Emerson’s stuff at his personal site To see the larger…

3200 x 800 Video Game Laughs At Your Single Monitor

What you’re looking at here is Super Chain Crusher, a shmup (shoot-em-up) whose native resolution of 3200 x 800 is so long most modern video hardware cannot properly display it. So its developers encourage you to play it across two screens. OK, so you technically can play it on one screen – and you can…

Redesigning The Super Nintendo For The 21st Century

I think the Super Nintendo, at least the Japanese/European model, is one of the most beautiful pieces of consumer electronics ever made, from its colour palette to its timeless design. Just because the original is timeless, though, doesn’t mean we can’t get an update for these more modern times. Like this one, by Colombian designer…

Maybe A Zelda Movie Could Work After All

Nintendo has, smartly, mostly ignored Hollywood following 1993’s Super Mario Bros. movie. So we don’t have a Zelda movie. Many people think, smartly, that this is a good thing, because there’s every chance a Hollywood adaptation would be awful. But there’s a small chance it might not be. I mean, if fans (in this case,…

Turkish Rioters Are A Generation Raised On Grand Theft Auto

As you might already know, there are some big protests and riots going down in Istanbul at the moment, with what’s emerging as the “Occupy Gezi” movement clashing with police over President Tayyip Erdogan’s aggressive development policies in the historic city. You can read a great primer piece on the riots at Gawker To those…

All The Stuff Superman Returns Got Wrong

If you look beyond its cardinal sin of being a kinda lousy movie, 2006’s Superman Returns got plenty of other stuff wrong, too. Or, “wrong,” as the nitpickers at

Here’s Some Leaked Footage From The DayZ Game

Last year’s hottest mod will this year become its own standalone game, and while we’re yet to get an official look at how DayZ is shaping up, this leaked footage gives us a few hints. I say only a few hints because this appears to be early code for the game, missing key features and…

The Yawhg is an excellent “dark fantasy multiplayer choose-your-own-adventure game” where you try your best to survive against impending doom. No two games are alike; it’s randomly generated. One of the best-written games I’ve played this year, and you can buy it here.

Nintendo’s Fart Fixation

Nintendo loves farts, and they would very much like you to know it. That’s right! Farts! The flatulence in question is tied to the upcoming Game & Wario, a Wii U game that very few people seem to care about. I mean, I’m sure some people care about it, but it’s not really garnering the…

Kanye West Swaggers His Way Into… A JRPG?

I never knew how much the world needed a Japanese role-playing game starring Kanye West—not until I came across Kanye Quest 3030. Now, the trailer for the game looks rough—in the way that most RPG Maker games do. But that’s surface-level stuff; we’ve seen heavy-hitters made with RPG Maker before—think To The Moon or Actual…

8GB Wii U Basic Nixed?

A reliable retail source tells us that some GameStop chains will no longer be selling the 8GB Wii U as of June 18, exactly one week after Nintendo’s big E3 kick-offevent. Our source says GameStop has contacted stores with the following message: Nintendo Wii U Basic Recall – Two Week Preparation On Tuesday, 6/18, all…

SpyParty, the excellent asymmetrical multiplayer game we’ve been raving about for years, is finally going into open beta. Go sign up! $15.