EA Buying Star Wars Might Not Be All Bad

The news that EA has locked down the rights to Star Wars games has, understandably, been met with a fair amount of backlash. Electronic Arts is far from people’s most trusted and beloved publisher of video games, and fans are worried this will somehow be bad news for the future of Star Wars video games.…

What Did You Think Of Last Night’s Game of Thrones?

I’m back after taking a week off, and happy to get to write a Monday night off-topic about two of the best episodes Game of Thrones has done to date. So here’s something interesting: The last two Sunday nights, Benioff, Weiss and company have stepped farther from the source material than ever before, and they’ve…

You Are Killing GameStop. Now GameStop Needs Your Help.

Executives in cages. Dog food on the face. Cliff Bleszinski eating noodles Mega64 can run hot and cold, but boy, when they run hot, it’s hot Mega64: SAVE GAMESTOP [YouTube]

This here Famicon skin for the Wii U’s gamepad is a beaut, no? Like Tiny Cartridge says…you can’t have a modern console unless you’re going to make it look retro. It’s the law. This particular skin can be purchased from Datel Japan at the end of July for around $20.

See How Four Players Take On A Cellist (Yep) In Cello Fortress

We’ve gotten glimpses at Cello Fortress before, but it’d be understandable if some readers still had questions about how the game works. Four players with controllers take on… an improvising cellist. Okay, that’s amazing. But how does it work? Here’s how. The cellist can choose from a number of pre-set options like “High, fast notes”…

Gawker‘s Max Read takes an excellently in-depth look at what, exactly, is going on with the accents on Game of Thrones.

If Video Games Were Drugs, DDR Would Be Ecstacy

What if video games were drugs? Then we’d all be screwed. Dorkly seems to have the answer for the closest parallels of what games would be which drugs—and they’re effin’ hilarious. Check it out. Minecraft Pokémon World of Warcraft Civilization Dance Dance Revolution Temple Run Half-Life Videogames Are Drugs [Dorkly] Image credit: Shutterstock

If Mario Had Starred In Metal Slug…

…well, it’d look something like this. This video comes to us from GameBill Studio, who combined assets from Mario and the classic Neo-Geo series Metal Slug as well as some other classic games, to come up with Super Mario Slug X. I’d play it. To contact the author of this post, write to [email protected] or…

All 65 Episodes of My Little Pony All At Once, All For You

If you should wind up in the custody of the CIA and withhold information during an interrogation, expect to be strapped to a chair with your eyes pried open and this video running in an endless loop on all four walls. YouTube insane person The Pixeltripper took all 65 episodes of the first three seasons…

It’s The Horror Game Where You Play As A Toddler, Only More Intense

Playing a horror game as a toddler already sounds, well, kind of scary. Know what could potentially make the experience even scarier? Virtual reality. Here’s Krillbite Studios, walking us through what Among The Sleep is like on the Oculus Rift VR headset. While it might look silly to play like this, it seems as if…

Here Comes SimCity Update 3.0, Which Lets Your Sims Make Rights on Reds

A little more than two weeks after its big, albeit imperfect 2.0 update to SimCity, EA is preparing to roll out a new update that’s full of even more tweaks and fixes. Update 3.0 is coming this week. Will this be the one??? Patch notes, straight from EA-owned SimCity development studio Maxis: Update 3.0 Notes…

Duncan Harris of Dead End Thrills has posted a new gallery of artful screenshots from Tomb Raider, which capture the game’s dark beauty. (He’s got a snazzy new site design, too!)

Which Element Is Gollum On The LOTR Periodic Table?

Funny you should ask! He is element number 91, abbreviated to Go. That comes via the “Periodic Table of Middle Earth,” an amazingly thorough creation from the LOTR Project. The project, headed up by Swedish chemical engineering student Emil Johansson, is dedicated to assembling an exhaustive amount of data from J.R.R. Tolkien’s worlds and creating…

The sixth playable character for Borderlands 2, Krieg the Psycho Bandit, will be available on May 14th, according to a post on the character’s (official) Twitter feed.

Box Catches Cat, With A Final Fantasy Twist

I’ve always wanted to headline an article “Box Catches Cat.” Now, finally, my moment has arrived, thanks to YouTuber SirAshquatch. It’s nice to see someone else agrees that many of life’s most triumphant moments deserve their own victory music Thanks to io9‘s own Meredith Woerner for sharing.

Learning To Love Animal Crossing Again

Confession: despite my job, sitting down and playing a game is often incredibly difficult for me thanks to depression. How depression disables me from enjoying things doesn’t always present itself in the same way. Sometimes, the way I think about a game’s objective ruins it, even though there’s nothing wrong with the game per se—I…

Watergate: The Game: What a Long, Strange National Nightmare It’s Been

I’m about as old as Watergate and it has had a constant and vaguely Oedipal influence on me. Dad was a newsman; I’m a newsman. Dad hates Nixon; I hate Nixon. Newsmen took down a president; my Dad’s badder than the president. So I came to Watergate: The Game confident I could win with solid…

The Most Awesome Dinosaurs in Video Games

A month ago we got the 3D re-release of Jurassic Park, and a few weeks later we got Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon featuring dinosaurs of all kinds shining under neon lights. This happy coincidence provides us with an opportunity to gather some of the most amazing video games that have dinosaurs stomping around inside…

You can now watch the “Hotheaded Developers Rant Back” panel from the Game Developers Conference. Panelists like Eric Zimmerman, Anna Anthropy, Kellee Santiago, Anna Marsh, Naomi Clark and Mitu Khandaker all talked frankly and often rousingly about issues ranging from poor planning to crunch time to racial and gender inclusivity in games. Rant-panel veteran Chris…

EA Snags Exclusive Deal To Make Star Wars Games

The gaming giant behind everything from Madden to Battlefield to Need for Speed is now the gaming giant behind Star Wars too. EA has secured an exclusive license to publish and develop Star Wars games, the company announced today. EA studios DICE (Battlefield) and Visceral (Dead Space) will both make new games in the popular…