With The Press Of A Button, This Game Changes Everything Around You

When I first saw it earlier this year, indie platformer Oliver & Spike looked like one of the most interesting games of the year. It’s built around the idea that, with a single button, you can change the entire world around you. Not just the colour palette or the water level, everything around you. You’ve…

Two Game Developers Travel The World, Playing Games And Helping People

Earlier this year, Battlefield producer Daniel Matros and former colleague Tim Kjell set up something called Charitystream. The idea was simple: stream games online, raise money for charity. It’s a noble goal, yeah, but it’s also something countless others are engaged in. What’s interesting about Charitystream, though, is the direct means the pair employ to…

BioShock Infinite To Give You A New Companion Character?

In Elizabeth, BioShock Infinite gave us the best AI companion since Half-Life 2’s Alyx Vance. For the game’s upcoming DLC, however, it seems we might be getting a new best bud. The CV of 2K animator Michael Shahan yesterday mentioned (it’s since been removed) that one of his most recent roles was “providing animation and…

Variety reports that Scott Stuber (The Kingdom, Ted, Battleship)has signed on to produce Epic’s long-coming Gears of War movie. Who knows, this thing might actually get made!

A new trailer for Hardware: Shipbreakers means, yup, more awesome art

If The Game of Throne House Sigils Were Reimagined As Pokémon

Then they’d probably look a little like these digital art pieces by deviantArt artist KaiKoa—also known as Cami Sanders. It’s a weird crossover for sure, to mix Pokémon and Game of Thrones, but it actually works! The one above is obviously Charizard, the most fitting Pokemon for House Targaryen. Here it is in full: Tentacruel,…

Sloths, The Grandest Creature of All, Are Finally In Animal Crossing

It was a long time coming. I’ll tell you why. These creatures have gone into space. They’ve conquered our lands. They’ve…actually, I don’t know what the fuck is going on here. And now, finally, they’ve made their way into Animal Crossing: New Leaf—the low key life simulation game where you become mayor of a town…

How Much Does Kojima Like Ryan Gosling? This Much.

We already suspected that Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima had a thing for Ryan Gosling (who doesn’t?) after Kojimasported Drive’s iconic jacket. But Kojima’s admiration for the hunky star is apparently big enough that he’d love to make a game with Gosling in it. Place Beyond The Pines is a “motorcycle stunt rider turns…

He Forged Captain America’s Shield. Then, He Bashed Stuff Against It.

After the Minecraft sword and Kingdom Hearts keyblade, you’d think that Man At Arms’ Tony Swatton is only interested in straight-up weapons. Not so! He can forge shields too. Shields…which also double as weapons. Apparently, some parts of this shield are as hard as a ruby—and a ruby has a hardness of nine (versus a…

A Visual History of Attractive Video Game Characters: The 80s

Video games in the 80s only depicted a certain amount of pixels on the screen. Fortunately, that didn’t hold developers back from pushing the limits of the available hardware to play with our imagination by creating beautiful, handsome characters. This week—starting off with the 80s—we’re going to explore the hottest, most attractive video game characters…

The Next Game From The Makers Of Quantum Conundrum Is Funky As Hell

This is Soul Fjord, the next game from Airtight Games, the folks behind last year’s excellent first-person puzzler Quantum Conundrum The game is Ouya-exclusive—at least for now—and the preview is IGN-exclusive, so head on over there for a few more details. Exclusives! Full trailer:

Pizza Hut’s Crazy Cheesy Crust Pizza: The Snacktaku Review

For years, pizza scientists at delivery powerhouse Pizza Hut have been chumming international waters with the most bizarre combinations of dough, sauce, cheese and stuff. They’ve made pizza with hot dogs in the crust. Fish sticks and prawns. Cheeseburgers. Some of these magnificent creations have made it as far as Canada, but to this day…

A Stealth Game Where Getting Caught Is Half The Fun

The plan is simple. Get in, grab all the money, get out. Everyone has a role in this heist, and if we do our jobs correctly, nobody sees us and nobody needs to get hurt, see? Thing is, when you’re playing Monaco—the fantastic class-based co-op stealth game—things don’t always go according to plan. That’s not…

The Next-Gen Xbox Is Getting a Hell of an Exclusive, Sources Say

The long-awaited first game from Respawn Entertainment—the studio helmed by the creators of Call of Duty—will be exclusive to the next-gen Xbox, according to two unrelated sources familiar with the game. One of our sources indicates that there will also be an Xbox 360 version, but no versions for rival PlayStation and Nintendo consoles. Oh,…

Filmmaker Documenting Online Nastiness Doesn’t Plan to Feed the Trolls

The filmmaker preparing a documentary about the notoriously rancid and abusive behavior in online gaming says she’s not really interested in having a dialogue with the trolls. Her project aims to make their conduct morally taboo, if not stigmatized in mainstream society. GTFO, by Shannon Sun-Higginson, concentrates on the abuse directed at female gamers, where…

The free-to-play Ragnarok Online 2: Legend of the Second launches commercially on Wednesday, May 1. Players can grab it at the official website or via Steam.

The NBA Player Who Came Out Was A Video Game Cover Star… Sort Of

Today’s big news—not just in sports, either—is 12-year NBA veteran Jason Collins revealing he is gay. Collins isn’t really a star; he’s a journeyman more known for getting destroyed by Shaq in the NBA Finals his rookie year. Perhaps you may have seen him somewhere else? Yes. He’s on the PS2 cover of NBA 2K6,…

If The Swimming Anime Did It, So Can Little Witch Academia

Being a fan is a powerful thing. Fans can modifya game’s ending. More recently, a fandom’s excitement was responsible for turning a 30 second clip into a full-fledged anime series—even though the studio didn’t initially have plans to expand on the clip. If the Swimming Anime could do that, then Little Witch Academia should be…

Pre-Order The PS3 Version Of Diablo III And You Get To Grind Faster

The PS3 version of Diablo III has an “exclusive pre-order bonus”—a phrase that makes me cringe every time I see it—and it’s called the Infernal Helm, an artifact that boosts your experience rates so you’ll level up faster. Blizzard just announced the bonus today, along with news that there’s no news on a release date…

The Final Fantasy Fansite That Changed Thousands Of People’s Lives

At 29, Sean Robinson has been teaching high school in Southern California for almost six years. He teaches 10th grade history. He tries, at least a little, to be the cool teacher. His short hair’s spiked up in the front, a Fallout 3 lunchbox sits on his desk, and he conducts class in a casual,…