Aaaaaahhhhhh! It’s A Low-Gravity Medieval Brawl

There’s already a lot to like about Chivalry: Medieval Warfare, the first-person medieval combat game from Torn Banner. But there’s perhaps even more to like about this video of a bunch of people playing on a low-gravity server. Hang with it for about thirty seconds and you’ll be sold. Aaaaaaaahhhhhh!!! (Via Chris Remo)

In Defense Of That Aliens: Colonial Marines GIF Everyone Keeps Making Fun Of

By now, if you’ve been keeping up with Aliens: Colonial Marines, you’ve probably come across a certain GIF of an alien waddling through a sewer level. See above. I know, I know. It looks silly, it looks ridiculous. And I’m here to defend that level. The GIF doesn’t inspire confidence in the game, no. Just…

This 3DS RPG Looks Weird And Trippy And Awesome

This is Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers, an Atlus-developed role-playing game for 3DS that’s part of the Shin Megami Tensei series. It’s a first-person dungeon crawler set, like most SMT games, in a demon-filled version of Japan. Above is the “story trailer” for Soul Hackers, which was originally released for Sega Saturn and then PS1 in…

12 out of 15 video game creators would make a new Star Wars game, Wired discovers. (Prepare for a twist ending.)

The Romantic Moments In Video Games That Remind You Of Valentine’s Day

With Valentine’s Day putting us all in a romantic mood it was our duty to gather some of the defining aaaawww moments video games offer. A great deal of game endings below so watch out for heavy spoilers! The Ending Of The First Prince Of Persia source: Prince Of Persia Final Level Nate And Elena…

The Top PVP Players in Avengers Alliance Deserve Punishment

Avenger’s Alliance is a single-player turn-based role-playing game, but it’s also a competition, with players vying for top positions in seasonal PVP tournaments. Season five is around the corner, and players that fight harder than most have a chance to secure the punishment they so richly deserve, courtesy of artist Mark Texiera. No one knows…

Nintendo Keeps Trying To Be My Mom. It’s Weird, But Maybe More Developers Should Try It, Too.

It’s 4am. I’m lying down in bed, barely holding up my 3DS. By that point, I’ve been playing Fire Emblem: Awakening all night—long enough that I wouldn’t blame anyone for wondering if I’m sharp enough to keep pretending I’m still a competent tactician. But, I don’t care. The game has me wired; it’s that good.…

This Week’s Nintendo Download Takes You Out into the Streets and Gives You Rabbids

I’ve never, ever seen a Google Street View truck out in the wild. And now that I think about it, I don’t know that I want to. It’d be a little creepy, knowing that its magic penetrating cameras are sucking all the data out of my pores without my permission. But if you want to…

Play A Whole New Sort Of Interactive Fiction, Then Write Your Own

There’s a lot to be said for text-based interactive fiction. It engages our imaginations so directly, and gets away from a lot of the challenges present in graphical games that offer interactive stories. In games like Mass Effect and The Walking Dead, more choices mean that the developers need to make more content, and the…

This is a Real Prototype PS4 Controller

This photo, which as far as we can tell first appeared at Destructoid, appears to be a prototype controller for the next PlayStation. From the look of it, it mostly matches up with what our sources have told us about the system, code-named Orbis. An industry source familiar with the new system tells us the…

Our redesigned, car-loving pals at Jalopnik have played some of May’s Grid 2. They detect a viable Forza competitor.

Those With Friends Games Sound Like a Fine Place to Find Yourself a Valentine

I guess Words with People You Want to Hook Up With was just too long a title. In honor of the day before discount candy, Zynga has crafted an infographic to demonstrate what a hotbed of flirting the “With Friends” franchise really is. Who uses the chat function of a mobile game to hit on…

Looking For a Launch Game For Ouya…

“At the end of the day, Ouya is beautiful, but people don’t buy consoles,” the woman behind the Android-based home console that is coming out next month recently said to me. “They buy content.” She’s right, right? Ouya CEO Julie Uhrman said this while she and I chatted in Las Vegas last week. People get…

Steam is now available for Linux. In celebration, Valve is offering a big sale on Linux-supported games

The New Ultima Can’t Come Soon Enough

I’ve not seen a more tantalizing “Coming Soon” at the end of a trailer in quite some time. Set 21 years after the events of 1985’s Ultima IV, Ultima Forever: Quest for the Avatar looks to capture the feel of that classic role-playing game with modern-day mechanics. What was originally planned as a reimagining of…

I Played 30 Minutes Of Insomniac’s Fuse. It’s Pretty Good.

Insomniac’s upcoming third-person shooter Fuse is a game built around switching: in its history, its design, and its execution. During a preview event that EA held in New York yesterday to show off the game, I got a closer look at all three elements. A game that’s already weathered a massive creative shift, and accompanying…

Pokémon Has A New Eevee Evolution. How Many Eevees Do We Even Need?

That Pokémon above? That’d be Sylveon, the latest and likely most cutesy Eevee evolution to date. It’s debuting in Pokémon X and Pokémon Y, bringing our Eevee evolution options up to eight Pokémon. These include: Vaporeon, Jolteon, Flareon, Espeon, Umbreon, Leafeon, and Glaceon. That’s a lot of options. I’d like to imagine a future where…

SimCity Social Island Quests: Everything You Need to Know

Earlier this month, SimCity Social players were teased with the information that a new land was coming to the game, but we didn’t know exactly when that land would launch, or what it would be until now. The game has finally been updated, allowing players to unlock a new island and tons of new quests,…

How to Control a First-Person Shooter With Only Two Fingers on One Hand

In December, former Battlefield developer Ben Cousins revealed The Drowning, an ambitious first-person shooter aimed at both hardcore shooter fans and casual players alike. The game’s simple two button control scheme is key to bridging the audience gap, and now we get to see how it works. Interesting. It’s certainly simple, but is it too…

Don’t Look Now, But The 3DS Has Become The Best Gaming Machine Out There

Two years ago, Nintendo was in trouble. The House of Mario had just released a brand new handheld system with impressive 3D graphics, but nobody seemed to care. Sales were sluggish and reception wasn’t great. So they did something drastic: just six months after releasing the 3DS, Nintendo slashed the system’s price from $250 to…