This Game Pits Players Against The Fiercest Foe Of All: An Improvising Cellist

Beware the cellist. Beware. CELLOS ARE DANGEROUS. If you’re playing Cello Fortress, don’t say I didn’t warn you. The new game pits one controller-holding player against a cellist. It’s something of a tower defense game, with the player controlling the attacking tanks, and the cellist controlling the base defenses. Fast notes activate flame throwers. High…

This Totoro Skin Suit Is The Stuff Of Nightmares

Totoro, what have they done to you? This… this isn’t right. You’re supposed to be soft and cuddly. I’m supposed to want to bounce on your belly. Instead, Laughing Squid found THIS: As well as THIS: Imagined caption by our own Chris Person, who also created the gifs in this post: “Would you be my…

These Deal Breakers Make Me Give Up On A Video Game Within The First Hour

When it comes to deciding what game gets my attention and why, I am absolutely ruthless. I don’t care how much better it’s going to get, I don’t care that it’s actually an amazing game and I just have to give it a chance. No. If you mess up in the first hour of a…

DmC Reviewers Are Pleased With The New Dante and His Swift Action Moves

Not everyone is pleased with Ninja Theory’s take on the new Dante. That hair, that demeanor, that easy gameplay? These are some complaints I’ve heard from fans since the reviews started hitting for Capcom’s latest entry in the Devil May Cry series, which released just yesterday. But reviewers love it! They love the action, and…

Did top AMD people who now work at Nvidia steal sensitive AMD information? Reps for the graphics chip rivals comment

Portal‘s “Still Alive” Sounds Quite Nice in Guild Wars 2

YouTube user Marflus1 has created this musical gem, which is described as follows: An Arrangement of “Still Alive” from Portal, produced using the Wintersday Bell and Pipe Organ in Guild Wars 2, a little bit of pitch editing in Audacity, and an awful lot of time in Adobe Premiere Pro. Whatever it takes! Marflus1 previously…

Bungie Panel at GDC Hints That We Will Hear More About Destiny Soon

We can expect to hear something official, and soon, about the game Bungie is building for Activision, rumored to be a sci-fi epic titled Destiny. GameSpot reported today that the studio is scheduled to give a talk about its new game at Game Developers Conference in late March, which would indicate a more formal reveal…

From the Real-Time Strategy Masters at Petroglyph: A Social Word Game for the iPhone

Founded in 2003 by the last remaining members of Westwood Studios—fathers of the modern-day real-time strategy game (see Dune II)—Petroglyph Games has spent the past decade continuing to build on that proud RTS tradition. Now the developer has taken an unexpected turn towards mobile social games, to Coin a Phrase Coin a Phrase is a…

The Weirdest-Looking Video Game Bosses Of All Time

A memorable boss fight is not just about gameplay or battle themes—slaying zombies can get tedious after a while, no matter how well-made the fight is. Luckily developers never forget to ensure that we encounter the most ridiculous-looking (probably in a good way!) and nonsensical bosses from time to time. We collected a bunch of…

Moved to another country? You can finally port your Xbox Live account to a new region, which wasn’t possible before.

Splinter Cell: Blacklist —out on 08/20—features the game’s female President in a new “Inauguration” trailer

Mouse And Keyboard? Pfft. How About The Possibility Of Team Fortress 2 On Virtual Reality Goggles?

Every year, a game developers conference is held in San Francisco. In GDC 2013, Valve’s Joe Ludwig plans to give a talk about porting Team Fortress 2 to virtual reality goggles in a talk titled “What We Learned Porting Team Fortress 2 to Virtual Reality.” A summary of the talk: Several people at Valve spent…

Real Racing 3 Wouldn’t Be Nearly as Realistic Without Real Race Tracks

Witness Australia’s Firemonkeys as they put more effort into the next installment of mobile’s flagship racing series than most console developers put into their $60 games. Not only are they recreating famous race tracks, they’re imagining new race tracks in real world locations. Firemonkeys and EA have been teasing us with footage of Real Racing…

What EVE Online’s Weird & Wonderful Players Look Like Away From The Computer

You might think, given the game’s abundance of politics and griefing on an intergalactic scale, that the kind of people who play EVE Online are complete psychos. Well, you’re only half right. Ezra Morris and Ben Ritter from Motherboard went to the EVE Fanfest in Iceland last year, and while there, brought a nice camera…

The Scribblenauts Miiverse Board Is Like A Warm Blanket Made Of Good Times and Smiles

We live in divisive times. The public discourse is rife with bickering and malice, and yet there is at least one thing we can all agree on: Scribblenauts is adorable. Today’s Miiverse Moment is a dose of sunshine and cotton candy from the most heartwarming place in the Miiverse: The Scribblenauts Unlimited community. It’s a…

It’s Too Simple To Say Games Are Becoming More Like Movies. There’s More To It, Even With Cutscenes.

Here is a fascinating dissection by Vimeo user Matthias Stork which is seven months old, but recently written up by Indiewire and tweeted by Roger Ebert, so I thought it was worth sharing. It delves into the relationship held between movies and games—which goes further than simply having more cutscenes in games (though this, too,…

Missouri Pol Wants a Sin Tax on Violent Video Games

A Missouri state representative wants a 1 percent sales tax levied on “violent video games” sold in the state, despite the fact similar efforts to tax specific games based on their content failed in other states, including most recently Oklahoma, Missouri’s better-looking cousin. Diane Franklin, of Camdenton, Mo., said the 1 percent tax would finance…

SimCity Social ‘Rock Royalty Part 2’ Quests: Everything You Need to Know

We’ve already brought you a complete look at the first portion in the Rock Royalty event in SimCity Social, which brings music to your town. Now, there are four quests to complete in this second section of the music event, and you’ll need to invest quite a few Simoleons and materials to finish it off.…

President Asks Congress to Fund Study of Violence and Media—Video Games Included

President Obama directed further research be done into the relationship video games may have to violence, part of a series of actions the White House is taking in response to the problem of repeated mass shootings across the country. In a news conference taking place now, the president asked Congress to set aside $10 million…

Beware of Sparkly Foliage and Other Things I Learned While Playing Patterns

Patterns, the latest game from Second Life creators, Linden Lab, is a sandbox-style game that focuses on building structures and exploring in an open world environment. While there is no specific plot, goal, or antagonist (other than physics) to speak of, Patterns does trigger a desire to explore. Almost the entire landscape can be altered…