A Very ‘Unofficial NRA Game’ Uses Their Own Quotes to Shoot The Gun Lobby’s Logic Full of Holes

When it comes to the increasing scapegoating that says video games cause mass shootings, game-makers haven’t had a whole lot to say in their chosen medium. Most video game companies and their representatives seem to be choosing to stay away from a debate in the court of public opinion, operating maybe on the principle that…

Video Games Have Become Obsessed With Bows And Arrows. But Which Game’s Bow Is Best?

If you’ve been playing big-budget action video games over the last couple of years, you’ve probably noticed a few trends. The graphics have gotten better. The animations have become more lifelike. The explosions have gotten more explosive. And more recently, amid all those improvements, has come a trend that’s even more earth-shattering and important: Video…

Space Jam Goes With Everything. EVERYTHING.

It’s that time of year again—the time of year when someone links me a Space Jam mash-up and I fall into a terrifying black hole of WELCOME TO THE JAM again. I’m dragging you down with me this time, dear reader. I’m so sorry (…wait, no I’m not). This had to happen. Here’s a collection…

Skyrim‘s 1.9 patch, which adds a “Legendary” difficulty and adjusts the level-cap, is now live on Steam. Details here

The BBC Gave Gizmodo a TV Show About Recklessly Testing Gadgets. Watch it Tonight

Our sister site Gizmodo on TV? This seems like a great idea. Better than Deadspin: The Movie or a Kotaku opera, yes? Gizmodo: The Gadget Testers is a real TV show. It’s on BBC America tonight. Give it a look, will you? It’s on after Top Gear tonight at 10:20 ET/PT, 9:20pm Central

The Best John Riccitiello Jokes Twitter Has To Offer

EA’s CEO John Riccitiello has stepped down. And so of course, the fact that he’s got a difficult-to-spell name, combined with the general level of dislike EA has earned in the wake of SimCity‘s disastrous launch, means that jokers the world over have been quick to hop on the joke train and joke it up…

Draw Something 2 was announced today, by… Ryan Seacrest

He Believes Voice Controls Can Actually Work In A Video Game

When I first saw There Came An Echo, the Wil Wheaton-supported Kickstarter project whose creators want $90,000 to make a voice-controlled real-time strategy game, I thought it was kind of absurd. Voice commands? Who wants to use some sort of gimmick to play an RTS? What’s wrong with a mouse and keyboard? So while chatting…

Hackers Find Origin Exploit, Can Get At Your PC [UPDATE]

Ars Technica reports that a vulnerability on Origin, the game platform by EA, has been found. It’s an exploit that allows Origin to become an “attack platform” that can install malware on your computer. Under normal circumstances, the Origin website creates links which allow it to uninstall or launch games, along with other similar tasks.…

Believe It Or Not, There Is Actually More Than One Way To Play A Game

Breaking a habit is no easy thing—even when a game designer does their best to give players options. Take Call of Duty: Black Ops II, for instance. Few things are as seductive to a CoD player as perfecting their kill/death ratio, and little about the game is designed from the ground up to encourage anything…

Remember Me‘s creative director talks about the game’s female protagonist, who caused some publishers to lose interest

Cart Life, the the stark yet moving business simulator nominated for an IGF, is now available on Steam.

EA CEO John Riccitiello Steps Down

John Riccitiello, CEO of game publisher Electronic Arts, is stepping down from his position. Former EA CEO and board chairman Larry Probst will take over while the board searches for a new replacement, EA said. Riccitiello, who was first hired as CEO of the massive publisher in 2007, has faced criticism from investors and fans…

Your Complete Guide To The SimCity Disaster

Misinformation. Server errors. Fan backlash. Since EA launched SimCity two weeks ago, the online city-builder has been nothing short of a catastrophe for everyone involved. Much has changed since the game’s rocky launch on March 5. Things have gotten better. But all still isn’t well, even as EA takes its latest step to make amends…

BREAKING: Girls Play Video Games, Local News Discovers

Girls? Playing VIDEO games? YOU’D BETTER BELIEVE IT. With the type of breathless astonishment usually reserved for miracles and alien sightings, local news channels across the country decided to report on the Major League Gaming tournaments in Dallas last weekend with the best angle possible: HOLY SHIT DID YOU KNOW THAT GIRLS PLAY VIDEO GAMES…

She’s Sexy. Now Kill Her?

I like God of War: Ascension. It’s a violent video game. I’ve got nothing against that. I like a lot of violent video games. I “get” where a lot of in-game violence comes from: games need to feel interactive; letting me control one character and eliminate another from the screen is still the most easily-comprehended—and…

EA reports that SimCity has sold more than 1.1 million copies since its launch two weeks ago.

A Hilarious Dramatic Reading Of Bioshock Infinite‘s YouTube Comments

The next title from Ken Levine and Irrational Games finally comes out next week. But the hype cycle for the next BioShock game has been spinning for a long while and people have been spouting out opinions every since the very first glimpse of BioShock Infinite. This video animates a bunch of vulgar, misinformed and…

Hooray, Tomb Raider‘s PC Version Is Now Way Less Crash-tastic

Tomb Raider‘s PC version is generally strong, offering a better-looking, higher resolution, smoother tomb-raiding experience than its console counterpart. That said, if you’re using an Nvidia graphics card, the game could be pretty unstable, though that instability is usually fixed by turning tessellation off. Good news: A beta driver released by Nvidia on Friday clears…

This Minecraft Trailer Has Convinced Me. Assassin’s Creed Needs More Gladiator In It.

YouTuber/animator avemagnadude mashed together a few concepts from Assassin’s Creed III trailers, but there’s a distinct Gladiator feel here, too. Did you pick up on it? Those references, combined with dramatic, slow-motion throws of Connor’s tomahawk and a fantastic track (I need to have that track) make me want to see a Gladiator-styled Assassin’s Creed…