I’m A Mormon. Pop Culture Often Mocks My Faith, But Fallout Treated It Right

I’m a 31-year-old, fifth-generation Mormon (member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) from Salt Lake City, Utah and I love video games. I’ve been playing since my parents brought home the original NES with Track & Field, Duck Hunt, and The Legend of Zelda. Unlike most of my friends I never “grew…

Whoa, That’s Definitely A Pterodactyl In Battlefield 3

First we found a futuristic easter egg in Battlefield 3‘s End Game DLC. Now we have something a bit more…prehistoric. That’s definitely a pterodactyl, right? I think we all know what this means: prehistoric Battlefield is an inevitability. No but seriously though, nice find on the Nebandan Flats, scannerbarkly. Kind of wondering if you can…

EA Sports May Add “A Couple of New Sports Franchises,” But Don’t Get Your Hopes Up for MVP Baseball [UPDATE]

A top Electronic Arts executive, speaking at an investor conference, hinted that EA Sports could add “a couple of new sports franchises,” in the coming year, and reaffirmed the label’s commitment to publishing NBA Live, which it canceled for a second time at the end of last year. In remarks reported by Polygon, Blake Jorgensen,…

Lost Planet 3 Now Scheduled to Cool Things Off on June 25th

Originally pegged as an early 2013 release, publisher Capcom has announced that Lost Planet 3 won’t be coming out until June. Specifically, it’ll be available for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC on June 25 in North America and on June 28 in Europe. The newest trailer shows lead character Jim Peyton landing on the…

Don’t Ever Leave Me Again, Mini Ninjas

I contend that one of Square Enix’s finest acquisitions in 2009’s take-over of Eidos Interactive was the six miniature trained killers of 2009’s action-adventure, Mini Ninjas. Soon they will be an animated series, but for now they’re an endless runner, and I’ve missed them so much. I didn’t play the Kinect-powered Mini Ninjas Adventures last…

EA Exec Accuses Video Game Website Of Making Up Dead Space Cancellation Story [UPDATE]

One of EA’s top executives says the website VideoGamer fabricated news yesterday when they reported that Dead Space 4 was no more. The VideoGamer report, which cited an anonymous source, said that “EA has ceased development on Dead Space 4 and effectively axed the series following lower than anticipated sales of Dead Space 3.” According…

Sega’s announced that Company of Heroes 2 will be out on June 25th. Watching enemies freeze to death will have to wait.

Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag Is Supposed to Combine The Best of Five Other Assassin’s Creeds

The new pirate-themed Assasin’s Creed will unite the best traits of Assassin’s Creed, Assassin’s Creed II, Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, Assassin’s Creed: Revelations and Assassin’s Creed III, the game’s associate producer, Sylvain Trottier recently told me. How? Trottier talked me through what the Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag development team believes are the best features of…

Minecraft Looking at PlayStation—When Its Exclusive Deal With the 360 Ends

Minecraft on the Xbox 360 is no joke. In October, it briefly dethroned Call of Duty as the Xbox 360’s most-played game, and is still a solid No. 2 five months later. So its viability as a console title isn’t in question. Mojang is considering a PlayStation version, said Jens Bergstein, the lead designer of…

Inxile’s Kickstarter for their spiritual successor to Planescape: Torment is live now and already rolling in the dough.

Tips for Playing SimCity

The latest iteration of the world’s oldest and most-beloved city building game has arrived, incorporating strong social elements and cutting-edge technology to drag the franchise kicking-and-screaming into the modern age. I hear some people can actually play it. If you’re not one of the lucky ones that dodged the download, install and server woes of…

This Huge Final Fantasy Airship Case Mod Really Explores the Space

Building this replica of a Final Fantasy airship woudn’t be an easy task, even if it wasn’t meant to be a PC case mod. What do you do with all of that space? Well, Richard “8-Bit Builder” Clinton somehow found room for two GTX 660 graphics cards inside and even play around with the case…

The Awesome Giant Monsters of Japanese Video Games

Godzilla and his atomic breath are one of the most recognizable metaphors for the atomic bombings of WWII—and they’re also icons of Japanese pop culture. With a steady supply of Kaiju movies, giant monsters nestled themselves comfortably in video games, creating a huge library of monster mayhem-based titles. We have selected some of them, both…

This is like Paperboy, but better (and with magnets!) [via IT Media]

This New Zeno Clash II Gameplay Trailer is Crazy Awesome

Let’s admit, the first Zeno Clash was fairly bonkers—but, by the looks of things, the sequel raises the bar on the insanity quite a bit. You get to suplex hairy dudes, punch bird people, and talk to some guy with a palette for a mouth. Just like in other first person beat-em-ups! But seriously, go…

On a PC? Got an Nvidia card? Can’t play Tomb Raider on the highest settings? They’re working on a fix

Rumor: Sony Aiming for 16 Million PlayStation 4 Consoles for This Year

According to Taiwan’s Digitimes, sources at the PS4’s component makers are saying the plan is to begin shipping the PS4 this August, so it can arrive in stores by the end of the year. Foxconn and Pegatron Technology will apparently assemble the console for Sony, and the goal is to have an annual shipment of…

Meet Some of Japan’s Stupidest Twitter Users

Twitter sure is fun. It’s a great way to get information and communicate with others. It’s also a platform for people to be really, really stupid. Sometimes people forget that their tweets aren’t being broadcast to just their friends, but the whole world. Japan isn’t unique in having stupid folks online. Wherever there are people…

Japanese Site Compares Ridiculous Video Game Breasts to Real Breasts

Instead of just complaining about how ridiculous the digital breasts are in Vita hit game Senran Kagura Shinovi Versus, Japanese site Rocket News decided to compare them to real breasts. Eh… This post contains content some readers might find inappropriate. That’s 21 year-old pin-up model Erina Kamiya, who appears in the video in various states…

An easter egg in Battlefield 3’s new End Game DLC seems to be hinting at a possible future-based sequel. [via Examiner]