Help Make A Video Game Magazine Called Sneaky Bastards (With Awesome Dishonored Art)

Aussie writer Daniel Hindes, who for a while has run a niche site called Sneaky Bastards, wants to take the idea of discussing stealth games to a more tangible format. Hence, Sneaky Bastards, the magazine. Promising that the magazine will feature 100% new content (as in, nothing that’s been on the site before), the first…

Microsoft Would Like To Remind Valve That Selling Hardware Is Hard

I said earlier this week that Microsoft and Sony should be worried about Valve’s Steam Box plans, because they appear to have traditional home consoles square in their sights. Well, in an interview with Eurogamer, Microsoft’s Phil Harrison (still feels weird typing that) seems to get awfully defensive, issuing what amounts as a warning to…

Sorry Joker, This Guy Knows EDI Better Than You

Kolby Jukes, formerly of BioWare, is now a Senior Character Artist at 343 Studios, where he got to build the 3D models of Halo 4’s villain, Didact, in excruciating detail. While at BioWare he worked on Mass Effect 2 & 3, building the game models for some of the series’ biggest characters, and before that,…

A Portal Figure So Good You’ll Think It Came From The Dark, Distant Future

3D printers are not machines. They are portals to a realm of dark magic, where you can conjure anything you want, in return for a plastic sacrifice. Take this, for example: this is not an expensive, professional action figure (though you’ll soon be able to get one of those). It’s something made by a human…

Christian Bale Never Starred In A Pokémon Movie, But Damn It, He Should Have

A classic piece of modern cinema. An angry man known better these days for his portrayal of Batman. A deck of Pokémon cards, some better than others. Demi Adejuyigbe has done one hell of a job with this. The Snorlax zoom is especially well done. American Psycho: Unreleased 10th Anniversary Director’s Cut [YouTube, via Go…

We Will Soon Be Able To Play Skyrim & Mirror’s Edge With Virtual Reality Goggles. Goodbye, World.

The Oculus Rift virtual reality headset is shaping up to be a great piece of technology, but that potential greatness has always been tempered by the worry that most games would never support it. Thank the Maker for community-created software, then, because cybereality’s Vireio Perception driver means that games like Mirror’s Edge, Skyrim, Half-Life 2,…

If There Was a Pokémon Game On The Wii U, It Might Look Like This

There’s never been a proper Pokémon game on a home console. For reasons Nintendo have long stuck to. But hey, it’s the internet, let’s imagine that they broke with tradition, and announced a massive new Pokémon adventure for the Wii U. What could it look like? Maybe something like this. Environment artist Evan Liaw (who…

Danny Boyle’s New Movie: Inception Meets The Thomas Crown Affair Meets Rosario Dawson

You know what would make an art-heist flick even cooler? If you combined it with some extreme memory-wiping shenanigans. 28 Days Later and Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle seems to agree, going by this trailer for his upcoming movie Trance This looks quite… chaotic. The story of an art heist gone wrong, ending in amnesia,…

If You Didn’t Make This Choice In The Walking Dead, Clementine Would Make It For You

Many choices are timed in The Walking Dead, and you can always tell. Except for this one decision, and it happens to be the most gut-wrenching choice you have to make near the story’s conclusion. [Major Spoilers Follow!] That’s when you send Clementine off and you have to decide whether or not she kills you.…

Want To Know What It’s Like To Be Mr. House? This New Vegas Mod Will Help.

There are so many casinos in Fallout: New Vegas, and so many factions trying to control the strip. As a player, you might end up taking control of the strip yourself—so why not take that all the way and actually manage a casino? Here is a mod appropriately called Run The Lucky 38 by PaladinRider…

Tell Us Your Favorite Zelda Music

Few video game series have music as iconic as The Legend of Zelda. Over sixteen years and more than a dozen games, Koji Kondo’s memorable themes have been transposed, re-arranged, and re-imagined countless times. Each game in the series has its own musical identity, and each player has his or her own favorite song. What’s…

Ever wonder what it’d be like to be a trombone slide? This video gives some idea.

One Chiptune Greatest Hits Album To Unite Them All

If you’re just casually interested in chip music, it can be tough to track the work of groups like 8 Bit Weapon. First a solo project by Seth Sternberger that added Michelle Sternberger (a.k.a. “ComputeHer“) to the mix, 8-Bit Weapon and ComputeHer have been making chip music for more than ten years. Now, the duo…

How HEALTH Made That Amazing Max Payne 3 Soundtrack

The band HEALTH’s killer Max Payne 3 soundtrack was easily one of the best of last year, and a chunk of the reason Max Payne 3 was among my personal top games of 2012. This video from The Creators Project shows the band talking about the process of scoring the game, focusing on the stadium…

Congratulations, Australia, you finally have your very first Adults-Only video game

From Carl Sagan to Cheech & Chong: The Netflix Board is The Most Diverse Part of the Miiverse

The Miiverse is full of amazing and creative output, but If I had to choose one board that consistently impresses me, it’s the Netflix community. Not only is it full of truly talented people, it’s surprisingly varied in subject matter. Everything on Netflix is fair game, from Large Marge to Jay Sherman. Today’s Miiverse Moment…

I Want To Move Like They Do In Video Games

I have these dreams. Dreams where my body gets out of the way, dreams where I’m not restricted by the natural limitations of bone, sinew and gravity. The dreams are not always the same. Sometimes I glide. Sometimes I float. Sometimes, I fly. And then reality clips my wings, and I’m thrust back down onto…

Proof That The Best Thing In Max Payne 3 Is Messing With The Hilarious, Glitchy Bullet Time

I can’t tell you how many hours I’ve lost in Max Payne 3 doing exactly what YouTube user birgirpall is doing here. Poor Max. There he was, brooding and going on about not saving the girl and what is my butt doing? Trying to do ‘trick shots’ with his body. Can I clear this gap?…

Survey: 75% Of Parents Think Violent Video Games Contribute To Actual Violence

Sure, there have been no scientific studies that connect violent video games to violence, but why let nonsense like science reflect the way you think? In a new survey released by Common Sense Media, a whopping 75% of polled parents say they think violent video games contribute to violence. Just ’cause. 1,050 people were surveyed,…

Tomb Raider‘s Collector’s Edition Controller Comes Pre-Distressed

As we’ve seen in trailers going back to E3, Lara Croft gets the crap beat out of her trying to escape from the bandits’ camp in the Tomb Raider reboot, though to be fair, she gives as good as she gets. That must have been on the mind of whoever came up with this design…