This Legend of Zelda Vocal Arrangement Gave Me Chills

I’m sure it has something to do with the fact that lately, “Fi’s Theme” from Skyward Sword has sort of become my favorite piece of Zelda music. So, I very much enjoyed this vocal performance from Laura Shigihara. Shigihara is perhaps best known as the composer of the music for Plants vs. Zombies, though she’s…

Report: The Next PlayStation Will Stream PS3 Games

Ever since Sony purchased streaming games company Gakai last year, it’s been speculated that they were planning to have the next PlayStation stream games. Today, the Wall Street Journal reports that is indeed the case, and that the new console will stream PlayStation 3 games. Citing “people familiar with the company’s plans,” the WSJ elaborates:…

New PS4 Controller Image Raises More Questions About What’s Actually In The Controller

Yesterday, we posted this photo of a prototype controller for the next PlayStation. The image turned up online, and an industry source familiar with the system told us the photo was indeed a prototype controller for the PS4, code-named Orbis. Today, a forum poster at Gametrailers has shared a better-quality photo of what looks like…

You Play As The Niece Of Mega-Man Co-Creator Keiji Inafune In This Ridiculous Game

Hot off the heels of Zero Escape: Virtue’s Last Reward, my favorite game of 2012, niche publisher Aksys has just announced Sweet Fuse: At Your Side, another Japanese visual novel. Here’s a brief description for the upcoming PSP game, which Aksys will release this summer: Saki Inafune, niece to legendary game developer Keiji Inafune, can’t…

What’s This? A Non-Nintendo Game Creator Raves About The Wii U.

I thought I was on another planet on Wednesday when I saw Alex Ward for the first time in five years. This was Criterion’s Alex Ward, the developer of a game studio that pushes gaming hardware to the brink and that hasn’t made a game for Nintendo in 10 years. He was saying nothing but…

There’s Lots of Love in This Week in Gaming Apps

During this most romantic/depressing week of the year, let us not forget the gaming apps, whose portability and charm keep us playing whether we be curled up on the corner sobbing or curled up naked on a bed of roses, waiting for your significant other to get home. Now that I have children in the…

Oh, So THAT’S How Magikarp Became The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Um, I Mean Sinnoh.

Magikarp may be useless, but that doesn’t mean the poor Pokémon-fish can’t be funny. Look no further than the great Magikarp web comics below, which chronicle Magikarp’s misadventures—this one in particular riffs off of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Click for full size. Pretty great, right? The creator—mysterious “Chris S.”—has a whole Tumblr full of…

The Most Insane Minecart Levels In Video Games

There was a time when mines and minecarts dominated video games. If a platformer or RPG didn’t have a mine stage or a mine-themed dungeon, it wasn’t a game. We felt like mines—where actual mining was eschewed in favor of racing around on minecarts—were the most natural things in the world, just as common as…

Kinect + Department Store Mannequins = Horrible Waking Nightmare

Microsoft exec Larry “Major Nelson” tweeted out this melding of Kinect and commerce earlier today. Nelson is likely proud of the execution here, since it shows the flexibility of the company’s motion-sensing camera in a non-gaming setting. But me? All I can think of is how utterly disturbing it would be if a mannequin in…

Here’s How You’ll Build Your Own Superhero In The Crazy-Ambitious Project Awakened

Pretty much everyone wants to play as a super powerful badass, roaming the city, saving lives and causing mayhem. But not everyone wants to do it the same way. Do you want to be a Nightcrawler-like teleporter? Or a Magneto-like manipulator? Or maybe you just want to suit up like The Punisher and blow people…

Another Excuse To Boot Up Skyrim: So You Can Kiss Everyone

Forget about compulsively collecting every useless bauble, or heck, even normal adventuring in Skyrim. That’s not worth going back for. This is. Check out this strange but hilarious mod by rsv_rsv. It gives you the ability to kiss everyone in Skyrim. Well, almost everyone. You can’t kiss creatures, mannequins or corpses—which is bullshit, because I…

You Have to Kick These Cats. It Keeps Them From Exploding.

If you’re going to make a game about juggling cats in the air using your head and feet, you better have a damn good reason for the simulated animal cruelty. I’d say the threat of feline impact craters fits the bill. This is Hackycat, a game by artist-illustrator Ken Wong, also known as the art…

Ten Modern JRPGs Worth Playing

Let’s make something clear. Japanese RPGs are not dead. They have never been dead. They will not be dead any time soon. I’ve written about this subject before, but every day it seems like there’s a new screed, a new attention-grabbing editorial or essay. “Are JRPGs Obsolete?” “Do JRPGs No Longer Matter?” “Has The Age…

VGLeaks has what it says are early screens of a purported Gears of War strategy game. Delta Squad looks so… small.

EA And Zynga Are Done Suing Each Other Over A Facebook Game

EA and Zynga have been tied up in mutual lawsuits over their Facebook games The Sims Social and The Ville since last year, but All Things Digital is reporting that today both cases were dismissed in California court. The companies issued the statement that “EA and Zynga have resolved their respective claims and have reached…

NeoGAF has pulled together some leaked pre-order materials for Bungie’s next game, Destiny

Video Game Plates So Gorgeous You’ll Pause Before Dropping Your Filthy Food On Them

Wait! Before you go reaching for your wallets, you should know that the 8-bit styled dinnerware pictured above doesn’t actually exist. The images come from superstar graphic designer Olly Moss‘ Tumblr and are the result of some noodling around while he had time on his hands. Moss says that the dishes riff on the famous…

If You Run a Warehouse, You Don’t Need To Turn Work Into a Game. Really.

Recently, people wanted to gamify things. That’s “game-i-fy,” as in “turn stuff into games,” which more or less meant “add points to stuff we don’t like to do to make those things more fun.” One of the patron saints of this stuff was supposed to be Jesse Schell, a game designer and teacher who described…

It’s Too Bad Epic Games Considers Female Protagonists Tough To Justify In Gears of War [UPDATE]

Because seriously, how badass would a female protagonist be? Recently, OXM published excerpts of an upcoming interview with Epic Game’s Chris Perna where they talked about Gears of War: Judgement and female characters in the Gears universe. It got me thinking. When Gears of War 3 debuted playable female characters, I realized first-hand just how…

ChefVille ‘Last Ditch Convection’ Quests: Everything You Need to Know

We’ve reached the halfway point in Colby’s Convection Oven event in ChefVille, and it’s time to unlock more Valentine’s Day dishes before it’s too late. Colby has brought three new quests to the game in a “Last Ditch Convection” series, and we’re here with a guide to helping you finish them off (thanks to Zynga)…