Paralyzed From the Neck Down, He Refused to Give Up Video Games

You may not know Alain Poitras’ name. But, if you’ve heard about the quadriplegic gamer who conquered Bronze and Silver challenges in Mass Effect 3, then you’re familiar with two of his biggest accomplishments. Poitras answered some e-mail questions about Mass Effect and what it takes for a person with physical disabilities like his to…

Today’s Cuteness: A Crash Course in Bunny Multiplication

Coming this Thursday to iOS from NotDoppler, Bunny Cannon is a game called Bunny Cannon, which is (perhaps sadly) enough for me to purchase it. Thankfully it looks rather clever as well, for a game that’s ostensibly about lying to young rabbits about sex.

Leaker Shows Off Supposed Skyrim: Dragonborn Screenshots, Details

Skyrim‘s next piece of downloadable content, Dragonborn, is out tomorrow for Xbox 360. Can’t wait til then? One person claiming to be a beta tester has sent some screenshots and alleged details about the new DLC to the website TheOuthousers.com. I’ve asked Bethesda whether or not this stuff is real, and will update if they…

Unlike previous Skyrim DLC, Dragonborn will actually make it to PS3, according to Bethesda. Expect it early next year.

Kickstarter Won’t Bend The Rules For Game That Missed Its Goal By $28

Over the weekend, a Kickstarter for a game called Alpha Colony missed its goal of $50,000 by $28. Twenty-eight dollars! By Kickstarter’s rules, the project should get zero funding, but would they make an exception for a bizarrely unfortunate situation like this? I reached out to Kickstarter this morning to ask. “That’s really, really uncommon,”…

This Week’s Facebook Winners and Losers: The King.com Saga

Now don’t get too excited; Zynga is still on the tops of both the gainers and losers charts this week. CityVille 2 added nearly eight million users this week, but I want to talk about the two positions behind that, populated by a pair of games from King.com. Candy Crush Saga gaining new ground is…

The HD Remake of Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath Comes to the Vita on December 18th

Oddworld Inhabitants’ cult hit has enjoyed a fresh wave of re-appraisal ever since HD remakes for the game popped up recently. There’s been a Vita version in the works, but a previously stated mid-November release date has come and gone. Now dev studio Just Add Water has tweeted that the shinier version of Stranger’s Wrath…

Banned From Making Money, These YouTubers Share Their Stories

Last week, after I reported on Nick Reineke’s ban from YouTube’s AdSense service because of an over-zealous fan, two strange things happened. The first: just a few minutes after the story ran, Reineke sent me an e-mail to say that YouTube had reinstated his AdSense account. They didn’t say a word; he just found that…

Playing Mario With My Wife, Who Hates Mario… Part One

I hit a question block, two Super Acorns appear. Mario turns into a squirrel. To me this feels like the most natural thing in the world. “Urgh,” grunts Heizy, my wife. “Why are these greasy old men always playing dress up? It’s really creepy.” My wife. She doesn’t hate video games. She tends to tolerate…

Dude, Your Wife Wants You To Go To Bed!

Recently a forum post showed up on one of China’s most famous World of WarCraft forums and has been making the rounds online. A young female WoW player posted a rant about how she hates her husband’s WoW addiction. Not only did she post about how angry his addiction made her, she also asked gamers…

Dress as Adam Jensen from Deus Ex in Hitman

Hitman: Absolution lets players don a variety of disguises. And now, one of those outfits is the Deus Ex suit. Because if you want to blend into a crowd, what better way to do that than with a futuristic body suit! The suit not only offers Hitman‘s Agent 47 better protection, and the “Zenith” gun…

Your Homework? Machine Guns.

College is hard! There are all those books to read. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to mix the workload up. Like, with some assault rifles? These images reportedly show a popular class at Nanjing University of Science and Technology in China. The students are studying machine guns and taking them apart to see how they work.…

This Might Be the Last Cosplay You’d Expect from Japan

When you think of Japan and cosplay, you probably imagine ladies dressed in skimpy anime outfits or dudes in Gundam gear. And you’d probably be right! That type of cosplay is prevalent, sure, but it’s not the only game in town—especially with more and more Japanese players totally digging Call of Duty Recently on Japanese…

How Iron Man Inspired One Man To Create His Own Armor

In a small two story 76 square meter loft located 30 minutes from the northern edge of Beijing just outside the fifth ring road, 27-year-old Wang Xiao Kang sits at his work desk looking at blueprints. Towering right over the slightly hunched Wang on a bookshelf as he reads his laptop screen is a 7…

Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII Makes Players Manage Time

Lighting Returns, the upcoming Final Fantasy XIII title, uses a time mechanic. In the game, the world has only 13 days left before it ends. In a recent interview with 4Gamer, game designer Motomu Toriyama went into slightly more detail about the game’s time mechanic. As mentioned above, the time limit in-game is 13 days.…

Cloud and Boy Might Seem Familiar, But It’s Still Great Fun

I don’t get to play a lot of Windows Phone games, mostly because I don’t own a Windows Phone and because there aren’t enough of them to warrant buying a Windows Phone. However, during last month’s game developers conference, I got to play a Windows Phone exclusive game developed by a student team from Taiwan.…

Little Girl Learns about Trolls, Thanks to the 3DS

There are strange people out there! They’re filled with malice and evil thoughts. And some of them even have 3DS handhelds. Considering how neither the 3DS nor StreetPass are exactly new, it’s somewhat odd that Yomiuri Shimbun, one of Japan’s biggest newspapers, would run a story on StreetPass trauma, but it did anyway after one…

Hitler in a Mini-Skirt and Stalin in Hot Pants. Infamous Dictators as Anime Ladies.

Some of the most infamous dictators of the 20th century have now been turned into cute anime characters with not so cute accompanying biographies. The book is Nyotai ka!! Sekai no Dokusaisha Retsuden (にょたいか！！世界の独裁者列伝 or loosely, “In Female Form?! Biographies of World Dictators”), and it features illustrations by various artists, such as Nishieda and Takeshi…

This PS Vita Might Rip Out Your Spine

PS Vita game Soul Sacrifice, which lets you rip out your spine and wield Excalibur, finally has a release date in Japan: March 7. But that’s not all. The game is also getting a special bundle, complete with a special Soul Sacrifice emblazoned Vita. Priced at ¥29,980, the bundle comes with an original Soul Sacrifice…

Crazy Pokémon Fan Breaks Up Sports Game

Sports games are no strangers to fans running on the field. Sometimes those individuals are drunk. Sometimes they’re just naked—or naked and drunk. Rarely, if ever, are they wearing a Pikachu backpack and truly awful jeans. As pointed out by Yahoo and ESPN, a fan with questionable fashion sense raced on the field early in…