Oh, It’s Just Gabe Newell Wearing a Horse Mask

Gabe Newell, the beloved chief of Valve, has proven many times that he is really kind to fans. So it did not take a long for him to agree to pose for a very special photo this week after giving a talk at the University of Texas at Austin’s LBJ School of Public Affairs. This…

Watch this insanely perfect speedrun of Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3 done in under 4 minutes.

Square Enix Just Turned Hideo Kojima into a Raiden Toy

Besides making video games, Square Enix also has a line of collectible “Play Arts” figurines. Upcoming Metal Gear Rising is getting a Play Arts version of protagonist Raiden in his black armour. And to mark the game’s release, Square Enix sent Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima a custom version. With his face on it. After…

Capture the Flag While Riding Dirt Bikes In Battlefield 3’s End Game

Straight from DICE’s workshop, here’s Battlefield 3’s freshest DLC, End Game. BF3’s fifth expansion sees the return of two classic game modes—Capture the Flag and Air Superiority—and also introduces the dirt bike for some high-speed bazooka-wielding truck-shooting action. Check out the trailer above for a glimpse into some of the new Capture the Flag gameplay.…

Madden NFL 14 will release Aug. 27, and it sounds like more details are coming on Super Bowl weekend.

My Perfect World is Populated By Pixel People

A game designer is a combination of a programmer and an artist. A preacher is a philosopher and a dreamer combined. Meld a magician and a scientist and you have a wizard. This is how the world works in LambdaMu Games’ Pixel People—simple, elegant and endlessly entertaining. The planet Earth is gone, the sole remaining…

THQ Was Its Own Worst Enemy, Former Chief Says

On one hand Jason Rubin, the final president of now-defunct THQ, isn’t making excuses for the publisher’s failure. Asked by MCV if the industry pains squeezing out mid-tier publishers are what sank the company, Rubin said no, THQ created a lot of its own problems. “THQ had every chance to survive had it not made…

Once fastest-growing mobile game Angry Birds Space saw 50 million downloads in 35 days. It took Temple Run 2 two weeks.

Grand Theft Auto V Delayed, Out September 17

Grand Theft Auto V is coming this fall, developer Rockstar Games announced today. The fifth installment in the popular open-world action series has been delayed from its initial spring release and will now be out on September 17 for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Here’s Rockstar: Dear all Today, we have an official release date…

You’ll Never Guess What I Drew in Doodle Roulette

Baby Gaga’s Doodle Roulette is a Facebook drawing game that features a nifty way to let all of your friends play without even having to load the app. Your drawings are posted directly to your Facebook wall, inviting friends to guess what you drew in the comments. So far my Facebook friends could not give…

New PS3 Bundle Has Red Console, Every God Of War Game

A red version of the new slimline PS3, first revealed in Japan earlier this month, will be coming to the US as part of a God of War: Ascension bundle. Due out on march 12, it’s got a 500GB HDD and every God of War game, from Ascension all the way back to the HD…

A Hot JRPG Sets the 3DS on Fire In This Week’s Nintendo Download

Fire Emblem: Awakening seems like one of those games that’s been on the horizon and out of reach forever. But it’s finally out for the 3DS next week, promising a funny take on fantasy & strategy tropes. Aside from that bit of portable JRPG goodness, this week’s downloadable offerings include fluid physics puzzler Puddle, RPG/platformer…

Suggestion: Play Leap Day Today When You Should Be Working or Studying

Right now, instead of reading this, you could be playing Leap Day. If you have the Unity plug-in in your browser and your teacher/professor/boss isn’t looking, go do it. Or at least load this up (and then scroll to the amazingness lurking in the upper right of your screen. What you’ll see there is a…

The Most Obvious Thing Anyone Can Say About EA Needs To Be Said Anyway.

“[EA]’s ‘Fewer, Bigger, Better’ strategy for its key packaged goods releases will not work if the games are, in fact, not ‘Better.'” -Analyst Michael Pachter lamenting the oddly low quality and poor sales of Medal of Honor: Warfighter and praising the delay of Fuse. (“Packaged goods” are games sold in stores, not the ever-growing number…

This Week’s Windows Phone Charts: Begone, Where’s My Water?

Last week Disney’s duo of dirt-digging water puzzle games, Where’s My Water? and Where’s My Perry? stormed the Windows Phone charts, taking the two top spots and displacing Rovio’s ever-present Angry Birds. This week? They’ve been disappeared. Not disappeared so much as shunted so far down the charts they’re no longer a threat. Where’s My…

The Full Metal Gear Rising Will Probably Feel Quite Different From The Demos

Metal Gear Rising Revengeance will be hitting stores in less than 3 weeks and anticipations are high. In this week’s Weekly Famitsu, Platinum Games producer Atsushi Inaba and director Kenji Saitou, along with Konami’s Kojima Production producer Yuuji Korekado and scenario writer Etsu Tamari sat down to talk about their upcoming Metal Gear. Metal Gear…

Here’s a new trailer for BioShock Infinite. The game’s release is 54 days away.

Thank China for Mona Lisa’s New Hair Style

The Mona Lisa might be a masterpiece, but that hairdo is so dated! That’s perhaps why a Chinese net user decided to give Lisa del Giocondo the hair style of a Chinese college student. Online in China, commenters were impressed with the new ‘do. “Woah, she’s so beautiful!” wrote one commenter, while in neighboring Japan,…

Five More Japanese Games Are Coming To America, Thanks To Xseed

In a monster press release this morning, publisher Xseed Games announced that it’s bringing five new Japanese games to the U.S. this year: Killer Is Dead (pictured above), Rune Factory 4, Valhalla Knights 3, Ys Celceta, and Ys I & II Chronicles (for Steam). That’s one multi-platform game, one 3DS game, two Vita games, and…

Why Monster Hunter Is So Popular In Japan (And Struggles Everywhere Else)

The Monster Hunter series wasn’t always the “monster” (heh heh) hit it is currently. Originally released for the PS2, the first game, Monster Hunter, and its sequel, Monster Hunter G, sold less than a million copies each. It wasn’t until the game went hand-held to the PSP with Monster Hunter Portable (Monster Hunter Freedom in…