A Gentleman’s Reading Collection Should Always Begin With Duke Nukem

That up there isn’t some joke image someone tossed up on Tumblr. It’s a real photo, taken from the Library of Congress’ video game collection, and it features vintage strategy guides, rebound and preserved for the ages. The image was taken from a recent in-house interview held on the Library’s site, which goes into detail…

You Can Now Play Windows’ Famous Solitaire Anywhere. The Train. The Bathroom. Wherever.

And you don’t even need a Windows tablet, phone or laptop to do it. Designer Evan Roth has made this deck of cards called Solitaire.exe, which recreate the famous Windows 98 deck of cards for use in the real world. The cards should recreate everything short of the chaotic victory screen, but then, you can…

It’s a Dark, Lonely Frontier In Assassin’s Creed III

William Wu is a concept artist, formerly of Ubisoft, who spent two years of his life drawing fantastic images of colonial America for the just-released Assassin’s Creed III Prior to his work at Ubisoft, Wu was employed at Intel, where he was involved in the ill-fated Project Offset. If you like what you see, you…

But What Does a Stripper Think About Hitman’s Stripper Nuns?

Hitman: Absolution’s “Saints”, a troupe of stripper nuns, aren’t actually in the game for long, but they’ll forever live in infamy for their appearance in a rather silly pre-release trailer for the game But hey, who were gamers to criticise the clip, when so few of us were actually strippers! For all we know, it…

You Might Get Grand Theft Auto V On PC (And Wii U)

Grand Theft Auto IV was released on PC, but when Grand Theft Auto V was announced, a personal computer version was nowhere to be seen. It’s still nowhere to be seen, but Rockstar is at least talking about it, Dan Houser telling IGN that “Everything else is up for consideration. That’s all I can give…

Nintendo Says Yesterday’s Miiverse “Hack” Was a “Mock Up”

Yesterday, a user on NeoGAF had a weird experience when he was able to access what looked like a debug menu for Nintendo’s new Miiverse service. Completely by accident. As he poked around and found he couldn’t do much of anything, theories arose that he’d simply accessed a dummy or shell menu, which have been…

Microsoft’s New Xbox Game Charges By The Hour

Microsoft very quietly announced a new Xbox Live Arcade game today called Karaoke. On the surface, it sounds rather harmless; partnering with The Karaoke Channel, it lets users stream around 8000 songs from a central library, and you can use SmartGlass to queue up tracks and save a favourites list. The weirdness comes in when…

The Wii U Isn’t Sold Out. Here Are Some Retailers Still Selling Them.

The pre-release hype from outlets like GameStop led most people to believe that the Wii U was a launch-day sellout. And hey, for some retailers, it probably was. But that doesn’t mean the new console is sold out At time of posting, late on Monday night, there are nationwide retailers in the United States with…

Crazy Man Plays Call of Duty For 122 Hours Straight*

Okan Kaya, an Australian sales manager from Sydney, has set a new world record for the longest consecutive gaming session, racking up 122 hours playing the recently-released Black Ops II It’s a feat with a disclaimer, though: as Wired reports, he didn’t really play for 122 hours in a row. Because the human body would,…

What Skyrim Looks Like When You’re Running 100 Mods At Once

My copy of Skyrim would usually fall over once I started running more than, say, 8-10 mods at once. So I’ve got no idea how modder Unreal has managed to get around 100 mods running at once. I’m just going to assume sorcery His site catalogues the adventures his rig is taking running that much…

Holiday Gift Guide: What Awesome Gift Can You Get For $0-$25?

Just because the holidays are coming up doesn’t necessarily mean you have to get crazy gifts for everyone. What if you want a quality gift for a non-terrorizing price? Downloadable games, accessories, art prints? We’re open to ideas. Throw them down below, where our editors will be suggesting gift items in this price range as…

560 People Are Playing Black Ops II Online on the Wii U Right Now

Call of Duty: Black Ops II is now out on the Wii U. It’s just not being played online that much. Too many people still at work or in school? Console too new? People drawn to other Wii U games? Everyone distracted by the surprisingly terrific Miiverse? It’s early days, so these stats will be…

Nintendo’s Miiverse Isn’t Xbox Live. It Might Be Something Better.

Nintendo’s brand new online social network Miiverse has had its ups and downs since it went live on Saturday night. And by that I mean it’s actually been up and down, online and offline, since then. When Miiverse is down it’s still just about as good as Nintendo’s previous online efforts for its consoles. When…

If you have Xbox Live Gold and a cable provider that offers WatchESPN, you can now watch Monday Night Football on Xbox.

Final Fantasy XIV Will Get Marriage, But Not Gay Marriage (At Least For Now)

When Final Fantasy XIV relaunches as Final Fantasy XIV: Let’s Pretend This Game Didn’t Happen A Realm Reborn in the near future, the people behind it plan to add a whole bunch of new features. One of those features, to be added in a future patch, is marriage. The traditional version, with men and women…

Return To New Vegas: Social Experiments Bring Out The Worst In People

One of the most fascinating things about the Fallout franchise is the history of the vaults. Before United States was destroyed via atomic bombs, the government ordered the Vault-Tec corporation to build a number of underground safehouses. To the public, these vaults were supposed to help ensure the survival of the American populace after nuclear…

Burger King’s Gingerbread Cookie Shake: The Angry Snacktaku Non-Review

One of my favorite flavors in the entire world is the warm and spicy snap of gingerbread. The taste instantly transports me back to my childhood, to the warm glow of Christmas lights, the scent of pine and the safe feeling of being surrounded by people that love me. People unlike the folks working at…

Don’t unplug your Wii U while downloading system updates, Nintendo says

Free Wii U With $5,000 Box of Twinkies? Now There’s a Bargain.

Why spend a ridiculous amount of cash on one thing that’s not as scarce as people think it is when you can get two in one stupid eBay auction? Sent to us by reader Chris, this timely twofer combines the joy of milking a potential Christmas Wii U shortage with the chance that Hostess will…

Activision Suddenly Pulls Nuketown 2025 Map from Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Multiplayer

Earlier this month, Activision announced that it would let people who pre-ordered the publisher’s latest FPS mega-hit play on a re-imagined version of the popular Nuketown multiplayer map. That part of the promotion turned out to be true. But that access to the special battleground appears to have been suddenly revoked. The sudden bad news…