Liberty City is One Million Times Larger Than a PS3, and Other Great Mysteries of the Universe

NASA scientist Rich Terrile has a neat way of explaining stuff that you or I should, by all rights, not be able to understand at all: he uses Grand Theft Auto IV as a means of explaining how we might all be living our lives in a giant galactic simulation. Speaking with Vice, Terrile details…

The Accidentally Sexy Nintendo 3DS Commercial

With some clever casting and selective image capturing/gif-making on the part of nerds, Osaka-based reporter and model Aya Shibata recently became a uniquely Japanese sex symbol for Nintendo Now, it seems Western fans are doing much the same for Glee actress Dianna Agron, after she appeared in this seemingly innocuous commercial for Art Academy on…

This iOS app is like your favourite game’s “fog of war”, only in the real world

Check Out All These Sweet Hobbit Statues, Toys & Props

Special effects giants WETA weren’t just involved in the making of The Hobbit, their merchandising arm is responsible for selling all kinds of awesome Hobbit gear as well, much of which they took the wraps off for the first time today. Meaning we’ve got our first look at a range of 1/6 figures, authentic prop…

A More “Human” Yoda is Creepy. So, So Creepy.

Sculptor Andrea Eusebi is the target for your applause here with this stunning recreation – and reinterpretation – of Jedi Master Yoda. Built almost entirely from modelling clay, there’s a certain poignancy about the whole thing, because with a more human face he starts to look a lot like Mel Brooks. Who played the Yoda…

Boardwalk Empire Meets Sesame Street, And Feathers Fly

I’m still a bit mixed on Boardwalk Empire—I’m not as much of a fan as Luke is, though I’m still watching. But damned if I wouldn’t watch every episode of Birdwalk Empire as proposed HILARIOUSLY in this Sesame Street video. I don’t even know where to begin with this. Nucky Ducky Thompson? Mallard Capone? What…

Um, What’s This Secret Star Wars Game on Xbox Live Arcade?

For whatever reason, web designers Gifted Apollo went trawling on Xbox.com, and scooped up the image files for pretty much every Xbox Live Arcade game on the server. Even the ones that aren’t out yet and which we know nothing about. Like Star Wars: First Assault With no announcement or official word from Lucasarts on…

The Shocking Truth Revealed: There Are No Humans In Skyrim

Do you ever get the feeling you’re the only real human in Skyrim? Of course you do. Because you are. All those other humans (and humanoid bipeds!) aren’t really humans at all. They’re clockwork people, driven not by AI, but by tiny cats. It’s a shocking truth, but one uncovered in this mod by FancyPants,…

Don’t Waste Your Dollar On This Half-Baked iPhone Slender Ripoff

Ever since the breakout success of the stripped-down horror game Slender: The Eight Pages, we’ve been seeing Slenderman-related stuff cropping up in every corner of the internet. So I wasn’t that surprised to fire up the app store today only to see a game called “Slenderman” in the #2 spot of the top 10 paid…

It’s A Drinking Game! It’s A Tabletop RPG! It’s… Drinking Quest!

If you’d like to get with your RPG-loving friends and spend some time getting a little bit sauced, you could certainly do worse than either Drinking Quest or its sequel, Drinking Quest 2: Yeddie Vedder’s Yeti Adventure The game is designed as a light (very light) card-based role-playing game with a few rules built around…

Buy One Of Five 3DS Games Online And You Get A Free Copy Of Donkey Kong: Original Edition

Here’s the official video announcement for a new promotion Nintendo is running this fall Buy Art Academy: Lessons for Everyone!, Paper Mario: Sticker Star, Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask, Style Savvy: Trendsetters, or Crosswords Plus on Nintendo’s eShop by January 6 and you’ll get a copy of Donkey Kong: Original Edition, a special version…

Just When You Thought Snuggle Truck Couldn’t Get Any Cuddlier, Enter Brony Mode

Owlchemy Labs’ game about transporting cute animals but secretly about smuggling illegal immigrants is now overtly about My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Cautious driving brohoof! Packed inside Steam copies of Smuggle Truck and available as an in-game purchase in the free iOS version, Brony Mode transforms the cuddly animals of Apple acceptance necessity into…

Morrowind Just Got Even Prettier With This New Graphical Overhaul

I may have spent an ungodly number of hours wandering around Skyrim, but I still miss Morrowind, the setting of the third game in Bethesda’s Elder Scrolls series. The swamp-covered, volcano-tormented realm of the dark elves just had so much character; it was an endlessly interesting place to go questing. (The soundtrack really was the…

The New Mech In Halo 4 Can Teabag The Opposition. Of Course.

Meet the Mantis, a new a vehicle/mech in Halo 4. Your best Spartan soldier can get in it, step on enemies and, when he or she has them down, commence with the teabagging (you know, the, uh, victory crouches). It’s all in the official trailer. This is Microsoft knowing its Halo audience. HALO 4: MANTIS…

Vote For This Game On Steam Or Its Publisher Won’t Give Money To Homeless Kittens

Game publishers and developers have spent a great deal of time dreaming up bizarre ways to get people to vote for their games on Steam’s crowdsourcing Greenlight program, but this might be the grossest. In a bizarre, misguided attempt to get people to vote for their game Edge of Space, publisher Reverb Publishing is promising…

Watch Mitt Romney Kick The Crap Out Of Rick Santorum And Herman Cain, Mortal Kombat-Style

It’s that time of year again, here in the United States: the presidential election, and the seemingly interminable campaign for it, are everywhere. Of course, even though the election isn’t until November, when you look back to the primary season, the campaign began well into last year. And Slate has taken to a video game…

Crysis 3‘s New “Hunter” Multiplayer Mode Looks Unbalanced, Fun

Fresh from the Eurogamer Expo comes this new demo of Crysis 3‘s “Hunter Mode,” which pits two nanosuit-enhanced players against a team of lowly soldiers with no stealth abilities or super-armor. Or chance. It doesn’t exactly look balanced, but it does look like a lot of fun. (via VG24/7)

Nutella: The Snacktaku Review

My first taste of Ferrero’s famous chocolate hazelnut spread came in the spring of 1991 in a dorm room at the predominantly female Agnes Scott College in Atlanta, Georgia. Her name was Deirdra. She was long and lithe and graceful, with hair like autumn leaves dancing in the wind. She was impish and sweet and…

The Dorkly Weekly: Quitting Smoking the Mortal Kombat Way

When you’ve been smoking as long as Mortal Kombat‘s resident grey ninja has been smoking, there’s really only one way to kick the habit. As a filthy smoker and professional martial artist, this would be one of those videos that haunts me to my dying day. Fortunately I am not a professional martial artist, so…

The Snacktaku Slider: Bacon, Egg and Cheese McGriddle

Welcome to Snacktaku Sliders, where I compare the magical works of art crafted by supremely talented, highly paid food photographers to the slightly less magical creations of the underpaid staff at the fine-ish franchise eateries America has to offer. First up, the bacon, egg and cheese McGriddle from McDonald’s. I picked the McGriddle for the…