Man Loses Xbox Account To Thief, Confronts Thief On Internet Forum

On Sunday night, Eric Graff put his son to bed. He flipped on his 360 and got ready for a session of Borderlands 2 with some friends. But when he tried to log onto his Xbox Live account, the password wouldn’t work. His account had been hacked. And then Graff did something usually reserved for…

Developer Behind Creepy Alternate-Reality Adventure Games Now Making a Creepy Alternate-Reality Transmedia Game

Many years ago, the creepy alternate-reality adventure game Missing: Since January (called In Memoriam outside of the US) tried to blur the lines between its fiction and our world. In pursuing the trail of the fictional Jack Lorski and Karen Volker, players wind through real-world history and geography, as well as planted websites and stories.…

Gamevil Unsheathes Cartoon Wars: Blade

Where does a warrior go when the Cartoon Wars end? He grabs his sword and sails across the sea to find new stick figures to kill in Cartoon Wars: Blade Available today on iTunes, Blade is another side story in Blue GNC’s epic sketchy war franchise. While Cartoon Wars 1 & 2 were defense games,…

If You Vote For This Game On Steam Greenlight, The Developers Might Add Linux Support. More Votes? Nude Patch.

The developers of Organ Trail, the zombified version of the educational classic Oregon Trail have hatched a new scheme to get their game to the top of the charts on Steam Greenlight. They’ll add more features to the game, if more people vote for it The game developers, knows as The Men Who Wear Many…

Watch Assassin’s Creed III Throw a Boston Tea Party

There are a lot of paintings depicting the Revolutionary War in this new Assassin’s Creed III trailer, which hints that Connor plays a secret yet crucial role in the Boston Tea Party. Yet, I can name none of them. I should have paid attention in art class. Connor only appears briefly in this history lesson…

A Sexy, Soapy iPhone Game That Also Teaches You To Make Drinks

Bartenders get all the good stories. People often go to bars simply to talk—we need a drink sometimes, to get away from it all, and we hope to find a bartender who will listen long enough to let us get it off our chest. The Bar Oasis series has long understood that while it’s fun…

Playing Violent Video Games Actually Makes You Feel Less Pain, Researchers Find

It seems that violent games may indeed desensitize players—but in a way that can actually be helpful. Researchers at Keele University in the UK have found that playing a violent video game can give players a higher real-world tolerance for pain. The study had 40 participants playing both a violent first-person shooter and also a…

Vector is the Beginning of One Intense Facebook Game

Free-running across rooftops while being chased relentlessly by a shadowy unknown enemy is not an experience I expected to find in a Facebook game. I also never expected to shout motherf****** at the top of my lungs at a Facebook game, so there’s that. Created by Nekki, the developer behind Shadow Fight, Vector is a…

This Wacky PS3 Game Is All About Paper Dolphins

This is Derrick the Deathfin, a new action-platformer that is hitting PS3 in a couple of weeks. It looks really interesting, sort of like Ecco the Dolphin meets Paper Mario. And as you can see in the trailer above, it was developed using some unusual techniques. The game will be on PSN October 9 for…

Talk Amongst Yourselves is where you should go to talk about games. And life. And how raspberries are the best berries.

Valve is shrugging off a Korean report that Nexon or NC Soft want to buy them, telling us it’s “just another rumor.”

The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky, one of the PSP’s best RPGs, is getting an HD re-release on PS3 in Japan

The Total War series is getting Steam Workshop support, starting with Shogun 2

The Wikipad’s Controller Will Change Your Mind About Tablet Gaming

Look, folks, tablet makers are going to keep trying to seduce you. Armed with numbers that you don’t necessarily care about—like these stats about the rise in mobile gaming--they’re going to dangle assorted games, controllers and accessories that try to convince you that playing on a phone or tablet can be as fulfilling as doing…

There’s a PlayStation 3 Surprise in the New iOS and Android Netflix Apps

Have you updated the Netflix app on your iPhone, iPad or Android device lately? Try firing it up when your PlayStation 3 is on the Netflix menu, and you’ll discover a nifty new way to control the console version of the streaming video service. As long as the Netflix app on my PlayStation 3 is…

This Aged Right-Wing Japanese Composer Is Betting On The Internet Generation

With tensions rising between Japan and China over ownership of a group of islands (called “Senkaku” in Japan and “Diaoyu” in China), and between Japan and Korea over ownership of a different group of islands (called “Takeshima” in Japan and “Dokdo” in Korea), 81-year-old video game composer, Kouichi Sugiyama (of Dragon Quest fame) recently voiced…

Japan’s Geekiest Cars Run on Nerd Fuel

“Itasha” (痛車) literally mean “painmobile”, but they are Japan’s sticker-covered geek cars. The decals often feature anime, manga or video game characters. “Ita” either refers to the pain inflicted on the wallets of the car owners—or the folks who see the cars. This month, there was the “Ita Fest in Tohoku”. Tohoku, of course, was…

A Japanese woman was arrested for allegedly scamming cosplayers; they sent her money, she apparently sent them nothing.

The PlayStation 2 Still Has One New Game Left To Offer…

The PlayStation 2 has come a long way. Since its initial release in Japan on March 4th back in the year 2000 (October 26th for the west), the successor to the original PlayStation console reigned for years as THE home console to have and continues to sell to this day. But while the console may…

The Latest Earth Defense Force 4 Trailer Looks Pretty Great

One of the best games I played at this year’s Tokyo Game Show was Earth Defense Force 4. I’m eagerly looking forward to the game’s release—from what I played, it seemed really cool! Here’s the latest trailer. And if you missed them, here are my TGS impressions 『地球防衛軍４』1stプロモーションムービー [D3P@YouTube] Kotaku East is your slice of…