Diablo III Auction House and Battle.net Screenshots

Hands On with the Diablo III Beta

I have defeated Diablo III‘s Skeleton King and, in doing so, also bested the upcoming Blizzard game’s multiplayer beta. Soon, many of us will have the privilege to do so, hacking and slashing our way through an early portion of the next Diablo, over and over again, seeing its randomness and testing its new improvements.…

Rumor: Mirror’s Edge 2 Running On Battlefield 3’s Engine

You know how Battlefield 3 looks absolutely stunning? That’s because it’s on a new engine, Frostbite 2. And if rumours are to be believed, so too is Mirror’s Edge 2 While EA’s Frank Gibeau first hinted at a new ME project back at E3, even coyly playing along with speculation it may be on Battlefield…

Let’s Rock This Pretty Boy Game into Infinity

Sengoku Basara features prettied-up versions of some tough as nails dead dudes. The game is set against Japan’s Warring States period during which Japanese people were beating the shit out of each other. But the game’s aren’t nearly as horrific (or smelly) as the history. So bring on the rock’n’roll soundtrack. The newly released Sengoku…

The World’s Most Famous Street Fighter Player Did Not Win EVO 2011

Just as we saw with the Marvel vs Capcom 3 final, the upsets continued this weekend at fighting game tournament EVO 2011, with Street Fighter “superstar” Daigo Umehara only able to finish fourth at this year’s Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition event. The winner of the weekend’s signature event was Japan’s Fuudo (using Fei…

Meet Your EVO 2011 Champion (In Marvel vs Capcom 3)

As EVO 2011 draws to a close, we’re starting to see our champions crowned in the two major games on show. First up is Marvel vs Capcom 3, with this year’s honours going to Viscant. With one of the tournament heavyweights Justin Wong kept out of the final (he ended up in third place) the…

When Disgustingly Sexual Art & Adventure Games Came Together

Despite having worked on everything from furniture design to rock concert props (and even directing his own films), Swiss artist H.R. Giger is best known for two things: his concept work for Ridley Scott’s Alien, and his overtly sexual paintings. But today, we don’t care about those. Today, we care about the only two video…

How Are You Holding Up?

Because I’m a Potato | A reinterpretation of GlaDOS’s famous line from Portal 2, by flickr user Chris McVeigh. The saying is also on a T-shirt for sale at Qwertee for the next 23 hours. (Photo: Chris McVeigh) Hidden Content Reveals More Cell Phone Pics, PC Aspirations of Catherine Probing discs for console games doesn’t…

Cole Phelps Flies Off the Handle Again, but He Kinda has a Point

As the phone hacking/police corruption/influence peddling scandal is still an open case in the U.K. but seems to have cooled off in the public eye. Time to send L.A. Noire‘s Cole Phelps back to the scene, to investigate something most everyone shrugged off when it happened. That would be the death of Sean Hoare, the…

Insanely Tepid Shipment Plans

It is a thin week for new releases, especially at retail. On shelves, there’s Phineas and Ferb: Across the 2nd Dimension for Wii, 3DS and PS3. On Xbox Live Arcade, Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet arrives Wednesday. Tuesday • Phineas and Ferb: Across the 2nd Dimension (PS3, Wii, DS) — Sure, it’s a kid’s game, and…

If It’s a PC Exclusive with No Multiplayer, You Better Believe Hard Reset‘s Trailer is All About Gameplay

The Polish super-team building the cyberpunk FPS Hard Reset must think it’s 1996 or something. The game is a PC exclusive, has no multiplayer, and although it was announced earlier last month, it’s coming out later this year. That’s how things used to get done around here. Flying Wild Hog dropped that gameplay trailer on…

Geek Mythology

Each week throws off several new video game lists ranging from the humorous to the trivial. What’s better? A list of those. Here’s a roundup of the rundowns out there. •The 10 Geekiest Sidekicks in Video Game History [Walyou] Good ol’ Zero from Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. That guy defined geek. His missions were…

Hidden Content Reveals More Cell Phone Pics, PC Aspirations of Catherine

Probing discs for console games doesn’t usually turn up much, but someone found a ton of extra naughty images of Catherine (such as the three above) and an unused file that hints that Atlus once planned a PC version of the game. The VG-Resource found the content earlier today. Nothing says a PC Catherine is…

Catch MLG Anaheim Live on Pro Gaming’s Biggest Weekend of the Year

Three huge events figure to make this weekend one of the biggest ever in competitive video gaming: the EVO World Championships, the GSL Finals and, underway right now, MLG Anaheim. Reminder: MLG Anaheim’s championship round is underway now. You may see it here. StarCraft 2, Halo: Reach and Call of Duty: Black Ops are the…

Lawsuit Demands Second Life Horses Be Starved to Death

Second Life’s merits as an actual video game may be debatable but its impact on the economy is not. It has, for example, provided a huge boost to the new markets of virtual sex caskets and imaginary pet food. And ridiculous lawsuits, because America has been lagging other first-world nations in that important economic indicator.…

Master Floppy

Cliff Bleszinski’s discovery of his first game (a sequel, no less) on a floppy disc a couple of weeks ago provides the grist for this week’s Photoshop challenge. Your instructions are inside. Once upon a time, games came on discs. Not optical discs like CD or DVD-ROMs, I mean good ole 1.44-megabyte floppies, such as…

Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves

We had to shift the TAY badge to make sure it didn’t obscure Aikage’spunchline. Enjoy your limited edition, badge-in-the-bottom-right-corner TAYpic! I did that without editorial approval. I am rebelling against authority today! But not you! I do not authorize you to rebel against my authori-TAY. You keep it on topic! Which means talk amongst yourselves…

Sunday Comics

Welcome to your Sunday read of the week’s best in web comics. Make sure to click on the expand button in the bottom right to enlarge each comic. You can contact Owen Good, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can also find him on Twitter, Facebook, and lurking around our #tips page. Awkward…

Photobombed Cosplay Winners

Last week we served up 13 of the most exploitable cosplay pics from at Comic-Con 2011 for you to corrupt even further. Many entered, only one will win! Who is it? OK, yeah, it’s that guy above. But see inside for the other 19 finalists! Gofunaki22 (5) kicks things off with a very topical entry.…

Here’s the First Public Look at UFC 3 Gameplay

This is a huge weekend for competitive gaming, especially with the EVO World Championships going on in Las Vegas. At the premier fighting-game event, THQ is showing off early builds of UFC Undisputed 3, due for release early next year. This video features Urijah Faber versus Dominick Cruz, and gives a better look at UFC…