Modding communities are odd. Some dogpile on a game, try to build Rome in a day, get discouraged/bored, and leave. Others stick with the same game for years, feeding it a steady diet of tweaks and changes, eventually transforming it into something entirely different. Fallout: New Vegas is the latter. Here’s SkyttsTV running through ten…
Steam is changing all the time—even if it feels like it’s improving in Valve Time, not regular people time. That means key features can, occasionally, slip through the cracks. Here are a couple recent additions with big potential. First up, the feature with the biggest long-term implications. There is now a “follow” button in every…
Reddit’s rules on comments under cosplay posts should be the internet’s rules for comments under cosplay posts.
The Taken movies are OK! If you think they’d be better swapping out Liam Neeson for Mario, though, you might want to watch this very well-done fan trailer. “I will-a find you…and I will-a jump on your head”.
Destiny‘s Crota’s End raid will get its much-anticipated hard mode next Wednesday, January 21st, Bungie has announced. Brace your level 32 characters for impact. In a new Destiny weekly update, Bungie’s David “DeeJ” Dague shared more details: Hard Mode for Crota’s End is ready. We know you are, too. The first Fireteam to sink their…
Over the last decade, as more and more console titles have found prettier homes on the PC, and more and more indie action games hit the big time, the controller has become just as important as the mouse & keyboard for playing games. But out of the countless options available to PC gamers, which one…
Look, as one Evan to another: when you wake up with blood on your body, always take the gun… There’s no co-operative team dynamics here and it’s not even related to a video game (as far I can tell) but Isolated manages to tickle many of the same places in my head that enjoyed the…
Wired and effects studio WETA have put together this video showing how many of the big battle (and dragon) sequences for the third Hobbit movie were put together. It’s pretty good! A little infomercial-y in parts, sure, but there are plenty of effects breakdowns, as well some interesting info: the fact that Smaug’s wings were…
They might have been useless at stopping blasters, but the ol’ Imperial Stormtrooper armour has at least saved Australian Scott Loxley from being bitten by one of the most poisonous snakes in a country full of poisonous snakes. Loxley, who is walking across Australia in his Stormtrooper armour to raise money for charity, says in…
The most annoying thing about the new 3DS? You can’t just put in a new SD card, like you could in the old system. Instead of popping off the SD card cover, like you could on the older systems, the new 3DS requires the use of tools. Full disclosure: yesterday, Nintendo provided me with a…
Did you buy an Xbox One at some point in the past two weeks? Well, Microsoft’s got some fun news for you: they’re dropping the price yet again That’s right, after selling the Xbox One at $350 late last year and then hiking it back up to $400 on January 3, Microsoft is now offering…
The ZX Spectrum is coming back in a radically different form, according to a report from BBC News. The Sinclair Spectrum Vega version of the old-school console is set to arrive in April, with plans afoot to have 1,000 games from the Spectrum back catalog preloaded on the new hardware.
Majora’s Mask. Xenoblade Chronicles. Code Name: Steam. Monster Hunter 4: Ultimate. The 3DS’s lineup for the next few months is strong, of that there is no doubt. What’s less certain is whether or not these new games are worth playing on the newest 3DS. Luckily, yesterday I had a chance to test drive all of…
We are training robots to excel at outer space future war. In a video game. This is sure to end well for humanity. The Student StarCraft AI Tournament pits 42 bots—all programmed to excel at stars and the crafting thereof (also war)—in a total of 861 games against each other. Each match is 1v1, and…
Bandai Namco’s has released details on a major patch forDark Souls 2, which both tweaks a bunch of game elements and tries to address a major flaw with the game’s multiplayer. This patch also lays the groundwork for The Scholar of the First Sin, an expansion arriving in April. Some mysterious story elements are being…
Rifick, an avid Super Smash Bros. stage builder who’s made some of the coolest custom levels I’ve seen for the game, just posted a handy tutorial for some of the mode’s trickier parts. Give it a look if you’ve been having any problems with your own custom stages. And let me know if you have…
Twitch kicked up a huge storm last August when it started muting users’ archived footage that used copyrighted music—a sudden and unpleasant change that lead many to accuse the service of taking the worst possible cues from YouTube. Today, the company offered a concrete idea for a new way forward: a music library. The newly-minted…
Hey Suikoden II, what sound does the horse make? Oh. OK. And what sound does the chicken make? Good talk. You can reach the author of this post at [email protected] or on Twitter at @jasonschreier
Nearly every Pokémon player I know has, at one point during their career as a trainer, handled a hacked Pokémon. Even prominent Pokemon players have been suspected of cheating, and in a single competition, The Pokémon Company has caught thousands of cheaters at once. Pokemon’s online bank system, which stores monsters for players, has also…
It was only a matter of time before Minecraft put out an official licensed something related to The Simpsons thanks to its new corporate overlords at Microsoft. What’s genuinely surprising about the Simpsons “skin pack” announced today is just how…unsettling it looks. The Simpsons “content packs,” which will cost $1.99, are coming out for the…
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