New DayZ Game Looks Cute As A (Zombie’s) Button

MINIDAYZ, which began life as a fan-made tribute to DayZ, has quietly been picked up by Bohemia Interactive and is now hosted on the publisher’s site – for free – as an “official” DayZ title. It’s a top-down game that shares the same basic premise as DayZ – scrounge around to stay alive while fighting…

​Dragon Age Players, Show Us Your Heroes

The first act of Dragon Age: Inquisition doesn’t really take place on a snowy mountain; it takes place in the game’s character creator. Anyone who’s spent any amount of time playing role-playing video games knows how important it is to create a really cool-looking character. Hopefully you read my tips articleand took your time with…

Dragon Age: Keep Has 300 Different Choices

If you include all of the race and gender choices for your protagonists as well as all the decisions you can have them make, then there are 300 different options. Most of them are pretty minor, but it leads to more than 1,427,247,692,705,959,881,058,285,969,449,495,136,382,746,624 different possible world states for Dragon Age: Inquisition. Damn. If you’re interested…

Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire’s New Mega Pokémon, In GIFs

Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire release for the 3DS tomorrow, and to celebrate that, here’s a trailer that goes over every mega Pokémon in the game…in anime form. It’s really pretty, and it kind of makes me want to start watching the Pokémon anime again. I kind of love that they make Mudkip seem like…

The Pinball RPG I Always Wanted

Rollers of the Realm is a pinball/RPG hybrid. It’s also the type of pinball game I’ve wanted for a long time. Some of you may remember the old NES title Pinball Quest, a game that mixed RPG elements with pinball. It held a lot of promise, but 8-bit physics could just never do pinball justice.…

Yep, That’s Super Mario 64 In Doom

Not the most… expected combination, but the original Doom with a sugary sweet Super Mario 64 filling works surprisingly well, all things considered. Doom: The Golden Souls is a mod heavily inspired by Super Mario 64. It’s been in development for quite some time, but version 1.0 just butt-stomped onto the surface of the goomba…

Dragon Age Players Weren’t Supposed To Find This Creepy Easter Egg

Typically, when you fall through the map in a game you don’t expect to find anything aside from an endless void. But if you happen to fall through the map in the exact right place in Dragon Age Inquisition, you might find something a little weird. LeeCsM found this…thing after falling through the ground in…

Shadow of Mordor DLC Lets You Play As A Lady

If you feel like adding some estrogen to your orc-slaying experience, today is your lucky day—Warner Bros. just launched a free new DLC pack (for PS4/Xbox One/PC) that will let you replace boring ol’ Talion with a lady whose full title must be spelled out every time she’s mentioned: Lithariel, the Warrior Commander of the…

Discounts On Your Favorite Gaming Peripherals, Pre-Black Friday Deals

We’ve got a ton of great peripheral deals today, the highlights though (at least for gamers) are the Razer DeathAdder gaming mouse for $40, and the Razer BlackWidow mechanical keyboard for $90. Those were your favorite gaming mouse and keyboard, respectively, and we’ve never seen them for this cheap before. Thrustmaster Hotas Warthog Joystick ($360)…

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The Folks Behind Halo Say They’re Fixing Matchmaking Today

As has become something of a tradition in the world of video games, Halo: The Master Chief Collection launched with some serious problems—after it came out last week, players struggled with matchmaking and online play in the collection of Halo ports ad remakes. Today, hopefully, things will get at least a little better. After some…