Potato Salad Kickstarter Finally Concludes at $55k

The infamous Kickstarter campaign to fund the creation of a bowl of potato salad wrapped up this morning with $55,492 raised from 6,911 backers for that purpose. And with that money, campaign architect Zach Danger Brown plans to hold a music festival. Brown said in a campaign update this weekthat “PotatoStock 2014” will be held…

Study: Some Gamers Hallucinate Game Sounds After Playing

A new study from researchers at Nottingham Trent University says that playing games in long sessions may have some surprising side effects, like causing you to hallucinate sounds from that game you played even when you’re doing other, non-gaming stuff. The researchers were looking into “game transfer phenomena” which includes “perceptions, cognitions and behaviours influenced…

Infinity Ward Picks Up Two Naughty Dog Veterans For Key Spots

Two more important cogs in the machine at The Last Of Us developer Naughty Dog have exited the studio, with two leads making the move to Call of Duty studio Infinity Ward this week. Naughty Dog is losing lead game designer Jacob Minkoff and narrative design lead Taylor Kurosaki, who will be taking on the…

Gamescom Call of Duty Multiplayer Reveal To Be Streamed On Xbox Live

Activision allots the first half of of the hype cycle for each year’s Call of Duty to its solo campaign, but when we arrive at Gamescom in just two weeks, the multiplayer half of the super hypeness for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare will begin. And you’ll be able to watch this big event from…

This Is How You Run A Convention Arcade Room

All you need is a row of projection screens, some colorful lighting and large dark room to put them in. If you do it right, the gamers will bring the funk to finish it off. BronyCon does it right. The best convention arcade rooms stink to high heaven. This is not a comment on the…

Welcome To This Philtaku Weekend

Hello! While Mike is hanging out at Bronycon, you get a weekend of me. You ought to know me by now, but if you don’t: I’m Phil, and Idon’t like my games to run at a high framerate That said, if you like playing Wolfenstein at 120hz, more power to you and your PC. I…

This Week In The Business: Virtual Reality Can Be Bad

QUOTE | “There are a lot of ways you can mess up VR really easily.” – nDreams’ Patrick O’Luanaigh, talking about his studio’s switch to virtual reality and how difficult it is to design good VR games Elsewhere in the business of video games this past week … QUOTE | “Japan is still stuck in…

Where The Pony Fans Go To Spend All Of Their Money

On the very lower level of the Baltimore Convention Center is a large ballroom filled with My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic plushies, prints, toys, statues, comics, cards, clothes and — most importantly — people with a lot of money looking to offload some. They call the dealer’s room for BronyCon 2014 “Blank Canvas’s Marketplace.”…

Fans Enraged Over Misleading Steam Racing Game

Colin McRae Rally is a classic (some would even say “legendary”) racing game. So when gamers saw a game claiming to be a “remastered for HD” version of it pop up on Steam, they were ecstatic. Then they got an unpleasant surprise. As players quickly discovered, Colin McRae Rally on Steam is not a graphically…

The Fastest Ocarina of Time Playthrough So Far, Explained

Cosmo Wright has the current world record for beating Ocarina of Time quickly, with a playthrough that clocks in at eighteen minutes and ten seconds. Even if you’ve watched the incredible near-perfect run before when we initially posted it, it’s worth watching through again just to hear his excellent commentary. Wright explains the history behind…

I love this battle music from Divinity: Original Sin. It doesn’t fit with the overall vibe of the game at all. It sounds more like…spy music? You know, from a spy game. But all the same, I love it. Every time it starts playing, I laugh.

Now This Is How You Demand A New Game Feature

Video game developer won’t listen to your pleas for a big, game-changing feature? Then there’s only one solution: make a song about it. A hilarious, shockingly well-done song. A gamer going by the handle of “godgryphon” put the video together. In it he asks for split-screen multiplayer in the PC version of Xbox Live Indie…

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How’s PlayStation Now Working For You?

PlayStation Now went into an open beta earlier this week in the U.S. and Canada. So now that the PlayStation 4-owning public has had a chance to try out Sony’s new game-streaming service, we want to hear about it from all you wonderful netizens. Tell us about your experience with PlayStation Now to date. And…