Even with the less than stellar Wii U sales, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has said he won’t resign. According to Iwata, “There will be no major management shake-up in the short term.”

PC Gamers Collected Almost $2 Million for Charity in November

Last year, digital retailer GOG.com ran a one-week promotion for charity, offering up a large bundle of games at a discount. As it turns out, a lot of people were interested. It was basically a pay-what-you-want deal where, out of a large pack of 13 indie and retro PC games, you could pick three or…

The Vita TV is the Most Convenient System I Own

Back when the Vita was revealed, I remember dreaming about playing a game on my HDTV, then picking up my Vita and continuing to play the same game on the go. Of course, that’s never really panned out on the PS3—though it has with the Asian-only Vita TV. A bit of backstory: since I wrote…

Japanese Children’s Show Featured a Puppet with a “Penis Head”

Yikes! This week in Japan, photos of a puppet popped up online. The puppet appeared on a kid’s program in Japan. Online, commenters are saying its head looks “totally” like a dildo. Note: This article contains content some readers might find objectionable. The show in question is called Nihongo de Asobo (“Let’s Play in Japanese”)…

Nintendo Doesn’t Think The Wii U’s Selling That Great

Today, Nintendo released its sales forecasts. The company’s financial year ends on March 31, and Nintendo has modified its sales predictions. In a downward direction, that is. But not all the news is bad. Initially, Nintendo forecasted 18 million 3DS handhelds sold worldwide this financial year. The revised number is now 13.5 million. That’s certainly…

Google Has Turned My Street Into A Bad 90s PC Game

I was messing around with Google Earth last night on my phone, seeing how well it can now render 3D spaces. As you can see above, it can do New York City pretty damn well. If it weren’t for the icons, in fact, you could probably confuse that shot for a low-res photo. It didn’t…

Making An Original Game Is Hard, Yo

Clash of Clans is one of the most successful video games of all time. So, as you can probably guess, it has clones. Lots of clones. Reddit user sonuvagun06 took some grabs of various App Store games. You’ll notice first that Clash of Clans’success has generated…competition. And not only is Clash of Clans getting ripped…

Not Everyone Thinks Steam Sales Are A Good Idea

Steam sales are universally awesome, right? Everyone gets cheap games, developers sell a ton of games, we’re all happy. Right? Well, no. Indie dev Jason Rohrer (Passage, Between, Sleep is Death) has written a blog post called “Why Rampant Sales are Bad for Players“. He argues that a “culture of sales” has led to people…

Combo Time: if you play Street Fighter on PC, then you might wanna check out the Street Fighter IV combo trainer, which lets you create and test combos—and it comes with built-in functionality that will help you memorize the combos. You can read more about it here, and download it here. (Via RPS)

The PS3 Is Finally Getting HBO GO

Sony just announced that HBO’s GO app – which gives people on-demand access to HBO shows like Game of Thrones and Boardwalk Empire – is coming to PlayStation consoles. It’s coming to PS3 first, with the PS4 to follow. No dates, as of yet. In terms of consoles, HBO GO had been available only on…

Nintendo 3DS Was Top-Selling System Of 2013, Because It Is Awesome

With 11.5 million units sold, the Nintendo 3DS came in as top-selling video game system of 2013 in the United States, which is awesome, because it is awesome. Back in February, I wrote that the 3DS had swooped in out of nowhere to become the best gaming device you can buy. And thanks to a…

​Photos From The Frontlines of DayZ

DayZ isn’t really a conventionally beautiful game, but it does have an austere quality that I find appealing. That quality is on full display in the latest shots from Duncan Harris at Dead End Thrills, who has been running the game in offline mode to capture the cleanest images. Call me crazy, but I’d love…

PC Mod Turns GTA IV Into GTA V, Sort Of

Not content to wait for Rockstar’s inevitable announcement of a PC version of Grand Theft Auto V, a group of ambitious modders are trying to transform GTA IV into Rockstar’s most recent GTA We’ve got a few shots to show you how it’s going. The idea is to convert the map of IV into that…

Attendees at Valve’s Steam Developer Days conference have been learning about virtual reality today. Seems Valve collaborated with Oculus on some of the new Crystal Cove headset’s tracking, while it’s also hoped that consumer-level VR headsets will be available within two years. There was also a VR demo from Valve that was meant to be…