This Week in the Business: $200 Million Pledged for Kickstarter Games

What’s happened in the business of video games this past week … STAT | $200 million—The total amount of money that’s gone towards game projects on the crowdfunding website since the beginning; games account for 22% of all projects. QUOTE | “We don’t think it is out of the question that the title could wind…

Sony is hiring developers for “人喰いの大鷲トリコ”—which is the Japanese title for The Last Guardian Interestingly, the job listing says it’s forPlayStation 3 game development …

Look at Awesome Japanese Toys from Jump Festa. Look at Them!

Every year, Japanese publisher, Shueisha, hosts Jump Festa – a convention celebrating its most popular publication, Shonen Jump as a thank you to fans and to give people a little taste of things to come in terms of games, anime, and other assorted media. Also on display (and for sale) are some pretty awesome toys…

Mario Kart 8 Drove Me Up The Walls… In a Good Way

The original Mario Kart on the Super Nintendo was a game that quite literally ended friendships back in the day. Now, over two decades later, the latest addition to the series, Mario Kart 8 is headed for the Wii U next spring, and I got a chance for a little hands-on time at this year’s…

Mecha-Naruto. Yes. Designed by Naruto manga creator Masashi Kishimoto, Mecha-Naruto will be transforming into mechanical Kyubi form and piloting the fearsome Mecha-Kurama in Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Revolution for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 4 next year. Believe it.

Watch Every Cheesy Action Movie One-Liner Ever (More Or Less)

“My name is Inigo Montoya. Now I have a machine gun. Hasta la vista, baby.” It’d probably be an overstatement to say that this supercut from MewLists contained every excellent action movie one-liner ever, but it’s damn close. Though allow me to say that they picked the wrong Judge Dredd movie. But hey, 99 out…

Let’s See How Long It Takes To Cut Down One Simulated Tree

December isn’t the busiest time for new game releases. Which makes it the perfect time to try something new — like this lumberjack simulator. Although I always thought running around with a chainsaw would be more entertaining. Once you figure out what to do, the game works fine, but don’t think that this game has…

Curious about Valve’s new SteamOS? Eurogamer’s Digital Foundry takes the beta version of the new TV-friendly operating system through its paces, finding some issues that hold the OS back but allowing that it “could well be the direction PC gaming needs to find a home in the living room.”

Drop Everything: Cookie Clicker Just Got A Christmas Update.

IT’S FINALLY TIME. All those cookies I’ve been saving up since last time now have a purpose. There’s a new Cookie Clicker update and it involves growing a Santa from a test tube. It always begins with a mystery: Here’s a look at the new features upgrades, although I’m just short of (I hope) the…

Jeopardy Contestant Tries a Bane Impersonation

Sure, you can answer a Jeopardy question like a regular, normal human being. Or you could answer it in the voice of Bane, like a real champ does. Good job, man. Although if you wanted to go all in, you could have done this: Jeopardy via Tastefully Offensive To contact the author of this post,…

The 5 Worst Moments In The New Walking Dead, With Spoilers

It’s only the first episode of the new season to Telltale’s horrifically wonderful The Walking Dead episodic series and I’m already all torn up. I gave you my non-spoilery impressions of the episode already. Now let’s have a thorough, completely spoilery discussion of the events that transpired in the recent All That Remains episode. ***…

Mario Fights Master Chief and Lara Croft, Kicks Their Asses

Some things are sacred to a plumber: Family, kingdom, honor. But few things are as sacred as power-ups. I pity the poor fools that try to mess with them. In the video, above, Master Chief, Connor from Assassin’s Creed III and Lara Croft try to steal Mario’s power-ups. They thought it was a simple heist.…

A Cheap Gaming Laptop, Metal Gear Rising, Steam Sale Day 2 [Deals]

If you’ve been looking to pick up a new gaming laptop, TigerDirect has a great deal today on an Acer Aspire V3. $700 gets you a 17″ screen, 2.2Ghz Core i7, 12GB of RAM, and a GTX 760M for graphics. It won’t stand toe to toe with the best gaming laptops around, but it’s a…

It’s a White Christmas for Android gamers, as adventure classic Syberia hits Google Play. Already available on iOS and PC, Benoît Sokal’s snowy, character-driven masterpiece can now be had on Android for a mere $4.99. You aren’t an adventure game fan until you’ve played it.