Valve Finally “Releases” DOTA 2

Guess the earlier accidental release of Dota 2 wasn’t quite a false alarm: now the game is officially out of beta.Finally! Here’s how the launch will work according to Valve: Like we mentioned before, the launch of Dota 2 is going to take on a different shape than products we’ve shipped in the past. Our…

Sweet Mother Of Beards, This A Cappella Sonic Cover Is Great

How many different ways do I need to say that Smooth McGroove‘s a cappella cover of Sonic The Hedgehog‘s Green Hill Zone music is bananas-level good? Just the one? Okay. Enjoy!

Jennifer Carter, mother of the jailed League of Legends player, recently had her petition requesting the release of her son go over 100k signatures. The family is also selling “free Justin Carter” T-Shirts here, the proceeds of which will go to Carter’s legal defense.

Geez, Thank God This Wasn’t Actually Tomb Raider’s DLC

People will try to sell you anything these days, but thankfully none of the DLC for the reboot of Tomb Raider features more brutal (if not WTF) death animations like in this video by Animation Domination High-Def “Thankfully,” I say, and yet I laughed. But I mean…death by Joffrey? Haaaa. TOMB RAIDER: ADDITIONAL DEATHS DLC…

If all this talk of No One Lives Forever has got you fondly remembering your first time playing the game, check out this great 2001 post-mortem by NOLF creative director Craig Hubbard.

The Nintendo Power Glove Gets Its Own Documentary

It was supposed to be the first part in turning yourself into a bad-ass cyborg. An artifact from the glorious gaming future that we couldn’t live inside of yet. Sure, you can laugh at it now but you know you wanted a Power Glove back in the day. The accessory favored by Nintendo superfan Isaiah…

Blizzard has confirmed that yes, an in-game microtransaction store is in the works for World of Warcraft “First, we’ll be testing the in-game store with some new kinds of items we’re looking into introducing (in Asian regions, at the outset) based on player feedback: specifically, an experience buff to assist with the leveling process, as…

Nintendo Won’t Let Top Fighting Game Tournament Stream Smash Bros

UPDATE – Nintendo has reversed its initial decision, allowing the streaming to take place. In a move that’s already ticking off a lot of fans, Nintendo is denying the world’s biggest fighting game tournament, Evo, from streaming footage of Nintendo’s top fighting game, the GameCube’s Super Smash Bros. Melee The news hit today via an…

Final Fantasy XIV Isn’t Coming To Xbox Because Of A Silly Policy

Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, the much-improved reincarnation of Square Enix’s online role-playing game, will be out on August 27 for PC and PS3, then later in the future for PS4. No Xbox 360. No Xbox One. Allow Naoki Yoshida to explain why. Speaking with RPGSite, the new director of FFXIV pointed a finger…

How To Make Final Fantasy VII Look Like An HD Remaster

If you’re playing the re-release of Final Fantasy VII on Steam, I have a friendly reminder for you: you can mod the game, just like the original PC release. Like we wrote last year, fans have been modding the PC version of FFVII for a long while—so much so that you could experience something like…

Blanka Is A Troll

Goddammit, Blanka. Look at him go on his public rampages, totally unapologetically. Causing all sorts of havoc! I’m definitely the sort of person to laugh at this kind of slapstick humor, but it’s even more golden with Blanka involved. I somehow missed the first episode of this, so in case you did too, here you…

Brave New World Is A Great Expansion To A Good Game, Six Critics Say

Improving greatly upon the base game while bringing new, fun things to the table? Yep, that’s how expansions should work. In fact, that’s how Civilization V: Brave New World works. After Gods & Kings, Brave New World is the second big expansion to hit Firaxis’ turn-based strategy game, bringing with it nine new civilizations and…

Can you believe this shit? Trampling on my roses?! No shame.

The NYU Game Center will be partnering with the EVO competitive gaming tournament to provide a MFA scholarship for prospective game designers to help “create the future of fighting games.” More info is available at the Game Center website. They’re also considering funding undergraduates using the same scholarship money, so if you’re interested in that,…

These Game Developers Don’t Want Your Money…Just Buy Them Pizza

It’s a good deal, since they’re apparently buying their pizza wholesale in Copenhagen these days. Stalagflight is playable on the Ouya and online. Watch me mess around with it in the video above.

Madden‘s $27M Payout Held Up While Someone Appeals the Lawyers’ Fees

It’s your money? You want it now? Tough. Now it could be another year before some $27 million is distributed to gamers from Electronic Arts’ settlement of a class-action lawsuit brought against the exclusive license its Madden NFL series held. Why? Someone’s objecting to the lawyers’ fees. To recap, more than five years ago Electronic…

I like to creepily sit in my Animal Crossing villagers’ homes and watch them sleep.

The Best Part Of Today’s GTA V Trailer Is Ten Seconds Of Multiplayer

Today’s new gameplay trailer for Grand Theft Auto V is filled with all sorts of nifty things you can do in the single-player game. You can keep those. All I care about is that last ten seconds of tantalizing multiplayer mayhem. I never finished the story mode of Grand Theft Auto IV. Hell, I only…

The Moneysaver: Brave New World, Smash Bros. 3DS, Link Between Worlds

We must save together, or most assuredly we shall all pay full price separately. Headlining today are our first deals on A Link Between Worlds and Smash Bros. 3DS, both $5 off with pre-order, though it’s worth noting that this is pretty early, and there’s plenty of time for a better bargain to come alone.…

An Amazing Takedown Of A Massive, Extremely Rare EVE Online Ship

I don’t play EVE Online, but even I understood the gravity of this ambush takedown of an immensely expensive Revenant ship, one of apparently only three in existence. PCGamesN‘s detailed breakdown makes sense of the jargon and of the encounter, which sounds like it left some bruised feelings in its wake. (Via PA Report)