The Most Adventurous Body Pillow You’ll Ever See

Meet Cyberdwarf. Cyberdwarf is a character in the ridiculous (and wonderful) video game Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden. Cyberdwarf now has his very own body pillow. See, when the folks behind Barkley launched a Kickstarter for the sequel (which is called The Magical Realms of Tír na nÓg: Escape from Necron 7 – Revenge…

The One Thing Old Pokemon Games Do Better Than New Ones

After sitting through the Nintendo developer roundtable at E3, which featured Tsunekazu Ishihara and Junichi Masuda of The Pokemon Company and Game Freak respectively, it struck me: much has changed since the Pokemon: Red and Blue days. I’m not just talking about how there’s a new fairy type now, either. I’d like to think I’m…

Call of Duty: Ghosts May Or May Not Come To Wii U (Maybe)

Does Call of Duty Dog feel threatened by Nintendogs? Weeks after the official announcement of Call of Duty: Ghosts, it’s still not very clear whether or not the game is coming to Wii U. Activision has been sketchy about the prospect of their next big first-person shooter coming to Nintendo’s console for quite some time…

NCAA Football 14 Demo Offers Three Matchups for a New College Try

NCAA Football 14 offers three different matchups—Alabama vs. Virginia Tech, Oregon vs. Texas A&M, and the Ohio State-Michigan rivalry—when the game’s demo arrives on Xbox Live and Playstation Network tomorrow. Alabama-VPI will be the preseason Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game at the Georgia Dome; Oregon will play at Texas A&M and Ohio State-Michigan takes place in the…

Shigeru Miyamoto’s Next Great Game, As Far As He’s Concerned

I’d heard that Shigeru Miyamoto was really proud of his new game, Pikmin 3. Like, really, really proud. Like, guy-who-made-Donkey-Kong-and-Super-Mario-and-Zelda-thinks-this-game-is-great proud. That good, huh? “How many games have you made?” I asked Miyamoto last week at E3. We’ve been doing interviews for a decade. We can go outside the conventional chitchat and product hype if…

Man of Steel Isn’t That Superman

Like millions of other people all over the world this weekend, Mike Fahey and I both saw Man of Steel. There’s a lot riding on this reboot of the Superman movie franchise, which comes during the year of the 75th anniversary of the character’s first appearance. If you’re a longtime comics reader like Mike or…

People like zombie video games? Go figure. State of Decay has sold more than 500,000 copies since its June 5 release on Xbox Live, making it the service’s fastest-selling original game of all time. A Steam version is still in the works, says Undead Labs.

Every Wonderfully Complex Board Game Needs A Tablet Version

This is Agricola, available now on iOS from Playdek Games. Based on one of German board game designer Uwe Rosenberg‘s finest creations, it’s deep, satisfying and a little complex, but nowhere near as complex as this: This is how Agricola works as a physical board game. It’s a mad whirlwind of cards and resource counters…

The Moneysaver: Need for Speed Rivals, Deadpool, Threadless T-Shirts

Frankly MSRP I don’t give a damn. With E3 in the rearview mirror we’ve Need for Speed Rivals for 20% off on the PC first to the finish line of today’s post. As has been the case lately, we’ve got a whole lot of movies on sale, along with a sweet T-shirt sale at Threadless…

Dark Souls II is Dark Souls, Thank God

“I played Dark Souls II,” I said to a friend of mine one night at E3 over drinks. He leaned in. His eyes suddenly got wide and he got a little quiet. “How was it?” He asked. “It was Dark Souls.” I said. Immediately a wave of relief rushed over his face, and my friend…

The Xbox One Believers

I came to E3 this year in search of good news about the Xbox One. By week’s end, I found a few men able to tell me some. I’d heard the bad things about the Xbox One—the inability to lend games discs to friends, the requirement for the console to check in online every 24…

Aha, The Post-Apocalypse In The Last of Us Was Justin Bieber’s Fault

Some people might blame the fungus zombies for destroying society in The Last of Us. But based on this Uncharted easter egg video by mynameisfeli, I’d say we should blame the collapse of society on Justin Bieber instead. Spoilers for various easter eggs in The Last of Us follow. It’s a tad difficult to read,…

Fake Smash Bros. Character Screens Flood The Internet

For me, probably the funniest thing during last week’s E3 was the reveal trailer of Smash Bros. for the Wii U and all the hilarity that followed. The internet picked up that poor villager character from Animal Crossing quickly, which was followed by crazy fictional character intro screens that have taken on a life of…

If The Final Fantasy X Remake Does Well, FFXII Could Be Next

Right now, you can play any mainline Final Fantasy game on a modern system—PS3, Vita, iOS, etc.—except for two: Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy XII. Both PlayStation 2 entries have never made it to other platforms, and anyone who’s tried to play PS2 games on a high-definition television might understand why people are begging…

When Gaming Gets Too Heavy, Nippon Ichi Brings The Happy

As I wade through the dark and depressing world of The Last of Us, I slowly fill with a sort of gloomy despair — a despair that can only be countered by anime frivolity and quick-time eating, courtesy of Nippon Ichi’s The Witch and The Hundred Knights for the PlayStation 3. Due out in Japan…

Saints Row is About to Get a Whole Lot Weirder Thanks to Mod Support

The Saints Row series never supported modding, but now that it’s under new ownership, that is about to change. Developer Volition will release “what is essentially a full [software development kit]” for the most recent game, and says this year’s sequel is likely to get one, too. The upshot to all this is the PC…

The PS4 Was Designed To Not Embarrass You

Your parents come visit your house. Or the person you’re dating gets their first look at your living room and your entertainment center. They see your hot new PlayStation. Sony hopes their next console won’t suddenly bring you shame. The PS4 “was designed to be an impact product in an entertainment center,” Sony’s v.p. of…

Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: TruthTellah links to a video about the print-making process for Jed Henry’s Ukiyo-e Heroes project, which fuses iconic game characters and feudal Japanese aesthetics. JollyBootsofDoom runs down three flawed but fun games. And, Zarnyx explores why she’ scared of certain things and how it affects…

These Games Were Missing From E3

Now that we’ve had a weekend to recoup from the bright lights and pulsing music of the world’s most elaborate video game marketing circus, it’s time to take a quiet moment to reflect on the games we didn’t get to play at E3 2013. Jade, Samus, Drake — where were you guys? Now this isn’t…

This Pacific Rim Trailer Remade In Minecraft Is Super-Intense

The trailer for Guillermo Del Toro’s upcoming movie Pacific Rim remains badass in the animated Minecraft version of it. The edit is made by the same guys, Steel House Digital, who recreated one of the Man of Steel trailers. We might just wonder what’s nexton their list. Elysium? Or maybe Ender’s Game? Pacific Realm –…