Hey! You Can Grab Final Fantasy XIII-2’s Playable Demo Today

If you’re wanting to see just how different Final Fantasy XIII-2 is from its predecessor, you finally be able to check out a demo today. The playable snippets of Square Enix’s epic fantasy sequel go live on PlayStation Network and Xbox Live today. If you’re not in front of a console right now, the video…

A Gamestop Manager’s Tribute to the Best Big Brother Ever

Sometimes, it’s the little acts of heroism that make the biggest impression. Blogger Kristen Wolfe has written a humbly triumphant tribute to one such everyday hero, a young man who stood up for his little brother’s right to enjoy “girly” video games. Wolfe, who works as a shift manager at a Gamestop, witnessed a strapping…

The Heroes and Villains of DC Universe Online Are a Crafty Bunch

Look folks, just because you’ve been granted superhuman powers that allow you to go toe-to-toe with the biggest names in the DC Universe doesn’t mean you can ignore your chores. In its latest free update DC Universe Online grants players the power to craft. Sony Online Entertainment is calling it research and development, but we…

Microsoft on Foxconn: We’re “Committed to the Fair Treatment and Safety of Workers”

An earlier piece on the mass suicide threat at the Foxconn electronics manufacturing factory reported how 300 people there nearly jumped off a building in a labor dispute. Microsoft’s responded to the situation and you can see the full comment by going back to the original story

It’s the Hour of the Dour in These New Game of Thrones RPG Screenshots

Today, we got six new screenshots from Cyanide Studio’s forthcoming Game of Thrones RPG, which appears to not actually be called “A” Game of Thrones. Which will make a lot of nerds a little grumpy. Including me! Just kidding, I’m still hoping the game will be good, in part because I was heartened by my…

Yes, We Know Diablo III Is Under Development for Consoles

Thanks, everyone, for pointing out that Diablo III has been confirmed to be in development for consoles via a Twtter post by Blizzard community manager Bashiok, even though we already knew that. I’m not quite sure what all the fuss is about here. Blizzard has been candid about the fact that they had a team…

Razer’s Latest Project is a Gaming PC Trapped in the Body of a Tablet

While it may look like your average Android tablet adorned with a pair of button-festooned handlebars, beneath the shimmering screen of Razer’s Project Fiona lurks the beating heart of a high-powered gaming PC. Are we looking at the future of portable gaming? Project Fiona’s debut today as a proof-of-concept design at this year’s Consumer Electronics…

Mario Trades His Pistol for Fireballs in the Updated ‘Real Life Super Mario Bros.‘

Filmmaker Andrew McMurry has posted this updated version of his last “Real Life Super Mario Bros“. In the last version, Mario, played by McMurry’s brother, finds himself up against a group of famous Mario enemies, eventually getting a “power-up” handgun and blowing away a bunch of poor defenseless Goombas. That was a funny joke! This…

Razer’s Naga Hex is a Mouse Made with the Multiplayer Online Battle Arena Fan in Mind

Mice aimed at massively-multiplayer online role-playing gamers are all well and good, but what does a League of Legends or Diablo III player need with twelve thumb buttons? That’s why the Razer Naga Hex only has six. I’d say the newly-announced Razer Naga Hex was built from the ground-up with MOBA and action RPG players…

Survive Yarngasms and Shark-Infested Jungles in Saints Row: The Third‘s Genkibowl VII DLC

Next week, Saints Row: The Third players will get the weirdest DLC for the game yet (and that’s counting the gun that launches shark-attacks) with Genki Bowl VII The trailer above gives the gist, as crazy-killer-feline-human-thing Professor Genki takes his Running Man-style competitive/deadly reality show out into the real world. Among the various challenges: Sail…

This Modern Day Live-Action Skyrim Short Proves Some Things Never Change

It is the year 2012 in the province of Skyrim, a land where magic and technology coexist, and shopkeepers still haven’t learned their lesson regarding irresponsibly-placed head-sized buckets. Brothers John and Justin Grosjean take a trip to present-day Whiterun in their latest YouTube creation, Skyrim: 2012. where they find not much has changed since the…

The Piazza Multiplayer Map

The Liberation Multiplayer Map

Modern Warfare 3‘s 9-Month Season of New Content is Ambitious, Surprising and Complicated

There will be at least 20 “drops” of new content for Modern Warfare 3, as a nine-month season of expansions to last year’s big game kicks off this month. The makers of the first-person shooter juggernaut are promising a season of new content, starting with the Xbox 360-first release on January 24 of the first…

Experience Asura’s Wrath First-Hand Today

Capcom’s interactive anime epic Asura’s Wrath doesn’t hit North America until February 21, but you can play it right now via downloadable PlayStation 3 demo, or tomorrow if you’re all Xbox-y. Enjoy the demo trailer, randomly in German.

Only Kinect Rush Will Take You Up and Make You an Incredible Butt-Sliding Rat

Microsoft’s using CES 2012 to talk up its best-selling motion-sensing peripheral, with its announcement of blockbuster sales and a Windows version of Kinect. Part of that push will be the recently announced Kinect Rush, the all-ages game being developed in partnership with Pixar. These new images from Kinect Rush give a glimpse of some of…

Ghost Recon Future Soldier Slides Back to May, Beta in April

Ubisoft’s big revision to the Ghost Recon series, Ghost Recon Future Soldier has been delayed to May 22 in the U.S., May 24 in Europe. And, look at this, we’re getting an apology “We’re pretty much there,” the game’s development director, Adrien Lacey, said in a YouTube announcement of the delay. “We just want to…

The 10 Most Bogus Entries in the Guinness World Records 2012 Gamer’s Edition

Growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, I remember being awed at when the TV specials based on the Guinness Book of World Records would show up on network TV. I’d see really big things! Really small things! Weird life forms out of 1950s monster comics! A guy who’d never cut his fingernails, like, ever!…

Art Brut Makes Me Want to Rock Out

Art Brut made the best song ever about not being able to achieve erection. “Rusted Guns of Milan” appears on their 2005 debut album Bang Bang Rock & Roll and its lyrics hit a sweet spot of not-that-it’s -ever-happened-to-me. “I’m sorry/I’m so sorry/Can I get you a cup of coffee?” Indeed. I’ve seen them live…

Mad Catz’s Cyborg Line Grows a Sexy Pair of Ears

I think I’ve finally discovered the sinister plot underlying Mad Catz’s visually and functionally striking line of Cyborg gaming products: They’re preparing to build an actual cyborg, and the newly-announced F.R.E.Q. 5 Pro Gaming Headset is the ears. Mad Catz already has the eyes, the hands, the legs, and the neural interface (fudging it a…