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Harmonix Employees Caught Posting Amazon Reviews For Rock Band 4

In the cut-throat music industry, you’ve gotta do anything you can to stay ahead of the curve. So it is with the plastic music industry, too. Perhaps that’s why Harmonix employees have been posting a whole bunch of positive Amazon reviews for their own game, Rock Band 4, as discovered by Redditors last night. “Loving…

Don’t Play Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons On iOS

Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons is a great game, one that deserves as huge an audience as possible. So it’s good that the 2013 game is out now for the family of iOS devices. But porting it over to Apple’s mobile devices robs the game of some of its charms. As anyone who played…

Whenever PlayStation VR launches next year, it’ll have Volume: Coda, a spin off of this year’s slick stealth game, as a launch title. Set after the events of Volume, it features 30 levels and brand-new characters. The original game is being modified to work in VR, too. Contact the author at [email protected]

After Nine Years, Massive Space Game Might Finally Get Made

For almost ten years now, Flavien Brebion has been working on a space game that was so ambitious he couldn’t get it finished. That game, Infinity: The Quest For Earth, sounded too good to be true. Inspired by titles like Frontier: Elite II, it would have let you roam a seamless galaxy, able to fly…

Korean Soldiers Find A Way To Play Hearthstone During Military Service

South Korea’s mandatory military service is a tough one. The length of service is around 21 months, applies to males between 18 and 35, and it’s not a place where games like Hearthstone are allowed. Except if you’re a dedicated fan like these soldiers who, unable to play the real game, made their own version.…

No, It’s Not A Good Idea To Use Snake’s Abilities In Real Life

Mega64 is back with a new video, messing around with Metal Gear Solid V features, trying to rocket punch everyone on the street with Snake’s Bionic Arm. No one gets fultoned, it’s just a ton of disapproving reactions, as always. 27 of them to be exact. Enough for Rank S! To contact the author of…

Mario Faces The Final Boss

Better get to that super star real quick. Before that sneaky Thwomp gets there, preferably. Grosnez is a professional illustrator from France, and this is a fantastic piece of Mario fanart. Not much else to say there. There’s a few more gaming -related pieces from Grosnez below; his DeviantArt gallery has more pics, mostly in…

Nintendo just showed off these five new 3DS skins due for release (in Japan at least) in November. The Animal Crossing and Super Mario Maker ones are particularly yespleasey.

An Arcade Racer For The 21st Century

Arcade racing games were the shit in the 1990s. From Virtua Racer through to Daytona, a revolution in visuals and cabinet design made them the star attractions of arcades the world over. Until, that is, they got stale. Once everyone had got used to big vibrating cabinets and textured polygons, and developers like Sega and…

Destiny Was On Tonight’s Episode Of Jeopardy

Who is Nolan North? No, that’s not it… (top image by @dmbryan14) Anyway, nicely done, Dennis. Easiest $800 you’ll ever make. Especially sincethe question could have been a lot harder

For whatever reason, I’ve made it a habit to play Super Mario Maker stages designed to troll me. The latest? Hypercube by Polygon’s Griffin McElroy, which you can “play” for yourself at B2A3-0000-00AB-C911 or watch me scream here. Contact the author at [email protected]

Dr. Doom Is Very Different Now

At the end of the last version of the Marvel Universe, Dr. Doom became something like a hero. He snatched enough power from near-omnipotent beings to stop the end of the multiverse and saved portions of various multiple realities. Now that things are back to normal, he’s evil again. Or is he? Two weeks ago,…

Here’s Zero, commenting on the end of his amazing Smash Bros. streak. He sounds pretty happy, actually: his dream was always to make Smash 4 grow bigger. He helps build the scene even by losing, because it makes for a great storyline! Contact the author at [email protected]

Bask In The Wonderful Badness Of A Cheap Coast Guard Game

Feeling seasick? Don’t worry, Finn Asdair and the brave men and women of generic country’s Coast Guard are here to help. This bold new $19.99 simulation adventure on Steam is bold, new, $19.99 and on Steam. For more than that, watch me play. Launched this week on that digital distribution platform I mentioned previously, Coast…

The folks at 5TH Cell, the Scribblenauts studio whose CEO used to write a column for us about game development, are raising money from the public and investors for a slick-looking new action RPG called Anchors in the Drift. Find out lots more here

Gaming Kickstarter Backers Getting Their Rewards, Thanks To Unexpected Savior

When Woolfe: The Red Hood Diaries raised $72,139 on Kickstarter, its creators hoped to kick off an episodic, sinister take on Red Riding Hood. But when the game was released, it bombed, and the developers filed for bankruptcy and cancelled some of the backer rewards. Then, out of nowhere, things changed. “It’s done, there is…

10 Big Myths About Video Games, Debunked By The People Who Make Them

Today, more people than ever before are playing video games…but most people still don’t actually understand how games are made. Even for hardcore game aficionados, game development remains fairly shrouded in mystery. What’s more, a lot of what people think they know about game development is actually misconception. We spoke to a number of game…

YouTube Is Getting Paid Subscriptions

Today, YouTube announced a premium subscription service that will allow users to pay a fee—$10/month—to watch videos without ads. They’ve titled it YouTube Red—which may remind people of a certain not-safe-for-work website with a similar name—and they say the service will launch this month across the United States. In addition to stripping out ads, the…

How A Game Studio Totally Bungled A Controversy And Lost All Good Will

For years, Payday 2’s developers insisted the game wouldn’t have microtransactions. That changed last week, and the community flipped out. The outrage got them to slightly change the way it works. But most importantly, the way they handled criticism—ignoring it–only stoked the flames. As part of Payday 2’s Crimefest event, developer Overkill Software introduced two…

Play This Clever Adventure Game Entirely On Twitter

If you have a spare ten minutes today, you should hop onto Twitter and play this adventure game. It’s smart, clever, and legitimately funny, which is a major step up from pretty much everything else on Twitter. Twitter powerhouse and talented artist @leyawn has built an entire choose-your-own-adventure game on the Social Media Platform, and…