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Reminder: Saga Is One of the Best Comic Books in the Entire Universe

I’ve been taking Saga for granted. Some of you have been taking Saga for granted. Let’s not do that. This comic book is a miracle. One that will make you cry. There’s a new issue of Saga out this week and it’s simply harrowing. Don’t get me wrong: the latest chapter is still funny, heartbreaking…

For The First Time, FTC Takes Action Against Failed Kickstarter

Kickstarter projects not following up on promises isn’t new. The FTC getting involved, as they did with this one, is. The board game creator settled for $111,793, though he can’t actually pay it. The Doom That Came to Atlantic City hit Kickstarter in May 2012, looking for $35,000. The Lovecraftian board game soared on the…

The Steam Summer Sale Starts Now

The bad news: your credit card bill might be a disaster next month. The good news: at least now you can get refunds? It’s time for the Steam Summer Sale Today’s big deals include Valkyria Chronicles for $5 (yes!), Don’t Starve for $4, and all of Tales From The Borderlands for $12.50, among many others.…

Watch The Oculus Rift Press Conference Here

You don’t need no fancy goggles to watch today’s Oculus Rift press conference, where the Facebook-owned helmet peddlers will share some new details about their much-hyped VR device. Maybe they’ll tell us about the price, or the release date, or how they’ll turn what appears to be niche hardware into a mass-market device that’s viable…

One Year Later, Did Nintendo Keep Their E3 2014 Promises?

Nintendo’s digital event at E3 was one of the best “press conferences” in history, not because it was full of particularly great announcements but because it was short, sweet, and bullshit-free, setting an example for what an E3 event should be. Since it was a pre-recorded 45-minute show with lots of gameplay trailers and very…

Sometimes, Every Single Person Dies In A Heroes Of The Storm Team Fight

The goal of team battles in a MOBA like Heroes of the Storm is to keep yourself (and your teammates) alive while simultaneously killing your opponents. That way, once you succeed you have a valuable time window where the enemy is sitting through a cooldown, just waiting to respawn. I mean: if you succeed. In…

Fan Theory Uses Super Mario To Predict Jurassic Galaxy

These can’t be a coincidence, right? Stop looking at me like that. I’m not crazy! Jurassic World comes today in theaters. I’ll be there at 10 p.m. with a beer sneaked in through my wife’s purse. I also love Mario games. Maybe, just maybe, there’s a way merge those two worlds. This “theory” comes courtesy…

Prepare For Battle, TheBigD

If you’ve been waiting to know when the remastered edition of Darksiders 2 would be out, you’re in luck: publisher Nordic Games says The Deathinitive Edition will be hitting current-gen consoles this winter, running at 1080p and with all the DLC from the last-gen version included. Contact the author at [email protected]

Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture is finally coming out on August 11th on the PS4, creator Dan Pinchbeck has announced. The spiritual successor to Dear Esther has been a long, long time coming. Hooray!

The People You See At Comic Book Stores

Comic book stores are still around, and if you’ve visited any of them, you’d probably bumped into one of these people in Dorkly’s list Check out the full gallery at Dorkly as it’s a pretty much complete rundown. Hard to come up with a type not featured over there! To contact the author of this…

LEGO Enchanted Forest Is Like Something Out Of A Ghibli Anime

The quirky rooftops, the unique color palette and the giant windmills make César Soarez’s and Hugo Santos’ massive 500,000 piece build not just a generic medieval fantasy set, but rather something like a scene cropped out from an 80s or 90s anime. There’s so much going on it’s really easy to get lost in this…

Shia LaBeouf Motivates Anime Characters

Even characters from Attack on Titan, Dragon Ball, and more need a pep talk sometimes. And who better to do that than Mr. Motivation, Shia LaBeouf. The actor appeared against a green screen for an art project titled #INTRODUCTIONS. And since he’s against said green screen and since the video has a Creative Commons licenses,…

RIP Sir Christopher Lee

Veteran actor Sir Christopher Lee, star of The Lord of the Rings films, The Wicker Man, The Man with the Golden Gun and the Star Wars prequels, has passed away at the age of 93. The Telegraph reportshe died in London’s Chelsea and Westminster Hospital on Sunday morning as a result of “respiratory problems”, having…

GTA Truck Pulls Off Crazy Stunt, Sticks Landing

I’ve seen my share of fancy sports cars making ridiculous flips in GTA V. But I’ve never seen anything like this. The video above showcases a fantastic stunt jump performed by BlackSmoke Billy. Essentially, the semi grabs some air, the trailer unit detaches from the cargo and makes a front flip on its own, lands,…

Driving Game Turns You Into A Bloodthirsty Car Murderer

BeamNG.drive is a driving game with racetracks and rally courses and real-looking cars and the veneer of respectability. But it’s really just about murdering cars. Sure, you might race around a track or two—the game includes actual racecourses—and find that in its Early Access state these events are a little empty, a little boring. But…

The Real Mirror’s Edge

How to bring Mirror’s Edge to life: lift some visual cues and sound bytes from the game, stick a GoPro on your head and run around some rooftops like a maniac. Done. OK, so maybe that’s under-selling it a bit. Even with the effects work done around the edges, this is still some impressive parkour,…

Today at 7pm PST, Splatoon receives a free new multiplayer map: Kelp Dome. Here’s a picture of it!

Blizzard Finds Perfect Solution To World Of Warcraft‘s Flying Problem

Blizzard has gone back on their controversial plan to keep flying out of World of Warcraft’s newest area, Draenor. Kinda. First, the good news: eventually, you’ll be able to use flying mounts in Draenor. You’ll be able to spread your wings and fly on a dragon or a robot or a different dragon or a…

Xbox 360 Emulation Is Coming Along

This is a video of 2006’s Sonic the Hedgehog for Xbox 360. Running on a PC. Well, “running”. As you can see, it’s a mess. But that’s not the point. The point here is that the team working on the Xeniaemulator are making good progress, and it’s progress that, however slight it seems in 2015,…