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Retro Consoles Brought To Life in LEGO

Chris “Powerpig” McVeigh is a LEGO builder of no small repute, specialising in micro-builds of familiar things. This is “My Old Basement (Pixel Edition)” which you can pre-order for $89.50 (£60). This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK Here’s a better look at the full model: He’s also built some lovely little consoles in the…

And Now For An Addictive Game About Selling Hamburgers

Fuck those jerks over at Filthy Burger. Seriously, fuck ’em. They think they can get more customers than me with fancy signs? Well… well, they might be right. Grab Them By The Eyes is a new free game from Terry Cavanagh, best known for mega-hard games like Super Hexagon and VVVVVV, but also the mastermind…

Twitch Is Playing Halo, And It’s Excruciating

When Twitch users playedPokemon, it kinda made sense. That’s a game you can break down into simple movements. Halo? That’s a pretty complicated game! Which might explain why this stream is so funny. If you were watching a single human wander around the dead corners of the map, shooting at rocks and aiming at the…

New Fighting Game Is Basically An Indie Power Stone

I don’t really like fighting games. But I’ve always had a soft spot for Capcom’s Power Stone series, which broke free of the limitations of most other fighters and dropped you in a small 3D arena, meaning your combat felt more “real” than being trapped on a 2D plane. That series is long gone, but…

Homeworld: The Return Of A Game That’s Almost Perfect

Playing through Homeworld again after all these years is weird Games are forever changing. Usually, they’re advancing. They progress not just in terms of visuals, but design. Shooters, for example, change the way you take cover and recover damage, while stealth games have developed smoother controls and give the player a greater awareness of what’s…

This is Masquerada: Songs and Shadows, an isometric RPG “built in the vein of Baldur’s Gate and Dragon Age”. Looks cool!

Mortal Kombat X‘s Brutalities Are Gruesome

As Mortal Kombat escalated during its early years, the series introduced more ways to finish fights. Fatalities were just the beginning. Friendships, animalities, and babalities become part of the equation. Brutalities were in the console ports of Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, but disappeared from the franchise soon after. They’re back and very bloody in Mortal…

How The New Wolfenstein Nailed Character Motivation

Recently, after I completed a mission in a popular big-budget video game, one of the “good guys” I was working for began yelling at me. Apparently, cutting off the nation’s drug supply was a bad thing. After yelling at me for a few minutes, she immediately asked me to go do another mission for her,…

How To Hack Your Own Pokémon

UPDATE 3/4: Unfortunately, this has now been patched out on the 3DS! You can still do it if you don’t update, but it means not being able to play online. Original article follows: Some people turn their noses up at hacked Pokémon, in the same way that people look down, say, a fake Rolex. But…

Gold Amiibos Already Sold Out, Going For Stupid Prices On eBay

The amiibo collection game is fierce. Rumors of gold Mario amiibos circulated for a while, and Nintendo finally confirmed their existence this morning. Pre-orders for the special edition went online at Wal-Mart today, sold out in 15 minutes, and have already spiked in price on eBay. You’ll notice the eBay listing above is for $79.95.…

Capcom has issued a statement apologizing for the PC version of Resident Evil: Revelations 2 not having local co-op, despite the Steam description saying the game would have it. PC Gamer reports the company is offering refunds for Steam owners. You can reach the author of this post at [email protected] or on Twitter at @patrickklepek

GTA V Cops Have No Chance Against Invincible Crooks

When invulnerable criminals go rampaging through the streets of Los Santos, it can be a terrible, wonderful thing. This video by YouTuberSly Shootershows that thwarting the efforts of the cops to try and shut down a super-crook can be both hilarious and an inspiration to pull off really impressive in-game feats. Invincibility is nothing new…

Survey: PS4 Owners Want Better Resolution; XB1 Owners Just Prefer Xbox

Above: one particularly-interesting section of a recent Nielsen survey that probes console owners about the factors driving their buying habits. There’s no data on just how many customers participated in this survey—could be ten people for all we know—but the listed factors are fascinating. Wii U buyers are all about that nebulous “fun factor” so…

I Played A Video Game On A Friggin’ Rotary Phone

At last night’s Itty Bitty Bash, an event to get Chicagoans in the same room to play games, I encountered something very strange. I’ve fought off an alien invasion millions of times, but I’ve never fired my lasers by entering numbers onto a rotary phone dial. This, friends, is Afterglow Afterglow comes from developer Jerry…

Riot Just Changed League Of Legends’ Jungle And Players Are Furious

Riot put out a new patch for League of Legends this week—an occasion that the game’s legions of fans always await with bated breath. Anticipation curdled into disappointment once players realized the developer had made some unwelcome changes that could have a profound impact on one of the competitive multiplayer game’s key team positions: the…

How Anita Sarkeesian Wants Video Games To Change

Minutes after I walked through a metal detector—and some time before she was flocked by well-wishers at the best-attended gaming lecture I’ve ever been to at New York University—I recently listened to the media critic Anita Sarkeesian describe eight things she’d like to see changed in video games. To be specific, she was describing “eight…

République for PC, Zelda Animated Series, and More Deals

République is one of the most remarkable mobile-first games ever created, and its PC/Mac port is 20% off today on the Humble Store and Steam. [Republique Remastered, $20] We see this sale from time to time, but it bears mentioning if you’ve missed out in the past. Outside of Black Friday sales, this is the…

Someone Beat Dark Souls II…In First-Person…Wearing Oculus Rift

Anyone should be proud for finishing Dark Souls II. From Software’s sadistic action games are punishing by any standard. The community around the games, however, keeps upping the ante. What’s one way to make Dark Souls II harder? Beating it in first-person with an Oculus Rift. Twitch streamer Dirtythekid finally pulled this off yesterday on…

Donkey Kong Country Back On Wii U After Mysterious Two-Year Absence

In November of 2012, Nintendo pulled the Donkey Kong Country trilogy from the Wii’s Virtual Console. They gave no explanation, as is the Nintendo Way. And today, nearly two and a half years later, Nintendo announced that all three games are coming back, this time for the Wii U. We still don’t know why the…