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A World Map Showing Where People Are Playing Smash Bros Right Now

Here’s a cool new feature in the newest Super Smash Bros. game for 3DS: a map of the globe that shows where everyone’s playing at any given time. As you can see in the shot above, right now most Smash players are based in Japan, though that’ll likely change when the game comes out in…

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Someone Hit Level 30 In Destiny

People figured out how to circumvent Destiny’s soft level 20 capshortly after the game launched two weeks ago, and now one player has reached the next milestone: making it all the way to level 30 with one of his characters. The player is Mark Edward Neace Jr, an American member of the clan Tier 1…

Six Wild Metal Gear Solid V Fan Theories

With TGS and a handful of new Metal Gear Solid V footage behind, Outside Xbox’s clip weaves further the web of never ending fan theories about the game’s plot and the characters’ backgrounds. All of them sound a bit crazy and compelling, but my favorite is the one that says the mute sniper Quiet is…

Spider-Man Video Games Need More Mysterio

Sure he wears a purple cape and a fishbowl on his head, but Mysterio’s special effects-based powers make for a really trippy introduction to Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes‘s Spider-Man playset. Mysterio’s made his way into plenty of Spider-Man video games — he was the main villain in the Questprobe Spidey game, after being passed…

Iron Man Looks Badass In Samurai Mech Armor

Iron Giants is a series of Iron Man art made by artist Clog Two, with Tony Stark posing in various cool Iron Man suits. Some are redesigns of already existing ones, like the War Machine, some are completely new. Here’s a few in their full glory. You can find a lot more over here Iron…

Sony: Delaying Games Is ‘The Right Call’

It’s been a year of high-profile delays. Evolve, Battlefield Hardline, The Division, Batman, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Assassin’s Creed Unity, The Order and GTA 5 on PC are just a few high profile slips on the list. Chances are: if you want it, you’re going to have to wait a bit longer. This post originally appeared…

The Original 151 Pokémon, Recreated in Minecraft

Minecraft, being a block-based builder, has always been a favorite outlet of pixel artists everywhere. Like this enterprising player, who set out to painstakingly build replicas of the 151 original Pokémon in-game. Each Pokémon took redditor QueenMercury thirty minutes to three hours to build. This isn’t the first time somebody’s recreated the original 151 in…

Frogs Love Watching Worms on Smartphones

Humans like watching TV shows or movies. Maybe sports and probably pornography. Frogs? They totally dig watching worms. The videowas uploaded by YouTuber Joe Myers, who notes, “This is how frogs are entertained by watching their favorite channel.” This is how I am entertained by watching frogs watch their favorite channel. FrogTV [Joe Myers@YouTube] To…

Thank Pokémon for the Cool Transparent 2DS Handhelds

I’ve always thought the Nintendo 2DS looked, well, terrible. These new 2DS handhelds don’t. Transparent hardware is terrific-looking, and these 2DS units are no exception. According to Eurogamer, the Transparent Red and Transparent Blue 2DS handhelds will be released in Europe when Pokémon Omega Ruby and Pokémon Alpha Sapphire go on sale in late November.…

Here’s a Smash Bros. Fan Game That Lets You Play As Ridley

Much like Super Smash Flash 2, this one’s for the PC. It’s called Super Smash Bros. Crusade, and its massive roster of playable fighters include familiar faces like Mario, Bowser, and Kirby, and a ton of newcomers, like Ridley, Rayman, Crash Bandicoot, Klonoa, Krystal from Star Fox, and even Phoenix Wright. Smash Bros. Crusade has…

New PC Game Is A Masterclass In FMV

Roundabout is a new PC game that has you driving a limousine around a map. Only, that limousine never stops spinning Given passenger missions to complete across a colourful open-world sandbox (you’re rarely restricted to just the roads), the best way to approach it is to pretend it’s like Crazy Taxi. Only you’re really drunk.…

Sleeping Dogs Spinoff Looks, Well, Hrm

Triad Wars is a new game set in the universe of Sleeping Dogs. It is not Sleeping Dogs 2. Not even close. While it retains the open-world nature of the original, this is PC-only. And is free-to-play. Don’t say we didn’twarn you Oh well. We’ll always have Sleeping Dogs. Actually, we’ll have it again next…

Co-Op Game Puts Only One Person In An Oculus Rift

Black Hat is a co-op game with an interesting twist: two people have to work together, but one of them is wearing an Oculus Rift and the other is not. There’s a reason for this. The player wearing the headset is playing in a first-person perspective, trying to get through a maze that’s full of…

Oculus Rift Was A Little Too Real For This Security Guard

At a gaming community event in Ugandathe other day, the organisers thought it’d be fun to strap an Oculus Rift headset to one of the security guards. He was not ready. It’s easy to laugh, but I sympathise. My first turn on the near-standard rollercoaster demo nearly had me doing the same thing, and left…

The Challenges Of Letting You Be A Fat Video Game Hero

Zany open-world action game Sunset Overdrive—as its creators told me during a recent San Francisco preview event—is all about letting players be whoever they want. I made a very nice bearded lady with tiny mouths for eyes. I noticed something, though: you can pick your body type, but you can’t pick a heavy one. I…

Final Fantasy XV’s Road Trip, As Imagined By The Internet

The dudes of Final Fantasy XV have a sweet ride in the TGS trailer and they’re clearly gonna use it. And while the internet reacted to it, there’s always room for photoshops of them gawking at various things. Oh the places they will go! In this hashtag, Twitter has taken upon itself to ‘shop the…

Steam Is Getting A Massive Overhaul

Valve is changing Steam in a big way, overhauling the front page and adding some brand new features that will drastically change the way we find and buy PC games on the ubiquitous digital store. The revision—which Valve is calling the Steam Discovery Update and which goes live today—will implement a number of big changes…

Pot And Pan Among Finalists For The National Toy Hall Of Fame

Which of these toys is deserving to enter the 2014 class of the National Toy Hall of Fame? American Girl Dolls Bubbles Fisher-Price Little People Hess Toy Trucks Little Green Army Men My Little Pony Operation Skill Game Paper Airplane Pots and Pans Rubik’s Cube Slip’N Slide Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Here’s the description of…

Smash Bros. Glitches Are The Best

Though the 3DS version of Smash hasn’t released everywhere yet, players are already finding bugs. And given that this is Smash, a game where anything can happen, it’s probably not surprising to hear that many of the glitches in the game are of the absurd variety. Here’s how the game is bugging out for people.…