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One iPhone Game That’s Worse With An Xbox Controller

When it comes to mobile gaming, there’s one complaint that has bubbled up for years now, and never seems to go away: touchscreen controls are a pain in the ass. See, for a lot of games, those touch-based controls are just straight-up inferior to buttons and joysticks, and to many gamers, recent iOS ports like…

The Amazing Story Of A Game That Took 13 Years To Make

Adam Butcher has spent half his life making a single game. Today, you can finally play it—and this is the inspiring story of why it took so long for Butcher to finish. The game, which is called Tobias and the Dark Scepters, might not seem impressive when you play it—it’s definitely a relic of the…

An Early Access Program For Xbox or PlayStation? Maybe.

As popular as Steam’s Early Access program is for PC games, you’d think one of the big consoles might have a plan of their own to let gamers regularly pay for and play games before they’re finished. They don’t, but from what two top people at Sony and Microsoft told me, they’re at least thinking…

You have an extra week to play the beta of Battlefield Hardline The preview test of EA’s upcoming cops-vs-robbers FPS was supposed to end this Thursday but the publisher just announced that they’re extending it it until June 26.

The PS4 Now Supports Pre-Loading

You’ll now be able to download and install many digital PS4 games before they come out—like you can on the PC—thanks to a new pre-loading plan that Sony just announced You won’t be able to play those games until their release dates, of course. But if you know you’re going to buy a game, and…

Guy Turns Nintendo 64 Into Hot Pink Barbie Corvette

Your boring old grey console is totally lame compared to this hot pink Barbie Corvette that craftsman Robin Graves turned into an actual working N64. I met Graves, who asked that we not use his real name, at E3 last week, where he told me about this project and promised to send over some photos.…

Team Fortress 2 Has An Update. Let The Conspiracy Theories Begin.

Immediately after we posted the newest Team Fortress short yesterday, someone commented and pointed out mysterious numbers in the subtitles—because of course someone noticed something like that. What does it mean? Cripes, I don’t know. It was probably just a mistake that wasn’t even meant to be there. But Valve fans are notorious for picking…

Meet Far Cry 4’s Handsome Star

This is Ajay Ghale—aka who you’ll play as when you’re off exploding elephants or whatever it is you choose to do in Far Cry 4.

Goat Simulator Would Be Pure Chaos In Real Life

What if the absurdity and destruction of Goat Simulator bleed into real life? If this video is anything to go by, it would be kind of amazing. Stefman398 went ahead and made a live-action version of Goat Simulator, and the results are wonderful. This depiction even has some of the real achievements you can get…

Deals: Age of Extinction, PSN Update, Kerbal Space Program, Roku Mania

If you’re a Transformers fan and planning to see Age of Extinction, buying any of the other films will net you credit toward tickets for it. [Age of Extinction Promotion] Want all our deals in one ever-updating post every morning? Check out Kinja Deals There are a ton of great pre-order deals happening at the…

​A Game That Takes Place After You’ve Killed Your Own Kid

It’s every parent’s nightmare: that somehow, some way, your actions wind up causing physical or psychological harm to your child. A new in-development game aims to put players in the repercussions of the death of a boy. A death that’s your fault. In A Song for Viggo, you play as a dad who accidentally kills…

How Super Mario Characters Have Sex

If you’ve ever wanted to know how Thwomps make love, this is the video for you. Dorkly’s take on Mushroom Kingdom sex is about 10% as gross and 400% funnier than I expected it to be. Watch. Laugh. Enjoy. Squirm a little. It’s totally worth it. [h/t Buzzfeed]

EA Has a Good Plan To Make Their Games Better

EA is going to do some obvious things—and some unusual things—to make games that work better and that you’ll like more, the company’s CEO, Andrew Wilson, recently explained to me during an interview in L.A. If there’s a recurring theme, it could be summed up in a word: “early.” Or, maybe, “earlier.” First up, they’re…

The Future of Zelda

Last week at E3, I got to chat with the fine folks behind the next two Zelda games: the action spinoff Hyrule Warriors and the recently-announced open-world Zelda that will be out next year. Both games are on Wii U. We talked about what Hyrule Warriors will do, what “Zelda” actually means, and whether a…

Wondering when GTA Online will get those heists that Rockstar had promised for this spring? “We are very sorry for the delay, and are working hard to bring them to you as soon as we can,” Rockstar wrote on their blog this morning. No word on a new release date yet.

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Deface The Battletoads As Much As You Want, They’ll Still Be Cool

Here’s Rash, Zitz and Pimple, beat-em up heroes from the 90s, reimagined by artist K. Che as bloody, giant, realistic frogs. These guys would eat the Dark Queen alive. They might not be the foolish cartoony characters we remember from the NES era, but those goggles are still cool: Battletoads by K. Che [DeviantART, via…

Professor X Has A Crush On Jean Grey After All

Now that both Cyclops and Wolverine are fired, nothing can stop Charles ‘Pete Holmes’ Xavier to share his feelings and try to seduce Jean Grey. Of course, that’s not how it works. You need more than that. Ex-Men: Jean Grey [Pete Holmes, YouTube] To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

DeviantART artist HeavyMetalHanzo‘s Zelda art will bring back the excitement for the Wii U game that was announced last week. He captured the chase scene of the trailer and kept the awesome colorful theme. Here’s a GIF version: And here’s the full pic: The Legend of Zelda Wii U by HeavyMetalHanzo [DeviantART] Dayshot is an…

Xbox Japan’s Tweet From Last Week Seems Pretty Embarrassing

Japan has never been an easy climb for Microsoft’s game console. Xbox Japan never seems to catch a break. And this recent E3 tweet shows exactly why. The tweet from Xbox Japan’s official account reads: “Here is the photo spot for Destiny, the latest FPS made by Bungie of Halo fame.” Less than a week…