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​An Indie Game That Nails The Joy of Swinging

A Story About My Uncle gets a few things very right. Jumping, swinging, not throwing a gun in your face and forcing you to murder aliens. In the video above, I give my impressions of the game, of a game that’s lineage is squarely in the vein of games like Portal and Jumping Flash A…

The big Battlefield news this week was about Hardline, but EA doesn’t want you think that means it’s forgotten about Battlefield 4. Longtime series developer Karl Magnus Troedsson wrote a blog post yesterday assuring fans of the still-struggling online multiplayer shooter that DICE will “continue to improve the BF4 experience” as best it can. “Yes,…

Does E3 Still Matter?

It’s been a weird pre-E3 month. Companies like Microsoft, EA, and Bethesda have made big announcements before the big show. Nintendo’s not even doing an official press conference at all. Is there still a point to E3? Or has it become a walking, talking, slowly dying dinosaur? It’s been a sort of inevitable question among…

LeVar Burton Wants To Bring Reading Rainbow To Game Consoles

By now you’ve probably seen the extraordinarily successful Kickstarter campaign for Reading Rainbow, the TV show hosted actor LeVar Burton that helps teach kids to love reading books. They’ve already raised $2.8 million for the project, which hopes to bring the show to children everywhere. Naturally, they want to make more money. And one of…

Zenzizenzic is a mouthful of a video game But it’s got to be the prettiest mouthful I’ve ever seen. If you can’t stop looking at these mesmerizing GIFs either, check in on its Kickstarter campaign while you still can. Seriously, just look at these things: This game is going to make my head explode and…

Glenn Beck Thinks Watch Dogs Teaches People How To Hack In Real Life

I doubt anyone expects conservative pundit Glenn Beck to say anything particularly insightful about games, judging by the ignorant comments he’s made about the industry in the past. But listening to him talk about Watch Dogs is kind of funny, since he’s convinced it’ll teach kids how to hack into his iPad. To be fair,…

In Defense Of E3

A few weeks ago, I realized something strange and kind of disconcerting: I enjoy E3 press conferences more than actually playing video games. I know. I know. E3 is just one big marketing blob, a neon potpourri of dubstep and shooters where executives talk like robots and mega-publishers compete over who has the shiniest guns.…

Man, I Could’ve Sworn I Was Done Killing Nazis

I expected to hate the new Wolfenstein. I wanted to, even. The whole idea of rebooting the Nazi-killing epic for the umpteenth time disturbed me. I don’t remember where I was or what I was doing when I first learned that the Wolfenstein franchise was being brought back to life by a new Dr. Frankenstein—this…

Microsoft Sure Wants Folks to Find Ryse‘s Five-Month-Old Easter Eggs

Are you still playing Ryse, the Xbox One launch game where you play as a gladiator in ancient Rome? Notice any bizarre unexplained happenings in the background, like nude dancing ladies? That might just be one of Ryse‘s weird easter eggs. Nine surprises have been embedded in the Crytek-developed combat drama. So far, Microsoft says…

New Football Game Will Use Real Player Names, Despite Madden Exclusivity

The upcoming video game Football Heroes: Pro Edition will sport a license from the NFL Players Association, making it one of the only non-Madden game in a decade to include pro football players’ names, according to the game’s creators and the players’ group. This is a plot twist in the ongoing saga of EA’s Madden…

$1 Buy-In for Poker Night, Revengeance, Criterion Collection Sale

Poker Night at the Inventory and Poker Night 2 were already a fun diversion at $5, but at $1, why not? [Poker Night at the Inventory, $1 / Poker Night 2, $1] Tomorrow is your final day to partake in Amazon’s massive Digital Games Mayhem sale, so be sure to give the catalog one final…

You Can Play As Shrek In League of Legends

Normally, to play as Shrek in League of Legends, you’d have to play a Chinese clone of the game. But now, thanks to a mod, you can play as the king of the swamp in the actual game—but only if you use Alistar. You can see the mod in action in this video by UberDanger.…

The Best Way To End A Round In Titanfall

At the end of each round of Titanfall, the losing team has to get to the evacuation ship and escape, while still being chased by the enemy team. The safest way to do it? Eject straight from your titan into the ship as it warps away. ejecting into the evac ship via Reddit Watchlist is…

No, Ubisoft Didn’t Claim Copyright On Their Own YouTube Channel

Welcome to the world of information, where viral images will blast across social media and reach tons and tons of people, so long as they’re tinged with humor, irony, or any of those other Shareable Qualities that 2014’s Viral Experts love. Sadly, these images are almost never accurate. They’re always missing some information, or some…

“Victory and defeat are just lies told out of two sides of the same mouth. This is the Blue Shell of collapse, the Blue Shell of financial crisis, the Blue Shell of the New Gilded Age.” That’s game designer/academic Ian Bogost on the most hated and feared pick-up in the Mario Kart series. His essay…

Rumored ‘Project Beast’ Clips Sure Look Incredible

Early this month, rumors about something called “Project Beast” started floating across the web. A number of screenshots, posted on 4chan and compiled in this NeoGAF thread, allegedly showed off an upcoming PS4 game developed by From Software, the studio behind Dark Souls Today, potentially leaked clips have emerged, and they look fantastic. Though we…

Why Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2 Is Better Than The Original

If you ask a bunch of folks which Star Wars video game is the best, more often than not you’ll be told Knights of the Old Republic. The first one, not the second, of course. I disagree. The first Knights of the Old Republic, developed by the acclaimed BioWare studio and released in 2003, feels…

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Watch Dogs Is Finally About Watching Dogs

Just as Lightning doesn’t return Final Fantasy XIII, there’s no way to watch dogs in Watch Dogs even though the title suggests it. Mashed fix this with their latest animation. It would be… an interesting game. Watch Dogs | Mr Weebl | MASHED [YouTube] To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

J-Pop Songs Are Better With Airsoft Guns

NicoNico user Hihebi probably doesn’t have any issues doing perfect runs on the Japanese rhythm game Hatsune Miku: Project Diva F, since he’s able to play one of its songs using airsoft guns. The song is Senbonzakura (Thousand Cherry Blossoms), one of the most popular Hatsune Miku tunes. via NicoNicoDouga To contact the author of…