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Jack Bauer Really Likes Shooting People In The Leg

From rowdy government officials to creepy terrorist sex cameras, 24 has it all. “Over the top” can’t even begin to describe this wonderful, ridiculous television show. By the end of last night’s episode—1:00pm-2:00pm—Jack Bauer is shooting civilians’ legs in order to start a riot so he can invade the U.S. embassy and rescue a framed…

Titanfall‘s newest patch lets PC players jack up the framerate to an “extreme” 144 fps. It also adds a lot of custom options for the new Private Match game type and a new round of game balance changes.

Toddler-horror game Among the Sleep is coming to the PlayStation 4 — with virtual reality support. As if playing a small child exploring a dark house in search of his missing mother isn’t scary enough, developer Krillbite says the game will be among the first to take advantage of Sony’s Project Morpheus VR technology. Nope,…

WildStar Finally Gets Around To Talking About Raiding

With less than a month left before the June 3 official launch of WildStar, Carbine Studios gives prospective players a look at the high-end raid content topping off the eagerly anticipated science fiction MMORPG. For those of you unfamiliar with massively multiplayer online role-playing game terms, a raid is an adventure meant for large groups…

Using the depth of field settings correctly makes this Minecraft village and its surroundings by MinecraftPhotography such great scenery. It rather looks like a LEGO diorama than an actual shot from the game. Minecraft — Plains Village (UHD Wallpaper)[MinecraftPhotography, DeviantART] Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest…

League of Legends, As a 2D Fighting Game

One thing would be definitely cool in a League of Legends fighting game: There are so many champions in the game that playing them all would take a lot of time. Brazilian artist Iury Padilha transformed a few of these champions and the battlegrounds into a Guilty Gear-like 2D fighter. Here’s an other one from…

The Distant, Lonely Worlds of EVE Online

EVE Online is not just about gigantic space battles. There’s beauty out there in the vast emptiness of space. Andy Kelly and his fantastic series ‘Other Places’ has returned after a hiatus of three months. This time he captured the beauty of EVE Online‘s New Eden. Other Places: New Eden (EVE Online) [ultrabrilliant, YouTube] To…

H.R. Giger Has Passed Away

Swiss artist H.R. Giger, made famous for his work designing the iconic creatures in the Aliens series, has passed away at the age of 74. TV station SRF and SWI report that he died as a result of “injuries sustained in a fall”. Aside from his work on the Alien films, Giger also worked on…

Gundam Sneakers. Because Sure, Why Not.

While these may look like something a very bored fan would come up with in their spare time, they are real. Made by Reebok, and officially-licensed. No release info or pricing yet, but they’ll surely be limited and fairly expensive. I…kinda want a pair. Not to wear out. Just to wear around the house, running…

“Femshep” License Plate

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Video Game Preorders Are Out Of Control

What you’re looking at here is not a complex scientific chart, or a guide to completing your income tax. This is how many different ways you can buy Watch Dogs and all the crap that comes with it. (click “Expand” in the top-left corner to blow it up to a more readable size) This kind…

How Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Turned Itself Around

When Counter-Strike: Global Offensive first launched back in August 2012, CS players around the world could hardly believe it. It’d been nearly eight years since Counter-Strike: Source, and the idea of a new CS was perhaps a little too much for our shootybang brains to comprehend. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK. But while…

Report: Xbox Will Stop Charging You To Watch Netflix, Hulu

According to “multiple sources within Microsoft”, Ars Technica is reporting that Microsoft is set to ditch its long-standing strategy of making users pay for Xbox Live Gold to access services like Netflix and Hulu Plus. Services users already pay for anyway. The change, if true, would likely be announced at E3. If you think that’s…

​What Games Are You Playing This May?

It’s May! The sun is shining, the days are longer than ever, and that means it’s time to play some video games. I’ve been enjoying asking what games you all are playing each month, so I wanted to do the same thing for May. Rather than list all the games I’m playing (though the top…

Remember When The Ninja Turtles Were On Oprah?

Do you not remember what 1990 was like? Well here’s everything about it in one video. Maybe the new version won’t be so bad after all. For some reason, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles decided to stop fighting crime and go on a musical tour, including this stop on Oprah. They apparently found out that…

PS4 Livestreams Are The Best Kind of Weird

The things people will do in front of a camera never cease to amaze, and people who own PS4s are no exception. People aren’t just broadcasting themselves playing games or having sex on the PS4. Christian McCrea, a man who created a blog that documents stuff he comes across on PS4 livestreams, is finding that…

It’s A Sad Day When Fake DLC Looks Real Enough To Click

In a world with horse armor DLC, things that game companies sell as additional content never surprises me—but it’s probably a bad sign that I clicked this particular button half expecting the “Red Boots DLC” to be real, huh? If it wasn’t obvious, this is a screenshot of the post-apocalyptic RPG that was kickstarted in…

Mysterious Fighting Game Gets A New Trailer

Necrostorm has released a new trailer for the fighting game Death Cargo, which we covered in a piece last week about the incredible allegations that the game might not exist. The new video highlights a range of different characters in addition to a fresh batch of appropriately gory deaths. In other words, it’s exactly the…

​Borderlands 2 On Vita Is The Worst Version Of A Good Game

Remember Borderlands 2? It came out a couple years ago, everyone played it a lot and generally really liked it? Of course you do. Well, it’s back. The 2012 first-person shooter, which was hefty on its own and grew even heftier thanks to a whole bunch of post-release downloadable expansions, has come to the PlayStation…