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They Took An Oculus Rift On A Real Roller Coaster For Some Reason

You may be asking yourself, why would anyone strap on an Oculus Rift while riding an actual roller coaster—why not just enjoy the experience of riding the roller coaster? Good question. And yet these guys snuck an Oculus Rift on a a real ride anyway. Edmond O’Driscoll and Jonathan Forder concealed the device under their…

Here’s your weekly JRPG discussion thread. No column this week, but chat about JRPGs right here. Playing anything good these days?

10 Pokémon That Should Get Mega Evolutions In The Remakes

With Pokémon Omega Ruby and Pokémon Alpha Sapphire releasing later this year, fans have already started excitedly speculating about all the third generation Pokémon that might get a mega evolution—and this is that we don’t officially know if the remakes will have any. But who cares! Speculating is fun. NateWantsToBattle gives us his personal wishlist…

The Curious Game That Might Not Exist

Fighting games don’t get a lot of love from the mainstream video game industry these days. So when someone—anyone—comes along promising to bring back the supremely gory glory of nineties-era arcade classics like Mortal Kombat into the modern era, genre-inclined gamers will listen. Necrostorm, an obscure Italian studio that mostly trades in a gruesome sub-genre…

Space Travel Could Be Horrifying For Stupid Reasons

Johnny Express is a short animation about an intergalactic deliveryman who is pretty lazy and… not very careful where he puts things. The animation and character design is adorable, but it’s covering up some pretty terrible events. Poor little purple dudes 🙁 JohnnyExpress[Vimeo] via Reddit

Walking Dead Season 4 Limited Edition, Humble, Free Plants Vs. Zombies

The Walking Dead Season 4 Limited Edition is up for pre-order now, $40 off the list price and with Amazon’s pre-order price guarantee. No charge until August when it ships. For comparison The Walking Dead Season 3 LE is still going that price now, when it’s available. [Walking Dead Season 4 LE, $91] Pick up…

It’s Hard To Believe This Is An Indie RPG

This is Shiness, an upcoming role-playing game by a team of independent French developers. It looks… phenomenal. This could certainly pass for a big-budget JRPG. The folks behind the game are asking for $100,000 on Kickstarter, and while I’m growing more and more skeptical of crowdfunded projects with each passing day, it’s hard not to…

The Walking Dead Season 2, Episode 3 Hits Next Week

Clementine’s journey through the bleak zombie apocalypse world of The Walking Dead continue next week, when the latest episode of the hit series arrives on multiple platforms. Here’s the rollout schedule for Episode 3 of The Walking Dead Season 2: May 13th: PC/Mac via Steam, the Telltale Online Store and other digital distribution services; on…

Action Henk Remembers The Joy Of Hot Wheels

Henk is a Dutch male first name. Action Henk is a video game where you run an action figure named Henk through Hot Wheels-style tracks as fast as you can. Action Henk is basically a Trials-style game where you’re competing to put the fastest time on the leaderboards. There are no tricks to boost your…

World’s First Alaskan Native Video Game Looks Like a Lovely Fairy Tale

Alaska is far. And cold. But, there are beautiful stories there. Like many remote places, it’s home to a rich culture that many people might never learn about. How best to tell the world the tales that come from such a place? Make a video game. The first trailer for Never Alone appeared overnight and…

Asteroids meets LEGO in Captain Forever Remix, a newly-announced remake of the space shooter Captain Forever. It’s being developed by Dean Tate, a veteran designer who worked on BioShock and the excellent iOS game Captain Bubblenaut.

Someone Edited Star Wars Episodes I-III Into One Movie [UPDATE: Gone]

UPDATE (6:58pm): And the video’s now gone, presumably removed for copyright reasons. Original post follows: Clocking in at two hours and 47 minutes, this is Star Wars: Turn To The Dark Side, a recut version of Episodes I, II, and III that ditches the Jar-Jar nonsense in favor of focusing on Anakin’s relationship with Padme…

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What’s Up With Blizzard’s Project Titan?

PLUS MORE GAMING SECRETS AND RUMORS: Microsoft big wig leaves for Blizzard | Quantic Dreams’ next two projects | A very different kind of Need for Speed that we never got On their resume, a Blizzard staffer states that they “are working a top-secret project to be unveiled sometime in 2014.” The most likely candidates…

It’s Always a Mess When Supervillains Team Up

Supervillain teams are destined to fail, whether it’s Carnage and his team of villains, Doctor Doom and whoever he was able to force to join, or—in this case—the Sinister Six. With their ego, it just cannot work. Here’s Dorkly’s piece about the mathematical law of Superhero film villains. Hopefully the Sinister Six will be a…

Paul Kwon is a concept artist at Riot Games, and when he’s not busy creating League of Legends champions and skins, he creates fan-art of other video game characters—like this superb piece, featuring Midna’s both forms from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. The finished pic, in its full glory, is below. Dayshot is an…

Sony Reverses Plans For Stupid PS4 ‘Upgrade’

Earlier this week, Sony announced that the upcoming PS4 racing game DriveClub would have a very terrible upgrade plan: PlayStation Plus members would be able to get a demo of the game for free, then upgrade for $50—$10 cheaper than retail—but the whole game would disappear as soon as their PS Plus membership expired. Unsurprisingly,…

Conan O’Brien Picks A Title For Star Wars: Episode VII

Rumors were floating around this week regarding a possible working title for Star Wars: Episode VII, ‘The Ancient Fear’, but Conan O’Brien is not happy with that, and has some other ideas. Whether it is a good title or not, one thing is for sure: ‘The Ancient Fear’ is still much better than ‘Attack of…

Project Temporality, AKA Portal-With-Time-Travel, will be out on Steam on May 20. There’s a new trailer above with some hot, single player co-op action to get you in the mood.

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