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Thank Goodness Someone Is Making A New First-Person Swimming Game

One of the more odd delights on Nintendo’s Wii console was a two-game series called Endless Ocean. The peaceful games let players virtually scuba dive and take pictures of the wildlife below the surface of the sea. Enter World of Diving, a new game about pretty much the same thing, except it’s first-person, you can…

A Strategy Game About Space Junk

Have you noticed all the small-scale sci-fi strategy games these days? No complaints here, given how good the spaceship-survival game FTL is and how well the minimalist space-station-building Rymdkapsel turned out. There’s Double Fine’s Spacebase DF9, too. Next? Habitat, a game about making space stations from space junk. The video above shows you plenty about…

​Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Creator Not a Fan of New Movie Makeover

The comic creator who helped give Leo, Mike, Raph and Don their iconic looks isn’t too sure about the human-like mouths and noses that they’ll be sporting in the upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie Peter Laird—who helped give birth to the Turtles along with Kevin Eastman back in 1984—gave an interview to Comic Book…

Titanfall On Xbox 360 Seems To Run Pretty Darn Well

I’ll admit it: I assumed that the Xbox 360 version of Titanfall would be hot garbage, especially once we found out that Respawn—the studio behind the PC and Xbox One versions—hadn’t actually made it. And now I’m happy to admit I was wrong: Digital Foundry did one of their in-depth performance analyses on last-gen Titanfall,…

I Wish All Dota 2 Fan Films Looked This Good

Valve’s Source Filmmaker is an amazing tool, and this fan film is a great example. It shows poor Tidehunter trying to land a hit on Kunkka and failing. And failing. And failing. I hope Valve hires this guy to do the clips for their future Dota 2 videos. via palingenesie

Borderlands 2 comes to Vita on May 13, Sony just announced. Starting May 6, you can also get a bundle with the game, a Vita Slim, and an 8 GB memory card for $200. (Not that 8 GB is enough; if you really want to take advantage of the Vita—which is a great system!—you’ll need…

An Entirely New Way To Play Pokémon

Pokémon, in first person, played with an Oculus Rift plus a ‘virtual reality treadmill’ called the Virtuix Omni—which allows you to walk around naturally in a game. This is the future, folks. This is probably the most ‘realistic’ way to play Pokémon, too—imagine running through tall grass when your entire party is almost wiped out,…

Check Out An Hour Of Dark Souls 2 On PC

The guys at Giant Bomb play enough Dark Souls already, so of course they’re right on top of the PC version. If you’re wondering about any of the differences between the console and PC version, they go through all the details as they play.

AMD Radeon R9 295X2 Review: A Dual-GPU Beast

We first caught wind of an upcoming dual-GPU Hawaii graphics card this time last month when AMD teased us with its top-secret “Two is Better Than One” campaign. Although AMD didn’t actually reveal anything, it was clearly planning a successor to the Radeon HD 7990, which is essentially two Tahiti dies on a single board,…

​Here Are All The Settings For Dark Souls II On PC

PC gamers are understandably wary of Dark Souls II. The first Dark Souls arrived on PC in less than ideal shape, with a limited frame-rate and resolution and lousy controls. The big question has been: How will the PC version of Dark Souls II stack up? The first game was rescued by heroic modders, and…

Eight iPhone Tricks You Might Not Know About

Your phone is capable of more things than you might realize—though some of the small, neat features the iPhone comes packaged with aren’t well-advertised or explained. Thankfully, BuzzFeedVideo is here to walk us through a bunch of iPhone tricks, including: How to tell what time you sent a text How to use the iPhone as…

Now This Is How You Troll Clueless Marketers

Say you’re a video game developer. You get one of those annoying e-mail blasts from some corporate marketing firm that wants you to pay them for their vague services. You could ignore it. You could delete it. You could report it for spam. Or, if you’re Davey Wreden, creator of The Stanley Parable, you could…

The Most EXTREME Moments In Game of Thrones

So extreme. Spoilers for seasons 1-3, I guess. (via Sascha Stanton-Craven)

All Things Titanfall, Discount Credit Everywhere, Smaug [Deals]

The coveted limited edition Titanfall Xbox Controller sold out very quickly. Get it before it’s gone again. Shipping May 6th. The new Playstation Vita is lighter, slimmer, and has a better battery, and this bundle includes the excellent Borderlands 2, complete with cross-save functionality with the PS3 version. $200 gets you the console, the game,…

​A Game That Helped Me Cope With A Family Member’s Dementia

One of the conceits of adventure games that made them so strong in the 90s was their flexibility. By focusing on plot and puzzles, the range of subject material appropriate to cover expanded immensely. In that respect, Ether One is very much a 90s Adventure game. As I talk about in the video above, Ether…

New Hotline Miami 2 Trailer: Dial Tone

Can’t wait for this sequel!

This Portable N64 Is A Work Of Art, And There Are More Coming

We’ve seen portable retro consoles before, but this N64 mod is beautiful. Not only that, but it looks like there will be more of them on the way, so you just might be able to get one. The portable console uses a 3.5″ screen, internal memory and Rumble Pak, an Expansion Pak, a GameCube analog…

Sure looks like the Avengers are finally coming to Disney Infinity This new teaser features Steve Rogers’ iconic shield ricocheting through the environs of Disney’s collectible toy game. People have been wondering when Marvel characters would be showing up in Disney Infinity and this clip seems to hint that some news will probably come very…

Woody Was A Total Jerk In Early Drafts Of Toy Story

Before Pixar’s 1995 classic won over the hearts of children and the grownups they dragged to the theater with them, protagonist Woody was a very different character. A “sarcastic jerk,” to be precise. Speaking with Marketplace host Kai Ryssdal last night about his new book Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the…

The Crew Is Out This Fall

Ubisoft’s big open-world racing game—announced at E3 last year—will be out for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC this fall, the company said today. Set in the relatively mean streets of North America, The Crew requires an internet connection to play. New gameplay footage above.