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Anti-Games Senator Accused Of Being A Grand Theft Auto Character

The irony is enough to choke on. California State Senator Leland Yee, long an outspoken critic of violent video games, isn’t just facing bribery charges. He’s also been accused of helping broker marijuana sales and of involving the mafia in an international arms deal As far-fetched as that sounds, that’s exactly what Yee stands accused…

You Can Already Browse Facebook On The Oculus Rift

No need to wait for the completion of corporate buyouts. You can put on the Oculus Rift and use it to look at Facebook right now KO-OP have made the download, which drops Facebook inside “the dream of a 3D web”, which looks enough like bad early-90s virtual reality to be awesome If you’ve got…

Candy Crush’s Developers Just Had A Real Bad Day

King, the controversial developers behind Candy Crush Saga, just finished its first day of trading on the New York Stock Exchange. It was the single worst first day’s trading so far in 2014. After introducing its stock at $22.50, it never got above that mark, instead slowly retreating throughout the day until it was down…

Microsoft’s Early Code Was Full Of F**ks, S**ts And Fart Jokes

Yesterday, the Computer History Museum and Microsoft released the source code for some of the earliest versions of MS-DOS and Word For Windows. And it turns out amongst all the history there’s some interesting stuff. Developer Leon Zandman has been combing through the code, and found some examples of Microsoft coders slipping jokes, f-bombs and…

Grim Game Of Thrones Billboard Is In A Very Inappropriate Place

Millions of people are excited for the next season of Game Of Thrones, so it’s understandable there are giant billboard posters advertising the fourth series. Just…maybe this one in particular shouldn’t be above an old people’s home. Woopsie: Game Of Thrones Billboard Keeps It A Little Too Real Above Old Folks Home [geekologie]

If this Metroid Lego project idea gets 10,000 supporters, Lego will consider making an official Lego set. Vote for it here—by the way, the set would include Samus’ gunship. (Thanks, Christian!)

Would you pay $10 for a David Lo Pan miniature? How about a Cthulhu My Little Pony?

Miniatures from the Cthulhu Mythos Chibi Kickstarter: We need your help bringing our THIRD chibi miniatures project to life. Following up on our classic Dungeon and Asian adventures project, we’re bringing you figures based on the classic horror theme. This is predominately the monsters from the Cthulhu Mythos and the heroes of that age that…

Man Plays Tetris In Real Life, With A Bunch Of Real Stuff

Artist Michael Johansson has a series of pieces he calls Tetris. At first glance they look to be just orderly piles of stuff, but look closer. See the shapes? The colours? Yeah, he’s not just piling up junk neatly, he’s arranging them in Tetris shapes, and making sure they all fight together as perfectly as…

3D Space Invaders Chalk Art

3D Space Invaders chalk art by Leon Keer. You can see more photos from this and other projects by Keer at his personal site and at Flickr

People Are Accidentally Buying Stocks With The Name ‘Oculus’

When Facebook spends two billion on something, people take notice….though perhaps in this case, they didn’t pay close enough attention. CNN reports that following the announcement of the Oculus Rift acquisition by Facebook, stocks belonging Oculus VisionTech (a digital media company) and Oculus Innovative Sciences (a biotechnology company) saw a spike in price thanks to…

Start searching these Alien: Isolation screenshots now for a place to hide

Here’s a big batch of new Alien: Isolation screenshots. You can watch in-game footage and comments from the creators below: Via the Playstation Blog, which has an interview with the creators.

Choice Chamber Puts You In Control Of Someone Else’s Game

Twitch Plays Pokemon was a really fun idea, but it would be even cooler if you were affecting a game that someone else was actually playing. Choice Chamber is trying to do exactly that, and it already looks really fun. You can check out the Kickstarter video above to get an idea of how the…

One Of Gaming’s Greatest Trailers, Remade For…Goat Simulator

Now this…this is how you make a dramatic video game trailer. Pretty glorious, right? For those of you that are confused: this is the launch trailer for Goat Simulator, a game in which you can cause all sorts of chaos as a goat. Like say, blowing stuff up or ruining/enhancing a human’s party with an…

GTA Online Was Made For Heists Like This

The best players on GTA Online realize that if they’re going to commit a robbery, they should either go big or go home. A proper heist takes planning and a good, committed crew. LetsPlay here has the right idea—this is the most elaborate, ridiculous heist I’ve seen on GTA Online. Granted, for all the organization…

​Titanfall Has A Special Kind Of Hell For Cheaters

If you’re a PC player who’s breaking the rules in Titanfall, you’ll still be able play the hit sci-fi FPS. But Respawn’s going to put you on a time-out with the other bad kids. Respawn’s been collecting data about people cheating in Titanfall ever since their hit game dropped, according to a post on the…

The social strategy of Game of Thrones: Ascent is now available for free on iPad. The mobile release comes just in time for the beginning of season four of the HBO series, and will update with fresh content after every TV episode airs. It’s available now on iTunes, with an Android version in the works.

​Titanfall Shows Up in NCIS: Los Angeles Murder Scene

Too bad a Ghost Squad Burn Card doesn’t exist in real life. Permanent cloaking could’ve really helped this poor guy who gets shot in the opening minutes of CBS’ hit military murder mystery series. You know how the cop-drama formula goes: you meet the victim right as they’re doing something exciting/mundane/tawdry, you get a sense…

What The Heck Is Oculus Rift? A Guide To Facebook’s $2 Billion Deal

Yesterday, Facebook bought a virtual reality company called Oculus VR. Shortly afterward, the internet exploded. If you’ve been closely following Oculus and their Oculus Rift VR headset over the past couple of years, you probably already have a ton of thoughts and opinions on all this. But what if you haven’t really been paying attention?…

I Conducted One Of The Final Pre-Facebook Oculus Rift Interviews Ever

They grow up so fast. Last Friday I sat down with Oculus Rift wunderkind Palmer Luckey to discuss the future of VR. He spoke candidly about why he doesn’t feel threatened by Sony’s Morpheus and, most tellingly, Oculus’ responsibility to help make great VR games. The full thing is over at RPS. In light of…

Looks Like Half-Minute Hero 2 Is Coming West

It’s been five years since Half-Minute Hero first came to North America, and now it looks like we’re finally getting the sequel, too. The folks over at publisher Marvelous have been teasing a Steam release of Half-Minute Hero 2 for quite some time, but now it seems imminent. Last night they posted the above trailer,…