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Wind Waker fan art by Faith Erin Hicks

Oculus Rift Lets You Visit The…Supermarket

Hahaha, and you thought our glorious virtual reality future was going to be just for games. Nope. It’s going to be used to sell you crap as well. This is a pitch for British supermarket giant Tesco, exploring how the Oculus Rift can be used to “change consumer behaviour” and “communicate your brand’s message”. If…

PS3 & Xbox 360 Emulation Is Coming, Whether You Like It Or Not

I have two retail copies of Wind Waker for two Nintendo platforms in my house, but most times, whenever I get the urge to play it, I play it on PC via emulation. Such is the convenience, and added visual firepower, of the personal computer. Yes, the practice is a haven for people playing games…

Kids From Around The World Share Their Favorite Toys

No matter where you are in the world, you can count on one thing: kids love to have fun and play with toys. While researching a magazine article, photographer Gabriele Galimberti took a whole bunch of photographs of children all over the world with their most prized possessions, toys. The toys showcased vary from child…

The game is called Escape Goat 2. That’s probably all you need to know, right? Here’s the launch trailer for MagicalTimeBean’s Metroid-ish platformer, out now on Steam, GoG and the Humble store. Looks fun!

Futurama Ship Looks Like CGI, Is Actually Real Model

Harrison Krix is a guy who we normally post about for his props work, recreating famous video game weapons, but this piece is a little different. He’s recreated the Planet Express ship from Futurama. And has done it in such excruciating detail that the pictures of the final product look more like a CG render…

​Infamous: Second Son‘s Protesters Are Terrible At Protesting

It can’t be easy, being an innocent civilian in the world of Infamous: Second Son. The government has put your city on lockdown, everyone’s suspected of terrorism, and a guy with superpowers just blew up your car. It’s enough to make you want to take to the streets and protest. That’s just what a group…

Taken some bizarre, life-altering road trips in your day? Here’s a game that’s probably going to appeal to you. Glitchhikers puts you on the road in the deepest, weirdest recesses of the dark night and opens up the passenger-side door to some pretty weird folks. Find out more here

Two new Super Time Force screenshots. Xbox Wire has more information: Fortunately, you can replay levels, lest you miss Zackasaurus, a skateboarding dinosaur, the bazooka and big hair-wielding Jef Leppard, or Squirty Harry, who is too disgusting to warrant further description.

Interested in writing about games? Last week a bunch of game critics attended the first-ever Critical Proximity mini-conference in San Francisco. I gave a talk; my topic was “Writing games criticism for a mainstream audience.” You can read a text version here. The conference ran last Sunday, March 16, in San Francisco. It was in…

Seven Things You Might Not Know About Street Fighter

Now that we know who the final character in the upcoming Ultra Street Fighter IV is, it seems like a great time to look back on the franchise. Since the franchise is almost 27 years old (!), there’s a ton of trivia to reminisce about. This video by DYKGaming is jam packed with all sorts…

Disney has just purchased Maker Studios—the YouTube network that includes personalities like PewDiePie—for $500 million, with $450 million more possible via performance-based bonuses. Nice haul, YouTubers.

EA Loses ‘Worst Company In America’ Contest In First Round

Congratulations, Time Warner Cable. You’re so terrible that you’ve convinced the masses not just to knock out EA—two-time winner of the Worst Company in America award—but to knock them out in the first round EA took home Worst Company honors in 2012 and 2013 following controversies surrounding some of their video games, like Mass Effect…

Roombas Love To Party

I love it when people take boring, everyday objects and use them to make art. And what’s more artsy than turning your house into a Roomba dance party? The folks over at Sunchaser Pictures did something very simple: Strapped some lights to their Roombas, set up a camera set to a long exposure and let…

Bowser and Doctor Eggman posters by Chad Woodward

Here’s A Game You Can’t Judge By Its Graphics

When I sat down at a park bench in the Yerba Buena gardens by the Game Developers Conference last week to play a build of Road Not Taken—a game named after the Robert Frost poem—my initial thought was that it seemed too adorable to say anything particularly deep. Like say, commenting on the inability to…

Seven Thief Wallpapers

Gallery of eight Thief Steam trading cards suitable for use as desktop wallpapers. Via Wikia

A Much Better Version Of Reaper Of Souls‘ Opening Cinematic

In honor of tonight’s launch of Diablo III: Reaper of Souls, the fine folks at Carbot Animation have delivered their own interpretation of the expansion’s dark, doom-filled opening cinematic. It’s so good. Okay, maybe the tone is a bit off. Let’s compare. Nope, pretty much the same.

Lady Gaga Loves Minecraft

Lady Gaga has a wide range of interests—like being vomited on, for example. She’s also a Minecraft fan, judging from her latest music video for G.U.Y—a single off her latest album, Artpop. The GIF above is a sliver of a scene where Gaga uses Minecraft to, uh, revive Michael Jackson, Jesus, and Gandhi. Because video…

PlayStation’s ‘Origin Story’ Is Today’s Funniest Video

If you thought you knew how Ken Kutaragi, onetime CEO of Sony, turned the PlayStation into a success, you were way wrong. This is the real story: Comedy group Mega64 have outdone themselves with this one. Don’t miss the top-secret Kutaragi cameo at the end. (Top gif via NeoGAF)