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Borderlands 2 on the PS Vita looks… pretty much like you’d expect. Courtesy of YouTuber AtomixVG, here’s four minutes’ worth of footage of the portable version of Gearbox’s loot-happy shooter, straight from this year’s Game Developers Conference. Vid’s above, enjoy.

Awesome First-Person Spellcasting RPG Is Now Playable

Lichdom: Battlemage first emerged several months ago in the form of a trailer showcasing some excellent-looking spellcasting action. Now, its pre-alpha version is on Steam. It’s pretty great. Admittedly I only played a whopping 44 minutes of it, but I can already tell that this is probably the most polished and fun pre-alpha game I’ve…

Sony is going to start offering original TV content via the PlayStation Network, Variety reports. First up will be an adaptation of the Powers comic series, which was originally intended for the FX Network.

PC Gamer have the first gameplay footage for Clockwork Empires, a Steampunk game where you build settlements. Anyone who felt Banished was a little dry might want to check this out. It’s got a very Bullfrog vibe.

Replicas Of Classic Controllers, Available Now For Your “PC” Gaming

Let’s say you, um, found some way of playing old console games on your PC. You cold use a keyboard, or a 360 pad, but that’s lacking in authenticity. No, if you’re playing a classic console game, you need a classic console controller. Think Geek are thus selling what they’re calling “Classic Console USB Controllers”,…

It may not have the sex appeal of space shooters or Sony’s industrial design, but this Nintendo VR solution is quick, easy and available right now to Wii U owners worldwide. Introducing the Nintendo VRu [Reddit]

Microsoft Wants To Reward Good Behaviour On Xbox Live

Microsoft is currently “brainstorming” ideas on how to reward well-behaved Xbox Live players. In other words, after a decade of policing Xbox Live’s worst offenders, they’re going to see if the carrot works better than the stick. Microsoft’s Frank Savage said at a GDC panel earlier today that the company is going to try and…

EA Server Hacked To Run A Scam (That’s Now Been Shut Down)

According to a report from internet security firm Netcraft, an Electronic Arts server was recently hacked, and until it was shut down was being used to run a phishing scam that targeted Apple customers The server in question was “used by two websites in the ea.com domain”. Netcraft says that the scam was trying to…

The Shortest Video Game Interview You’ll Ever Need To Read

Our GDC cartoonist Elizabeth Simins got to interview Peter Molyneux earlier today. Most Peter Molyneux interviews you will see involve loads of text, or video, or audio. This one involves a comic. It really captures the quirks of interviewing someone professionally; you’re expecting a very business-like procedure to take place, but it’s the little things…

Silly Titanfall Glitch Lets You Ride Enemy Pilots

Riding mechs in Titanfall? Great idea. Riding other people? Uhhhh. That’s a one-way ticket to sometimes disorienting hilarity (and being called a hacker, probably). Check out what happens when kensim28 accidentally finds themselves rodeoing an enemy pilot—amusingly, despite being so close to each other, actually killing the other pilot proves a tad difficult. And to…

Looks like the Splinter Cell movie might actually be getting made. The Hollywood Reporter says that Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity) will be directing, with shooting to start in August and a release planned for 2015.

10 Countries That Have Blocked YouTube (And Why)

Past or present, some countries haven’t been too happy with YouTube. Or, more accurately, with certain content that they’ve found on there. Which, if you really wanted to, you could probably find all sorts of offensive videos on there to get ban-worthy mad at. In Tina Country, for instance, there are only cute cat and…

Watch Valve’s Film About The Best Dota 2 Players, Right Here

At this moment, there are 385,000 people playing Dota 2, and millions more play it every day. Valve’s new documentary about the first major Dota 2 competition is a great peek at some of the players behind one of the world’s biggest games. The basic idea behind the film basically boils down to “Dota 2…

What An Honest Kickstarter Video Would Look Like

Something something we have no idea what we’re doing something something but give us all your money and we’ll probably never deliver on our promises. Also give us your money. Obviously not all Kickstarters are miscalculated judgments and ideas, failures or straight up scams. Some have been incredibly exciting and successful. It’s been a great…

Edward Pun offers a happy medium on the tv and comic book versions of Deathlok.

Much has been made about Dark Souls II‘s graphical downgrade between E3 2013 and final release. Here’s Dark Souls II developer From Software addressing things in a statement to Kotaku: “Throughout the game development process, a game is constantly being balanced not only in game playability, but also in the realm of resource management. A…

You’ll Never Guess Who’s Lending His Voice To Kinect Sports Rivals

Making his video game voiceover debut next month in Kinect Sports Rivals, the Tenth Doctor and the grumpy dying detective from Broadchurch, Mr. David Tennant. Isn’t he dreamy? Is it wrong that I suddenly want to give Kinect Sports Rivals more of a chance than I did before learning Tennant was providing his voice to…

​Let the Next-Gen Engine for The Division Blow Your Mind Even More

Quick, think of the burliest video game engines that you’ve seen lately. Frostbite 3. Unreal Engine 4. That Luminous Studio demo Square Enix showed off at E3 2012. Project Cars. Pretty soon, you’re going to have to add Snowdrop to that list. Ubisoft first showed the tech behind its upcoming Tom Clancy game at E3…

The Latest In Dark Souls II Trolling

PVP in Dark Souls II is mostly a straightforward affair — You invade or duel, kill your target, and then finish with a condescending gesture. But what about when you pretend to be a friendly, neighborhood co-op partner? Hilarity, that’s what. Watch as Yogscast YouTuber Strippin’ trolls unsuspecting players into thinking they can totally trust…

9 Things To Know About The PS4’s Virtual Reality Headset

Sony only just officially announced the existence of a virtual reality headset they’re working on, named Project Morpheus, so you can imagine details will still be trickling in as we learn more about this Oculus Rift competitor. Enter PlayStation Access, who have a few more details about this headset. They cover a little bit about…