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Infinite Crisis “What Do You Fight For?” trailer

Random Game Concept Generator. Via BB

The ballpark of the future according to Sports Illustrated: What can baseball fans expect their stadiums to look like in 20 years’ time? To find out, Sports Illustrated approached Populous—one of the world’s most prolific stadium designers and the architects behind roughly 20 MLB stadiums, including the two most recent venues in New York, Target…

Chroma Squad—”All 3 Japanese TV Ads”: We are going full Japanese with this new trailer for their simulation/turn-based strategy game Chroma Squad. Literally. The trailer is fully voiced in Japanese and includes classic tenets from eastern culture such as curry rice and brightly-colored letters that blow up on the screen faster than anyone could possibly…

Penis Mods: you’ve got to read this hilarious write-up by Cara Ellison about “schlongs of Skyrim” mod, which she coupled with the “Bathing Beefcake Luxury Suite” mod. It’s as amusing as it sounds.

New pictures of the Link and Ganondorf Twilight Princess figures, listed for July 30: Link Figure Packaged in gatefold window box. $79.99 Ganondorf Figure Packaged in gatefold window box. $124.99 The Link figure measures 10” high on, sculpted base, and the Ganondorf figure measures 12”. Each is meticulously detailed and has been approved by Nintendo…

This Game Jam Is About Bringing To Life A Computer’s Weirdest Ideas

Orteil42, creator of Cookie Clicker, has a toy on his website that generates random game concepts like “A tycoon game where you stop breathing if you don’t hug chores.” Now, there’s a game jam to make those games real. Insanity Jam is set up around the idea of one-person teams making games based on the…

Snazzy Snake: check out the awesome reversible cover on the physical copies of Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes. Here’s the front cover, for comparison’s sake.

Days of Future Past Heroclix Nightcrawler.

Attack on Titanfall by BossLogic

Seven Types of People You Don’t Want To Watch TV With

Watching TV can be a great communal experience, a thing you love doing with friends and family…or it can suck, depending on the type of person you do it with. Hopefully the people you watch TV with are nothing like the folks in this comic by Dorkly, though. You can check out more great Dorkly…

Remember To Play Titanfall With Style, Folks

There’s nothing quite like the moment in Titanfall when you finally call down your giant mech, sprint across the battlefield, and leap into the cockpit. It’s robot fightin’ time! Lately I’ve gotten a bit obsessed with style, specifically with trying to climb into my titan in the coolest way possible. So far, I’d say the…

A Gauntlet For Our Modern Era

I love playing Gauntlet, but sometimes you want something faster, leaner and more aggressive. Indie hopeful The Hero Trap hopes to fill that void. Nikita Mikros (One of the dudes behind the fantastic local multiplayer game Killer Queen) and Smashworx are trying to kickstart The Hero Trap, a multiplayer, dungeon roguelike in the vein of…

Seven Minutes of Uncomfortably Close Calls

And there is only one thing we say to Death: ‘Not today’. ‘Close-call’ videos—the ones where someone narrowly avoids a disaster of some kind—may induce anxiety, but that’s exactly what makes them so thrilling to watch. Uniformedia has compiled some of the best close calls in the last year, and you can watch them all…

Trippy game gets trippy, interactive trailer. Metrico—which charmed the heck out of me when I saw it at PAX Prime last year—offers a small glimpse at the gameplay and design sensibilities inside its infographic, puzzle-heavy world. There’s a bit more about the upcoming Vita release at the official PlayStation blog

Nice, Card Hunter is getting a tablet version. Blue Manchu’s terrific tactics RPG/deck-building game Card Hunter always seemed suited to tablet devices, and now, it’s finally happening. The tablet version will be a free-to-play app, similar to the browser-based original. The release date is still TBD.

​This Is The Latest Steam Controller

Valve just sent us this image, a more clear depiction of the latest Steam Controller prototype that they detailed back in January Likely in the interest of backward compatibility, this latest prototype has eight clear buttons on the front, which will doubtless make it easier for the controller to support Xbox 360-style XInput controls. It’ll…

You want a game set in a New York City analogue to be made by actual New Yorkers, don’t you? Then go lend your efforts to the final few hours of the Kickstarter campaign for Treachery in Beatdown City. The latest development video captures a bit of how Shawn Alexander Allen and his colleagues are…

The Good And Bad Of South Park‘s Combat

There was a point in South Park: The Stick of Truth—somewhere between performing an abortion and farting on Nazi zombies—when it occurred to me that Obsidian’s new RPG isn’t just ridiculous—it’s also kind of brilliant. Much has been made about Stick of Truth‘s impeccable comic timing—and it is impeccable!—but just as impressive is the game’s…

Hyper Light Drifter Is the Latest Stylish Indie Heading to PS4 and Vita

It’s getting so that you can’t keep track of them all. Fez, Galak-Z, Pavilion… those are just a few of the buzzed-about games (or proven successes in the case of Fez) that are announced as coming to PlayStation platforms over the few months. Now, Hyper Light Drifter—the sharp-looking action RPG being made by Heart Machine—joins…