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Don’t Move is supposedly a game about “ludonarrative dissonance and player investment manipulation.” What it actually looks like is a twisted social experiment of some sort. But in any case, it’s on Greenlight. And if it gets on Steam, it will cost a dollar, apparently. Hmmm.

Tetsuya Nomura Picks The Three Best Lightning Fanart

Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy character designer Tetsuya Nomura recently judged a fanart contest at deviantART, which featured the Final Fantasy XIII series’ recurring protagonist and costume aficionado, Lightning. After looking through literally thousands of submissions, he picked three. Here they are. The press release announcing the winners also had comments from Nomura for each…

Robots Can Not Beat Us At Ping Pong (Yet)

Man versus machine. It’s always the ultimate showdown, and in this case—where one of the world’s best table tennis players, Timo Boll, goes against one of the fastest ping pong machines out there—it makes for an intense match. While the robots don’t win this time—Boll barely wins by taking advantage of the robotic arm’s limitations—the…

​Catch A Glimpse of Titanfall‘s Expensive Live-Action Series

Usually, you have to wait months, years or decades before someone decides to pour blood, sweat and tears to make a filmed adaptation of a video game. Not with Titanfall. Work’s already underway on an effect-heavy series set in the world of Respawn’s mech-happy future. Looks pretty damn spiffy, if you ask me. This Free…

If you’re hanging out for Driveclub, it might be a while. Sony’s Sony’s Scott Rohde tells IGN the game went “back to the drawing board” last year so they can “make sure the game is great before we ship it.”

I Hope This Is The Future Of Action Figures

Boss Fight Studio are a small toy company, mostly made up of ex-Hasbro folks who worked on lines like GI Joe and Transformers. While they still do licensed work for big companies, its Boss Fight’s design for original action figures that look neat. Despite not having a universe or face to reveal (yet), the company…

Plays Like Syndicate, Looks Like…The Sabotage Video

Bringing together 1993 classic Syndicate and the video clip to Sabotage might not seem like your average video game inspiration, but that’s exactly what’s making LA Cops look so damn cool. Indie studio Modern Dream’s (the Button Affair guys) game drops you in a super-stylish, isometric 70s world and gives you two characters to control,…

The Best Thing About Titanfall Is Not The Giant Robots

From the marketing to the name of the game itself, Titanfall pitches itself as a game defined by its use of giant combat mechs. And indeed, in your first few hours with the game, that’ll be all you really pay attention to. With good reason! They’re visually impressive. The effect when they “fall” is amazing.…

​Let’s Make More Strategy Games This Pretty

It seems like more and more big-budget game developers are ditching their cushy studio gigs and striking out on their own to make smaller, often more interesting games. I’m into it. The latest of these is Duelyst, a self-described “tactical turn-based strategy game with ranked competitive play.” Here’s the new trailer, which shows off the…

WoW Level 90 Character Boosts Are Just An Expansion Pack Preorder Away

The physical editions of this fall’s Warlords of Draenor expansion for World of Warcraft will come with a code that’ll allow players to boost a character to level 90. Pre-order a digital edition from Blizzard, and you’ll get the boost right away. The Warlords of Draenor expansion gives players the ability to explore World of…

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Ellie and Riley From The Last of Us Get A Lovely Illustrated Tribute

Aw, man. I’m feeling emotions. We got plenty of new insight into Ellie and her friendship with Riley in The Last of Us: Left Behind. This illustration by Pugletz on Deviantartfills in as a nice coda. It’s heartwarming, it’s beautifully drawn, and it will probably make you feel things. (Spoilers for The Last of Us:…

The Sword Pokémon, Now As A Real (And Dangerous) Weapon

Sure, some people aren’t fans of Pokémon that resemble man-made objects. But having Pokémon like, say, Honedge—which resembles a medieval sword—means one thing: we can actually make these Pokémon a reality. (Without having to resort to horrific genetic experiments, I mean.) So really, it was only a matter of time before someone came along and…

Yes, There Are [SPOILERS] In Titanfall

Titanfall is a multiplayer-based first-person shooter. With giant metallic Titans you can use to punch other giant metallic Titans. So who would’ve thought you’d stumble onto one of these? Spoilers ahead. We’ve seen some dinosaur-looking creatures in Titanfall‘s art and some marketing materials, but was it just some inside joke? Or were we going to—surprise!—be…

You Are Probably Not As Good At Pool As This Guy

Think vaulting a cue ball over your body like this is awesome? Just wait until he pulls out two billiard tables for his stunts. That’s when things get seriously impressive. Mind, one of the tables in these trick shots by Florian Kohler is a mini-table—but that fact just makes it cooler in my books. The…

Kickstart The Sequel To The Best Math Game Ever

It’s finally time! We’ve all learned about fractions thanks to Frog Fractions, but how will we teach our children about fractions 2? Luckily, this kickstarter is here, from the future, to help. First of all, if you haven’t played Frog Fractions, stop what you’re doing and go play it right now. It’s free. Right now.…

Yoshi’s New Island 3DS commercial.

​A Brutally Honest Trailer for Mario Kart

“Witness the incremental evolution of franchise-based go-kart combat racing!” Yup, that’s Mario Kart in a nutshell. This fake advertising clip from Smosh Games for Nintendo’s long-running vehicular competitive game throws down some rough truths about the stuff we love to hate in Mario Kart. Raise your hands if you liked two-man karts. Keep ’em up…

Eight Things You Might Not Know About The N64

Just because you’ve used the N64 before doesn’t mean you know everything about it, hotshot. The 18 year old console has a curious history behind it, after all. Here’s DYKGaming/Normal Boots with their ever-informative “Did You Know” series, which this time walks us through all sorts of cool trivia about the N64. Watching the video…

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