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You’ll Probably Suck At Oculus Rift Games

Virtual reality is…different. It takes some getting used to. When I first tried the Oculus Rift last year, I found that even the most basic actions in games I tried—looking around, movement—were way harder than I was expecting them to be. Thing is, I’d built a certain muscle memory with buttons that prevented me from…

GTA Online, Summarized In 3 Minutes

When you play a game for long enough, you start noticing patterns, as well as certain types of people you seem to encounter regularly. In the case of GTA Online, you can basically expect a lot of death, chaos, and little kids trying to act tough. I guess that could describe any game with an…

Shaquille O’Neal Wants To Make Another Video Game [UPDATE]

Indie developer Shaquille O’Neal is taking to IndieGoGo for his latest project, a sequel to the critically-panned Shaq Fu O’Neal and crew want us all to give them $450,000 to make it happen. A trailer: And now for the obvious question: why is a multi-millionaire asking for money? Can’t he fund it himself? Here’s their…

The Six Types Of Collectors In Skyrim

Everyone has a style or approach to item collecting in Skyrim—there’s too much stuff packed into the game for that not to be the case. Maybe you collect buckets. Maybe you sell everything right away. Maybe you never, ever get rid of anything. Whatever it is you do, chances are you fall somewhat close to…

Someone who’s helped get a lot of great video games in your hands needs your help now. Brandon Boyer—the chairman of the Independent Game Festival and a relentlessly exuberant champion of all sorts of video game creativity—fought off cancer last year. But the expenses of his medical care came out to a whopping six-figure sum…

What ‘Twitch Plays Pokémon’ Says About Humanity

Despite the chaos of having thousands of people try to control a single Pokémon game, one thing was was certain about the end of the first run of ‘Twitch Plays Pokémon’—it was damned inspirational and thought-provoking. Lots of folks were skeptical that finishing the game was even possible. Lots of comparisons were made. The entire…

An Animated History of Dark Souls

One of the best things about Dark Souls is how it handles backstory — which is to say it buries it in the woods upstate and hopes you find it. That is why this (mostly) accurate explainer is so rewarding! That’s not to say it’s intelligible, though! Dark Souls: In Summary by PlagueOfGripes takes the…

Sony America CEO Jack Tretton Steps Down

The head of PlayStation in the U.S., Jack Tretton, has stepped down, the company announced today. His last day will be on March 31. Shawn Layden, who is executive vice president and COO of Sony Network Entertainment International, will take Tretton’s position as of April 1. “This is a result of a mutual agreement between…

​A Future Where the Worst Nightmares About Video Games Are True

You hear the scare-logic all the time from folks who want to blame video games for bad stuff: they’re just training simulations for how to hurt people. A new sci-fi film project riffs on that premise and places it in a future where all you need to do to play an online game is stick…

The Most Dramatic Mechanical Keyboard Switch Reveal Ever

Mechanical keyboards are pretty awesome, but they’ve never been quite this awesome. Behold the Razer Mechanical Switch, the first keyboard switch designed specifically for explosive CG debut videos. Or gaming. Probably gaming. That’ll show those old geezers at Germany’s ZF Electronics, makers of the Cherry MX keyboard switches that make most of today’s finer mechanical…

Sony Is Making A Last of Us Movie

One might wonder: how the hell do you turn a game as cinematic as The Last of Us into a movie? One will keep wondering. Sony’s doing it, working alongside Naughty Dog and Screen Gems to make their PS3 hit into a film. Naughty Dog bosses Evan Wells and Christophe Balestra are teaming up with…

Step Inside The Wondrous World of Spirited Away With The Oculus Rift

Forget typical 3D movies. Using virtual reality, you can now strap on a headset and walk through famous scenes of your favorite movies—like say, Miyazaki’s fantastical anime film, Spirited Away (If you’re short on time, skip to about the 1:48 mark to see the relevant footage.) The project is the work of Nick Pittom, and…

When Game Consoles Are More Important Than Friends

Admit it: as a kid you had at least one friend you hung out with simply because he had cool video games. It’s a time honored tradition! The Onion’s (obviously joke) coverage of 12-Year-Old Couldn’t Begin To Guess Name Of Friend Whose House He Visits To Play Xbox shows just how awful kids can be…

QuizUp, the stupidly good trivia game which still haunts my dreams, is now on Android. The free multiplayer online trivia game has grown even bigger since its iOS debut, with so many categories you’re bound to find one you don’t suck at. Snag it on Google Play.

Dark Souls II, Everything Titanfall, Logitech G500s, Humble [Deals]

Available for just $40 today, the Logitech G500s is an easy recommendation for anyone who wants a great mouse (for gaming or otherwise), and doesn’t want to break the bank in the process. It was also one of the contenders in our Best Gaming Mouse vote. [Amazon] Dark Souls II $40 with code Code OQE4LG-WEQPSE-SMCME1…

Disney Lays Off 700 Employees

Disney has laid off 700 employees from their gaming division today, as the New York Times reports. That’s 26% of their staff, and it’s mostly in mobile, social, and web-based gaming. “These are large-scale changes as we focus not just on getting to profitability but sustained profitability and scalability,” Disney Interactive president James A. Pitaro…

​The World’s Biggest Digital Comics Retailer Got Hacked

Comixology—the digital comics storefront that pushes hundreds of thousands of comics to millions of readers all over the world—just informed users that they suffered a security breach. Okay, True Believers, you should know the drill by now: time to pick a new password. Here’s an excerpt from an e-mail sent to Comixology users this morning:…

Damn, Dragon Age: Inquisition Looks Incredible

Here’s the newest trailer for the third Dragon Age game, out this fall for Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS3, PS4, and PC. Damn, I say. DAMN. Just this one trailer is already more interesting and exciting than all of Dragon Age II. It’s all in-game footage, too, according to BioWare boss Aaryn Flynn. Watch: In…

Dark Souls II comes to PC on April 25, publisher Namco Bandai just announced. It’ll be out for last-gen consoles on March 11. Enjoy your deaths.

This Is Not the Lego: The Hobbit Trailer You Were Expecting

Go ahead and guess how this trailer for the PS4/PS3/WiiU/XboxOne/Xbox360/PC/Vita/3DS Spring 2014 game is going to play out. You’ll probably guess wrong. Well-played Lego marketing people. Hopefully this game can be good despite being the third major Lego game since October. The last two, Lego Marvel Superheroes and The Lego Movie Videogame were terrific. To…