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Cortana has a Different Look on the Windows Phone

Cortana, the digital consigliere coming to Windows Phone 8.1, won’t be represented by the light blue apparition of a woman. Cortana will, appropriately enough, be a halo. It, uh, she? will be represented by a blue ring that animates whenever she’s speaking or thinking, says The Verge, citing sources inside Microsoft and providing some screenshots…

Jimmy Kimmel Presents Bitman Begins

Classic YouTube clips, turned into big-budget Hollywood movies? There comes a time when it’ll be sober fact. Until then, here’s Jimmy Kimmel and his dramatic adaptation of “Charlie Bit My Finger” (sadly, Bitman has nothing to do with bitcoins) with Chris Hemsworth, Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks. Bitman Begins [Jimmy Kimmel Live, YouTube] To contact…

Kids Discover Rotary Phones, Everyone Else Feels Really Old

There was a time when we didn’t need games on our phones, because every phone came with a built-in game of roundabouts. Kids today have no idea what they missed, and don’t seem too impressed when they find out. For my children’s first birthdays, my sister got them a pair of those classic Fisher Price…

Star Wars art doesn’t get any more religious than this. Hero-Glyphs is a series by artist Josh Ln, transforming well-known superheroes and other pop culture icons into hieroglyphs. His latest pieces feature Star Wars, Ghostbusters and (surprise, surprise) Firefly: Hero Glyphs by Josh Lane [Society6] Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing…

The 3DS XL Yoshi fans have been waiting for. Already announced for Europe, the limited edition Yoshi Edition 3DS XL will be available in North America on March 14 for $199.99, just in time for the release of Yoshi’s New Island, sold separately.

An Anthropological Study of DayZ

In DayZ, and other survival sandbox games, you don’t necessarily have to shoot anything that moves, still—unless you’re playing with friends— the chances of being killed on sight are really high. So here’s RE:roll with an in-depth, serious analysis of what might go on in someone’s head while playing DayZ DayZ: An Anthropological Study [YouTube]…

“We can capitalize the most on our strengths through a hardware-software integrated platform business, and therefore this type of dedicated video game platform will remain our core focus.” Nintendo president Satoru Iwata, in a letter to shareholders and investors about the company’s future

How Star Trek Should Have Been Rebooted

Honor is never enough! This superbly-edited trailer parody of The Wolf of Wall Street by Grant Gourley throws new light upon everyone’s favorite Klingon. The Worf of Starfleet – Trailer Parody (The Wolf of Wall Street) [YouTube] To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

A Very Lonely Cross Between Pokémon and Harvest Moon

This is Toby’s Island, a PC RPG where you try to survive by farming, crafting, raising monsters and building a settlement all by yourself on a dangerous, untamed island. The game is heavily inspired by RPGs of the nineties, and it shows: there’s some rather good-looking sprite art to be found. The plot, which deals…

Cosplayer Pulls a Zelda Sword, Man Gets Stabbed

A domestic dispute over a woman put two men in the hospital. One of the men, a cosplayer, wielded a sword. A Legend of Zelda sword. “Swords and flower pots; it sounds nuts, he is psycho,” said Eugene Thompson, the homeowner’s boyfriend, told Local 2 news in Houston. Thompson lives at the home of his…

Age of Mythology? It’s been too long, old friend, too long. An extended edition of the fantastic (and weirdly forgotten) strategy classic is on its way to Steam

Gaming PC Prototype Is Also Its Own Table. Genius.

Why is this not already a thing? And I’m not talking about the brave pioneers who have made their own versions of this. I mean, why isn’t every company making commercial desktop PCs that are also a…desktop? It’d save space, it’d save time, it’d…OK, it wouldn’t save money, but nothing is perfect. And I’d pay…

Ultra Street Fighter IV has a “Select” mode, which lets you choose from any character across any version of the SFIV games. Balance be damned!

Huge PlayStation Fan Makes Real-Life Platinum Trophy

Ronny, aka blackangel887462, is one of the most dedicated PlayStation gamer son the planet, having racked up over 500 platinum trophies. A feat which he decided to have commemorated with a real platinum trophy. He had two companies work with him to produce the replica; one built the actual trophy (in three pieces), while another…

Don’t Expect A Gay Video Game Star Any Time Soon

It’s tough enough getting women and dudes who aren’t white into a starring role in a video game. So imagine how impossible it is to try and get a gay or lesbian character in the spotlight. A seemingly pedestrian interview on Ubisoft’s company bloglast week got interesting when Lucien Soulban, Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon’s…

Look Who Was At The Oscars Tonight

Kaz Hirai used to be Mr. PlayStation, but now that he runs everything at Sony (which has its own motion picture studio), dude gets an invite to the Oscars. You can play a little Where’s Kazdo on the pic above using our image annotation. Hint: he’s not one of the giant gold guys. Geoff Keighley…

Video Game Screen Burn-In Is Damage, But Also Art

So, younger readers, certain older displays were way more susceptible than today’s TVs for something called burn-in. That’s when parts of an image would stay on a screen for so long that they’d literally burn into it, creating a permanent “shadow”. Think TV network watermarks, or the margins of a news ticker. You’d normally see…

Jon Bois of SB Nation, famed for his “Breaking Madden” series, tried to create a basketball game with Garry’s Mod. You can see the … results here.

Imagining Lyrics to Metroid

Video games comedian Brentalfloss has had a long-running “What if video game songs had lyrics?” gag. His first,Mega Man 2, I featured five years ago, and we all had a great laugh. But now, with Metroid—one of gaming’s most beloved soundtracks—he and vocalist Alysha Umphress play it straight, and get it right. Black, whose Brentalfloss…

Twitch Plays Pokémon is back, and now they’re playing Pokémon Crystal. I know the feeling, and the need to keep your friends together and a good thing going. But it’s never as good as the first time. Still, if you want to watch, here it is.