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Meet The (Unofficial) Team Fortress LEGO

They’ll never get their own LEGO set – they won’t even get their own Mega Bloks set – but the cartoon destruction of Team Fortress 2 is still perfect for the plastic block treatment. Logan is to thank for this playset, which not only recreates the TF2 map Upward, but includes a cast of characters…

Just When You Thought FTL Couldn’t Get Any Better…

…along comes word of the kind of stuff we can expect from the game’s upcoming – and free – expansion While we knew about some of this – like mind control – each of these additions is now explained in greater detail. With GIFs. But best of all, there was a new announcement: we’re getting…

Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes: The Platform Comparison Videos

Screenshots not doing it for you? Here, watch this video that might help you decide which of the four versions of Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes looks better. Some will will no doubt crawl over every pixel scouring for proof of console supremacy, coal for the fires of their eternal message board struggle, but…

Lucasarts’ Star Wars Creations Return For X-Wing Tabletop Game

The X-Wing miniatures game is almost the perfect tabletop experience. At least if you like Star Wars and fun things. About the only thing that could make it better would be to start introducing more units based on video game starfighters and oh what’s this? Following on from the game’s homage to Dark Forces, the…

Buy Engagement Ring, Get…Xbox One Console

Ladies, answer me this: would you be cool knowing that one of the most important decisions (and purchases) in your man’s life had been influenced by the promise of a free video game console? Jewellery chain Perrywinkles must think so, because they’ve got a deal where the purchase of engagement ring also gets you an…

Dragonfall Is The Shadowrun I Know And Love

Meet Blitz, Glory, Dietrich and Eiger. They’re my crew. There are no other runners I’d rather have at my back as I make my way through the stable anarchy of 2054 Berlin. So what if they’re not real? In Shadowrun Returns‘ upcoming Dragonfall expansion, they’re better than life. Last year’s Shadowrun Returns did a fine…

Jurassic Park 3D Dinosaurs Are Hilariously Bad

This is the funniest thing I’ve seen today. Titled ‘Realistic Dinosaurs’ it replaces the (still) jaw-droppingly brilliant CGI of Jurassic Park with… less realistic CGI versions of the same dinosaurs. This is one of those clips where I can’t really explain why I’m laughing, I just am. This is Really 3D. A series of YouTube…

Do you watch True Detective? You should be watching True Detective. It’s really, really good. It’s on Sundays on HBO, and they’re just over halfway through the first season. I thought I’d see if anyone out there is watching it, and if so, what you think.

Thousands of People Are Playing Tetris Without Realizing It

Right now, more than 100,000 people are trying their best to control a single trainer over at ‘Twitch Plays Pokemon.’ They know that if they send in a command via the ‘Twitch Plays Pokemon’ chat, it’ll make the character in the streamed version Pokemon Red do something. What many of them don’t know is that,…

​Bravely Default Was Influenced By… Uh, 90210

Play a couple hours of the terrific new JRPG Bravely Default and a number of its influences will become apparent. There’s Final Fantasy IX, Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light, and so on. But one influence may be less evident…. the early 90s high school TV drama Beverly Hills 90210 And yet that show,…

​The New Strider Just Feels Right

It’s hard to reboot a franchise without shooting yourself in the foot. So many times the product feels bloated, weird, and abandons the thing that made it great to begin with. Strider, however, feels just right. In the video above, I give my impressions of Strider. Thankfully, it’s a game that understands what was intrinsically…

Yup, These Are The Best Star Wars Action Figures On The Planet

The Black Series is the best thing to happen to Star Wars action figures since, well, forever. Even today, over 30 years on from the first toys, Hasbro’s main line of figures sucks. But not these babies. Three new lines have been announced in the series, consisting of eight new figures in all. In 2014…

Microsoft Has a Fix For Xbox One Users With New Black Screen Error [Update]

The latest update for the Xbox One may add a few useful new features, but it sounds like it adds a new bug, as well. Fortunately, Microsoft has an easy workaround. Some users are reporting that the update gives them a black screen after the system turns on. Users on Reddit report that the result…

10 Things You Might Not Know About South Park

South Park: Stick of Truth doesn’t come out until next month—why not take a moment to learn some trivia about the show in the meantime? Alltime10s compiled a list of neat facts about the show, including where Kenny comes from and even that the church of Scientology tried to uncover dirty details about Matt Stone…

Your Strategy Guide To Life

Real life is the game that everyone is playing. But it can be tough. This is your guide. Basics You might not realise, but real life is a game of strategy. There are some fun mini-games – like dancing, driving, running, and sex – but the key to winning is simply managing your resources. Most…

Battle Of The $150 Video Cards: GeForce GTX 750 Ti Vs. Radeon R7 265

Marking the introduction of its Maxwell architecture, Nvidia has targeted AMD’s $150 Radeon R7 265 with the new GeForce GTX 750 Ti, a card that promises to be more than another rebadge. The GTX 750 Ti’s GM107 is meant to make Nvidia’s 28nm design process as efficient as possible by splitting Kepler’s 192-core streaming multiprocessor…

Why a Train Wreck Can Still Be One Of Madden‘s Most Popular Teams

Barely a week after the Super Bowl ended, fans of the Cleveland Browns got confirmation they were functionally eliminated from contention next year, too. The team’s president and general manager resigned after hiring a new head coach, a comical sequence that is so bass-ackwards you can’t even repeat it in Madden Since re-entering the league…

How Players Actually Make Progress in ‘Twitch Plays Pokémon‘

When more than 80,000 people band together to try to control a single Pokémon trainer via Twitch chat—and then manage to actually make progress—the question that immediately comes to mind is: just how in the world are they accomplishing it? If you tune in to ‘Twitch Plays Pokémon‘ briefly—and let’s be real, since the stream…

Ken Levine’s New Game Could Be Really Fascinating

It really sucks that Irrational Games is shutting down, and I hope that everyone who was laid off finds new employment soon. It’s a bad situation, yes, but for gamers, there’s something to be optimistic about—a new digital game by Ken Levine. Levine, an undeniably talented writer best known for his work on BioShock, also…

Tomb Raider: Definitive, New Humble Bundle, LIVE Gold [Deals]

Amazon’s gold box deal is Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition for $20 off. In gameplay terms, it was among the best of the major releases last year, with a single-player campaign that, if anything, was too long, and tons of collectibles for those that sort of thing appeals to. The next-gen port treatment is a great…