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How Much Gaming History Does $50,000 Get?
This much. Actually, a bit more. They couldn’t fit everything on one photo. Over at Ebay, Grithiffth’s Games Megamart is selling what they call the “Ultimate Nintendo World Championships 1990 Collection.” This includes: NWC 1990 Grey Cart #305 NWC 1990 Denver 11 & Under Trophy NWC 1990 Denver 11 & Under Nameplate/Plaque Certificate of Authenticity…
By András Neltz Published February 5, 2014 -
The Cutest, Coolest, and Coldest Snow Sculptures in Japan
Just in case you were worried the country had lost its ability to sculpt amazing snow art, rest easy. It hasn’t. The 65th annual Sapporo Snow Festival recently went underway in Hokkaido, Japan. As in the past, there is a “Snow Miku,” featuring the character Hatsune Miku. There’s also a “Miku Dayoo” (“It’s Miku”) snow…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 5, 2014 -
Starbound Studio Possibly Working on a New “Open-World Pirate Game”
On Starbound’s official site, Tiy, Chucklefish Games head honcho and lead developer for the side-scrolling sandbox RPG, shared the team’s plans for Starbound, Chucklefish themselves, and their upcoming second game. Yes, there’s gonna be a second game. No, it won’t affect Starbound’s beta at all. Tiy mostly talks about Starbound’s future in the news post—specifically,…
By András Neltz Published February 5, 2014 -
“No, Uplay will not be featured in South Park: The Stick of Truth.” Obsidian Entertainment, on whether Steam users would have to use Ubisoft’s online platform to play the game. They later clarified that on PC, Stick of Truth would be “a Steam game, with Steam achievements,” and that “Uplay was not integrated at all.”
By András Neltz Published February 5, 2014 -
Dragon Age Now Has A Cosplay Guide, To Make Dressing-up Easier
Dragon Age is one of the more popular series on the cosplay circuit, but being a fantasy series, its outfits can be a little complex. So developers Bioware are doing the swell thing and making guides, so that when people want to cosplay as Dragon Age folks, they get it right First up is Morrigan,…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 4, 2014 -
John Carmack Left id Software Because Of Virtual Reality
It was a bit of a shock when John Carmack, who co-founded the company, leftDoom creators id Software in November. Until now, we didn’t really know why. Turns out that the reason he and the company he helped build parted ways was because of virtual reality, specifically the Oculus Rift headset. And the fact id’s…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 4, 2014 -
Someone, Please Make A Proper Sports RPG
For the last few years, most major sporting games have had a mode that pits you as a single player progressing through their career. These can be fun, but damn it, they’re not enough It doesn’t take much stripping back to view these modes as role-playing games. You build a character, you name them, you…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 4, 2014 -
Game Walkthroughs Should Be Taken Out Of Context
Game walkthroughs, when viewed as a whole, are incredible useful things. Take them out of context, though, and boy, there’s some weird stuff goin’ on. Game Walkthroughs is a bot that crawls Gamefaqs and just…lifts sections of text. At random. What that leaves us with is a Twitter account that reads like the ramblings of…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 4, 2014 -
LEGO Spaceship Is Seven Feet Long, Took Four Years To Build
The UNSC Spirit Of Fire, a ship from the Halo series, would be 2.5km long if it were a real thing. But it’s not. So all we’ve got instead is this “tiny” model. Mark Kelso spent four years building this monstrosity, which is based off 3D models and had the insane goal of not just…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 4, 2014 -
If Only The Phantom Menace‘s Galactic Senators Weren’t Incompetent
For all their posturing and pronouncements and cool floating podiums, it sure can be hard to take Star Wars‘ Galactic Senate seriously. The latest video from How It Should Have Ended tackles The Phantom Menace, and scores some fair—if fairly easy—points. Is the horse dead? Yeah, probably. Is it still worth kicking it around from…
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 4, 2014 -
Critics Of Felicia Day’s Hairdo Don’t Even Know What She Looks Like
Actress Felicia Day cut her hair a few months ago—this is a thing people noticed, naturally. And thanks to comments and social media, anyone can throw in their two cents about her new look. Thing is, sometimes, those two cents are hilariously misguided and wrong. The picture above, for example—which was blogged by Felicia Day…
By Patricia Hernandez Published February 4, 2014 -
Leave Flappy Bird’s Creator Alone
Flappy Bird has come out of nowhere to be one of the biggest mobile gaming hitsof our age. That kind of instant success is normally cause for celebration, but when you consider all the attention he’s suddenly getting, spare a thought for the game’s developer, Dong Nguyen. He’s taken to Twitter today to say “Please…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 4, 2014 -
Your PC Must Be This Tall To Play Titanfall: Today Respawn’s Vince Zampella tweeted the minimum PC specs for the game: 64-bit Windows 7/8/8.1, AMD Athlon X2 2.8GHz or Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz processor, 4GB RAM, Radeon HD 4770 or GeForce 8800GT GPU with 512MB VRAM.
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 4, 2014 -
Four Reasons To Love Bravely Default
Four heroes. Four special moves. Four musical anthems that play during those special moves. 1. Tiz’s Theme – “You Are My Hope” Genre: Celtic Disco Solo Instrument: Penny Whistle Adjective: “Driving” 2. Agnès’ Theme – “Wind’s Direction” Genre: Magical Waltz Solo Instrument: Violin Adjective: “Sparkly” 3. Ringabel’s Theme – “Love’s Vagrant” Genre: Vaguely Argentine Solo…
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 4, 2014 -
YouTube Arguments Sound Absurd When Re-enacted By Grown Men
Okay, the fact that YouTube comments can be the worst is no secret. But few things highlight this fact as well as the excellent series by Dead Parrot does—re-enacting the not-so-intellectual conversation using two dramatic actors is hilarious. This time around, you’ll find the commenters quoted ponder important questions like: can one be racist toward…
By Patricia Hernandez Published February 4, 2014 -
Finally, the Chance to Steal Test Answers Off a Dolphin
Dolphins are the nerds of the undersea world. They always study for tests. In a new virtual reality game, you’re a human exchange student who hasn’t prepared. So you’re going to have to cheat off those uppity bottle-nosed mammals. Don’t get caught or their squealing will make your ears bleed. So long and thanks for…
By Evan Narcisse Published February 4, 2014 -
Nintendo Wants Their Platforms To Be More Like iOS
Nintendo’s fighting on two fronts. The first, very real battleground they’re waging war on is in retail, where their Wii U home console is struggling to build a user base. The second area of struggle has been in the hearts and minds of observers trying to decide how much faith to put into the company’s…
By Evan Narcisse Published February 4, 2014 -
Quick, How Do You Pronounce Imgur, the Site With All the .Gifs?
Well here’s something. I’ve been mentally mispronouncing Imgur, the ubiquitous home to image macros, rage comics, memes and that other thing I’ve been mispronouncing forever, .gifs. Turns out Imgur is pronounced “Imager.” (I’d been doing it phonetically: im-GURRRRRR) Thank goodness I had no occasion to say it out loud. But if people aren’t saying “Did…
By Owen Good Published February 4, 2014
