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Finally, Civilization Gets The Best Playable People On Earth

You British and Americans and Germans and Japanese and Greeks and…Babylonians have had it pretty good when it comes to Civilization games. You get to play as your own people. But what aboutme? Australia has never been in the game. And don’t give me that crap about being a country and not a Civilization. If…

When Game Glitches Become Nightmare Fuel

One minute, you’re talking to a sweet old Italian lady in Mafia II, the next, you’re tripping balls. For reference, this is what happened when EliZissou tried playing the game on a 2013 Macbook Air. Mafia II MacBook Glitch [YouTube, via Reddit]

​The Perfect Place for a Horror Game? Pennsylvania, Says Google

We live on the internet nowadays. And there’s some thinking that suggests you can get a peek into the psyche of large groups of people by parsing what people search Google for. A new map based on this idea shows that a lot of people want to know why Philadelphia is so haunted. Sounds like…

Titanfall is going to have a beta on both Xbox One and PC. Bet you never saw that coming.

Full Metal Blacksmith: Tony Swatton is back, this time forging Elric’s Spear from Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. And after he’s done making it, as is customary, he uses the weapon to break some stuff. Ah, catharsis.

The Academy Awards Of Gifs Should Be A Good Time

The internet used to be a place for learning. Communication. These days, it’s just about who’s got the biggest library of situation-appropriate gifs. So it’s about time those gifs got their dues! The .GIFYs are an award that’s being overseen by the editors of a bunch of websites that, well, post a ton of gifs,…

​One Next-Gen Voice Command I Can Do Without

I can understand why game developers working on next-gen games might be psyched to play around with voice commands. They represent an interesting and relatively new way to let players interact with games. But there’s at least one next-gen voice command I can happily do without. Every Xbox One owner (and every PS4 owner with…

Imagine Pikmin, But With Greek Philosophers

What happens when you take the all-stars of Ancient Greek philosophy, mythological heroes and throw them into a pixel-art version of Pikmin? Okhlos, that’s what. In the video above, I play a bit of a very early preview build of a charming-as-heck indie game Okhlos by Coffee Powered Machine. It plays a bit like Overlord,…

This amazing, detailed artwork made by illustrator Chester Ocampo keeps reminding me how hyped I’d be for a game with a similar art style. Something with a bit of that early 90s Ghost in the Shell touch, with a protagonist similar to Major Kusanagi or even Konoko from Bungie’s 2001 Oni Also, are those heels…

Report: Nintendo Will Be Releasing ‘Free Mini-Games’ On Phones

This year looks to be Nintendo’s toughest. Nintendo, however, is looking to change that. Respected Japanese newspaper Nikkei reports that within this year, Nintendo apparently plans to use smartphones to win back gamers. Well, kind of. According to an unconfirmed Nikkei report, Nintendo plans to release trailers for new games on smartphones (presumably Android and…

Check out this awesome fan-made Fallout figure: it’s Yes Man, the Securitron that can help you take over New Vegas. It was made by Reddit user Webberley using card, wood, plastic, epoxy and a Doc Ock figure. You can look at more shots here.

Lawsuit Against Bethesda Over Oblivion Bugs Went Nowhere

In 2012, Colorado resident Landis Edwards sued the folks behind The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion over a bug that erased one of his game files. The bug, Edwards said, violated the marketing copy on the back of Oblivion‘s box, which promised “open-ended” gameplay with “unlimited possibilities.” Edwards filed the suit as a class-action with a…

How Fast Can You And Your Friends Defuse A Bomb?

Pop Quiz, hot shot. Can you talk your friend through defusing a bomb that you can’t see? Keep Talking And Nobody Explodes is a Spaceteam-like game where one person gets to be Keanu Reeves and their friends get to be Jeff Daniels. Right now, the game only works with the Oculus Rift and Razer Hydra,…

First News on MLB 14 The Show Comes From Taiwan, Not Sony

Assuming MLB 14 The Show releases on the first Tuesday of March, as the series has since 2008, then we’re five weeks from its anticipated launch and we have to go to freaking Taiwan for our first look at gameplay video. The game hasn’t even gotten an official release date. Sony, you owe baseball fans…

13 Facts About Pixar That You May Not Know

You can probably guess a few of these facts—like the ones referencing how successful the company is—but there ought to be a few you didn’t know. I certainly didn’t know that the studio has a cottage for their employees to work out of that’s modeled after a pink unicorn theme, but, hey! Thanks to Buzzfeed,…

Good Thing Attack on Titan Villains Aren’t Precious Babies

Aberrant titans can come in all sorts of forms, but thankfully that usually means we see kind of weird titans—not something resembling a toddler. That’s good. Babies are cute, you see. And a cute baby titan could totally cloud the judgement of Eren and co, like in this silly video by Animation Domination High-Def. And…

Take A Look At Some Games From Global Game Jam 2014

Global Game Jam 2014 was this past weekend, and over 4,000 games were made at events around the world. Most of them are available to play online at the jam’s site right now, so we took a look at a few of the ways people interpreted this year’s theme. If you aren’t familiar with game…

23 More Illuminating Hours With Assassin’s Creed IV

When a new year starts, I go back and finish the previous year’s Assassin’s Creed. I spent early 2013 rediscovering AC III. I’ve rung in 2014 by playing 23 more hours of Assassin’s Creed IV. I have some more thoughts about this one… Actually, first, I have a lot of videos to show you! These…

Gigantic Space Battle Breaks Out in EVE Online, Thanks to Unpaid Bill

One week after this monstrous galactic throwdown in EVE Online, the sci-fi MMO is the scene of another humongous space battle—and it’s all because of a missed bill payment. Because this is EVE, the intrigue leading up to one of these rumbles is often more entertaining than the fight itself—especially when it gets so large…

​Tomb Raider On PS4 vs. Xbox One: An In-Depth Look

When I wrote up my own impressions of the next-gen version of Tomb Raider, I hoped I’d soon see Eurogamer‘s Digital Foundry doing their trademark deep-dive into the technical underpinnings of both the Xbox One and PS4 versions of the game. And here we go Today, they’ve published their first look at the next-gen versions,…