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At Least This Xbox One Is A Little Smaller

The Xbox One is a substantial piece of hardware, especially if it’s sitting near a PS4 and/or Wii U for comparison. So it shouldn’t surprise you to see people hard at work trying to make the thing smaller. This is an Xbox One laptop. With a built-in screen and a slimmer form, it “shrinks” the…

​A Highly Accurate Language Quiz That Can Tell Where You Grew Up

Do you pronounce it “Roof” or “Ruf?” “Water” or “Wuhter?” Are little river shellfish called “crawfish” or “crayfish” or “crawdads?” Depends on where you grew up. I loved this new dialect quiz at the New York Times, and thought you all might dig it too. It managed to place me pretty accurately—it had me in…

Report: ​Accused League Player’s Motion To Quash Denied, Case To Proceed

Justin Carter, the 19-year-old League of Legends player who earlier this year was imprisoned for making a Facebook comment that was flagged as a terrorist threat, has had his motion to quash the case denied, according to a report today by San Antonio’s KENS 5 news. In February, Carter was arrested for making comments on…

Hot Toys’ Ada Wong Is Lovely, But Can She Pull Off That Dress?

After my first whirlwind love affair with a Hot Toys Iron Man figure, I decided to go outside of my comfort zone for my second figure review. Someone a lot more vulnerable, but ten times as dangerous. Someone like Resident Evil‘s Ada Wong. Resident Evil fans know who Ada Wong is. All those who don’t…

The Best Cosplay Of 2013

And so 2013 draws to a close. We’ve seen a ton of amazing cosplay in our weekly Fancy Pants feature, but what you’re about to see is the very best of it. Below are my favourite cosplay photos from 2013. Most are here because of a combination of an incredible photo and world-class outfits, but…

​Robot Drummer Performs The Pacific Rim Theme, Aided By Lightning

I love the Pacific Rim theme. You love the Pacific Rim theme. And from the looks of it, this robot drummer loves the Pacific Rim theme. Check out this performance from Arc Attack Music in which a robo-drummer and some tesla coils bang out Ramin Djawadi and Tom Morello’s riff-tastic anthem to giant robots everywhere.…

Want to understand what makes Spelunky a great game? Over at Polygon, game designer Douglas Wilson (of J.S. Joust and more recently, Clusterfuck reknown) has written an in-depth, play-by-play analysis of one of the most amazing Spelunky achievements of 2013. Check it out

​Kirk’s Top 12 Games Of 2013

In twenty thirteen, it was a very good year. It was a very good year for video games, with zombies and dames, killing monsters with flames… oh the things we’ve seen… in twenty thirteen. It was a very good year, wasn’t it? I sure did play a lot of video games in 2013. More than…

​Taking Down a Slave Ship in Assassin’s Creed IV‘s DLC Isn’t Easy

Boarding a slave ship and liberating its human cargo is probably the most satisfying thing you can do in the new Freedom Cry DLC for Assassin’s Creed IV. It’s also one of the toughest. Take a look at how this naval battle to free slaves almost ended in tears. The video here shows me taking…

​The Beauty Of Skyrim, In Motion

Because it’s never a bad idea to check out some beautiful shots of Skyrim These lovely gifs come via Punished Gray Fox. Check out a few selections: I continue to hope that Bethesda makes the next Fallout game next-gen only, and as a result has the power to make the game look as good in…

The First Halo Game On Xbox One Looks A Little Different

Halo: Spartan Assault was originally banishedto Windows 8 devices, but now that there’s a shiny new Xbox on the market, it’s available on Xbox One. So just in time for Christmas, I bring you a look at how the game plays on Xbox One. We liked the original game, and the new version of Spartan…

Angry Birds Plus Beastie Boys. Listen To It.

There’s no reason that McMaNGOS should have mashed up the theme from Angry Birds and the Beastie Boys’ ‘Intergalactic’. Except that it works surprisingly well. via /r/mashups

​Watch The Steam Controller Play A Bunch Of PC Games

Valve’s interesting, innovative new Steam Controller has caught a lot of eyes while simultaneously raising a lot of eyebrows. How exactly will this thing work? Will it really make traditionally mouse & keyboard PC games playable in your living room? We’ve seen the Steam Controller in action before, but I still have some questions about…

DayZ Holiday Cease-Fire Will Be a Nice Moment or Greatest Troll Ever

DayZ‘s standalone alpha was released last week and you know what that means: A shitload of overly trusting newspawns to grief. Pardon me for being cynical, but a proposed “cease fire” on Christmas Day absolutely reeks of a trap. A hilarious trap, if it is one. The cease-fire proposal was posted four days ago on…

A Stop-Motion Dreamcast Striptease, Trivia Included.

Jake Roper of Vsauce3 included six awesome facts about the Dreamcast in the latest stop in his stop-motion teardown trip through console history, so you didn’t have to feel as bad about watching console porn. But it’s still console porn. The Dreamcast was a beautiful machine, inside and out. None of these hardware failures. No…

The Most Unsettling Way To Ask For An N64 For The Holidays

As Christmas approaches, now is the time to reflect on holidays past. And what better way to celebrate that than with an incredibly creepy song about the N64? In the video above, an incredibly weird man-child asks his mother for the gift of the N64. He then proceeds to twerk it out like he’s John…

eShop Credit, Deals On The Most Popular Games Of 2013 [Deals]

Nothing like free money, especially free money good toward video games. Grab yourself some discounted eShop credit and pick up Link Between Worlds or any number of other great titles for your holiday gaming. $50 eShop Gift Card for $40 $20 eShop Gift Card for $16 Need last-minute gifts with free one-day shipping? Gizmodo has…

Metal Band Avenged Sevenfold Is Making A Diablo Clone

What, you expected a pet sim? Tapping into the band’s deep love for video games (like Diablo) and working in elements of their signature (Diablo-ish), Avenged Sevenfold has teamed with developer Subscience Studios to create a mobile dungeon crawler that hearkens back to the … Diablo. It’s called Hail to the King: Deathbat. From the…

If you’re into classic arcade games, check out Michael Mateyko and Hans Thiessen’s “A Field Guide To Classic Arcade Design.” Very cool stuff. (Via The Verge)

Drunk Gran Turismo Champion Drives About as Well as I Do Sober

Responsible Young Drivers, despite its English name, is a Belgian advocacy group that, well, advocates responsible driving for the young. What better way to illustrate that than with a video game, and a smashed driver behind the wheel? Tina was skeptical that AMO_RACING87, the top Gran Turismo driver in all of Belgium, was really this…