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The Biggest Disappointments Of 2013

2013 was one hell of a year for video games. So much action, so much drama! Such suspense, such anger and jubilation! It was a year of great change, in which things didn’t always always go according to plan and plenty of games failed to live up to expectations. We don’t love being negative here…

To Hell With These New Consoles, Give Me A Dreamcast 2

Maybe it’s the constant barrage of Playstation and Xbox news. Maybe it’s nostalgia. But right about now I could really get behind a Dreamcast 2, and it looks like I’m not the only one either. In the video above (which has a Sonic ad lazily tacked on at the last second), game troll Keith Apicary…

One Of YouTube’s Solutions To All This Copyright Madness Sort of Works

YouTube doesn’t just have an army of bots trying imperfectly to sniff out copyright violations on videos on the site. It also has a song-removal feature that lets a video-creator cut a problematic song without losing control of their video or ruining it. At least, that’s how it should work. We tested it. The site’s…

How A Team Of Two People Is Bringing Us 2014’s Largest JRPG

There are a lot of big, highly-anticipated games coming out next year: Watch Dogs, Titanfall, Dragon Age Inquisition. But in certain circles, there’s only one game worth counting down the days for: The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC. That oddly-titled game is the second of a trilogy and the sequel to the…

Desperate for news on Dragon Age: Inquisition? BioWare’s got a new blog postup today with some cool screenshots and a few details about their progress on the game, still slated for fall 2014. It’s a good read for Dragon Age fans.

Now You Can Play Knights Of The Old Republic On The iPhone

In May of this year, one of the greatest Star Wars stories ever told made the jump from PC and old consoles to the iPad. Today Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic finally went universal, with a host of new features to welcome iPhone and iPod Touch players into the fold. Along with support…

A Game That Showed Me My Own Black History

The newest chapter of the Assassin’s Creed series gives me some of the things I’ve always wanted in a video game: a heroic fantasy that lets me control a warrior fighting against slavery. Part of it happens in Haiti, where my parents were born. Characters talk in Antillean Kreyol, the mosaic tongue made of French…

You might not want to preorder the Diablo III expansion pack just yet—especially if you’re in the beta. Some players who preordered Reaper of Souls are reporting restriction issues connected to their current Diablo III accounts, and Blizzard is taking down the beta for some “urgent maintenance.”

How Not To Woo A Gamer On OKCupid

There’s a good way to use OKCupid, and there’s a not-so-good way. This is one of those second ways. The above video comes to us from the YouTube series OKCupid is the best!, which revolves around host solikebasically having her computer read aloud messages from her OKCupid dating profile. In this episode, a guy gamer…

​Tina’s Top 10 Games of 2013

What a year it’s been, this, the Year of Luigi. As our list of Game of the Year nominations may have shown you, there were a lot of great games this year. And a lot of great games that can easily compete for the title of Official Best Game Of 2013. And while only one…

Least Necessary Arrow In Video Game History

Look, some of us out there aren’t super-awesome at Super Mario Bros., but this blinking arrow in Nintendo’s new NES Remix game for Wii U is a bit much. The game chops and/or mods classic 8-bit games to give players short challenges. This one is, basically, to run through the first level of Super Mario…

Onslaught. Devastation. Invasion. Nemesis. + Extinction x4 The four DLC packs coming to Call of Duty Ghosts through 2014 will also include a four-part episodic adventure in the game’s co-op players vs. aliens Extinction mode, as explained today in the new Season Pass trailer for Ghosts.

Amazon Game Download Blowout, Steam Sale, Humble Weekly Sale [Deals]

Amazon has kicked off their holiday game sale with a massive flood of digital game deals. You’ll find a huge list of all the best deals in the PC and Mac sections below, but here are a few highlights. If you don’t see what you’re looking for, they have 111 pages of digital deals you’re…

The Steam Holiday Sale Starts Now

That sound you just heard was millions of credit cards simultaneously maxing out: Steam’s annual winter sale has just begun, and you can see all the deals right here Today’s Daily Deal highlights include Dishonored for $11.24 and BioShock Infinite for $9. You can also get Metal Gear Rising for $20 and Arkham Origins for…

There’s a Ratchet & Clank Endless Runner for Mobile. Huh.

It’s called Before the Nexus, and is sort of a prequel to the Ratchet & Clank game released last month for PS3. BtN popped up on iTunes and Google Play recently, with very little fanfare (I guess the game descriptions are fairly enthusiastic). You jump between grindrails, dodging obstacles and ruining enemies’ day along the…

Jason’s Top 10 Games Of 2013

The year is almost over, and the time of List-Making has begun. Read on for my ten favorite games of 2013, presented in no particular order. These might not be the best, or the most definitive, or the most impressive games of the year, but they’re the ones that stuck with me. In a strong…

Diablo III: Reaper of Souls Is Out March 25, 2014

Diablo III‘s first (only?) expansion pack will be out on March 25, Blizzard just announced. It’ll be $40. The expansion pack itself gives you a new hero—the Paladin-y Crusader—a new act, and new features: an NPC artisan called the Mystic; a new mode in which you can ignore the story and start new games with…

Here’s what’s going on Talk Amongst Yourselves, our reader-written blog: Zarnyx reflects on Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons and how it made her think about her relationship with her sister and nephew. Stormborn keeps drawing cat-styled Pokémon; this time, it’s Persian. And Marsh Naylor looks at six memes that Street Fighter definitely might have…

‘Xbox, Have Interesting Original Documentaries’

Well, this is neat. Microsoft is starting a documentary series that will run on Xbox 360 and Xbox One next year and it’s got a pretty good name behind it and a good topic for the first installment. The series will be produced by Jonathan Chinn and Simon Chinn. I don’t know Jonathan’s work—30 Days,…

Ninja Theory Makes Lovely Console Games. They Also Made This.

Taking a break from creating big-budget console games starring striking characters with large, moist eyes like Enslaved and DMC, Ninja Theory releases a mobile brawler featuring a character with a thing for striking. The game is called Fightback, and it’s definitely different from anything else Ninja Theory has done. Quick hits of swipe and tap-based…