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Intense Gamer Will End You

Like any form of competition, pro gaming is full of smack talking and rivalry. And like any smack talk, things can get a bit intense. Volume Warning: The clip includes a lot of shouting. In the video above, one competitive gamer’s rivalry gets a bit too intense for comfort. It’s actually a bit scary to…

​Cut the Rope 2 Comes Out on December 19th. Get Your Candy Ready.

We already got word that it’d be coming during the holidays but now we know an exact date: the sequel to the mega-popular Cut the Rope comes out next Thursday and will be hitting iOS devices first. Based on what’s seen in the trailer above, CTR2 will introduce a bunch of new mechanics and characters…

Gotta store ’em all: check out this overview video which details some of the things you’ll be able to do with Pokémon Bank and Poké Transporter—both of which are quite useful for those of you who like to collect pocket monsters.

A Note To Everyone Who Says YouTubers Should ‘Get A Real Job’

Some people on the Internet haven’t been too sympathetic to the YouTubers whose livelihoods have been affected by YouTube’s recent Content ID sweeps. Boohoo, they say. Get a real job. There are a lot of things I have to say to people who claim that producing videos on YouTube isn’t a “real job.” A lot…

Here’s what’s going on Talk Amongst Yourselves, our reader-written blog: Morie offers up some thoughts about how Assassin’s Creed IV crafts its female characters well. Peter Tieryas shares some art and some process for a comics project he’s been working on. And Meldy does a thoughtful Half-Remembered Video games Essay on Morrowind Don’t forget that…

Adult Swim Shows Us What To Do With The PS4’s Share Button

No one wants to look bad in front of Kratos. According to this Robot Chicken animated spot for Killzone: Shadow Fall, God of War‘s heroic brute is very active on Facebook, so think before you hit that share button. This 60-second spot, airing Monday night on Adult Swim before the Robot Chicken Born Again Virgin…

The Big Games Are Out, So Now It’s DLC Season.

Don’t trade your games in (yet?). We’re moving into DLC season, what with yesterday’s confirmation of next week’s release of Assassin’s Creed IV‘sfirst big expansion, the recent news of bold DLC plans for GTA V—and now info about the first one for Xbox One launch game Dead Rising 3 Here’s the official blurb: Today, Capcom…

Want six minutes of intelligent discussion and reflection on the recent discovery of the government spying on your World of Warcraft raids? Oh, ok. Here you go. It’s our own Kirk Hamilton on WNYC’s “Studio 360” hosted by Kurt Andersen. Yes, Kirk and Kurt sit down to chat about the implications and potential discomfort of…

The First 15 Minutes Of WildStar Make A Compelling Case For More

Signing up for a new subscription-based MMORPG is a big decision, especially when it’s an untested brand like Carbine’s colorful WildStar. MMORPG.com helpfully recorded the first 15 minutes of beta play, which just might help your decision along. I’m glad they did, not because I am too lazy to record the first fifteen minutes of…

This pointillist drawing of Link took redditor Svezzz812 “hours and hours and hours” of work to complete. But it was worth it! That’s one damn gorgeous pair of eyes. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related screenshots and art that we can find. Send us suggestions…

Do You Love The PS4 Enough To Eat It?

No, stop eating your PS4. I said stop it. Stop! Instead, have a look at these lovely PS4 cupcakes. They’re the creation of Stephen Rushbrook of UK developer Stainless Games, where it is office tradition to bring in treats on one’s birthday. Back when the PS4 was announced, there was lots of speculation surrounding its…

Rumored Alien: Isolation Screens Leak Online

This fall, a Kotaku source revealed that the next Aliens game was Alien: Isolation. And last night, screenshots rumored to be of the game appeared online. Four images popped up on Twitter account @Lifelower (via Eurogamer). You can see the other three below: As Kotaku previously reported, the source said the star of Alien Isolation…

It’s Amazing What Modders Can Do with the 15-Year-Old Half-Life

Watching The Core‘s trailer makes you forget you’re looking at a mod for a game that came out in 1998. It’s just gorgeous. The Core is an in-development total conversion for the first Half-Life. It takes place during the resonance cascade, which is when Gordon Freeman and his scientist buddies accidentally unleashed the aliens of…

Watch What Happens When Internet Addicts Go Offline

You like the internet? I do! I’m online a lot (for work, work, I say), and perhaps you are, too. Think you could go off the grid for a week? Creative agency Mother London had five net natives go offline for a week and documented what happened next. No Internet Week [Vimeo via Digg via…

Report: Pirate Bay Founder Being Kept In Solitary Confinement

The mother of imprisoned Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm says that since her son was extradited from Sweden to Denmark, he has been placed in solitary confinement as though he were a “dangerous, violent and aggressive criminal”. Svartholm is in custody – he’s still awaiting a verdict – for allegedly hacking the mainframe systems of…

Well, Here’s One Way To Get Around YouTube’s Copyright Robots

Angry about YouTube’s copyright policy? Want to get around its content ID filtering? Good news. Here’s one way. Watch as YouTube user SpookyFries69 shows you how it’s done in the A**a**ins Cr**d * B***k F**g video below. Enjoy! Lets Play A**a**ins Cr**d * B***k F**g [SpookyFries69@YouTube] To contact the author of this post, write to…

Turn Your iPad Into The Neverending Story

Paper books? So 20th century. Today’s Neverending Story is a suede cover for your tablet that turns it into the iconic centrepiece of the 1984 children’s classic. Available for around USD$65, they’re hand-made to replicate the “real” thing as closely as possible. And if you don’t have an iPad, that’s cool, because they’re made by…

In The 90s, Sega Made This Boy’s Christmas Very Special

The 1990s were Sega’s golden age, but they were also a golden age for those who loved Sega, because every year on December 25 you could bet there’d be millions of kids around the world waking up to find new consoles and hardware under the tree. Kids like Tyler Esposito. Tyler put this video together…

Epic LEGO Lord Of The Rings Diorama Took 200,000 Bricks To Build

Alice Finch – who earlier this year builtthe world’s biggest LEGO Hogwarts – has teamed up with another builder, David Frank, to recreate The Lord Of The Rings’ Rivendell. Using around 200,000 bricks The complete diorama spans 10 feet x 5 feet (or 3m x 1.5m), with work done not only by Alice and David,…

20 Year-Old Designs A Better Windows Than Microsoft

I like Windows 8, but only because its desktop mode is basically Windows 7 with faster boot times. The thought of using the “tablet” mode, or even swapping between the two, fills me with dread. Unless, that is, future versions of the operating system look like Jay Machalani’s design. The “self-taught user-experience designer” has shared…