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Cool Indie Game Has A Name I’m Only Going To Type Once

Continue?9876543210 is a new game from Jason Oda, the guy who made that awesome Zelda/Skrillex mashup earlier in the year. He describes it as an “artsy, philosophical action game”, and it’s out on iOS, PC (it’s just been Greenlit) and Mac. It looks…pretty neat. Imagine if Wreck-It-Ralph was 100x bleaker. And had a pixel art…

An RPG/Shooter/Puzzle Game. With Nazis & Drag Queen Flirting.

Dead Century is something…different. Set in the 1930s, with Nazi Germany on the rise and interested in all things occult, you control “a small team of archaeologists as they try to stay one step ahead of Third Reich scientists in piecing together an ancient mystery from the dawn of human civilization.” It’s a bit of…

Skyrim Statue Does Not Cure Disease

Gaming Heads will next year be releasing a replica of the Shrine of Talos, giant statues found in the Elder Scrolls games. These aren’t tiny little desktop ornaments; they stand around a foot tall, or 14 inches. Only 1100 will be made across two versions ($180 for a standard, $200 for collector’s), with each detailed…

See Where Some Of Your Humble Bundle Money Actually Goes

Yeah, people mostly jump on Humble Bundles because they get a ton of great games for insanely cheap prices. But I like to think that the fact the bundles donate money to charity also plays a part in their success, giving gamers the chance to see their money go somewhere useful, instead of simply drifting…

Nintendo Question Is Way Too Hard For Game Show Contestant

Let’s be fair here: this woman is answering a question on a generalist quiz show. I bet there are plenty of you lot, even after reading stuff like this, who wouldn’t have been 100% in answering this question. So skipping was definitely the smart move. Come on, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. You might…

Nintendo Releasing New Pokémon Cards. Like, Proper Cards.

These new Pokémon cards by Nintendo aren’t your standard Pokémon cards. These are Pokémon-themed playing cards. You know. Poker, solitaire, those kind of cards. And they look hot Due out later this week – in Japan only, of course – they feature all kinds of Pokémon as the regular cards, while the latest unique Pokémon…

Teenager Pays $735 For A Picture Of An Xbox One

English teenager Peter Clatworthy made some very bad decisions during an Xbox One auction on eBay, paying £450 (USD$735) and not even getting a console. He got a picture of a console. The 19-year-old student told the Nottingham Post that he’d saved up the money so that he could buy the console as a surprise…

Marvel Puzzle Quest: Dark Reign is now available as a free download on Steam, and it looks so much better on PC. Meanwhile, the mobile version has just been updated with Episode 2 content. Which to play? All of them, of course. Just watch out for those $100 PC currency bundles

See PlayStation and Xbox Controllers Evolve Before Your Eyes

A new generation means new controllers—but the road to the current PlayStation 4 and Xbox One controllers was full of tweaks. Not all of these changes are visual, of course, but it’s still cool to look at these GIFs by Gadget Love and see just how much has changed since the PS1 and Xbox days.…

These Aren’t SNES Cartridges

The foam kinda gives it away, but you probably wouldn’t otherwise be able to tell that these SNES cartridges are actually soap bars and only effective in the bathroom. They’re available on Firebox as various classic titles, such as Super Mario Kart, Donkey Kong Country or Street Fighter II Turbo Too bad they haven’t made…

Heroes Of Dragon Age Is Out. Hooray?

The “hooray” all depends. How much do you love Dragon Age? How do you feel about mobile collectible card games? Do free-to-play games make you queasy? So many variables. Available today for free on Google Play and iTunes, Heroes of Dragon Age is essentially one of those mobile collectible card games — where you wind…

Today in Weird-Looking Games I’m Excited To Check Out, here’s the first US trailer for Danganronpa, NIS America’s crazy visual novel that’s supposed to be a cross between 999 and Phoenix Wright. It’s out for Vita on February 11. Psyched for this one.

Watch Us Explore The Galaxy In Starbound

Is Terraria too terrestrial for you? Does FTL not have enough tedious mining? Do you play Minecraft and just wish you could be a robot instead of Steve? Well Starbound can solve all your problems. Starbounddefinitely looks familiar to Terraria players, but playing it is something different. With all the different mechanics, various races, space…

Reports of Tails’ Demise Are Erroneous: Christopher Evan Welch, the veteran actor who died on Monday, did not voice Sonic the Hedgehog’s sidekick in a mid-1990s animated series, Welch’s agency said today. We mistakenly reported he played the role.

GTA V and Dead Island Called Out For Depiction of Women

When you look at the success of stuff like The Hunger Games, Gravity and Orange Is The New Black, it’s safe to say this was a pretty good year for the depiction of women in media. Just the same, though, it hasn’t all been peachy this year. Here’s a montage by The Representation Group (who…

A Game You’d Go To The Ends of the Earth To Play

On December 4, when you were doing whatever you were doing, a gamer who goes by the name of Artio was apparently chartering a plane to fly her to a remote town in Alaska. Why? So she could make a particularly powerful move in the video game Ingress According to an account by another Ingress…

Ambitious Morrowind Skyrim Mod Still Looks Stunning

Last time we looked at ‘Skywind,’ the elaborate mod that puts Morrowind into Skyrim, it was mostly eye candy. While the team behind the project still has a ways to go, it seems like they’re making progress on the mod judging from this new trailer. Seem familiar? That’s because this trailer is riffing off the…

There’s been a whole lot of Fallout 4 speculation recently, but Bethesda says they’re not showing anything at the Spike VGX this Saturday, putting some water on the rumor fires.

Capy—the indie studio behind Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery—will release their next game, Super Time Force, on both Xbox 360 and Xbox One. The bad news: they’re delaying it to next year.

​Mass Effect‘s Sassiest AI Looks Great When She’s Made Out of Paper

A disembodied artificial intelligence who eventually got poured into a metal body so she could kick ass and kiss Joker, EDI was one of the best parts of the Mass Effect trilogy. She’s supposed to be made of futuristic space alloys but damn if she doesn’t look good made out of old-fashioned Terran pulp paper.…