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Amazon’s Drone Delivery Notices Will Hopefully Be A Little Cheerier

Amazon’s drone delivery service hasn’t launched yet – and may never launch – but that hasn’t stopped people from imagining what a “missed delivery” notice might look like. It can get a little heavy-handed in places, but the “no appropriate landing site” one is surely going to be an actual problem. That and “the drone…

Over 7 Million People Were Using Steam. At The Same Time.

The Glorious PC Master Race cares not for your console launches. A combination of a holiday weekend in the US, a big sale and the service’s ever-growing popularity means 7 million people were using Steam at the same time on Sunday, a new record. It was just over a year ago that Steam hit six…

A Stun Gun Fight On Black Friday

Just in case you haven’t been made aware of how crazy/shameful some people’s behaviour on Black Friday can be, here is a video of two women fighting. One of them with a stun gun If the thought of this being real footage is getting you down, do like I do and pretend it’s the worst…

The World’s Biggest LAN Party Is A Sci-Fi Party From The Future

Dreamhack Winter, an annual LAN party held in Sweden, is easily the biggest of its kind in the world. People come from all over Europe (and sometimes futher afield) to spend a few days hanging out, seeing bands and watching pro gamers. Oh, and lugging their entire PC then setting it up in a cavernous,…

​Old People Don’t Really Understand The New Hunger Games Movie

Old folks might not be the target demographic for the new Hunger Games movie, but that doesn’t mean they can’t watch it and even enjoy it. Then again, they probably won’t all “get” it, as evidenced by this new video from The Fine Brothers I like the guy who thinks that anarchy is coming for…

And now for something different: the Final Fantasy V battle theme, played on eight floppy drives. Via MrSolidSnake745

When Composers Make Music Out Of The Xbox One Startup Sound

Last week, I wrote an article about how the Xbox One startup sound is a little melody. I even made the Xbox One and Xbox 360 perform a little duet. Then, something awesome happened. Inspired by that article, the folks over at Disquiet made the Xbox One startup sound into a compositional challenge. How many…

When Things Are Bad, There’s Always Super Mario Games

Aww. While you can find a variety of posts on Miiverse, finding one like this one in Super Mario 3D World—which was posted this weekend by Tiny Cartridge—makes you wish it’s just a post where it is someone pulling your leg and not actually a kid throwing out a cry for help. But if it…

​If Batman Were Broke

The Dark Knight’s been through a lot of wild variations through the years. Pilgrim. Rainbow. Drug addict. But a new photo project from Argentina re-imagines Bruce Wayne without his most important special ability: a bottomless wallet. Can you still strike fear into criminals with a garbage bag cape, a fanny pack and a pair of…

One day they will rule us all: Here’s “Synthespians,” a nifty illustration of 66 famous sci-fi and fantasy robots by Scott Park. Hey, it’s Johnny Five! (Via Laughing Squid)

​How To Share PS4 Screenshots Without Spamming Your Friends

The PlayStation 4 was built with sharing in mind. There’s even a “share” button on the controller, for crying out loud. But at the moment, it can be kind of difficult to access your shared stuff without spamming your friends on Facebook and Twitter. For now, you can only share videos you record to Facebook—Sony…

Battlefield 4 Reinvents Jousting With Jet Skis And Bazookas

Having a good time in Battlefield 4 in an unconventional way doesn’t always mean stacking 64 players into an elevator or changing pilot seats mid-air. There’s jet ski jousting! Jackfrags and his crew show us how to play this grand sporting spectacle. Two teams battle for supremacy on water, while jet skis and rocket launchers…

Street Fighter‘s Zangief Has No Respect For Sloppy Drunks

Zangief loves his vodka almost as much as he enjoys punishing those who can’t handle it. Witness him take his frustrations out on the internet’s most amusing drunks. It’s a bit of a stereotype, sure, but what else could be keeping the man warm while he’s doing battle in the freezing cold wearing nothing but…

Super Mario 64 As A Glitchy Nightmare

I’ve played Super Mario 64 before. Maybe you have too—but you’ve probably never played it as a horrific corrupted hellscape, like it appears in this glitch run of the game by vinesauce. I like to imagine this is what Mario might’ve been like if the development team was on shrooms, though. [Vinesauce] Vinny – Mario…

You Can Access The Xbox One’s Developer Tools Right Now [UPDATE]

If you’d like to take revenge on the Xbox One for watching you move and listening to everything you say, you can now get inside its brain and see a whole bunch of developer settings you probably shouldn’t be looking at. Every Xbox One is rigged to be a developer kit, as Microsoft told us…

How Much Did You Spend On Gaming In November?

We’ve made it through November, a month packed with two next-gen console releases and a bunch of new releases from some of gaming’s biggest franchises. Now we’ve got time to pause and reflect on the damage we did to our wallets over the past 30 days. How much did you pay for games in November?…

That’s Not How Breasts Work, Ryse

Yes, most games have never been great at depicting realistic jyggle physics. It’s not the best situation, but at this point, many of us are used to that. The breast physics on Ryse, though? I don’t even know what is going on there. Spoilers for Ryse follow/in the video above. You’d think though that, given…

How To Find Demos On Xbox One

Good news: the Xbox One has game demos! Bad news: they’re kind of annoying to find. You can’t see the free versions of each game in the Xbox One store itself—and there aren’t all that many available yet (though Microsoft’s Larry Hryb promises to keep us updated)—so if you want to find demos for the…

Micro Hexagon is Super Hexagon on the Commodore 64

Commodore 64 enthusiasts and programmers staged their second RGCD Cartridge Development Competition over the weekend, and among the dozen games that beat Saturday’s submission deadline is this—Micro Hexagon, a port of last year’s mindbending Super Hexagon (and one of our GOTY nominees.) Micro Hexagon’s authors are Paul Koller and Mikkel Hastrup, adapting Terry Cavanagh’s PC…

It’s Not The Best Doctor Who Video Game, But Give It Time

I often joke, when a bad game based on an existing entertainment license is released, that all any property needs to do to create a successful video game tie-in is to paste its characters and concepts over an already-proven title. Doctor Who: Legacy is almost proof of that. In the popular free-to-play mobile game Puzzle…