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Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: Comtar feels bad, not angry at Nintendo “fanboys,” Rathorial talks about player agency through the lens of several last-gen hero games, Carter Brownlee explains the PS4 “wobble” situation a little more clearly, and here’s the latest in Stormborn’s “Redesigning Super Mario Bros.” Don’t forget that…

South Park Takes On Xbox One vs. PS4

Last night’s South Park was all about the next-gen console war, and if you’ve ever wanted to watch a bunch of kids fight and betray one another, Game of Thrones-style, over the Xbox One and PlayStation 4, this one’s for you. The premise: Black Friday is coming, and the kids have to figure out how…

Conan O’Brien Weighs In On YouTube’s New Comment System

Or rather, he kind of pokes fun at it, like everyone else on the Internet is doing. The new Google+ integrated commenting system is meant to get rid of exactly the kind of comments that Conan is making fun of in the video above. How successful that’s been so far remains to be seen, especially…

Dead Rising 3 Is Going To Be The Best Mega Man Game In Ages

Come for the zombies, stay for the robot boy dress-up party. Capcom’s Dead Rising 3 once again lets its protagonist don fabled armor from the fan-favorite franchise, gifting a Mega Man X costume to any brave soul who completes the game. The Mega Buster, on the other hand, (ha!) takes some work. Completing the game…

Ice-T Is Really Good At Slamming PS4 Robots On The Screen

Ice-T probably didn’t like that last night’s PS4 showcase in Late Night wasn’t about Killzone: Shadow Fall and explosions, but rather the ever-so-charming Playroom demo software. He did his part nevertheless: Here’s the full clip: The Sony PS4 Makes Its Debut [YouTube] To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

Nice shot! Who says there’s nothing to do in Battlefield 4 while you wait for friends? Apart from the bulletproof basketball, the Frostbite 3 engine seems to be working as intended. Better try this shot with C4 next time! Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest,funniest game-related screenshots…

Jean-Claude Van Damme Does His Epic Split… Between Two Trucks

Van Damme’s still got it! The ad says this video was made to demonstrate the stability of Volvo trucks, but deep down, we all know it was set up to show how awesome Jean-Claude Van Damme and his famous split are. This time, he does it between two reversing trucks. This is incredible, but using…

Here’s an Unsettling 8-Bit Horror Game. Sleep Well!

This is Survival Horror Story: Catequesis, an 8-bit horror game with religious undertones. It’s… pretty scary. Above we have the newest trailer for SHS, which, as you might recall, stars Daniel, a boy trying to rescue his girlfriend. As you can see, the game is aiming for a good, dark atmosphere rather than graphical fidelity.…

Watch Dogs Comes to Life in a Wildly Impressive Fan Flick

For me, watching this is like seeing Watch Dogs’ trailer for the first time again Seriously. This fan film is as good at hype as the trailers. We have the group Infectious Designer (whom we featured before) to thank for this awesome, awesome flick, which depicts a typical day in the life of Watch Dogs’…

A Graphics Card That Will Melt At High Temperatures

Don’t go overclocking this LEGO graphics card. It’ll melt into a puddle of rainbow goop. Builder Nick V even made an accompanying specs sheet for it: >>PowerBuild CRLMRM IRON HD 1640 9IB 64-bit HNSL DVD Extreme x32 HD Ready ABS Support Video Card Get ready for the latest development in plastic-based video card technology! The…

Look At This Giant Machine. Just Look At It.

I never grew out of that childhood thing where giant vehicles are just the best. So when I saw images of this thing today, I nearly lost it. On Thursday, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will be destroying over six tonnes of ivory goods, seized over the years in violation of an illegal trade.…

Someone Inside The Vatican Is Pirating Video Games

Last year’s version of divorce simulator Football Manager contained an interesting hidden secret: there was code inside that let the developers track the IP of everybody who pirated a copy of the game. Speaking at the London Games Conference, attended by MCV, the results the developers disclosed are fascinating. Over ten million copies were passed…

This Xbox One Takes Around 13 Seconds To Boot Up

Microsoft’s Larry Hryb has posted a short clipshowcasing how long it takes an Xbox One to boot up from a Kinect voice command. I timed it at 13.3 seconds. That’s going from the moment he stops talking to the point where the dashboard pops up ready for user input, which seems to me the most…

The Best Box Art Of This Generation

You can’t judge a game by its cover. You can, however, judge a game cover by its cover. With the growing importance of digital sales and preorders, what’s actually on the front of a game box is in many ways becoming less important than it once was, since it’s not the main thing driving sales,…

Epoch was a really good shooter for the iPhone (and, later, other platforms). Well, it’s now got a sequel, and it’s availableon the App Store.

Here’s How To Install a Hard Drive in a PS4

The PlayStation 4 comes with a 500GB hard drive, and let’s be real—that’s not gonna be enough space for some of you. The good news is that you can upgrade it. Check out this video by gamespot, which walks you through what you need to do to swap in a new hard drive into your…

Sony Promises There Won’t Be A PS4 Game Drought

Will the PlayStation 4 keep getting new games, or will it suffer through the dreaded software drought that inflicts most video game consoles during their first few months on the market? Sony is hoping—and promising—the former. Sony’s got big plans for their next PlayStation, which comes out on Friday. They want to keep pumping it…

From Wii Sports to YouTube Itself, Readers Share More Last-Gen Heroes

We’re nearing the end of our Last-Gen Heroes series, but that doesn’t mean our readers have any less to say about the games of the last eight years. I haven’t run a roundup post for a little while, and our readers over at the Talk Amongst Yourselves blog have been busy. Here’s what everyone’s had…

Michael Jordan’s Big Space Jam Win Gets a Gloriously Fake Documentary

Seventeen years ago on Friday, Space Jam hit theaters. That makes now the perfect time for this fake oral history of the film’s climactic throwdown between the Tune Squad and the Monstars, done with all the self-regarding gravitas of an ESPN 30-For-30 documentary. Yahoo! Screen’s sendup (Director: Tony Yacenda) is very well edited, but what…

GTA V Mansion Is An Aircraft Carrier For The 1%

Bless glitches: not only can you launch cars into the air using gates in Grand Theft Auto, but you can also do the same with aircrafts judging by this mythbusting video by DefendTheHouse. And that’s not all. You can also take Amanda’s yoga ball and make it into a rolling bomb—I bet there’s a lot…