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A Game Where You Poop On The Floor To Slow Enemies Down

Poöf is a game that’s a little bit platformer, a little bit tower defence. The whole thing held together with mountains of golden dog shit. As you can see in the video above, one of the quirks of the game is that the dog you’re controlling can take a dump, which acts as a barrier…

The Producer Of Gravity Is Trying To Make A Temple Run Movie

You know mobile game Temple Run? Dude runs in a straight line forever, jumping over stuff, sometimes moving sideways. That, people, is enough to get a game a major Hollywood movie deal. Well, that and millions of dollars in sales. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Gravity producer David Heyman – who also produced all the…

Game Dev Wins $100,000 For Making…Chocolate Popcorn

Well, that might be the weirdest headline I’ve ever had to write. Garth Midgley is the CEO of GOATi Outsourcing. You might not have heard of this company, but you’ve sure as hell seen its work in games like Darksiders II, L.A. Noire, The Darkness II. In addition to running this company Garth has been…

Strike Vector, you just keep on looking better and better each time I see you.

The new PlayStation app, which unlike the last one actually does a ton of cool stuff, is now live on the App and Google Play stores.

Read The PS4 Manual Right Now, If That’s Your Thing

You may not have a PS4 yet, but you can sure as hell read a PS4 manual, since Sony has put the thing online ahead of the console’s launch later this week. It’s…a manual. Most of it may be a little dull since you don’t have the thing yet, but if you’re dying to see…

Kid Only Stops Screaming For Star Wars Theme Song

Ever had a newborn kid? Or even been around one? They are the worst. You treasure any moment of peace and serenity available, and if you see a chance to create one, you take it. If you think this is somehow staged, I can assure you, babies are weird. They’ll find the strangest tranquillisers. My…

Wii U Holiday Commercial Is Not Helping The Wii U

During the boom years, when both the DS and Wii were killing it, Nintendo used to make pretty good commercials. Or, at the very least, serviceable ones. A few years back, though, something changed The Wii U needs all the help it can get this holiday season. This? This is not helping. Specifically, that Dad.…

The PS4 Might Be A Decent Media Server After All

Last month, Sony took the surprisingly unpopulardecision to strip a lot of the media server functionality from the PS4 that made the PS3 such a useful box. Well, the backlash made an impression, with Sony now discussing “how and when we can put these features on PS4”. In an interview with Giant Bomb (spotted by…

A Reminder To Not Feed The Internet Trolls

Whenever someone is bullied – or just plain trolled – on the internet there’s a tendency to focus solely on the attacker. As this interesting post by a former EVE Online Gamemasterreminds us, though, it often takes two to tango. Elizabeth Wyand used to be one of those responsible for keeping things running smoothly in…

Bubsy is a….not so great series. But you should still try out this bewildering and bizarre ‘celebration’ of Bubsy.You’ll collect yarn balls and fly, as always. You’ll also do a bunch of other surprising, kind of WTF things if you stick with this for long enough. And hey! There are cheat codes, for ‘replayability’ and…

Sony’s Giant List Of Video Games

Imagine, if you will, a giant list. Maybe it’s an Excel file. Or on a whiteboard somewhere in Sony’s offices. Maybe it’s written on index cards. On that list is a ton of names that Sony has been compiling based on fan tweets and requests for three months now. Final Fantasy Type-0 is on there.…

​The Best Video Game Music Of The Last Generation

There may be no one part of a game that connects to our memories as immediately or intensely as music. Of course we remember a game’s music: Those were the melodies that accompanied us on adventures in other worlds, through trials and triumphs, through victory and defeat. A musical score exists outside of visuals and…

The Machine That Finds Shiny Pokémon For You Just Got Even Better

Last week, we showed you amachine that someone built that found rare colors of Pokemon for them—all without having to to be present for the boring parts of the special shiny-finding process. It was impressive….but this new machine right here? It’s even better. As a quick recap: the original machine made by dekuNukem used a…

Say Goodbye To The Xbox 360 Era By Blowing One Up With C4

If you’re gonna ring in a new generation of gaming consoles, might as well do it… with a bang. This new video, from RatedRR, is quite… explosive. In it, they take a red-ringed Xbox 360 and place it… in the smoking section. The Xbox then gets a new kind of red ring: A red ring……

A 500GB PlayStation 4 Will Give You About 400GB of Storage

A 500GB PlayStation 4 actually has a little more than 400GB of available storage, meaning you’re going to fill that drive up even faster than you thought with the hefty mandatory installations of games like Killzone: Shadow Fall. That’s according to a series of Tweets from a lucky user named CJ who got his PlayStation…

Marauding Maniac Meets Mournful Madwoman In Injustice Annual #1

Who would win in a fight, Wolverine-clone Lobo, or the Joker’s unhinged girl Friday? The answer might be a lot more clear if this showdown weren’t happening in the Injustice universe. The Ultimate Edition of Injustice: Gods Among Us is available today, combining all of the downloadable content for the DC Comics alternate reality fighting…

Xbox One Call of Duty Offers Better Framerate than PS4, Say Reviewers

The furor that kicked up two weeks ago over Call of Duty: Ghosts‘ native resolution on the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One appears to have gotten its sequel. With reviews of the Xbox One version trickling in today, some are saying the Xbox One does not suffer the framerate drops that were reported in…

More Than 200 Music Tracks From Pokémon X And Y For Only $10

The recent release of Pokémon X and Y didn’t just give the game a graphical overhaul. The music is better than ever before as well, and now you can buy all 3.5 hours’ worth of it on iTunes for a piddling $9.99. The Pokémon X & Pokémon Y Super Music Collection contains 212 tracks, to…

The launch trailer for Killzone: Shadow Fall gives us a little bit of zealotry and a bucket of bad blood. With their homeworld destroyed, the Helghast have come to settle with the Vektans, in a big city divided by a huge wall. Unsurprisingly, no one likes their new neighbors.