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Another Practically Perfect Platformer For Rayman

One day Rayman will let us down again. We’ll look into those beady little eyes and feel nothing but sadness and disappointment. That day is not today. Today is a day to party with Rayman: Fiesta Run. There was a time Rayman meant nothing to me — a time before Rayman Origins. Origins established a…

Adam Orth Just Had One Of The Best Years Of His Life

It sounds impossible, and it might sound crazy to you. Adam Orth, Internet Enemy #1 this past spring—the Deal With It, always-online ex-Microsoft guy—is sizing up the past several months of pain and hurt and sounds like a man reborn. “It was a good year for me,” he says. “It was dark, in the beginning,”…

Playing Water Wars With Jason Statham Can Be Brutal

No matter how stupid that water gun looks, it looks badass in the hands of Jason Statham. He was Jimmy Fallon’s guest on yesterday’s Late Night, where they played a traditional card game—but with water and guns added. Sounds fun! Some parts are a bit uncomfortable to watch. Fallon really should have worn a black…

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Here’s the PlayStation 4, Taken Apart and Dissected

We’ve seen the games. We’ve seen the console. Now, let’s see the insides. The PlayStation 4 goes on sale November 15 in North America. And if you were wondering what the machine looks like dissected, well, Wired has all the gory details and the glorious photos. Have a look: These photos were shot by Ariel…

What will you be watching on your PlayStation 4 between games? Sony has announced the entertainment apps available on the PS4’s November 15 launch date: Amazon Instant Video, Crackle, Crunchyroll, EPIX, Hulu Plus, NBA Game Time, Netflix, NHL Center Live, Redbox Instant, VUDU and YuppTV. That cover all the bases?

One Guy Loves SNES Battle Music So Much, He’s Making More Of It

Chrono Trigger. Final Fantasy VI. Secret of Mana. All SNES classics with wonderful soundtracks. Mark Reichwein from Japan agrees, but he is taking his love for classic video game music one step further… by actually composing more of it. Reichwein is a great fan of boss battle music in particular, which is why he’s making…

Marth Joins The Smash Bros. Fray, Promptly Seduces Princess Peach

Can’t blame her, honestly Marth, the Hero-King and swordsman of Fire Emblem, is quite the looker, if you can look past the headband Yep, Marth and his trusty headband will once again be present for another round of Smash Bros. brawls, in his third appearance in the series since Melee. Nintendo’s released a few screenshots…

What the Hell Does Rhubarb Have To Do with Duke 3D?

That and many other questions will not be answered tonight by the Geekapella crew’s latest work, an a capella rendition of “Grabbag,” AKA the Duke Nukem 3D theme tune. Complete with silly dancing. We’ve featured these guys before, but this video takes the cake in terms of sheer, insane randomness as far as I’m concerned.…

Where Video Games And Tabletop Gaming Meet

And so, my great tabletop gaming adventure continues. Ex Illis is a tabletop miniatures game with a video game twist. While it has physical units and is played on a table, a lot of the meat and potatoes of the game – stuff that would normally require tokens, counters and books – is relegated to…

Donkey Kong Gets Unofficial Star Wars, Alien, Total Recall Expansions

Donkey Me is a fan project by Bruno R. Marcos which takes Nintendo’s classic arcade game and gives it a ton of new, unofficial “themed” expansions, based on stuff like Star Wars, Conan, Rambo, Indiana Jones and Big Trouble In Little China. He’s hoping to have it out in the next few days. It will…

Assassin’s Creed’s Connor, Who Was The Worst, Is Done For

Nothing typified the regression the Assassin’s Creed series took between Revelations and III more than the game’s star. We went from Ezio, a lovable, charismatic rogue, to Connor, who was…nothing. He was nothingness in a white hood. Sucking much of the life out of the franchise with his solemn frown and humour deficiency, the series…

Gorgeous Racing Game Does The Smart Thing, Abandons Current-Gen

For a game so impossibly beautiful, it always seemed strange that Project Cars was headed not just for the PC, but dated hardware like the Xbox 360 and PS3. It’s less weird now, then, that those old machines will no longer be seeing the game. Instead, the game’s developers announced today that in addition to…

The 1980’s Will Help You Beat Wind Waker

I don’t think this was made in the 21st century. I think time travel was involved. I think somebody found a way to go back to the 1980s and took a copy of Wind Waker with them. It’s the only explanation I can think of as to why this fake tips VHS is so perfect…

This Copy Of BioShock Infinite’s PC Expansion Is Only 1.44MB

Zoe Brookes works for BioShock developers Irrational Games as a graphic designer, so if anyone on Earth was going to find the time to whip something this amazing up, it’d be her. Shame it’s not real (duh, the actual expansion will be counted in GB, not MB). Or that you can’t at least buy them.…

For A Single Generation, We Were All Rock Stars

Two hours earlier, I bought Rock Band. The box was heavy. Lighter than I expected, but still heavy. The edges of the cardboard dug deep into the flesh in my arms. This was way more work than I thought it would be. No video game was worth this effort. Surely Would I make it through…

Call of Rupees: check out this unexpected Zelda easter egg in Call of Duty: Ghosts…if you’re squinting, the award is for ‘most bushes cut and pots smashed.’ And the award to the left? It might just be a TARDIS… (via r/Zelda)

​AC IV Lead: Working On Next-Gen Easier Than ‘Nightmarish’ Current-Gen

It must be awfully tricky making a game run on both current-and next-gen systems, taking advantage of the power of new consoles while keeping things running on the old ones. With Assassin’s Creed IV, one of the highest profile cross-gen games around, it sounds like the current-gen side of things was, perhaps unsurprisingly, a real…

Apple, This Sexy Comic…Are You Banning It, Or Selling It?

Sex Criminals is a great new comic-book series from writer Matt Fraction and artist Chip Zdarsky, published by Image Comics, about two people who discover that their orgasms gives them the power to stop time. The second issue came out recently and had been available in digital form via the popular Comixology app. But Apple…

YouTube’s Comments Might Now Be Less Awful

The fight to make the Internet a better place never ends, but today we can count one more victory on our side: now, not only can you moderate YouTube comments better, but the way comments appear is now also different. I mean, it’s not like you necessarily care about some rando’s opinion, right? Or the…