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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…

GTA Online $500,000 Stimulus Package Starts Now

Starting today, you should begin to see money filling up your delicious virtual Los Santos coffers—Rockstar just announced that the GTA Online stimulus package will kick off today. Anyone who played GTA Online in October will get a free $500,000. It’s Rockstar’s way of saying sorry for all the launch woes and technical difficulties in…

Gerard Butler, Vin Diesel Tied To Video Game Movie No One Cares About

Dear Hollywood, no one wants to see a Kane & Lynch movie anymore — I’m not sure anyone ever did. Notthen with Bruce Willis and Jamie Foxx, and not now with Gerard Butler and Vin Diesel. Just let it die, already. At one point we had movie posters and an appearance at Cannes. That was…

How To Bring An Award-Winning D&D Board Game To The iPad

Back inAugust, mobile board and card game experts Playdek announced they’d be bringing Wizards of the Coast’s award-winning Dungeons & Dragons-based board game Lords of Waterdeep to iOS. It’s coming out later this month, and this is how it plays. Note the various AI player options. That’s why I love Playdek. The only thing that’s…

Behold, Internet Explorer As A Magical Girl Anime

We’ve seen popular websites as anime characters before, but that was fan-art. All made up. This magical girl version Internet Explorer? She’s official. Really. That video comes from the folks at Internet Explorer. Why is Internet Explorer personified as a cute anime girl? Well, turns out there’s a new version of Internet Explorer. She’s called…

The Sun Sets—For Good—on the Blockbuster Night

The last 300 stores owned by rental chain Blockbuster in the U.S. will be closed by January. If the news was as a surprise, it’s only that so many were left. It leaves you with a weird nostalgia—hard to get worked up about a once-monolithic corporation, but still dewy-eyed recalling a trip to bring home…

2013 Call of Duty Lifts Scene From 2009 Call of Duty

Is it recycling? A homage? A cry for help? All of the above? As you can see in the above video by YouTuber satantribal, parts of the prologue of Call of Duty: Ghosts, released yesterday, mirror the ending of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, released in 2009. (Ghosts is the one on the right.)…

A Convincing Pitch For The Xbox One Kinect In Just Five Seconds

I’ve never been a Kinect guy; if I had the option, I’d rather buy a $400 Kinect-free Xbox One than one saddled with an accessory I probably won’t use all that much. But hey, Microsoft’s motion-sensing device might actually be a serious convenience, if it works properly. Via Microsoft’s Major Nelson, check out this quick…

Crytek Dev Calls Dinner Tweet ‘Boneheaded,’ Praises Work Conditions

After a couple of weeks of silence, we’re finally hearing from people who worked at Crytek, the game development studio where more than 11,500 dinners were proudly served to “crunching” developers. Two people on the game are saying that Crytek is a pretty good place to work, despite a recent controversial Tweet about those dinners…

​Don’t Expect A Modern-Day Assassin’s Creed Anytime Soon

It’s something a lot of us had been hoping for, if not downright expecting: An Assassin’s Creed game set not in an iconic historical era, but entirely in the present day. Sounds like it’s not going to happen anytime soon. “I doubt we would do a modern day AC,” wrote Assassin’s Creed IV lead writer…

Walmart Glitch Gives $18 New Games To Some Lucky Shoppers

A technical glitch led Walmart to mark down a ton of brand new video games early this morning, and as a result, some lucky shoppers got their hands on $60 games like Grand Theft Auto V and Battlefield 4 for just $18 each. The glitch, which led Walmart’s website to show super-cheap prices for many…

Ghosts Is STILL $48, 360 Bundle, Zelda 3DS And Wii U Bundles [Deals]

Couple of great 360-related deals available today, and if you need a new 360 or a replacement 360 or a 360 for a friend, forget Black Friday, I’d pull the trigger right here. Discounts on LIVE, discounts of Ghosts and Battlefield 4, it’s all here. Xbox 360 250GB w/ Tomb Raider, Halo 4, $50 Best…

Burglars Wipe Out Game Store Before Call of Duty Midnight Launch [Update]

About 150 people in Ontario had their Call of Duty Christmas stolen by Grinches who busted down the cement wall of a game store and plundered it for every one of its preorders the day before the game’s launch. The Game MD of Windsor (it’s Detroit’s Canadian, not-bankrupt sibling across the river) was victimized by…

Homeless Person Selling Shadow of the Colossus Demo for $1.50

It’s in there with a few other demos for Sony’s beloved PS2 console. I spotted this on my way into the office this morning and gave the homeless person a dollar.

​The Xbox One Launch, Minus The Hype

Microsoft has had a noisy year. The response to the Xbox One’s unpopular always-online DRM was deafening. The response to the eventual reversal of those policies was even louder. In the midst of all the noise, beyond the cancelled policies and muddled messaging, lies a video game console. What’s that thing all about, eh? Last…

Thor: The Dark World Is A Game Unworthy Of The God Of Thunder

While the movie doesn’t launch for a couple of days, the official video game for Thor: The Dark World has been out since last week, proving once more that the might of an Avenger and some clever game mechanics are nothing compared to the power of malicious microtransactions. Another Marvel movie, another incredibly pretty free-to-play…

The Best Graphics Card For The Money

We have a winner, but this was by far our closest vote ever. The NVIDIA GTX 770 beat out the R9 280X by a mere 67 votes, and on the low end of the poll, the GTX 780 trumped the HD 7950 by just 15. Funny that there was so much backlash about this vote…

Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: StormBorn’s new project is a doozy. He’s re-designing Mario, Luigi and other Super Mario characters. I like what I’m seeing so far. Dexomega shouts out the real heroes of every video game era: the developers themselves. And DocSeuss reports in on how Payday 2 is…

Call of Duty: Ghosts Isn’t the Year’s Biggest Entertainment Launch

In each of the past four years, Activision has followed Call of Duty‘s release date with a triumphal announcement that the latest edition of the game was “the biggest entertainment launch” of the year or in history, comparing it to blockbuster movie franchises since there was no other game to come close. They didn’t say…

The First Big Video Game Console, Now The Latest Tiny LEGO Kit

With it’s sexy wood paneling and those iconic controllers, the Atari 2600 is one of the most readily recognizable pieces of video game console history, even when it’s only 3.75 inches wide and built entirely from LEGO pieces. Minature LEGO maestro Powerpig adds the Atari 2600 to his lineup of purchasable kits, joining other seminal…