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Morning! Here’s some interesting stuff you missed overnight: Nintendo Has Limited Edition 3DS XLs. They’re Pretty Hot. Hey, Remember The Xbox 360’s HD-DVD Drive? It Was A Thing. Super Mario 3D World Continues To Look Amazing Ellen Page, Giant Robots And Snazzy Colors
By Luke Plunkett Published October 23, 2013 -
Super Mario 3D World Continues To Look Amazing
Yeah, the name could have been snappier, but if you’re in need of a new Wii U game to look out for, they don’t get more promising than this. What you’re seeing up top is a refreshingly exhaustive (it’s six minutes long!) look at gameplay from the upcoming Super Mario 3D World, courtesy of Nintendo…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 23, 2013 -
Nintendo Has Limited Edition 3DS XLs. They’re Pretty Hot.
Nintendo Japan just revealed two new flavours of 3DS, and for once, they’re not long-term additions to the line. These puppies are strictly limited edition. Going on sale on November 28, they’ll retail for ¥19,900 (USD$205). They might come to the West. They might not. Nintendo works in mysterious ways. Want that orange one. So.…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 23, 2013 -
A Game That Might Actually Make Karaoke Fun For Everyone
Karaoke is fun for some. For many, though, even with booze involved, it tends to be an exercise in fear and awkwardness. So hopefully this new card game can help. Karaokards is actually two games in one. Here’s the pitch: So when you support Karaokards you’re getting two different games: Karaokards Classic to play during…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 23, 2013 -
Army Robot Fires Machine-Gun, Internet Watches In Horror
Military games that feature robotic combat drones are normally labelled as “futuristic”, or “near future”. Might need to change that to “contemporary” real soon. This video shows demonstrations by a number of companies, who were recently presenting their combat robots in front of the US military. Yes, that is a robot firing an MG-240 machine…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 23, 2013 -
Somebody Is Actually Combining X-Wing And Homeworld
It’s a dream combination, I know, so it’s weird it’s taken this long to do it. But hey, Enemy Starfighter is just that: a space combat game with the art style (and some ship design influence) from the Homeworld series. It’s due for Windows, Mac and Linux, and along with space combat also promises some…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 23, 2013 -
Something Else Cool About The Xbox One’s New Achievements
Remember, the Xbox One’s new achievement display does more than just look fresher. It also lets multiple people earn separate achievements from within the same game, even logged onto the same console, and display that as its own colour-coded pop-up. Here’s an example, taken from around the 11:15 mark in this video You’ll notice at…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 23, 2013 -
Hey, Remember The Xbox 360’s HD-DVD Drive? It Was A Thing.
Oh Microsoft. What were you thinking? When people point to Microsoft’s biggest folly of the last hardware generation, they’ll normally suggest either the Red Ring Of Death pandemic or an unhealthy obsession with Kinect. Both of those have been problems for Microsoft, sure, and I’m sure we’ll get to covering both of them in our…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 22, 2013 -
It’s A Good Time To Play (Or Replay) Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Today, Square Enix released a newly updated version of Deus Ex: Human Revolution called the Director’s Cut. It makes a good number of improvements and additions to an already great game. To this day, I regularly have fun monkeying around in Deus Ex. The more I push it, the more I find weird and surprising…
By Kirk Hamilton Published October 22, 2013 -
Forget The Console War. This Is The Dog War.
In a matter of weeks, EA’s Battlefield 4 and Activision’s Call of Duty: Ghosts will represent their respective series in the usual fall battle for the attentions of first-person shooter fans. Predictably, the competition between the two games has recently been heating up. You could say it’s turned into a real… dogfight. How did dogs…
By Kirk Hamilton Published October 22, 2013 -
I Can’t Believe Valve Messed With The ‘Bongs’ In Dota 2
Outrage after outrage, man. First Valve practically destroysCounter-Strike: Global Offensive by daring to mess with the most integral part of the experience, the chickens. Now they’re at it again with Dota 2—the latest patch messes with the bongs. Or well. They’re technically not bongs. Players just call them bongs. The point is, there used to…
By Patricia Hernandez Published October 22, 2013 -
GTA V Is Actually About Loneliness
Look, Franklin, you really need to sort your life out. Taking your dog for a nice, serene walk is all well and good. But randomly murdering some poor innocents outside of Taco Bomb is just wrong. You’re letting your “friends” get the better of you. But it’s not your fault. It was all preordained. Wish…
By Leo Wichtowski Published October 22, 2013 -
Save On Gone Home, Vita Memory Cards, And All Your Pre-Orders
I was just chatting with Chris Person about Game of the Year contenders, and Gone Home was certainly a part of the conversation. If you haven’t played it yet, you’re missing out, and it’s $10 today on the official site. [Gone Home] Last Day to vote on your favorite gaming keyboard Tell us what you…
By Shane Roberts Published October 22, 2013 -
The Great New Comic You Should Buy Tomorrow Is ‘Pretty Deadly’
Time was, there were loads of rootin’, tootin’ cowboy comics on spinner racks everywhere. But none of those books were narrated by a dead bunny. That’s only the tiniest piece of the macabre brilliance inside the first issue of Pretty Deadly, an acid-trip twisted fairy tale western which comes out tomorrow. Along with romance and…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 22, 2013 -
The Best Starting Pokémon, According To Science
It’s the agonizing choice and neverending debate of a generation: Bulbasaur, Charmander, or Squirtle? Picking one of the Kanto starter Pokémon is usually a gut choice, based on past experience or which one looks cooler. But what if there was a way to know, objectively, the best one? Well, now we do, thanks to science.…
By Owen Good Published October 22, 2013
