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This might be the weirdest —or at least the most surreal—gun in video games. The freak-science invention in Scale lets you shrink and grow just about anything the game’s world. The indie title looked awesome every time we’ve seen it and now dev team CubeHeart has launched a Kickstarter campaign to help get the game…

Blizzard’s Diablo/Starcraft/WoW Crossover Has a New Name

The game once known as Blizzard DOTA changed its name to Blizzard All-Stars after a dispute between heavyweight publishers Valve and Blizzard. Now, the Warcraft company has settled on a new name for the competitive online game. It’s going to be called Heroes of the Storm The trailer above debuts the MOBA game’s new name…

Try To Think Your Way Through The PS4’s First Big Puzzle Game Right Now

We’ve been talking about The Witness, the upcoming puzzle/exploration game from Braid-creator Jonathan Blow, for some time now. But for all the words we’ve spilled and the concept art we’ve shared, it can still be difficult to explain just how the game’s puzzles work Yesterday at a Sony-hosted PS4 preview event, I chatted with Blow…

An Ode To Magikarp, The Saddest Pokémon Of All

Poor Magikarp. Over the past decade and a half, the flopping fish has been verbally walloped not just by Pokémon players, but by the creators who made him so pathetic in the first place. Granted, it’s true: Magikarp is generally considered the weakest Pokémon, and his abilities totally suck. But his flopping is kind of…

Can You Name All The References In This Gorgeous Super Mario Art?

Since 2006, over a dozen artists from a Mario forum collaborated on a number of eBoy-esque isometric Mario worlds, like the one you see above—and the results are pretty fantastic. The long, curious history of the Isometric collaborations on the Mario Fan Games Galaxy Forums is documented on this Wiki, if you’re curious—just know that…

The Best Small Form Factor PC Case And A Bunch Of Pre-Order Discounts

The BitFenix Prodigy changed the Mini-ITX game when it hit store shelves a few years ago. It’s a beautiful and intuitive case, intelligently designed to maintain a slim form factor while still allowing for the installation of components like watercooling radiators and long graphics cards. On top of all that, it debuted at a very…

The My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic game suffered from a severe lack of dancing mini-games. It suffers no longer. The movie-themed Equestria Girls update is live for iOS and Android, turning ponies into real girls and making them dance for your amusement. Love or hate the movie, that song is pretty catchy.

PlayStation 4 Will Cost $1,850 in Brazil

And we thought Argentina had it bad. In Brazil, the land of high video game import taxes, PlayStation fans will have to shell out 3,999 Brazilian Real for Sony’s next console come November 29. That’s roughly $1,850 USD. Ouch. The $100 price advantage the $399 PlayStation 4 enjoys over the $499 Xbox One here in…

How We’ll Create The Prettiest Elder Scrolls Characters Ever

As versatile and deep as the series is, it wasn’t until Skyrim that The Elder Scrolls started generating somewhat attractive player characters. Looks like they’ve nailed attractive character creation for The Elder Scrolls Online. The Elder Scrolls characters really have come a long way. Here’s character creation from 2002’s The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind: The…

A Game Where You’re A Rotating Limo Shouldn’t Make Sense But It Does

Is this real life? Of course not, because this is exactly the kind of scenario that could only work in a video game. And isn’t it wonderful. Your name is Georgio Manos and you’re a chauffeur driving around in a revolving limousine. Which actually makes perfect sense, because the 1977 town of Roundabout is full…

PS4: Everything We Know

The fourth PlayStation is out this fall. PlayStation #4. Pl4St4tion. PlayStation: The Fourth of Its Name. Sony’s next console will be out on November 15, and they’ve told us a whole lot about the PlayStation 4 so far. We’ve got a full round-up for you right here, with updates as we continue to learn more…

Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: Even more excellent Last-Gen Heroes/Zeroes posts have sprouted up in TAYland. Aikage sings the praises of Operation Rainfall. Voltaire Crescent lavishes love all over Pokemon Red & Blue. Viexi asks what happened to Cube World. And reader Aldo shares progress on Transcenders, a sci-fi puzzle…

Xbox One: Everything We Know

The Xbox One is out on November 22, and we know almost everything there is to know about Microsoft’s new console. For your convenience, we’re rounding up all of that information and putting it right here. As we continue to learn more about the Xbox 360’s successor, we’ll keep updating this post, so check back…

This Is What Car Battles Look Like In GTA Online… In Mid-Air

I guess this is, like, jousting on helicopters? Chicken with helicopters and cars? Whatever this is, it’s amazing. And it’s all thanks to the crazy minds at Achievement Hunter What you do is, basically: lift your best cars up, meet your friends in mid-air and start ramming each other. This would probably make even less…

There’s a Musical Surprise In Skylanders: Swap Force

I was not expecting this at all. Don’t click if you don’t want to spoil it. As if aintricately lovely score by Lorne Balfe — the man behind the music for the first two Skylanders games, Assassin’s Creed III and Beyond: Two Souls — wasn’t enough, Vicarious Visions audio designer Matt Pirog put together this…

Hey. You. Mornin’. You missed all this cool stuff while you were asleep. Computer Becomes Cockroach Mass Grave + Nightmare Fuel Mirror’s Edge Felt Real, And That’s What Made It So Special Soldier Awarded Medal Of Honor, And You Can Now See What He Did Already, An Awesome Titanfall Action Figure (From Japan!)

That was probably a bad idea. These silly GTA V mansions. Although there are several solutions for this, lifting it out with a cargo helicopter and not dropping it into the pool would be the funniest. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest,funniest game-related screenshots and art that…

The Kickstarter for Mutant Football League didn’t meet its goal, hitting US$141,821 out of the $750,000 it hoped to raise. The team is regrouping.

GTA V‘s Trevor Sure Likes Forklifting Some Weird Things

My new favorite Tumblr find of this week? Why, it’s “Trevor Lifting Stuff.” On it, Trevor lifts all kinds of stuff. Like a stepladder, for instance. The Tumblr is actually titled “Trevor soulève des trucs” in French, but it depicts the international language of lifting. Trevor lifts up a garden table. A cow. A mailbox.…

Blade Runner Gives Up, Goes 100% Noir

Blade Runner’s already pretty damn noir, from the colour palette to the pacing. So a trailer pitching the movie as an actual 1940’s black and white drama just makes sense, ok? Creator Chet Desmond says that it’s not meant to be an actual re-imagining of the classic flick. “As many have pointed out, Blade Runner…