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Commuter’s Murder Prompts Warning About Being Transfixed By Your Phone

Picture this: A bunch of people are riding the train. Like most commuters these days, they’re staring at their phones: Skimming Twitter, reading books, playing games. A man takes out a .45 pistol. Puts it away. Takes it out again. No one notices. Then, he shoots and kills someone. Sound like a made-up cautionary tale?…

Deals: Next-Gen Battlefield 4 And Ghosts, Black Flag, Two Souls

Better late than never, I blame the DMV. Ready for next-gen? Because the deals are. Come in and pre-order Battlefield 4 and Call of Duty: Ghosts for current and future console at a reduced dollar-to-lens flare ratio. PS4 Battlefield 4 ($49) | Use code EMCWXXM77 PS3 Battlefield 4 ($49) | Use code EMCWXXM76 Xbox One…

Square Enix Gets Into Crowd-Funded Gaming, With a Tantalizing Twist

Square Enix, international conglomerate behind everything from Final Fantasy to Tomb Raider would like to help your best game ideas get some crowd-funding. Oh, and they might let your game star some of their characters. Whoa. Slow down there. Eidos characters. You ain’t going to be remaking Final Fantasy VII Consider this today’s least and…

Saints Row Does Relationships Better Than Most Video Games

If you find yourself discussing the merits of relationships represented in video games, you’ll probably find a lot of people bringing up BioWare games as examples to follow. The Saints Row series doesn’t seem like a serious suggestion considering, well, how unserious those games are. And yet if you look beyond the dick jokes and…

Gabriel Knight is coming back: Jane Jensen’s classic point-n-click adventure game is getting an HD remake on PC, Mac, and iPad next year, journalist Geoff Keighley reports. First bit of concept art is right here.

You’re An Escaped Slave In Assassin’s Creed IV’s Freedom’s Cry DLC

A while back, Ubisoft said that Assassin’s Creed IV would have an add-on campaign focused on Adewale, the former slave who serves as first mate on Edward Kenway’s the Jackdaw. The trailer above offers the first glimpse at the Freedom’s Cry expansion and, as you can see, it’s going to be markedly different than the…

Curt Schilling is Selling His Nintendogs DSes in Bankruptcy Auction

Curt Schilling’s ill-fated games studio took down the state of Rhode Island with it, so it’s not much of a surprise he’s in personal bankruptcy, too, selling off all sorts of crap. Discerning video gamers will be interested in items No. 8 and No. 9 in this auction guide, but don’t overlook that pink Christmas…

Adventure Time, LEGO and Linux Combine Into The Perfect PC Life Form

Harnessing the power of the credit card-sized Raspberry Pi microcomputer, the versatility of LEGO bricks and incredibly good taste in television animation, Michael Thomas has created an amazing tribute to Adventure Time‘s unsung hero, Beemo. Who wants to play video games? With a tiny computer and a tiny screen, Beemo or BMO springs to life,…

Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: GiantBoyDetective gives his opinion on the newly re-mastered The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker. And Voltaire Crescent negotiates a surrender of sorts in his latest Crystal’s Call diary entry about his FFXIV adventures And you can always go join the voices talking about video games…

Playing Video Games Forever is Hell for This Ninja

If you’re already a bad-ass ninja that kills demons, then getting transported into a ninja video game where you need to kill an endless stream of demons would be a piece of cake, right? Nope. Turns out it would suck. A lot. This stylish animated comic from artist Chad Sell shows us that ninjas do…

Ninja Gaiden‘s cyborg vs. zombies spin-off is coming to PC. Tecmo Koei announced this morning that the Steam version of Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z will be launching day-and-date with the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions in early 2014. Thank goodness. Ninja Gaiden and PCs go together like … you know.

The Chaos Of Battlefield 4 Looks Peaceful in Timelapse Video

Recorded and sped up on a PC, in spectator mode, YouTuber derbestefan‘s video shows a completely different Battlefield Sixty-four players are fighting each other on the beta map, without interruption. Skyscrapers are collapsing. Snipers on the rooftops are doing what they always do. Still, all of it is peaceful and calm. Timelapse on Siege of…

5 Minutes in BioShock Infinite‘s Rapture Shows a City Before the Fall

We’re goin’ back to Rapture … Rapture … with Booker and Elizabeth in Burial at Sea, the first downloadable extension to BioShock Infinite, and if you have to ask why they ended up there and Booker is a Sam Spade caricature, you probably have not finished the game. It’s nice to see Rapture looking so…

Found by Redditor Hulk_Pants in Egypt, this GTA V bootleg has everything on its cover (even Patrick Brown’s art and the helicopter on the top left side!). According to him, it is GTA: San Andreas for the Playstation 2, with modded Trevor, Franklin and Michael skins. That’s just too much effort for a bad knockoff!…

Some of the best gaming stories from our overnight shift: Civilization‘s Crazy Ten-Year Game Is STILL GOING What Some Male Gamers Want Female Soldiers To Look Like Fine Art: Why You Should Always Wear Helmets In Battle The League Of Legends World Champs Looked Incredible

If Pokémon Had Been A Western Cartoon…

First airing in Japan in the 1990s, Pokémon is a very, well, Japanese cartoon. Let’s imagine for a second, though, that it had been released in the 1990s in the United States. Instead of King of the Hill. Or inside King of the Hill. Pretty sure I wouldn’t need another show on TV. Poké-King-of-the-Mon-Hill [YouTube]

Smug Lady Mocks Robot, Will Surely Be The Death Of Us All

The guys who made the terrifying Amnesia are making a new game, a game with robots in it. We know little about it, but it does not look like things will be going well Why? Because this is the kind of video you see as evidence, after the robot repairs itself and someone else finds…

Some Of The Most Beautiful LEGO In The World

Beautiful LEGO is a new book by Mike Doyle that, well, you can probably guess what it’s about. Doyle has interviewed some of the world’s best LEGO builders for the book, and its 260 pages are packed with all kinds of different works, from intricate buildings to pop culture homages to original designs. For the…

Two Companies Go To War Over A Neo Geo Handheld

On the weekend, SNK issued a press release saying that the Neo Geo X handheld – a re-release of the company’s famous home console – was done for. Only a few days later, the company licensing the handheld from SNK says nope, we’ll keep selling it. In case you couldn’t tell from the original SNK…

It’s Cosplay Time. Deal With It.

When will the internet tire of cosplay from Avatar, Skyrim, League of Legends, Attack on Titan, Zelda, Portal and Assassin’s Creed? Never, that’s when. Below is the best cosplay from the last week. Enjoy! (Top gif from Epic Win Bros video.) To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough,…