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Deals: GTAV, Free Gamefly And Hulu Plus Trials, Blu-ray Collection

If you haven’t gotten your hands on this year’s biggest release yet, pick up Grand Theft Auto V at a decent discount from Gamestop today by stacking some promo codes to nab $6 off and free shipping. PS3 Grand Theft Auto V ($54) | Gamestop | Use promo code 10FWT and SAVER 360 Grand Theft…

Tom Clancy’s Splintered Legacy: Great Video Games, Troubling Worldview

If you’d asked me in 1998 to look fifteen years in the future and guess who the the most enduring names in video games would be, I might’ve listed the usual suspects: Sid Meier, Tim Schafer, Will Wright, Shigeru Miyamoto and maybe a few others. I probably wouldn’t have included Tom Clancy. And yet here…

They’re Making a Tiny Tower Set In The Death Star

Did you feel that? It was as if millions of productive work hours just cried out in pain and then were silenced. Tiny Tower is one of themost addictive mobile games ever made. Star Wars is Star Wars. This combination, teased via the Star Wars Twitter account, is the death of productivity. Here’s the official…

The Internet’s 2001 Hate For One Of The Most Beautiful Video Games Ever

The average person over the age of 13 can no longer proudly stand by all the opinions they expressed 12 years ago. In time, a person simply decides that dirt no longer tastes good. Later, one regrets the pants they wore in middle school or, further into life, feels some shame when recalling the thing…

A team at Maxis is exploring the possibility of making an offline mode for the always-online SimCity, because you demanded it, according to an official update on the state of the game. (But they can’t offer bigger cities; hurts performance.) Previously, Maxis management had said that an offline mode was rejected as inconsistent with the…

Pokémon X And Y Is Everything You Wanted Pokémon To Be As A Kid

Here’s what I like to imagine. Game Freak shipped Black and White 2, and production then started for a new Pokemon game. They didn’t have any specifics yet, but they knew they want to breathe some life into the franchise—make it feel fresh, sure, but still keep the core of what makes Pokemon games so…

Does Saints Row IV Work As A First-Person Shooter? Hell Yes.

They did a first-person mod for GTA IV, so it was bound to happen for Saints Row IV, too. And thank goodness it did. The mod is being developed by a group of modders led by ImmortalSin, who hails from the Saints Row Mods forum. It is currently in alpha—a fact that’s readily apparent in…

Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: StygianKnight explains why he’s holding off on getting the PS4, EtchedChamp discusses different ways video games handle death and violence, Leigh Harrison wonders about all the little things you can do in GTA V alongside all the very violent things you can do.

Let This BioShock Infinite DLC Trailer Convince You Rapture Is Real

In Bioshock, we’ve always been directly in the center, there to witness the world-changing events transpiring in both Rapture and Columbia. But what about the outside world? This short live-action teaser, shot in the style of an old-school documentary series, shows a civilian investigation into the legend of Rapture—the underwater city where Burial At Sea,…

Pokémon, Sonic, And Mega Man, All Made Out Of… Meat?

Ground meat ain’t just for hamburgers, you know. It’s also for art. Over at Tumblr, a blog called Epic Grinds serves as the purveyor of artistic objects created out of ground meat. The owner’s skill doesn’t stop at meatifying game characters, mind you—there’s a great variety of objects from anime, live-action series, and real life…

Let’s see if this makes things better. Rockstar says that the latest title update for GTA V is live for PS3. This is the update that’s supposed to fix some of the issues currently hobbling the Grand Theft Auto Online experience. The publisher says that they’re working to have the same update available for Xbox…

Perhaps President Obama Can Fix the GTA Online Issues

Grand Theft Auto Online is facing post-launch glitches and headaches. Government shutdown shmutdown, the GTA Online issues are bad enough that the President of the United States had to call an honest to goodness meeting to address the issue. Don’t think this is fake or some cleverly re-edited clip. It is incredibly real. So instead,…

Legendary Arcade Shooter Ikaruga Is Getting A PC Version

After the vertical shoot-em-up’s arcade debut in 2001, it was ported over to several home consoles: the GameCube, the Dreamcast, and even the Xbox 360 via the Live Arcade. Heck, there was even an Android port released this January. Now, it’s the PC’s turn. Over at Steam’s Greenlight, an entry popped up overnight for Ikaruga—specifically,…

A Town-Building Game Where You’re A Shoemaker. Who Fights Monsters.

We all know the story. Boy wants to be a knight. Boy grows up. The king’s army arrives, looking for soldiers… but what if our boy, now a man, isn’t chosen? What if he’s left behind, forced to make ends meet as a shoemaker? And what if his village is attacked while the army is…

How Battlefield 4 Battles Nazi Flags and Dick Drawings

It’s a rule of thumb: Let people create things, and you’re definitely going to see dick drawings. You might even see Nazi doodles, too. But Battlefield 4 is fighting that. Like Call of Dutybefore it, Battlefield 4 gives players an emblem creation tool. And like Call of Duty before it, BF4 also has a feature…

When Hipsters Ruin A Dungeons & Dragons Game

Zero Charisma is an upcoming movie about a bunch of D&D-playing friends who recruit a new player to their game. A man who cares about his jeans, and brings beer As our sister site io9 points out, the portrayal of “nerds” in the movie may not be that flattering. The existing players are your tired…

The PS4’s Mobile App Sounds Fantastic. No, Really.

Sony has spoken briefly about the new PlayStation app for phones and tablets before, but some new screenshots of the thing in action, and a summary of its abilities from PlayStation’s boss, show why it’s a lot better than the old one. It does simple stuff like let you compare profiles and trophies, like the…

Cosplayers vs Stadium Security Is A New And Hilarious Thing

The League of Legends World Championship finals are going down at the Staples Center in Los Angeles tomorrow, and there’ll be a big crowd in attendance. Among them will be plenty of cosplayers. Who are going to have some interesting conversations with security, no doubt. Because of the type of venue, and the fact it’s…

The Apocalypse Comes To France, And It Looks Beautiful

No zombies. No atomic wastelands. No earthquakes. In this wonderful little film by Claire & Maxime shoots the City of Love and just deletes all the people. Same beautiful city, none of the sass.

Want To Play Xbox One Early? Then You Must Suffer.

The Xbox One isn’t out until November, and unless you’re lucky enough to be living near a travelling roadshow or consumer expo, you’re going to have to wait until November to play one. Or…will you… There is one other way. But I warn you. It is fraught with peril. And…American Idol washouts. That way is…