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Fez Looks Beautiful Even When It’s Glitching Out

In the middle of a Reddit AMA, ostensibly about a Humble Bundle, lies a little piece of magic. It’s a gallery, shared by Fez programmer Renaud Bédard, showing how the game looked when the code went a little wrong The one up top was probably “caused by declaring 16-bit indices and actually feeding 32-bit indices”.…

Imagine Wind Waker Had Flying, Instead Of Sailing…

I normally don’t like making such crude comparisons between games, but given the character design in Aer – and the fact I only just played Wind Waker again – I can’t help it. Don’t worry. It’s a very, very good thing. This is a “proof of concept trailer” for Aer. Swedish developers forgotten key say…

GTA V Gate Is A Secret Car Catapult

Next time you drive up to Michael’s front gate in Grand Theft Auto V, you might want to give it a nudge. What appears to be a simple security gate is actually a deadly car catapult. Shame these won’t count as stunt jumps, and that the gate will likely lose its magic powers after the…

Why I’m A Little Bit Worried About Kinect

I am a little bit worried about Kinect. I’ve just spent 10 minutes being scanned into Kinect Sports Rivals. I’m not sure if it’s working correctly. The only feedback I am being given is from a Microsoft rep to my right. He’s politely giving me instructions when the Kinect (for some reason) stops the scan.…

Um, We Still Don’t Know What Happened To Benjen Stark…

Benjen Stark, brother of Ned Stark, is one of the more interesting characters you meet early in Game of Thrones. Then…he’s gone. But today, he’s back! A Tale of Benjen Stark is an amazing short that tells the story of what happens to Benjen, at least until the point he…well, yes. A tale of Benjen…

Burnout Dev Wants To Make New Burnout Crash Game (With GIANT TRUCKS)

Adam “DjArcas” Sawkins used to work at Burnout developers Criterion. He left a while ago, to work on indie titles like Fortresscraft, but recently figured that hey, if nobody else is making Burnout games anymore, he may as well. He can’t afford the license, obviously, but his Unity game Truck Stop is a Burnout game…

Kindly Old Man Gives Sage Advice On How To Slack Off At Work

Okay, it’s not the sagest advice I’ve ever heard, but it is pretty enjoyable advice nonetheless. This is Mr. Forthright, an older chap who gives all sorts of advice on his YouTube channel including how to pass a drug test and how to escape from a nursing home. His latest looks at how to goof…

Nine Minutes Of Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, In English

You might have already seen this footage from the next Metal Gear Solid game, if you were paying attention last year around PAX time. But you haven’t seen it in English yet. Today, via Hideo Kojima himself, you can watch the entire intro to Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, presented with glorious Kiefer Sutherland…

In this, the year of Luigi: critic Cameron Kunzelman wants to settle the question of what comes after the Year of Luigi via a Nintendofied version of the Mayan calendar. Fun thing is, there are 4 different ways to interpret this calendar.

GTA V‘s Weather Is Even More Beautiful In Time-Lapse

Grand Theft Auto V‘s Los Santos is easily one of the most gorgeously rendered, thriving digital creations put on a disc. So it was only a matter of time before someone made a time-lapse video showing the game’s shifting weather in all its glory. This video, directed by Ben Buja, comes to us from Machinima.…

Breaking Bad Lead Actor Reads An Amazing Erotic Fan Letter, Oh My

If you’re famous, then you probably have fans. Fans like to send fan letters, but not all fan letters are created equal. Some letters are simply better than others, and this sexual fan letter that Bryan Cranston received, which he reads out-loud on Conan? It’s fan-tas-tic. I’m kind of surprised this letter got to Cranston,…

An Illuminating New Use For The PS4 Controller

My greatest hope for the coming next-gen consoles is that they will surprise us. I hope that we haven’t guessed all the ways the Xbox One, PS4 and Wii U will use their new hardware to make us play games slightly differently. And what do you know, just today, the people making Thief described a…

A New Mario Statue Line Begins With The Perfect Plumber Outfit

First 4 Figures and Nintendo are launching a new series of Mario statues, and what better version of of the iconic Italian than the one that’s already halfway there? Gotta love the old Tanooki suit. This is my Mario. Whenever I think of the good old days of gaming, I recall sitting in front of…

Marketing hype? Brutal truths? A combo of both? On FIFA 14‘s release day, let’s take another look at how EA Sports promotes this year’s sports games by being awfully blunt about the shortcoming’s of last year’s.

Five Ways You Can Make Grand Theft Auto V More Immersive

Much of the joy of Grand Theft Auto V comes from a sense of freedom, of exploring an entirely different world. The story missions are fine, the heists are neat enough, but the bustling state of San Andreas is the game’s crowning achievement. Too bad it’s far too easy to run through it and miss…

Listen To a Very Different Kind of Musical Video Game

“In Germany, saying that you want to make games is like saying you want to make porn.” There’s rhythmic thumping in Beatbuddy but, don’t worry, it’s safe for work. The quote above comes from Denis Rogic, one of the members of Threaks, a German indie dev team that recently released their first game. Rogic talked…

A Ridiculously Elaborate Minecraft Take On Assassin’s Creed IV

Sure, lovely vistas and detailed visuals are two of Assassin’s Creed IV‘s biggest draws. But if they made the whole game in Minecraft and it looked this good, I’d play that, too. This video comes from SkyDoesMinecraft, and re-imagines one of ACIV‘s cinematic trailers entirely in Minecraft. It’s awfully impressive. I think the adorable Kraken…

Super Hexagon Maker’s Latest Breaks Brains In A Totally Different Way

Perspective is a funny thing. You can be so, so sure that you know something is laid out, then turn your head a few degrees and see it in a whole other way. That’s the basic conceit of Naya’s Quest, a new puzzle/platformer from Super Hexagon maker Terry Cavanagh. The game starts out unassumingly enough—you…

Destiny no more: Joseph Staten, the writer/design director of Destiny, has left Bungie, he announced today. Bungie’s sci-fi MMO/shooter is still slated for next year.

Why Video Game Movies Suck, According to Man of Steel’s Screenwriter

SPOILERS FOR THE ENDING OF MAN OF STEEL One of the men responsible for the much-talked-about ending of the latest Superman movie has commented on what happens in the film, saying, “We were pretty sure that was going to be controversial… It’s not like we were deluding ourselves, and we weren’t just doing it to…