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Banished Is A City Builder That’s All About Choices

We’ve talked about Shining Rock’s hardcore medieval city builder before, and yes, the game’s still around! In fact, in a recent interview, the creator yet again confirmed that Banished would definitely be out before the end of the year. Talking to PC Gamer, Luke Hodorowicz, the sole developer working on Banished, also discussed the importance…

Small Studio Wants To Make Its Own Mass Effect

AMBROV: X is an upcoming RPG that, while set in an established sci-fi universe (it’s based on the Sime-Gen books), sure looks like an indie Mass Effect. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Given how that series ended, and people’s love for sci-fi, RPGs and decision-making (this has all three!), this might be able…

Just in case you were wondering, yes, you can make Grand Theft Auto in Disney Infinity. Just don’t tell the children.

A Sexy Calendar Full Of Steaming Hot Game Developers

We’ve hit a new low, people. The objectification of women in the games industry was bad enough, but now we’re ogling over the hot bods and tight abs of male developers as well? When will this perversion end? Hopefully never. Because this joke calendar, featuring 13 dreamy developers from studios like BioWare, Firazis and Double…

Mad Scot Reviews Duck Tales. You Might Need Captions.

You might remember Tam McGleish from his brilliant Far Cry 3 and Ni No Kuni video reviews. If you can imagine a ‘portly’ Scottish version of Zero Punctuation you might be a 40% of the way there. The remaining 60% contains a nightmarish talking bear, brilliantly hilarious song numbers and — believe it or not…

Final Fantasy Producer Gives One Hell Of An Apology

Like many MMOs, Final Fantasy XIV has had some pretty serious technical issues since it launched. Unlike many MMOs, however (or other games, for that matter), FFXIV’s producer is ready to take the blame. Your blame. Where most platforms, services and games are usually better at ducking consumer complaints than they are accepting responsibility for…

2K Drive skids onto iTunes at $6.99 this morning. 2K cares not for your traditional free-to-play nonsense, and so far the results have been pretty stellar. Hopefully the trend continues with 2K Drive, the ambitious racer/car fanciers’ club from former Bizarre Creations folks, which should be available in the app store within the next few…

Not Sure If Next-Gen Mirror’s Edge Or Real Life

Boy, these guys did a damn fine job nailing the game’s trademark style, from the outfit to the obstacles to the field of view on the camera they used. Mirror’s Edge Parkour POV [Youtube]

First Xbox One Units Packed, Ready For Launch

Microsoft wasn’t kidding around when it said yesterday that the Xbox One was in “full production”. One day later, and we’ve got shots of the very first retail units (like, the very first), boxed, sealed and on their way to…well, warehouse, I guess, since the console doesn’t go on sale for over a month. [Microsoft]

Your Games Will Look Way Better With Custom Covers

Despite the best efforts of publishers and their art teams (or clients), a video game collection can rarely look as impressive as a good stack of books. Which is why, if you’re concerned about that sort of thing, it’s a good idea to print off your own custom covers, which often look waaaaaay better than…

Incredible Star Wars Cosplay Just Tore All Other Cosplay’s Arms Off

Remember earlier this year when reader Julian Checkley showed us his Darth Malgus costume? As jaw-dropping as it was, this beats it. This Tarfful suit is actually older than the Malgus outfit, but Julian’s only just put a video together showing how it all works. Taking over three months to build, it stands a whopping…

A Ridiculous Fan-Made 3D Grand Theft Auto V Map

We still have two weeks left till the release of Grand Theft Auto V, and speculation on what the game’s map will look like is still healthy. Based on the trailers and screenshots previously released by Rockstar, Sketchfab user cbush uploaded this 3D map, which looks, well, accurate enough. We can’t tell how accurate it…

Acapella Tetris Theme Is Way Catchier Than The Original. Somehow!

Here’s a challenge: listen through this fantastic rendition of the original Tetris theme by Smooth McGroove, and see if you don’t end up with the song stuck in your head. Bet you can’t do it. Okay, well, some of you will. Still, it’s a catchy-as-hell acapella, right? Great work as always, McGroove. Tetris – Theme…

Beating People To Music Is One Way To Appreciate It

Zen Studios’ KickBeat hit the PlayStation Network for Vita and PS3 this week, giving me a chance to kick Celldweller’s ass, at least in spirit. The core game features more Celldweller, that one POD song that whores itself out to every rhythm game, Marilyn Manson, because it was just sitting there looking lonely, a bit…

Holy Cow, It’s Star Trek’s USS Voyager, Recreated In Minecraft

The things people manage to do in Minecraft never cease to amaze—case in point, this fantastic Star Trek creation by Maravrin—which used original deck plans such that the ship is at a 1:1 scale. If that initial image doesn’t seem impressive, you need to check out some more pictures of this thing—here are a couple…

Popular Websites, Drawn As Anime Characters. Because, Um, Internet.

I don’t know that I’d watch a show that personifies the internet like this, but at least now, thanks to Jon-Lock, I know what such a thing would look like. As I’m sure the “Chrome” man up above lets on, it’s pretty anime. But, hey, it’s also kind of cool, no? Maybe it’s just that…

Cops Say NBA Player Beat His Girlfriend With an Xbox 360

DeAndre Liggins, a two-year benchwarmer currently with the NBA’s Oklahoma City Thunder, is accused of assaulting his girlfriend by, among other things, dropping an Xbox 360 on her head, according to police. If true, it’s the second incident in six months in which a video game console was the weapon itself in a headline-grabbing domestic…

Rome II is Busted. Hopefully This Patch Can Help.

Total War: Rome II is getting a patch this Friday. Which is good, because as it stands, the game is a mess Here’s the complete update info from developers Creative Assembly: At Creative Assembly we are very pleased with the response to ROME II, with hundreds of thousands of players enjoying the game so far;…

There May Not Be Enough Reasons For Everyone To Go Next-Gen Yet

Me, I write about games. That alone, arguably, is a good reason to buy a next gen console. But you, dear reader—are there enough reasons for you to buy in? In an interview with Eurogamer today, Yusuf Mehdi, the Xbox chief of marketing and strategy told Eurogamer that Microsoft plans to support the Xbox 360…

Play the 2013 NFL Season with 22-year-old Tecmo Super Bowl

The mad magicians keeping Tecmo Super Bowl alive nearly 22 years after its debut have released their latest mod—Tecmo Super Bowl 2014, featuring all of the teams and players of the current league, just in time for the NFL’s season opener tomorrow. This is the seventh update of the NES classic, thanks to the merry…