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JRPGs Were Twerking Before It Was Cool

Forget Miley Cyrus—before the pop star’s inane VMA performance made national headlines and got “twerking” added to the dictionary, Mother 3‘s Wess was shaking it like the best of them. The aging ninja had to do the twerk-filled Osohe Dance in order to open two doors in the Osohe Castle in Nintendo’s GBA role-playing game,…

GTA’s Banshee Supercar Now Has An Amazing Real-Life Counterpart

Ever since its debut in the third Grand Theft Auto, the Banshee has been an iconic part of each game’s stable of vehicles. So, of course, it makes total sense for someone to go and recreate it in real life. The folks behind the car, West Coast Customs, based their version on the Grand Theft…

Sounds Like Sony Is Working On A VR Gaming Headset

Where there’s smoke, there’s fire, and there’s too big a black cloud for something not to be burning here: it sounds like Sony is working on a virtual reality headset for video games. Both Eurogamerand CVG are reporting that Sony has been developing a VR headset. The PlayStation makers originally planned to unveil their shiny…

Featuring music from Kimbra, Fun. and Vivaldi. Poor Vivladi. The newly-introduced “The Haven” stage for Disney Fantasia: Music Evolved demonstrates just how little music has evolved over the past 272 years. The dangers of being one of the world’s most popular Baroque composers, il Prete Rosso.

XCOM Isn’t Any Easier in Enemy Within, but It Is More Thrilling

You’d think being given not one, but two hulking mecha-soldiers, for whom cover is a moot point because they can’t use it, would at least reduce the relentless battlefield tension that distinguishes XCOM. It doesn’t. When you can’t take cover (but you can provide it), and you have a flamethrower, a re-usable super punch, a…

Moneysaver One-Shot: Logitech G510s Gaming Keyboard

We love a good gaming keyboard, especially when it’s aesthetically reminiscent of the interior of the DeLorean. Amazon has the well-reviewed Logitech G510s Gaming Keyboard for $90 today, matching its lowest price ever. LCD screen, 18 extra programmable keys, tons of crazy backlighting options, integrated USB audio, and Logitech’s penchant for quality. [Amazon] Keep up…

Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: Zarnyx chimes in with more SnackTAYku goodness from Trinidad, this time with a shark sandwich. Not to be outdone, Nach cooks arepas. Also, Stormborn draws anotherre-imagined, incredibly cute Pokemon for today And you can always go join the voices talking about video games and life…

The Xbox One’s Reinvention Of Watching TV And Sports Will Start Slowly

The Xbox One’s reinvention of television, both hyped and heckled for months, will begin with a baby step, if a recent demonstration of the November console’s impact on live sports broadcasts is any indication. At a fancy rented loft in Manhattan last week, Microsoft reps showed me the incremental progress they are making with the…

For Sale: Freakin’ Amazing Nintendo Art

Remember those creepy Nintendo bust sculptures from a few weeks ago? They were pretty cool, right? Well, they’re just a small part of a massive NES-themed art show opening in New York City this Friday. We’ve got a look at more pieces that will be in Bottleneck Gallery’s upcoming 3NES art exhibit and, honestly, they’re…

Here’s Why This Open-World Game Has No Furniture

Sandbox games are great at giving you vast worlds, but their interiors are often boring and lifeless. In ArmA III, the open-world shooter that’s out for PC on September 12, at least there’s an explanation. Thanks to Redditor Mariolapsn, here’s a look at how the developers of ArmA III parody open-world games in their own…

Nooo! I didn’t know the Samnites in Total War: Rome II were actually zombie cannibals. When the graphics are running on extreme, a minor, probably temporary glitch could render this horrifying—yet hilarious—texture-effect. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest,funniest game-related screenshots and art that we can find. Send…

Creative Assembly’s latest PC strategy game, Total War: Rome II, is out today. Make sure to watch your back while slaughtering armies and conquering all those cities, lest you end up lying in a pool of your own blood Don’t follow the trailer’s example, folks.

Diablo III is arriving on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 today. The console version of Blizzard’s hack n’ slash RPG is here, bringing with it offline/local co-op and an updated, streamlined interface. For an idea on how the game plays with a controller, check out our impressions here

Director Wants To Turn Hotline: Miami Into A Short Film

Well, it was going to happen eventually. It’s Hotline: Miami. Short, sweet, violent and exciting; the perfect recipe for a great internet flick, which is exactly what this man is trying to make—and crowdfund. The man behind the project is Saman Kesh, creator of several popular online short films, including the wonderful “Controller,” which we’ve…

Xbox Facebook Account Smokes Whatever James Franco’s Been Smoking

Zelda? Not a Microsoft franchise, as I’m sure you know. Not that that stops the official Xbox Facebook account from telling you all about it…and also James Franco. For some reason! This sort of thing isn’t quite an isolated incident—before, the Xbox UK account has posted about The Last of Us. That’s also not a…

LEGO He-Man Is A Christmas Dream Waiting To Come True

We can thank Alex Jones (Orion Pax) for this, a set of designs for He-Man LEGO so complete and professional that it’s a wonder he didn’t just sneak into my dreams and steal them. Characters, vehicles, playsets, weapons, he’s mocked them all up, from Castle Greyskull (it opens!) to Cringer, it’s all there. Head to…

Get Lucky: hey look, it’s that popular Daft Punk single, recreated in Mario Paint. Neat stuff, jeonghoon95! (Viacharmainevee)

US Hospital Offering Treatment For Internet Addiction

While it’s yet to receive official accreditation as an “official psychiatric condition”, an American hospital has nevertheless become the first in the country to offer a form of treatment for internet addition. Opening next week, the Behavioural Health Services wing of Bradford Regional Medical Center in Pennsylvania will be making available a 10-day treatment program…

The Only Place You Won’t Find Minecraft Is On Nintendo Systems

Beginning life on the PC, Minecraft has since appeared on *deep breath* iOS, Android, Xbox 360, Mac, Linux, the Raspberry Pi (!) and, soon, the PS3, PS4, Vita and Xbox One. That’s just about every major platform and manufacturer out there. Oh, except one. Nintendo. Despite the smashing success the game has enjoyed on every…

Xbox One’s External Storage Not Ready For Launch

Good news reminder: the Xbox One supports external storage. Bad news update: the Xbox One won’t support that feature at launch. While announcing the capability at E3 back in June, consoles released in November won’t let you plug in an external drive, Microsoft’s Larry Hryb explaining in a podcast that “the team is working on…