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Watch Shaft Be A Badass And Take On Minecraft
The mob is back in town, and there’s only one hero that can get to the bottom of it. Ever wonder what would happen if you dropped John Shaft into the world of Minecraft? Why, you’d get this blaxpoitation Minecraft parody by MachinimaPrime, of course. Mineshaft is one of the many upcoming fan-created films from…
By Patricia Hernandez Published August 2, 2013 -
Sony’s Most WTF PlayStation Ad Yet?
Sony, the company responsible for the walkman, the PlayStation and lots of very odd ads, is trying to sell the PS Vita and PS3 in Argentina. And they are trying to do it with a most unusual tagline. The line in the ad above translates to: “When your son is playing he doesn’t ask you…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 2, 2013 -
The Great Japanese Divide
As a JRPG fan, I’ve always had a hard time accepting that what Japan wants is often drastically different than what I want. So when Capcom announced this week that the next Breath of Fire—a series of traditional JRPGs revolving around a boy who can turn into a dragon—would not be a traditional RPG but…
By Jason Schreier Published August 2, 2013 -
Watch Us Play A Game That Scoffs At An Honest Day’s Work
How many games start your wizard off in his dressing gown? I’m guessing not many but this game does. The Mighty Quest for Epic Loot is a free-to-play PC game that’s basically a mixture of Diablo and Tower Defense. It has you breaking into other player’s castles, killing everything in sight and looting the place.…
By Leo Wichtowski Published August 2, 2013 -
Awesome Paperboy Homage Combines a Real Bike, Oculus Rift and Kinect
Remember the handlebar controllers on the Paperboy arcade machines? You really felt like you were controlling that cartoony bike on the screen, right? Well, what if you had a whole bike that you had to pedal to play an updated version of that classic game? It’d basically look like PaperDude VR. PaperDude VR—the creation of…
By Evan Narcisse Published August 2, 2013 -
Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: Dear Video Game Expert—Marsh Naylor’s column that answers your burning questions in most humorous fashion—has some sage advice about the holes you encounter in video games. Aikage wants to know what your favorite examples of breaking the fourth wall in video games. And GIantBoyDetective offers…
By Evan Narcisse Published August 2, 2013 -
Indie Games Are Full Of Helpless Women But Critic Finds Some To Praise
Feminist critic Anita Sarkeesian has good things to say about a bunch of games in the third part of her analysis of the rampant use of “damsels in distress” in video games. She spends a lot of this one checking in on how indie games and modders handle things. Oh, but before that praise, she…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 2, 2013 -
The Xbox One’s Insides Have Changed A Little Bit Since E3
The Xbox One we saw at E3 isn’t quite the Xbox One the team at Microsoft has in their hands right now. They’ve been making a few tweaks to the system, Xbox exec Marc Whitten shared on Major Nelson’s podcast today Whitten covered a few other updates on the internal status of the Xbox One.…
By Tina Amini Published August 2, 2013 -
Digital artist Jul-Forza Pedro has a massive gallery of awesome pixelated video game artwork. I’ve picked three of my favorites, unforgettable moments from Resident Evil, The Last of Us and Final Fantasy VII. 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.…
By Gergo Vas Published August 2, 2013 -
Leaked Footage Of The Next Game From The Makers Of L.A. Noire
VideoGamer.com has come into possession of what they say is gameplay footage from Whore of the Orient, the new game from the creators of L.A. Noire The one-minute video, which shows the player character in chase and fight scenes taking place on the streets of Shanghai, was just uncovered recently, over three months after the…
By András Neltz Published August 2, 2013 -
The fan-made Final Fantasy VII Web Series is “the subject of an intellectual property dispute,” according to its Kickstarter page. There’s also a link to a takedown notice, sent by Square Enix, in which they request the removal of the Kickstarter page as the project “is in infringement of [their] copyrights.”
By András Neltz Published August 2, 2013 -
In This Cross Between Tetris and Lemmings, You Play A Cat Scientist
A mad cat scientist, mind. Mousecraft’s Greenlight page poses the question: “Ever wondered what a cross between of Tetris and Lemmings would look like?” Well… no, but now that you’ve asked, color me interested! Still heavily in development and having just hit alpha, Mousecraft, once it grows up, will be a game where your task…
By András Neltz Published August 2, 2013 -
Stop Me From Buying More Fantastic Persona Figures, Please
Indulge me my current fascination with Persona figures, but each time I see one, the bar gets a little higher. Take this Elizabeth figure from Persona 3 (appearing here in her Persona 4 Arena guise). Part of Bandai’s D-Arts line, she’s highly posable, and comes with some cool accessories like her tome of quests/personas/whatever, a…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 2, 2013 -
LEGO FTL Ships Will Probably Try And Kill You Unexpectedly
Builder and designer CrashSanders has come up with some fantastic ideas for a LEGO set based on FTL, the space-faring roguelike that tries to kill you every time you move. They’re small designs, using only a few pieces each, but they do a great job of nailing the look of each of the game’s most…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 2, 2013 -
Watch Dogs Dusts Itself Off And Tries Again, Tries Again
Ubisoft goofed up yesterday, releasing a Watch Dogs trailer that looked pretty terrible even by current-gen standards. Today, they make amends. As someone with a decent PC, and who’ll have at least one of the next-gen consoles at launch, this is what I’m getting mildly excited for.
By Luke Plunkett Published August 2, 2013 -
Original Actors Recreate “Wicket vs Leia” Bit From Return Of The Jedi
There are some Star Wars actors who would like to think that part of their lives is now over. And then there are others, like Carrie Fisher and Warwick Davis, who are more than happy to re-enact a classic scene from Return of the Jedi thirty years after the movie was first released. This clip,…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 1, 2013 -
The Xbox One Is Apparently Designed To Stay On For TEN YEARS
People used to laugh when Sony said the PS3 was going to be around for a decade (even though it was a totally fair thing to say!), so I can only imagine those same folks’ reaction to word that the next Xbox isn’t just designed to be around for a decade, but stay powered on…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 1, 2013 -
79 Words You Might Be Mispronouncing, From ‘GIF’ to ‘Zooey Deschanel’
At first, I was sure I’d know the correct pronunciation for all 79 of the words Mental Floss‘ John Green lays out in this video. But I gotta admit, once he got past the halfway point, he started getting to a few that I regularly mess up. “Triathlon,” and “Etcetera” are among my mispronounced words.…
By Kirk Hamilton Published August 1, 2013