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This Sounds Like The Coolest X-Men Game Ever… Oh, Wait.

They had me at drawing on heroes and villains from the X-Men’s past, present and future. Then they lost me. Gree has an image problem — most of its big-name games are just a collection of images with numbers assigned so they can battle each other. Collectible cards, without the actual cards. I’ve dabbled, but…

First Batch of Free Uniforms Arrives for NCAA Football 14

Twenty teams get new alternate uniform sets in NCAA Football 14 on Xbox 360, thanks to the first free offering from the game’s Uniform Store. This video showcases them all. These are the 20 teams, and the timestamps in which they display. Otherwise the video is kinda, well, boring. It’s 20 minutes of uniform changes…

Mario Needs To Stop Dwelling On The Past

Mario is a man we’ve become well accustomed to, we’ve followed his escapades for decades now. But despite bringing us new experiences he seems to harp on the past an awful lot. The good news is, Mario, today is the first day of the rest of your life. Music: Danse Morialta Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Wish…

I Finally Got My Hands On The Xbox One. Hmm.

Last Thursday night at the 2013 Xbox Comic-Con Media Showcase, I got my first hands-on time with the Xbox One. I was pleased — well, mostly pleased. Having manned home base during both E3 and Microsoft’s initial Xbox One reveal, for the past few months, the extent of my experience with the console has been…

Angry, Grieving Spider-Man Is My Favorite Comics Panel from Last Week

Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #25: Spider-Man doesn’t really show up in this issue. And that’s a great thing. It continues to be impressive how Brian Michael Bendis makes it feel like superpowers are zapping across the page when the only thing happening is a bunch of people talking. The writer on many of Marvel’s biggest books…

There’s No Escape For Cosplayers When Deadpool Storms Comic-Con

Only Deadpool could walk up to Bane, Wolverine, Solid Snake and nearly every cosplayer at this year’s (and last year’s) San Diego Comic-Con, and fool around with them without any consequences. Physical, at least. Besides the silly dance moves, it’s good to see there was someone at Comic-Con in a Hello Kitty Iron Man suit…

Tekken Revolution‘s Next Character is a Vampire—Not a Giant Fish

If you were hoping to seea giant, flopping, egg-spewing salmon as the next character in Tekken Revolution, I have bad news: Of 10 concepts they could have picked, Tekken fans picked perhaps the sanest and most predictable: Female Vampire. Female Vampire, as yet unnamed (described on the official Tekken site as, “a young girl, long…

Mighty Morphin Mecha Mario, assemble! If the world ever needs a giant, Koopa-fighting Super Mario, this one straight from Gmod would do the job easily. Especially with that giant drilling tool (hopefully) attached to his left arm. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest,funniest game-related screenshots and art…

Here’s IGN taking a look at how the Ouya’s games are doing sales-wise. Matt Thorson’s TowerFall, for example, the Ouya’s current best-selling app and a game which we rather liked when it was shown at E3 last month, made a modest $21,000 since its June 25th release.

Modder Makes Current Gen Graphics Look Like the Future

Last year, Konami showed off images created using its upcoming game engine, the Fox Engine. Over on the CryDevforums, modder Gametime decided to recreate that demo with current gen tech. The result isn’t next gen, but damn, it sure is amazing. “While the Fox Engine is very impressive, especially the E3 2013 Trailer, I felt…

In This Delightful-Looking Game, You’re a Shiny Metal Sphere

This is InFlux, a puzzle game with elements of platforming and exploration, where you step into the role of an alien sphere of some sort which crash-landed on a desert island. It’s also a rather good-looking game, as evidenced by the above trailer. Impromptu Games, the Australian group responsible, is currently hard at work fixing…

Recently, the rights to several classic game franchises, including Master of Orion, Total Annihilation, and Star Control, were auctioned off following Atari’s filing for bankruptcy earlier this year. You can see a list of the franchises involved, and whom they ended up with, below. Total Annihilation franchise bought by Wargaming [PC Gamer] Top image courtesy…

Aaahhh, Don’t Do That To A Vita Screen!

I don’t care if this is the Japanese PlayStation equivalent of a ShamWow commercial, it’s still captivating/horrifying to watch. Peripheral and accessory company Hori have a new line of Vita screen protectors, and to demonstrate their toughness, they did the only thing a product like this asks for: they tried to scratch the shit out…

Guys, You Should Probably Go Play Mercenary Kings

Mercenary Kings is kinda out today, available as part of Steam’s Early Access program. I’ve played a bit (think Metal Slug with a pinch of RPG), and it’s pretty great. It’s not finished – you’re getting early access, not a final product, so it’s missing some stuff – but you’ll get that stuff when it’s…

A Video Game Sword To Give You…Nightmares

Casy Kovach wanted to build a replica of Nightmare’s Soul Edge blade from Soulcalibur. So grabbing some wood, paint and a glass eye, he went right ahead and did it. It’s the scale of the thing that’s so impressive. A lot of this kind of props work tends to be small in scale, but this…

Turns Out $100 Gets You A Pretty Good Skyrim Movie

Cosplayer and props builder Shannon Clawson wanted to make a Skyrim movie. So he spent $100, went out in the woods with some friends, braved -10 ºC weather in little more than a tunic and got it done. It’s damn good! And before you ask “how the hell did he make that Skyrim helmet for…

The New Battle.net Is More Like Origin, Only For Blizzard Games

Given the popularity of World of Warcraft, StarCraft and…Diablo III(?), millions of people spend a lot of time using Blizzard’s Battle.net launcher. If you’re one of them, you might want to check out this video, showing the new, updated version of it. There have been screens floating around for a few weeks now, but this…

Mad Europeans Re-Enact Lord Of The Rings Battles In Full Armor

These images were taken at the “Battle For Middle Earth”. While it shares a name, I can assure you this is at least 100x cooler than EA’s middling Lord of the Rings strategy series. Taking place in the Czech Republic, it was an enormous LARP (Live-Action Role-Playing) event, mixed with more than a little cosplay,…

Breaking Bad Lead Actor Cosplayed As His Own Character At Comic-Con

Say you’re Bryan Cranston, the man behind Breaking Bad‘s suburban Scarface, Walter White. You’re going to Comic-Con. What do you wear? If you guessed, “A crazy-ass Walter White mask,” you guessed right! Here’s how Cranston looked on the show floor: And here’s the big reveal, at the Breaking Bad Comic-Con panel. Ha. Well played, Mr.…

Jenn Frank wrote a great review of AC:NL over at Paste. Give it a read!