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Another Mario Movie For The Call Of Duty Generation

The Mario Warfare series continues after a few months rest/preparation. It continues to be the best place to see Mushroom Kingdom characters fighting with barrels and assault rifles. If you haven’t caught an episode before, you can start catching up here Mario Warfare 3 [Beatdown]

Crazy Skyrim Mod Is Basically A Free Expansion

You can keep your wacky texture changes, the best kind of Skyrim mods are the ones where people go all out, adding entire new areas to the map and giving you as much stuff to do as you’d expect from something official, that you have to pay for. This is Falskaar, an ambitious mod which…

Persona Is A Game About Time

I just finished a marathon few months where, having been previously unfamiliar with the series, I burned through Personas 3 & 4, back-to-back. There are so many things I want to write about these fantastic games, so many feelings, but the one thing that’s struck me the most about them is how well they handle…

How To Survive A Bear Attack, If You’re A Total Spaz

You’re alone in the woods, and you find yourself face-to-face with a bear. He looks pissed! What do you do? According to one reporter, you spaz right the hell on out out. Here’s Rhode Island reporter Julie Trammel demonstrating some excellent tips for surviving a bear encounter. Apparently the answer is, “Put your hands in…

Move Over Fort Max, There’s A New World’s Tallest Transformer In Town

A selection of Hasbro’s San Diego Comic-Con 2013 exclusives arrived on my doorstep today, officially making Fortress Maximus the world’s second tallest Transformer. You don’t have to be a dick about it, Metroplex. Much better. Now kiss. The San Diego Comic-Con Metroplex is just like the one hitting retail next month, except for the chrome…

This Animal Crossing: New Leaf Glitch Lets You Duplicate Items

Tiny Cartridge has found a glitch that I’ve heard lots about recently, as it allows you to duplicate items in Animal Crossing: New Leaf. The method is not exactly what I’d call “safe,” but that’s how it usually is with exploitations like this. To quote Animal Crossing Community’s Heatran: What you do is, drop the…

Far Cry 4 Is Coming. What Do You Want Them To Change?

Surprising absolutely no one, on Friday Ubisoft’s Tony Key told Gamespotthat the successful, critically acclaimed open-world shooter Far Cry 3 is definitely getting a full-fledged follow-up. Which, naturally, raises all sorts of questions. Ubi’s not sharing details—we don’t even know for sure that it’ll be called Far Cry 4—they just say a new game is…

Don’t Call Your Local Library Asking For The Elder Scrolls

If this video by ICEnJAM is any indication, either the library won’t have it, or they won’t bother looking. Then again, it might help if you’re not just a soundboard of Septimus Signus, a character from Skyrim, trying to get a quick laugh by pranking your local librarian. It might also help if the Elder…

Happy Birthday, KotOR! Thanks For Having Such Great Star Wars.

Today is the 10th anniversary of BioWare’s classic Star Wars role-playing game Knights of the Old Republic. Happy birthday, KotOR! Thanks for having such great Star Wars. Let me back up and explain what I mean by that. Last winter I was in New York talking with my boss Stephen about the animated Star Wars…

One Day, The Oculus Rift Headset Might Be Free

It’s difficult to watch the endless Oculus Rift videos without a tinge of envy—it’s not an experience most of us can have yet. Once it releases, the developers are aiming for a $300 pricepoint—which also makes the headset inaccessible to many people. That may not always be the case according to Edge Speaking to the…

A Dance Tune Starring Grand Theft Auto‘s Most Annoying Cousin

Hey Niko, want to go bowling? Hey Niko, want to go to a show? Hey Niko, let’s go to a strip club! GO AWAY, ROMAN. This new musical tribute from Miracle of Sound (better known as the outfit behind “Commander Shepard,” aka easily one of the best musical tributes to Mass Effect) is outstanding. It’s…

20 Gruesome Ways To Die In The Last of Us

I hate dying in The Last of Us. But I also like dying in The Last of Us. It’s complicated. I like it because I like the brisk, matter-of-factness of the death screen. A clicker grabs Joel, things get ugly, and the game immediately cuts to black. But I hate it because I love the…

Street Fighter Player Wins Great Match at EVO With Unpopular Character

In a sea of Akumas and fireballs during this year’s EVO, any change-up in character selection was welcome. Even so, you don’t expect one of the “worst” characters on the Street Fighter roster to suddenly make an appearance in a top 8 match. Thank god it did, because Infiltration pulling out Hakan to go up…

Pacific Rim’s Most Emotional Line Was Left Untranslated

One of my favorite scenes in Pacific Rim didn’t involve robots or monsters. It involved a brief exchange in Japanese. Spoilers follow for Pacific Rim I saw Pacific Rim for a second time last weekend. I’d worked my way into an advance press screening a couple of weeks ago, but I wanted to come back…

The Moneysaver: Major League Gaming Monitor, Fuse, Sharknado, Pokedex

The definition of insanity is pulling full price over and over again and expecting things to get cheaper. There’s a whole world of deals outside the Steam Summer Sale, and you can explore it in this very post. The console gaming sections are not exactly stacked today, but we’ve got a great selection of apps…

The Basic Psychology Behind the Steam Summer Sale, Explained

It seems you can’t discuss the Steam Summer Sale without doing one of the following: Personifying your wallet and mourning some injury done to it; bemoaning all the unplayed games you have before piling another on it; commanding friends to buy a game, more for the price than the game and, of course, buying games.…

He Forged Wolverine’s Claws. Then, He Cut Stuff With Them.

While we’ll feature a profile on the prolific blacksmith Tony Swatton later this week, for now you get to watch him make the type of Wolverine claws that you wouldn’t be able to take anywhere near a convention. These puppies are sharp—at one point during the “smash stuff” section by AweMeChannel, they cut through some…

You can play a demo of the roguelike Dungeonmans—designed by games industry vet Jim Shepard—whether or not you choose to back it on Kickstarter. Shepard’s looking for $35,000 to make it happen.

Tiny Thief Is The Grandest Larceny Of Them All

There may be no cars to swipe, and at no point was this a dark project, but 5 Ants’ Tiny Thief is as capable a criminal as they come, ready to steal the hearts of adventure fans everywhere while they pay for the privilege. The second game published under the Rovio Stars indie program, Tiny…

Moneysaver: Steam Sale Day 5 Breakdown [Updated Tuesday 10am]

Dealnami. Steam Sale Day One | Steam Sale Day Two | Steam Sale Day Three | Steam Sale Day Four Every voting option is a repeat, and all three have been cheaper. Two of them have been cheaper in the past 3 days. • Community Sale Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 Platinum ($5) | If you’re…