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Man Finds 1983 Homebrew Star Wars Game, Is Awesome

We’ve all had stories of finding lost games before – my copy of Rogue Galaxy had been missing since 2009 before I found it hiding in a drawer – but you don’t hear many like this, where stuff has been missing for over 30 years Weird Paul here made a bunch of primitive stuff for…

Oh Man, Outcast Is Coming Back

In 1999, a game called Outcast was released. It was a God-damn revolution, one of the most ambitious games ever released, though one that’s sadly been almost forgotten in the years since. So it’s about time for a comeback! The founders of the original game’s development studio, Yann Robert, Franck Sauer and Yves Grolet, have…

There’s an interesting piece on former Xbox boss Don Mattrick over on Fast Company. He has around a dozen Ferraris, and “Oftentimes, he’ll take his jet to work”.

Skyrim Is For Kids. This Is Real-Life Role-Playing.

Avegost is a live-action role-playing (LARP) event held in Georgia. If you think you know LARP, and think it’s just people using foam swords and screaming “LIGHTNING BOLT“, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Beginning as a humble tabletop gathering, it’s grown into what’s described as a “full-immersion” LARP, which means the entire event is done…

Out Of Nowhere, Nintendo Announces New Chibi-Robo Game

Chibi-Robo! was one of the most underrated games on Nintendo’s GameCube, so it’s nice to see the robot of the same name find a new lease of life in a 3DS title, freshly-announced by Nintendo Japan. It’s an augmented reality photography game, where you’re given shapes that you have to find in the real world.…

Is Under The Dome Kinda Just Under The Dumb?

“Chester’s Mill is a place like any other… at least it used to be, until we were cut off from the rest of the world by a mysterious dome.” Yes, that is the actual pre-credits exposition we got at the start of episode two of Under the Dome. A straightforward intro for a straightforward show,…

The Most Intense Way To Play Minecraft

Couple Minecraft with the Oculus Rift headset andthe Omni,that virtual reality treadmill which allows you to walk around naturally in a game, and you’re bound to get one of the most immerse experiences (currently) possible in video games. You can see what playing with that sort of set-up would be like in this video by…

Do you want to dress your Animal Crossing: New Leaf character up like a child combatant from Battle Royale? Of course you do! And you’re in luck: Depthakote has posted several versions of the film’s bloody school uniforms, with QR codes for each one. Great, now I want to rewatch Battle Royale. (Via Tiny Cartridge)

Here’s Every Single Pokemon Fusion Possible

You can spend a ton of time on Alex Onsager’s amusing Pokemon fusion website, trying out as many Frankenstein combinations as you can think of. Or, if you’d like, you can take a look at the work of Redditor B_Stiles, who took the liberty of making every single combination possible for you. If that sounds…

It’s Probably Okay That GTA V Won’t Be This Photorealistic

Because otherwise it’d be a bit… goofy. We all are hoping that Grand Theft Auto V will get a graphical facelift from past games in the series. But I think that, after watching this silly (and quite well-done) video from Ty Green, we can all agree that it’s good that GTA V won’t be too…

Somehow, Tim Schafer’s Adventure Game Needs More Money

Double Fine’s adventure game Kickstarter was one of 2012’s great success stories, bringing in over $3 million in community funding. A year later, though, it turns out that wasn’t enough money to get the game finished. In a lengthy and honest message to backers sent earlier today, Double Fine boss Tim Schafer explains that, basically,…

Fox Hosts Support Gamer Facing Prison Time, Are Kind Of Jerks About It

Some days, solidarity comes from the unlikeliest places, with the unlikeliest of tones. Sometimes your most ardent defendants can be a total dicks about it. For one gamer facing prison time, that happened this morning. You may remember the 19-year-old League of Legends player from Texas that is facing 8 years in prison for Facebook…

American McGee Wants Your Help Securing the Film Rights for Alice

American McGee’s twisted take on Alice in Wonderland has been capturing the imagination of fans since the original game debuted back in 2000. The movie rights to his vision have been bouncing around for nearly as long. Now McGee wants them back, but he can’t do it alone. The good news is that while McGee’s…

The Maddening Quest To Get My Animal Crossing Villagers To Move Out

The town of OVOXO is a quaint, idyllic town. Lots of greenery. Right by the beach. It’d be perfect, except there’s one problem: I have two penguin villagers. …yeah, this is about to get ridiculous, but it’s a true story of how I’ve lost my bearings trying to get two villagers to move out of…

The Most Deadpool Moments From Deadpool, Now In Motion

This is how Deadpool deals with the baddiesin the beat ’em up game he stars in. The Deadpool game is basically one big comedy show, ripe for GIF-making. The game is full of madness so we couldn’t put up everything, but be sure to hit the comments and share those GIFs and videos that are…

The Moral Ambiguities In The Last Of Us

I wasn’t always sure how to feel about the things I witnessed in The Last Of Us We’re about to enter a world of spoilerhurt. Proceed with caution. Joel is a good man. After everything we’ve been through, as player and avatar, I still whole-heartedly believe that. I kind of have to believe that. Because…

Batman/Superman vs. Hawkeye’s Dog. Panel Discussion Tells You Who Wins.

These might be the most important words in comics: “Hey, have you read that?” The medium’s lifeblood has always been the word-of-mouth that passes from one reader to another. The only query that might surpass the above is “So, what’d you think?” Here’s where we put the discussion into Panel Discussion. Of course, we want…

Watch All Of Lost Odyssey, Without Actually Playing It

Last week, I wrote about the remarkable short stories of Lost Odyssey, an Xbox 360-exclusive role-playing game that played with prose in some delightful ways. This morning, a reader named Nabil showed me a video project he put together last year. To quote Nabil: “I recorded the entirety of the game and then edited into…

Today Is A G’Day: Mad Max Will Have Aussie Protagonist After All

When Stephen saw it or, rather, heard it, Mad Max‘s characters had no Australian accents and developers Avalanche Studios had no plans to include them, upsetting Mad Max devotees of all national origins. That posture has been officially reversed. Attn. fans who want Max to have an Aussie accent in #MadMaxGame : It shall be…

Robots Are the New Mutants (Kind of) in Avengers A.I.

Mutants have waved the ‘hated & feared’ flag in the Marvel Universe pretty much since the introduction of the X-Men fifty years ago. But, after the events of the publisher’s Age of Ultron event, humanity’s evolutionary offshoot will have some competition from the non-organic consciousnesses roaming in S.H.I.E.L.D.’s backyard. A new series called Avengers A.I.…