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A Seth Rogen Uncharted Film Could Have Happened. Imagine That.

If an Uncharted movie ever materialized, there are a number of directors that would come to mind before Seth Rogen. But it’s Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg that Naughty Dog has sought out specifically multiple times in the past, according to IGN. “They’re constantly asking me and Evan to make the Uncharted movie,” Rogen told…

An Amazingly Detailed, Helpful Guide To Every Valve Voice-Actor

From Half-Life to DotA 2, Valve’s games almost always have really strong voice acting. And that is, of course, because they hire great voice actors. This helpful guide by Michael Godlewski shows every voice actor to appear in a Valve game, broken down by which games they were in. It’s pretty brilliant. Click to embiggen,…

Moneysaver One-Shot: Great Deal On A Playstation 3 Bundle

Next-gen may be coming but you still need one of these. Head on over to eBay to grab the 500GB Playstation 3 “Super Slim” along with Assassin’s Creed 3, a month of Playstation Plus, and of course a controller for $230. The seller is Newegg so you can buy with confidence, shipping is free, and…

The Silly Conversations In Animal Crossing: New Leaf

Come on and slam! In Animal Crossing: New Leaf, our actions and the reactions of the animal citizens can trigger some pretty terrific dialogue. Managing our town wouldn’t be the same without these characters and their rather interesting personalities. So here are some noteworthy examples from people who are already deep into the game. I…

Looks like Paramount is going to be pulling the Terminator franchise out of that pit of molten lava and rebooting it, with a new movie coming in 2015. Yay, another classic sci-fi series gets a reboot! Wait, did I say yay?

Is There A Valve-Related Alternate Reality Game Going On? [UPDATE: Nope.]

And so the speculation continues! The other day, we wrote about a Half-Life 2 update that featured Korean audio. It was a mistake according to Valve, and they fixed it—but that didn’t stop fans from freaking out. Now fans found something else that looks suspicious in a different game, Surgeon Simulator 2013. Earlier today, a…

Maybe Watch Dogs’ Protagonist Isn’t Actually The Good Guy

There are always those places that you can’t walk through without quickening your pace, without gripping some makeshift weapon in your pocket. You know—the “bad part of town” that your local news loves to spew crime statistics about. All it takes is some shadowy figure trailing behind you late at night for all pretenses of…

Report: Google Is Making A Video Game Console

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google is working on a video game console. What a world we live in. They say the console will be powered by the company’s Android operating system, and seems inspired partly by the relative success of other cheap, simple Android-based consoles like the Ouya and Gamestick. Interesting, the…

Atlus USA Says They’re Currently ‘Unaffected’ By Financial Troubles

Early this morning we caught wind of bankruptcy-like “civil rehabilitation proceedings” at Index Corporation, the Japanese parent company of Persona-makers Atlus. But their subsidiary, Atlus USA, says they’re “unaffected” by those proceedings and will be carrying on day-to-day activities. Atlus USA is a California-based publisher that localizes and distributes both their Japanese parent company’s games…

Some Goofy Flyers From Your Animal Crossing Town

Strange things happen in Animal Crossing: New Leaf. Things that wouldn’t make a lot of sense in an ordinary town. The always-enjoyable miscreants at Dorkly have helped capture some of those moments in this collection of flyers, ostensibly found on the bulletin board in an Animal Crossing town named, what else, FARTASS.

Six Reviews Agree That The Best Part of Deadpool Is… Well, Deadpool

What the reviews can’t agree on, however, is how good the rest of the game is. High Moon Studios’ third-person action game, you see, has its fair share of problems. Deadpool is marred by overly conventional design—mostly level design, which can get boring at times—and technical issues, such as a wonky camera, oddly-behaving AI and…

A Game Where Having OCD Makes You Stronger

This is Rogue Legacy, an indie roguelike side-scroller in which you slash your way through randomly-generated dungeons to fight monsters and earn treasure. Here’s the big gimmick: if you die, you get to play as your character’s child, and then when you die again, you’ll play as that character’s child, and so forth. Every generation…

The Last Of Us‘ Climactic Moments Could Have Been Very Different

Any story, no matter how assured the final product, goes through revisions. And The Last of Us is no different. The game’s closing hours may be among gaming’s most confident, but as I learned speaking to its creators, it all could have come together quite differently. BIG SPOILERS COMING FOR THE LAST OF US. YOU…

The Xbox One’s Kinect Won’t Work On PCs

The Xbox One’s Kinect is a cool piece of hardware—it can do awesome things like read your heart rate by looking at you, as well as track your muscles. But unlike the first Kinect,it won’t work on PCs according to Ars Technica. “The Kinect for Xbox One sensor will not have an adaptor that allows…

If The Avengers Existed, Their Magazine Covers Would Look Like This

Think about how newspapers, magazines, blogs and media platforms of every stripe follow Kanye West’s every move. Now imagine if Yeezy had a suit of power armor that made him a flying engine of mass destruction. People would be even MORE obsessed with him. That’s the idea behind MediAvengers, a blog that imagines the splashy…

Garfield Is The Last Character That Needed An Endless Runner

“In Garfield’s dreams, he can fly!” reads the description for the latest mobile game starring everybody’s favorite cartoon cat three decades ago. Okay. Sure, in his dreams Garfield can fly, but would he? Garfield’s Wild Ride, available today on iTunes and Google Play, seems to think so. I’m pretty sure he’d just sit around eating…

Don’t Tell Professor Layton, But I’m Certain This Is Not His Son

The biggest mystery of Level-5’s Layton Brothers: Mystery Room is who exactly is Alfendi Layton’s biological father, because it sure as hell isn’t the good Professor. Professor Layton is a stocky fellow who travels the world with his companions, solving an endless string of mind-bending riddles. Alfendi Layton is a lanky, sharp-featured man with a…

No news yet on an Xbox One indie developer program, but Microsoft did say today that the indie-centric game-building engine Unity will work with Xbox One. (Unity can also be used to build games on PS4 and just about any other platform you can think of.)

The Moneysaver: Heart Of The Swarm, Ni no Kuni, ZombiU, Borderlands

I wanna be the very best, like no one ever was. To find the deals is my real test, to post them is my cause. I will travel across the net, searching far and wide. Each promo code to activate the savings there inside. Moneysaver it’s you and me, I know it’s my destiny. Moneysaver…

How To Make Your Own 3D Print Of A Video Game Character

I recently 3D printed a Faceless Void in color. It came out super nice. I have a mini-tutorial for 3D printing non-colored DOTA heroes, but someone asked me how to print the colored version Here you go! Step One Like before, download your favorite Hero from Valve’s DOTA2 workshop. Heroes that would not be too…