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Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: It’s been a great long weekend for TAY with tons of well-written provocative pieces. Among them: SloopyDrew calls for revolution against a top-down, overly constricted vision of gaming’s future. GiantBoyDetective looks at more fictional video games from the insides of TV shows in his recurring…

Halo Music Video Catapults You Into The Middle Of a Spartan Firefight

This Halo insipred and -themed music video easily wins “the most Spartan costumes featured in a clip ever trophy,” as a whole division of Spartans get into an intense firefight in an odd, but awesome setting with a piano in the centre. A pretty large-scale video for William Joseph and Lindsey Stirling’s song—, must have…

Man Cave Fan Fiction

About two years after The End came a memorable day: Mark unearthed an incredible stash. Coarse-knuckled and goose-prickling under a wan, strange sun, he hunched over a small old dumpster he found behind the old Winn Dixie, and pried away at it. It took some time, as the thing had corroded shut. The color and…

Mojang’s Scrolls Enters Open Beta on June 3rd, Has a Snazzy Trailer

Minecraft developer Mojang’s card-game-slash-board-game-with-RPG-elements is finally seeing the light of day. It certainly took them long enough. In addition to giving us an impression of what the battling, trading, and collecting will look like, the trailer also has a launch date for the game’s open beta: June 3rd.

Notch’s Golden PS1 Is Really, Really Pretty

The Minecraft creator has recently tweeted the picture to the left/above, adding that the console—a gold-colored PlayStation 1—was part of a “VIP invitation to an E3 event from Sony.” So shiny. Unfortunately, no word if it actually works—without cables, Notch has no way to power the thing on. [Thanks, NeoGAF!]

Twitter Rises Up In Protest Over The PS4’s Rumored Used Games DRM

Yesterday, GameTrailers TV host Geoff Keighley said that, according to his sources, the PlayStation 4 will employ some form of digital rights management when dealing with used games. Twitter’s gamer community took it upon themselves to show Sony how bad an idea this is Spurred by Keighley’s words, numerous gamers on Twitter are currently bombarding…

SuperDaE, the next-gen hacker, tweeted that he was granted bail and that he won’t be releasing his “treasure trove of gaming info”. According to SuperDaE (also via Twitter): “I guess everyone will have to wait for another day, I won’t be removing the trap however, just to be safe.” His comment was followed by a…

An Extinct Bug That Looks Just Like A Jawa

Whether you’re in the US or the UK, chances are most of our readers are off on holiday today. So…enjoy. An extinct cockroach that looks just like a Jawa. Funny, yes, but the story is also slightly tragic; the species was only discovered very recently, living inside a volcano in Ecuador, but ever since it…

Microsoft Thinking About Giving You Achievements For Watching TV

Achievements are changing on the new Xbox One. They might be changing even more than we realise, though, if a Microsoft patent application for TV achievements ever actually comes to fruition. Yes, according to a report on GI.biz, last November Microsoft applied for a patent aimed at giving you achievements for watching TV. “Television viewing…

Next-Gen Hacker Threatens To Leak Trove of Gaming Info, Code [Update]

The hacker who leaked information about the next-gen Xbox and PlayStation to Kotaku before either console was officially announced and who was subsequently raided by the police is now vowing to disseminate 2 Terabytes of gaming code and information, should he be arrested. SuperDaE, an Australian citizen named Dylan, first publicized this threat on our…

Rumor: The PS4 Has Used Games DRM

TV host and industry pundit Geoff Keighley has said on tonight’s Bonus Round TV show that, according to his sources, Sony is looking at some form of digital rights management for the sale of used games. “…The one thing that is amazing to me is that right now we’re not hearing a lot from the…

Mars Is Dangerous Enough Without Aliens Shooting At You

Lacuna Passage is an upcoming Unity-based game by Random Seed, which puts you on the surface of Mars. Real Mars, not sci-fi Mars. You play as the astronaut Jessica Rainer, sent to Mars to investigate why the first mission to Mars disappeared. Described as as “open-world Mars exploration and survival game with a mystery to…

Street Fighter “Motion Sculptures” Are A Sight For Any Eyes

Dan the Ad Man, who normally works in…advertising, has found the spare time to put together this amazing Street Fighter video consisting of “motion sculptures”. Taking inspiration from this clip, it visualises the movement involved in Street Fighter moves, not the characters. Beautiful stuff. Street Fighter Motion Sculptures [Vimeo, via Gamefreaks]

Report: Retailers Can Charge Whatever For Used Xbox One Games

According to “retail sources”, trade publication MCV is reporting that stores will be able to sell Xbox One games for whatever price they want. The catch? Both Microsoft and the game’s publisher will get a percentage of that sale. The way used games will be controlled and sold on the console has been one huge…

League of Legends Gets A Short “Movie”, And It’s Awesome

Who says you need to be a newly-revealed or upcoming AAA blockbuster game to get a fancy cinematic trailer. League of Legends is neither of those things. What it is is one of the world’s biggest video games, one that’s able to commission something this long (and expensive) just for the hell of it.

Destiny Might Actually Come To PC

Bungie’s Destiny, the first game the studio have worked on since they walked away from the Halo franchise, is coming to all kinds of home consoles, but for some reason, it’s yet to be announced for the PC. Which, considering it’s part-shooter, part-MMO, is weird Don’t get too bummed out, though, PC gamers: for within…

Peter Molyneux’s Curiosity, Summed Up In Five Panels

The ever-wonderful Castle Vidcons nails it. If you bought into Molyneux’s hype and were expecting something better from his mobile “game”, you only have yourself to blame. Comic #106- Ye Gods! What’s Inside! [Castle Vidcons]

That Advanced AI In Call of Duty: Ghosts Sure Looks Dated

Peculiarly, one of the things that was highlighted during the Call of Duty: Ghosts presentation last week was fish AI that moves out of the way when you get close. And as SUPERMARIOGALAXY13 highlights here, fish doing that is not exactly a new innovation—or hell, even an exciting one. It’s nearly 20 years old! I’m…

The Man Who Played Luigi Recalls the Disastrous Super Mario Bros Movie

Super Mario Bros., the 1993 film, paved the way video game movies for all time to come. Namely, that everyone would expect them to be terrible. It opened 20 years ago on Tuesday, and John Leguizamo, who starred as Luigi, had the grace and good humor to record this message for a Super Mario Bros.…

Baseball’s Video Game Diehards Savor a Slow Dance on the Basepaths

Paul Goldschmidt fishes for the 1-1 slider way outside of the strike zone. He kicks dirt over the batter’s box chalk, walks in a counterclockwise semicircle, fidgets with the brim of his helmet, and digs back in. Jon Garland rolls his shoulders and sweeps his foot twice over the pitching rubber. Now I may press…