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The Glitchiest–And Sometimes Very Painful–Fails Of April 2013

Falling on your crotch is funny, when it’s in a video game. So is dying multiple times over for no apparent reason. Achievement Hunter hosts a separate YouTube channel, called Game Fails, that they fill with random deaths, glitches, and outright outrageous instances in all sorts of games. It can sometimes be hit or miss.…

Now Angry Birds Seasons Is Thinking With Portals

Today’s free “Abra-Ca-Bacon” to Rovio’s Angry Birds Seasons adds magical apertures that transcend spatial boundaries. You can get ithere.

Looks Like EA Is Making A New Online Game Called Dawngate

Ahh, the video game industry, where people come up with names by smashing random words together. Today’s entry: Dawngate It looks like EA didn’t mean to announce Dawngate just yet, as they haven’t, well, announced it, but Kotaku columnist Superannuation discovered that the Dawngate website is up and running nonetheless. Dawngate is a MOBA—that is…

Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: Ueziel runs down his progress on his personal backlog, which includes Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts And E1SALVADOR writes about Code:Breakers and all the other anime he’s been watching. And you can always go join the voices talking about video games and life in TAY Classic…

New Nintendo Direct. Friday, May 17. 10am Eastern. “Updates on Wii U and 3DS games launching this summer.” Right here

Make Your Puny Human Video Game Into a Superhero Adventure

Why play as Rico Rodriguez in Just Cause 2 when you can be the Punisher? If there’s one huge advantage that PC releases of multi-platform titles have over their console brethren, it’s the modding community that bends, twists and re-configures them into different shapes. Superhero fans from all over have figured out ways to put…

Assassin’s Creed IV‘s Hero Is One Incredibly Salty Dog

It better be sea salt Bashir Sultani is using to recreate the piratical Edward Kenway from the upcoming Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag. What a fascinating process. I especially like the tiny additions he makes at the end on the guns. It took him two hours to create this salt art, only to wipe it…

The launch trailer for Fuse is sufficiently shooty and explodey. Insomniac’s new co-op shooter will be out May 28 for Xbox 360 and PS3.

It’s a jam-packed Nintendo Download this week, with Level-5’s The Starship Damrey for 3DS, Super Metroid on the Wii U Virtual Console, The King of Fighters ’99 for the regular old Wii and so much more.

Modern Family Is Already Enjoying Nvidia’s Shield

Mere days after the announcement of its $350 price tag and June release date, Nvidia’s Shield Android handheld is already showing up in the background of popular television shows. Look what Modern Family‘s Luke Dunphy has traded in his Nintendo 3DS for. As spotted over at Game Usagi, Lucas brings Nvidia’s new portable along for…

Siliconera reports that Sega has trademarked the name “Sonic Lost World” in Europe. Normally this is where I’d make a joke about dinosaurs, but Lost World is also the name of a jungle ruins-themed stage in Sonic Adventure. Coincidence?! … Yeah, probably.

Sanctum 2’s Launch Trailer Is Action-Packed and… Blue

Sanctum 2, whose younger brother we talked about a little while ago, is out. It’s looking… blue. And gray. Also fun. Corridor shooting in corridors crafted by me? Yes please.

Japan Has an Insane Number of “Armageddon” Flicks

Armageddon was released worldwide in 1998. But since 2007, every year without fail, there has been a new “Armageddon” movie in Japan. What the hell is going on? If you were in Japan during the late 1990s and early 00s, you’ll know just how popular the disaster flick Armageddon was. You couldn’t walk past a…

Whilethe initial announcement said nothing of a PS4 version, series creator Kazunori Yamauchi has told GameSpot that “We have a PS4 version in mind for the future”.

Google Game Lets You Play Across iPhone, Android, iPad

Yesterday, Google showed off Racer, a simple game which could be played across multiple, competing devices like an iPad, Android phone and iPhone. Like, literally played across them; you can line up the screens and the track reaches across them all. Sounds like a pipe dream, but it works, and it’s out right now for…

Moneysaver Special Edition: 1500 Games On Sale

We’re gonna need a bigger Moneysaver. Looking for the current Moneysaver roundup? Click here International Readers: Just put in a US address to get these deals. They are codes. Welcome to a (very) special 3am ET Moneysaver. Amazon has an absolutely massive sale starting right now, and we’ve got insta-coverage first and just for you.…

League of Legends Doesn’t Need Much Story, So Fans Get To Create Their Own

There are few games that require a “lore” so little as League of Legends. Pick your guy/gal/thing, ,get ’em in a lane, click a lot, give/receive abuse, game over. It’s a series as dependent on narrative as a game of poker. Yet the fantasy setting, and the game’s rabid following, nevertheless inspires attempts to give…

Digital Foundry have had a very good look at a Wii U controller. It’s interesting stuff. Check it out

This Game’s Beautiful And You Don’t Even Need To Look At It

This is Remembering. It’s a “poetic exploration game driven by sound”. It’s finished and available for download here. You should go ahead and do just that. It’s a wonderful little experience. By stripping away all but the most basic visual elements, the game – and your interpretation of its world – is powered mostly by…

Star Wars, Dr. Who Fans Get Into The Lamest “Fight” Of All Time

A long-standing rivalry between two sci-fi fan groups in England boiled over earlier this week when Star Wars and Dr. Who fans had a “bitter exchange” outside a convention. When the treasurer of Norwich Star Wars Club Jim Poole turned up and tried to get the autograph of Dr. Who actor (and Bill superstar!) Graham…