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RIP, Far Cry 3’s Dr. Earnhardt

Martin Kevan, who played the crazy Dr. Earnhardt in Far Cry 3, passed away on May 1 following a brief battle with cancer. Born in 1947 in Kenya, Kevan’s family moved to England and then Canada, where he began a long and successful career in TV, theatre and books. Martin is survived by his mother…

SimCity’s Creator Calls SimCity Launch “Inexcusable”

Will Wright created SimCity. Will Wright did not work on the digital clusterfuck that was is the 2013 version of SimCity, though, so what did he think of the game? The game itself, he says it’s “good”, and that he enjoys “playing it a lot”. But in an interview with GI.biz, he talks more about…

The Coolest Nintendo Games That Never Actually Existed

It’s my favourite time of the year. The time when, like clockwork, Japanese indie gaming store Meteor holds its annual Famicase exhibition, which brings together artists from all over the world and asks them to design fake Nintendo games. The label art they design on old Famicom cartridges can be political, funny, realistic, attractive or…

This Machine Will Change Your Xbox 360 Discs For You, Captain Lazy

I use that term loosely, though, because while the day-to-day operation of it will certainly save you valuable time and effort, designing and building it must have taken some work! Built by Finn zwenkka over the Winter, the LEGO contraption uses Mindstorm kit and an Android app to control a multi-disc carousel that can spin,…

EA Buying Star Wars Might Not Be All Bad

The news that EA has locked down the rights to Star Wars games has, understandably, been met with a fair amount of backlash. Electronic Arts is far from people’s most trusted and beloved publisher of video games, and fans are worried this will somehow be bad news for the future of Star Wars video games.…

What Did You Think Of Last Night’s Game of Thrones?

I’m back after taking a week off, and happy to get to write a Monday night off-topic about two of the best episodes Game of Thrones has done to date. So here’s something interesting: The last two Sunday nights, Benioff, Weiss and company have stepped farther from the source material than ever before, and they’ve…

You Are Killing GameStop. Now GameStop Needs Your Help.

Executives in cages. Dog food on the face. Cliff Bleszinski eating noodles Mega64 can run hot and cold, but boy, when they run hot, it’s hot Mega64: SAVE GAMESTOP [YouTube]

This here Famicon skin for the Wii U’s gamepad is a beaut, no? Like Tiny Cartridge says…you can’t have a modern console unless you’re going to make it look retro. It’s the law. This particular skin can be purchased from Datel Japan at the end of July for around $20.

See How Four Players Take On A Cellist (Yep) In Cello Fortress

We’ve gotten glimpses at Cello Fortress before, but it’d be understandable if some readers still had questions about how the game works. Four players with controllers take on… an improvising cellist. Okay, that’s amazing. But how does it work? Here’s how. The cellist can choose from a number of pre-set options like “High, fast notes”…

Gawker‘s Max Read takes an excellently in-depth look at what, exactly, is going on with the accents on Game of Thrones.

If Video Games Were Drugs, DDR Would Be Ecstacy

What if video games were drugs? Then we’d all be screwed. Dorkly seems to have the answer for the closest parallels of what games would be which drugs—and they’re effin’ hilarious. Check it out. Minecraft Pokémon World of Warcraft Civilization Dance Dance Revolution Temple Run Half-Life Videogames Are Drugs [Dorkly] Image credit: Shutterstock

If Mario Had Starred In Metal Slug…

…well, it’d look something like this. This video comes to us from GameBill Studio, who combined assets from Mario and the classic Neo-Geo series Metal Slug as well as some other classic games, to come up with Super Mario Slug X. I’d play it. To contact the author of this post, write to [email protected] or…

All 65 Episodes of My Little Pony All At Once, All For You

If you should wind up in the custody of the CIA and withhold information during an interrogation, expect to be strapped to a chair with your eyes pried open and this video running in an endless loop on all four walls. YouTube insane person The Pixeltripper took all 65 episodes of the first three seasons…

It’s The Horror Game Where You Play As A Toddler, Only More Intense

Playing a horror game as a toddler already sounds, well, kind of scary. Know what could potentially make the experience even scarier? Virtual reality. Here’s Krillbite Studios, walking us through what Among The Sleep is like on the Oculus Rift VR headset. While it might look silly to play like this, it seems as if…

Here Comes SimCity Update 3.0, Which Lets Your Sims Make Rights on Reds

A little more than two weeks after its big, albeit imperfect 2.0 update to SimCity, EA is preparing to roll out a new update that’s full of even more tweaks and fixes. Update 3.0 is coming this week. Will this be the one??? Patch notes, straight from EA-owned SimCity development studio Maxis: Update 3.0 Notes…

Duncan Harris of Dead End Thrills has posted a new gallery of artful screenshots from Tomb Raider, which capture the game’s dark beauty. (He’s got a snazzy new site design, too!)

Which Element Is Gollum On The LOTR Periodic Table?

Funny you should ask! He is element number 91, abbreviated to Go. That comes via the “Periodic Table of Middle Earth,” an amazingly thorough creation from the LOTR Project. The project, headed up by Swedish chemical engineering student Emil Johansson, is dedicated to assembling an exhaustive amount of data from J.R.R. Tolkien’s worlds and creating…

The sixth playable character for Borderlands 2, Krieg the Psycho Bandit, will be available on May 14th, according to a post on the character’s (official) Twitter feed.

Box Catches Cat, With A Final Fantasy Twist

I’ve always wanted to headline an article “Box Catches Cat.” Now, finally, my moment has arrived, thanks to YouTuber SirAshquatch. It’s nice to see someone else agrees that many of life’s most triumphant moments deserve their own victory music Thanks to io9‘s own Meredith Woerner for sharing.

Learning To Love Animal Crossing Again

Confession: despite my job, sitting down and playing a game is often incredibly difficult for me thanks to depression. How depression disables me from enjoying things doesn’t always present itself in the same way. Sometimes, the way I think about a game’s objective ruins it, even though there’s nothing wrong with the game per se—I…