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The Dead Island Folks Are Making A Game With The Silliest Title Ever

This is Hellraid, a new “first-person co-op slasher” just announced by the folks at Techland, best known for polarizing games like Dead Island and Call of Juarez. You can see more over at the new official website for Hellraid, which will be out this year for Xbox 360, PS3, and PC. Now about the name…

You Could Make a Cameo in Grand Theft Auto V.

There’s a new Scientology-ish bit of hype for Grand Theft Auto V, and there’s a contest attached. What can you win? The fine print indicates you could appear in Rockstar’s big fall game: Rockstar Games is holding a “casting call” event giving Grand Theft Auto fans an opportunity to be cast as one of five…

Samsung’s Galaxy S4 Is Powerful, Versatile, But Not Bulletproof

Samsung has unleashed the Galaxy S4, the latest iteration of the iPhone-challenging Android smartphone. I’ll let our friends at Gizmodo handle the review, while we tackle the more important issues, such as what happens when you shoot it with a high-powered sniper rifle. RatedRR’s shooting videos are a guilty pleasure of mine. They’ve shot aWii…

Watch Dogs has been given a release date. It is Nov. 19. It will be available on PS3, 360, Wii U and PC “as well as at the launch of the PlayStation 4,” says Ubisoft. “The game is also planned for other next generation consoles,” meaning the next Xbox.

Killing Yourself Is Fun In They Need To Be Fed 2

Every level of They Need To Be Fed 2 ends with you hurling your big-headed black and white body into the gaping maw of a carnivorous plant. Trust me, it’s for the best. As it was with Jesse Venbrux’s original They Need To Be Fed, the goal of this perfect little platforming sequel is not…

What Regular People Say About Video Games

I visited family down south this past weekend. Hung out with my niece and nephew. Even went to their grade school to have lunch with them (their request!). I also chatted with some of my wife’s friends. As always, I got some intel about what regular people think about video games. First-graders? Well, first of…

This trailer for Ace Attorney 5 shows off some of the 3D investigation in Phoenix Wright’s new outing. Capcom’s next big lawyer game is out July 25 in Japan, and sometime in the future for everyone else.

Here’s what’s happening on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: contributor GiantBoyDetective shares a story of friendship and generosity, Azureguy gives a personal review of Skies of Arcadia Legends, and Zarnyx visits the video game exhibit at the MoMA for the first time.

A Video Game in Which You Make Video Games Fights Pirates with Piracy

There’s a recent tradition of developers screwing with pirates—from releasing enormous, immortal pink scorpions on them, to booby trapping their games with glitches when they get cracked. This weekend, Greenheart Games, creator of Game Dev Tycoon, just blew the curve for everyone. This is fantastic. As the title suggests, the game is about video games…

We haven’t done a Miiverse Moments post in a while, but that doesn’t mean others haven’t taken notice of the sometimes fantastic art that pops up on Nintendo’s newest platform. That’s why Printing Miiverse—an art show opening up in Nuremberg, Germany on May 4th—exists. To celebrate the very best of those fantastic Miiverse moments. You…

What Not To Name Your Spacefaring Raccoon Video Game

A browser-based game from a group of students from the Utrecht School of Arts & Technology in the Netherlands starring an adorable raccoon trying to reach the moon sounds like a lovely idea. Just might not want to call it Starcoon Starcoon is a game that brings the “as high as you can get” games…

Who Cares if The Game is Short? Hideki Kamiya Wants To Ensure It’s Fun

The ever-colorful Twitter feed of top Japanese game developer Hideki Kamiya (Devil May Cry, Bayonetta, and the upcoming Wonderful 101 for Wii U) imparted some wisdom this weekend. I believe in this wisdom as well. Game length is over-rated. Game fun should be paramount. Sadly, I think the padding of games is still widely accepted.…

Amazing Physical Health Bar Mimics In-Game Changes Perfectly

YouTube user bfayer‘s wasn’t satisfied with watching his life slowly seep away on a computer monitor, so he built a lighted water tower that tracks the ebb and flow of his virtual vitals in real-time. It’s basically a glass tube of modded water, controlled by an Arduino Uno microcontroller board and an air pump that…

Larry Page Shows Bill Gates How It’s Done in South Korea

Last week, Bill Gates caused a brouhaha in South Korea because of the way he shook hands with President Geun Hye Park. In the wake of that, Google co-founder Larry Page schooled Gates on Korean manners. Page was in South Korea late last week to visit Samsung’s OLED factory for about an hour and have…

3D builder/magician Psychobob – you’ve seen his stuff before – is selling these Portal-themed drinks coasters, so your companion coffee cup has somewhere to rest its weary butt.

The Game In This Trailer Does Not Exist

The “game” in this trailer, Delirium, isn’t actually a game. You can’t play it, and you probably never will play it. So why is there a trailer? It’s the work of three students – Edgard Ortega, Connor McCampbell and Gudjon Larusson – whose senior thesis project involved constructing a mock video game trailer. The onus…

This Is The World’s Most Fabulous Halo Action Figure

It’s large, detailed and expensive as only a threeA figure could be, but then, Halo is a series that’s long deserved this kind of top-shelf action figure. Though “action figure” kind of sells this thing short. Recreating Halo Reach’s Carter down to the tiniest detail (look at those fingers), this thing will cost $220 when…

Arkham City’s Batman Actor Won’t Be Back For The Next Game

Kevin Conroy, who has voiced Batman in all kinds of stuff, from the classic 90s animated series to Rocksteady’s last two masterpiece video games, will not be reprising his role in the upcoming Batman: Arkham Origins. Unlike the drama surrounding another long-time fan favourite voice actor, though, at least in this case it makes sense.…

Who Said There Was No Future In Starfighter Video Games?

For a genre that was once dominant in the mid-90s, with classics like X-Wing and Wing Commander, the space combat simulator is by 2013 on its knees. Sure, indies and mods try their best to keep things ticking, but one Kickstarter project aside, it’s been a very long time since a developer with serious resources/money…

If BioShock Infinite Was An…Anime

The architecture and setting is about as far removed from Japanese animation as you could get, but that only makes these anime-styled images by doubleleaf all the cooler. We’ve featured doubleleaf’s art here before, and with good reason: it’s not only great art but is often hilarious as well. Not in this case, sure, but…