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Robin’s Got a Point in These Hilarious Superhero Texts

Superheroes and their antagonists do a lot of talking. Lots of speeches about inner turmoil, taking over the world and the fate of the universe. But what about the smaller, more mundane conversations they might have off-screen? Well, they use SMS for that. Duh. The funny fake convos over at Text From Superheroes—the brainchild of…

Winning Super Smash Bros. Melee by Doing Absolutely Nothing

You know what they say—the only winning move is not to play. Luigi takes that advice to heart: last year, we showed you a video of Luigi doing nothing in Mario Party against computer opponents and winning. This time, OmegaTyrant4792 brings us footage of what happens when Luigi does nothing against level 9 AI in…

Layoffs at EA Today

We’ve heard from a couple of sources that EA is cutting jobs today with estimates of as much as 10% of the workforce. EA won’t comment on teams affected or the headcount, but this means that fewer people are working at the company that brings you everything from Madden to Battlefield to The Sims. Here’s…

The Moneysaver: Save On Grid 2, RE: Revelations, Game and Wario, More

We’ve already had some huge sales today in our morning Moneysaver PSA, and now we’re bringing you some great pre-order discounts on highly-anticipated releases. Dig in. The best gaming deals not on Origin today are pre-order offers from Newegg and a few other retailers. Reserve Grid 2 on the 360 or PS3 to save $10,…

Ubisoft has shared another chunk of Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon gameplay, this time narrated by the game’s creative director Dean Evans. This gives a sense of Blood Dragon‘s willful stupidity, and shows off a trick that wasn’t present in Far Cry 3: The ability to call in a massive land-dragon to fight your enemies.…

Check out Sacrilege It’s about going clubbing and formulating a “fuckplan”—the idea is to get laid. You’ll find possibly familiar figures: the one that wants you but you feel nothing for, the one everyone knows is in love with you, and so on. It’s a Twine game that captures desire well—enough that it’s one of…

Game Developers Hype Up The PS4 Controller

The PS4’s controller is a shiny device with some really interesting features: a touchpad, an LED sensor, and a Share button that will let you stream gameplay footage to your friends and Internet enemies. Today, Sony has releaseda new video to showcase the DualShock 4. Check it out above.

The Amazing Life of Sean Smith, the Masterful Eve Gamer Slain in Libya

The headlines around the world about Sean Smith last year were mostly about how he left this Earth. But this is a story about what he did while he was here. This is a story about Sean Smith’s life—about what he did in the so-called “real” world and what he did in a virtual galaxy…

Released last week for the Xbox 360, Call of Duty: Black Ops II‘s Uprising pack brings four new maps and the “Mob of the Dead” Zombies experience to PlayStation 3 and PC players on May 16.

Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen Is A Definite Improvement, Six Critics Say

Eleven months after its release, Capcom’s action-RPG Dragon’s Dogma received an updated re-release in the form of Dark Arisen. In addition to giving a technical facelift to the original game, Dark Arisen boasts a brand new landmass to explore: Bitterblack Island. Reviewers seem to be mostly happy with these changes. Complaints have been raised about…

Valve has announced that it is rolling out a new system for subscription-based games on Steam. The service offers a simple way to manage payments on games with paid subscriptions. The first title to take advantage of this is Darkfall Unholy Wars, Aventurine’s PVP sandbox MMORPG from way, way back

Pre-Armor Tony Stark Would Enjoy the Iron Man 3 Game’s Glitz and Greed

Before a weapon produced by his own company left him no choice but to become a better man, Tony Stark was a textbook billionaire industrialist playboy, motivated by money and power, with a penchant for glamorous things. He was the sort of guy that would create Iron Man 3: The Official Video Game, in which…

Moneysaver PSA: Low Prices On Tomb Raider, Crysis, Dead Space, More

Incoming deals on several of the biggest releases in recent months, dive in. EA’s running an action game sale on Origin. It’s not just on EA games, and it’s not just for PC, but it is all cheap. Free shipping over $25. These are the best deals you’ll find on these titles today (if that…

Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: contributor PocoGrandes offers up his own personal review of Thomas Was Alone, the charming minimalist indie platformer that wound up being one of my favorite games last year. It just came out for PS3 and Vita this week, so check it out if you’re curious.…

Skyrim ‘Legendary Edition’ Is Coming June 4

A new version of Skyrim containing all of the game’s DLC will arrive this summer for $60, Bethesda announced today. June 4 for North America; June 7 for Europe and Australia. The Legendary Edition of Skyrim will be released on PC, PS3, and Xbox 360. This edition of the massive RPG will include the game…

Phoenix Wright HD iOS Port Delayed Yet Again

Remember when we said you’d be able to play HD remakes of the first three Phoenix Wright games on iOS last fall? That never happened. For some reason, Capcom has stealthily delayed the HD port of their lawyer adventure games, first to April, and now… to July. Responding to a fan question on the company’s…

Mega Man 4 leads off a light week for the Nintendo Download. Time to catch up on that backlog, eh? Check out all the coming week’s digital Nintendo offerings right here

Amazing Tech Demo Shows All Sides Of The CryEngine

CryEngine 3, Crytek’s top-tier game engine that made Crysis 3 look so pretty, can be handy modeling streets, disassembled cars and entire cityscapes. French company Enodo utilizes the game engine exactly like this, and it has massive video game potential. Have a look at the scenes with tilt-shift added at 1:11, I could go crazy…

Everything We Know About The Next Xbox

May 21. That’s the day that Microsoft will, finally, put an end to all the rumours and speculation and heresay and whispers about the successor to the Xbox 360 and actually show us something. Or at least tell us something. Either way, make it official. More so than the reveal of the PlayStation 4 earlier…

There are going to be new Grand Theft Auto V trailers—apparently, one for each of the three protagonists—next week on April 30th, according to Rockstar Games’ official site.