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The Estranged Creator of Dark Age of Camelot is Making His Own Damn Dark Age of Camelot

As co-founder and former president/CEO of Mythic Entertainment. Mark Jacobs introduced the online multiplayer world to the concept of realm-vs.-realm combat with 1999’s Darkness Falls. That MUD-style game paved the way for Dark Age of Camelot, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game that focused on the conflict between three fantasy realms — humans, elves and…

Microsoft Sells Off Its IPTV Business, Turns TV Focus to Xbox

Microsoft will sell its IPTV platform, Mediaroom, to Ericsson, and focus all of its consumer TV strategy on its Xbox division, the companysaid this morning in a statement. “With the sale of Mediaroom, Microsoft is dedicating all TV resources to Xbox,” the company said. Originally announced as far back as 2007, Mediaroom brought cable television…

The PlayStation 3’s Really Good 2013 Line-Up Is No Fluke

I don’t know what the term is for what happens to a console in the year its successor console comes out. What is it, a lame duck session? That’s not quite right, because a system like the PS2 winds up getting support well after the year the PS3 comes out. The PS2 simply isn’t Sony’s…

The Drunken Dovahbear Of Skyrim Still Can’t Find Its Peace

After drinking too much honey mead, Skyrim‘s most ambitious bear has to rocket jump (with a dragon shout, obviously) through a mountain of enemies to earn his rest in the third part of the superb Dovahbear animation series by Bowz The previous parts are awesome as well, and there’s even a mod out there based…

Still consumed with determining which company is America’s worst, The Consumerist takes issue with EA’s assertion that they’re really not that rotten. Consumerist charges EA with shifting blame

A while back, we talked briefly about the ambitious Grimlands, a post-apocalyptic free to play MMORPG-shooter in the vein of Fallout. Well, it has found its way to Kickstarter. The Poland-based team is asking for a whopping $650,000 to finalize the game.

Chinese University Students Turn Swear Term Into Game of “Where’s Waldo?”

Chinese is an interesting language. It has close to 5000 years of history, but modern Chinese has loads of really quirky terms that don’t really mean much taken at face value. However sometimes these strange terms can be taken literally and have fun effects. The Chinese phrase “Search? Search, your sister!” (找你妹！) normally translates to…

The Game of Thrones mod for Crusader Kings II, which I like very much, has been updated. More wars, more stuff, more good times. Get it here

Indie platformer The Other Brothers, which is pretty good, was quietly released on iOS last week. You should check it out (it’s coming to PC soon).

An Upsetting Collection Of Dead Nintendo Hardware

Writer and student Dennis Pham has, with a stomach of iron, catalogued a collection of images of Nintendo hardware – and games – that are dead. Broken. Torn. Smashed. Whatever, you name it, this batch of gore porn has it all. It is not for the faint-hearted. Indeed, if you work in the tech industry…

Skyrim Gets 100 New (Unofficial) Achievements, For The Obsessive-Compulsive Among You

Achieve That! is a mod for Skyrim that, as you’ve probably picked up from the headline, adds 109 new achievements to the game, in case you’ve racked up all the existing ones already. What’s neat here is that they’re actually really cool; way cooler than Skyrim’s fairly boring official ones. Most of them reward you…

A BioShock PC That Lets You Browse Online For Hats, Garbage Food & Racist Rhetoric

BioShock Infinite’s steam(balloon)punk world had a lot of impressive technology, but nothing that could actually play, well, BioShock Infinite. That would have been both too meta, and too implausible. And yes, I know that world featured cyborgs and floating cities Reddit user CodyOdi has filled in the blanks with this casemod, turning a weird PC…

This Week’s Best Cosplay Includes Dirty Lara, The Other Mario Brother And A Strangely Feminine Metal Gear Outfit

A few familiar faces return in this week’s cosplay roundup, old costumes with new modifications or lavish new photoshoots. Those who aren’t new? They’re just as good. This week we’ve got some gender-bending Metal Gear cosplay, the return of a potato-nosed Mario brother and a Tomb Raider shoot that had everyone, cameraman included, up to…

Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon Out In May, Has Michael Biehn

If the last part of that headline didn’t make you happy deep inside, then this post – and this game – is not for you. With a lack of any official PR helping keep players in the dark aboutthe finer details of Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, we’re left with piecemeal bits of info like…

Portal 2’s Atlas & P-Body Look Even Better In Real Life

Toy Company threeA held a show in Taipei over the weekend, and making their debut were the finished models (we’ve seen earlier iterations before) of Portal 2’s co-op robots Atlas and P-Body. These will be expensive, but for collectors, they also look like they’ll be totally worth it. Note the detail on the paint job…

The Shooter That Lets You Play As Three People At Once

Signal Ops is a new indie shooter that, instead of just giving you one player to control and one screen to control them on, gives you three. Like Space Hulk, then, only cuter, and way more effective, seeing as this is a proper, fluid game, not an ancient, tile-based experience. You play the part of…

Planescape Torment’s Successor Is Now The Biggest Kickstarter Game Of All Time

The spiritual successor to Planescape Torment, Torment: Tides of Numenera, once held the record for being the fastest Kickstarter to hit $1 million. It quickly lost that honour, but that’s OK. It’s now got another record to its name, that of being the most successful Kickstarter video game of all time, raising over $4 million…

First-Person Shooter is a fantastic video put together by The Verge, part of this larger report, which looks at the way cameras are being used by police to record when they pursue, and sometimes fire upon, suspects.

The makers of Defiance, the MMO based on the Syfy show of the same name, say they’re aware of crashes and server problems marring the game’s launch week. A patch is planned for April 15, and another is coming two weeks later. “There are so many things we can’t fix, add or improve right away…

America’s Army—remember that thing?—is getting an update. The recruitment tool/official video game of the U.S. Army is taking applications to be a beta tester for the next edition of the game. The game originally launched in 2002; its last update was in 2009.