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This Gears of War: Judgment easter egg won’t teach the Locust to play guitar, but it will turn them into Bucketheads.

Far Cry 3, Re-Imagined In Grand Theft Auto IV

This combination of mods for Grand Theft Auto IV makes the game look more or less like last December’s Far Cry 3, and this machinima shared by RyderPL completes, or at least continues, the illusion. It’s… well, let’s say the motion capture in Far Cry 3 is a touch above what GTA IV‘s game engine…

Magic: The Gathering Casts a Spell on Android This Summer

Wizards of the Coast has turned Magic: The Gathering — Duels of the Planeswalkers into geek Madden, each year releasing a fresh set of cards, formulating new challenges, and unleashing them upon a card-collecting public that never stops wanting more. This year’s entry reaches a little further than 2013’s iOS, PC, Mac, Xbox 360 and…

VentureBeat breaks down the story of a woman whose tweet at a conference got a guy fired, then was fired herself

Looks like Audiosurf Air is taking a few notes from SSX judging from this trailer.

Saga #11 Is The Most Romantic Comic I Read All Week. What About You?

So you all read the latest issue of Brian Vaughan and Fiona Staples’ awesome sci-fi family drama and thought I was going to lead with all the S-E-X that happens in there? Nope. The sequence where The Will gives the best cat in all comics the hug of life totally made me gasp when I…

The Most Dramatic Uno Trailer You’ll Ever See

Coming soon to Android, iPad and Facebook, Gameloft’s Uno & Friends will probably deliver a much more relaxing experience than the one depicted in this first trailer. There is more acting going on in this than in all three Star Wars prequels combined.

Injustice Gets a Little More Villainous by Adding Black Adam. You Can Try Him Out at PAX East.

Right now, it looks like dev studio NetherRealm is trying to account for as many of DC Comics’ heaviest hitters in Injustice as possible. They’ve just announced that Captain Marvel Shazam’s archenemy will be flying into the fray. Teth-Adam will be joined by Raven, the half-demon empath who’s been a stalwart of the Teen Titans…

They Make Some of the Best Adventure Games. Now They’re Taking on Turn-Based Tactics.

Germany’s Daedalic Entertainment has spent the past several years making a name for itself as one of the top adventure gaming companies, consistently hand-crafting unique point-and-click experiences for fans of the genre. Now the developer prepares to wade into deeper waters with Blackguard, its first tactical turn-based role-playing game. I’m in. If Daedalic applies the…

Valve’s just launched an Indie Spring Sale on Steam just in time for next week’s Independent Games Festival

Oh God, What’s Nic Cage’s Face Doing On All These Pokémon?

Nic Cage’s face must go on everything. It’s the law. Not even Pokémon are exempt. Someone started a Pokémon x Nic Cage Tumblr and it is glorious. They’re going through the original 151 Pokemon, and so far what they’ve created is amazing. Check it out: You can view more…uh, Cagemon? Over at this here Tumblr.…

Ultima Creator Richard Garriott Says His ‘Game Designers Suck’ Comment Was ‘Taken Out-of-Context’

Yesterday, game-makers and fans were all up in arms over comments made by Richard Garriott to PC Gamer, where he said, among other things, that “most game designers really just suck.” Now the man best known for his ground-breaking work on the Ultima games has issued a clarification. On the website for his Portalarium dev…

Star Trek Online‘s Largest Expansion Yet Unleashes Playable Romulans

R-R-Romulans have r-r-ridges. Perfect World Entertainment’s is gearing up to launch the most ambitious Star Trek Online expansion to date in May, giving players tired of making excuses for their Vulcan characters to roleplay space sex a more passionate alternative with Legacy of Romulus. And hey look — Tasha Yar is back! Or at least…

Watch These Top-Level Call of Duty Players Go Apesh*t

If you’ve played a game online, chances are you’ve experienced ragers in their full extreme, screaming glory. So it shouldn’t be surprising that even top-level players rage, as Eurogamer discovered. Here is a compilation of (sometimes celebratory!) rage moments during a European Call of Duty championship. One of the competitors notes that raging is done…

Might & Magic X Legacy is the Old Might & Magic, Only So Much Prettier.

It’s been over a decade since we last saw a proper single-player, first-person PC Might & Magic game. That’s far too long. Thankfully Ubisoft and developer Limbic Entertainment agree, and Might & Magic X Legacy is on its way. Picking up after the events of Might & Magic Heroes VI, X Legacy puts players in…

Luftrausers—the retro dogfighting game from the makers of Ridiculous Fishing—is coming to PS3 and Vita this spring.

These Computer Graphics Are So Incredible, It’s Kind Of Creepy

Speaking at the GPU Technology Conference in California this week, hardware company NVIDIA talked about their much-vaunted Titan graphics card, and showed off what they can do with it. The whole video is interesting, but the best part is virtual Ira, who you can see above. Terrifying/awesome/creepy/impressive.

Why Do People Love To Draw Dicks in Games? An Investigative Report.

On November 6, 2012 a profoundly simple game called Curiosity was officially launched on iPhones, inviting people to chisel away at a massive cube composed of millions of blocks. Players from around the world started poking at the cube. There was a stupendous prize inside that would take players, working in unison, ages to unlock.…

When I Imagine Cyberpunk-Style Hack Battles, This is What I See

Since the early days of the Cyberpunk pen-and-paper role-playing setting, I’ve been fascinated by the idea of highly-skilled computer hackers roaming the plains of cyberspace looking for a fight; digital cowboys with their fingers twitching inches away from their plastic 101-shooters. The realization that real hackers are just normal people tapping away at standard keyboards…

Final Fantasy‘s Lightning Doesn’t Like Sand. It’s Coarse and Rough and Irritating.

Also there are sand dragon things, which are not soft and smooth. The latest batch of screenshots for Final Fantasy XIII Sequel Two: I Guess You Guys Wanted to Play as Lightning shows off the Dead Dunes, a land of dunes and deadness in the world of Nova Chrysalia. Sand is pretty great. It’s easy…