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StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm sold 1.1 million copies in its first two days, Blizzard said in a press release today.

The new Star Trek game changes the evil Gorn from rubbery and goofy to angry and snarly. Oh, and they’re naked.

New Trailer Shows What Kingdom Hearts Looks Like In HD

Square Enix says the name for this game is Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 ReMIX, but I’m not going to call it that. Let’s stick with… Kingdom Hearts 1.5 Here’s the official PAX trailer for Kingdom Hearts 1.5, an HD remake of the first Kingdom Hearts that also includes Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories, cinematic scenes…

Talk Amongst Yourselves is where games & life get discussed. What do you want to hear about from PAX East?

I Would Cry Real Tears Of Joy If I Could Ride This Minecraft Beetlejuice Roller Coaster

Wow. This thing is elaborate! (Word of warning, if you don’t like dubstep or anything like it, you should just mute the video now. I personally like the song just fine.) According to YouTuber nuropsych1, it took their team roughly two months on the Xbox 360’s creative mode to create this beast. It would probably…

Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon and a new Pokemon game lead off this week’s list of upcoming Nintendo downloadables

This Real-Life World of Warcraft Quest Changed Two People’s Lives Forever

World of Warcraft player Alex found a really creative way to present an engagement ring to his girlfriend Clara, who also plays the game: A quest chain, which includes some romantic real-life activities. All he needed was a papercraft template for a chest, a site where he could make custom WoW tooltips, and of course…

Unfinished Swan creator Giant Sparrow has announced a new game. Its page is titled “Edith Finch,” and features a mirror.

This Battlefield 4 teaser site is kinda neat. Scrubby scrubby. There’s a promise of a gameplay reveal on March 27, too.

The People Behind XCOM and Civilization are Bringing Something Spooky to iOS

The folks at Firaxis are responsible for some of the best strategy games ever made, so when they promise a deep, competitive, free-to-play strategy game for iOS in this spring’s Haunted Hollow, it’s a good time to be an iDevice owner. In Haunted Hollow, players construct elaborate mansions that spawn all sorts of nasty horror…

3D Realms’ superb Duke Nukem 3D is now on Steam, along with three expansions and some extras, as the “Megaton” pack.

This Tweet from Hideo Kojima seems to be about lens flare, but the folks at NeoGAF see a Phantom Pain reference. Do you?

“It’s coming,” boasts a Sony UK Facebook post. I’m not entirely sure what “it” is. What do you think?

Masters of Doom author David Kushner profiles foreign service employee Sean Smith on Playboy [NSFW site!].

Capcom now believes the app needed for Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate‘s 3DS-WiiU cross-saving will be available Friday.

The Saints Row IV Special Edition Has Stuff That’s Way Better Than A Severed Torso

You might recall that Volition was acquired by Deep Silver after the bankruptcy of THQ. You might also recall that Deep Silver are the people responsible for the highly unpalatable severed torso that came packaged with some of the collector’s editions of Dead Island: Riptide Hence, they will also be responsible for the collector’s edition…

The Most Incredible, Improbable Video Game Trick-Shots

Earlier this week, I was messing around with video game bows and arrows for an article I was writing on the subject. Shooting arrows, lighting stuff on fire, blowing up aliens… you know, research. One of the games I was writing about was Skyrim, and while playing, I captured the video above. Actually, I accidentally…

The New Moneysaver: Bioshock Infinite Pre-Order Bonuses

Hi, Moneysaver readers. Welcome to the slightly-different but still wallet-friendly version of the Moneysaver. Going forward, this feature will be brought to you by a member of our company’s new Commerce Team. Fancy! What this means is that you’ll no longer see Moneysavers penned by those of us in editorial but by the good Shane…

Now This Is How You Use A Dirt Bike To Take Down A Jet In Battlefield 3

Battlefield players have found all sorts of awe-inspiring ways to do stunts with dirt bikes. But this one takes the cake when it comes to how much air the player grabs, not to mention the rather dramatic ending. Good teamwork, t4ct1x1. After all—this wasn’t errant luck. The YouTube description says that the player had his…

Discover the secret origins of Khan, one of Star Trek‘s coolest villains, via our friends at io9