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Michigan Declared the Winner as NCAA Football 14‘s Election Crisis is Resolved

My fellow Americans, our long—and I do mean long—nightmare has passed, and we have peacefully chosen a new cover star for NCAA Football 14, restoring faith in our great democracy and the rule of law. Following a 77-day fan-voted election that actually saw the investigation of voting fraud, Michigan quarterback Denard Robinson has been declared…

Watch Players Pull Off Stunts With Battlefield 3‘s New Dirt Bike

You know what every first-person shooter needs? I mean, besides guns? Dirt bikes. And every other high-speed vehicle imaginable. Because if shooting a helicopter down with an RPG is fun, it’s even more fun when doing so while also riding a dirt bike. The latest expansion to Battlefield 3, End Game, introduced a few new…

Ouch: Surgeon Simulator 2013’s Brain Surgery Treats Patients’ Skulls Like Eggs.

So, Surgeon Simulator 2013 came out of nowhere (well, this year’s Global Game Jam) to be one of the most hilarious, disturbing games that some folks have played this year. And that was before the folks at Bossa Studios added brain surgery to their in-progress game. A new video gives a glimpse of just what…

Heart of the Swarm Has an Official Boy Band Music Video, and It’s Not Half-Bad

In the StarCraft community, making parody music videos has always been a big thing—just look at Husky‘s Nerd Alert or Temp0. Or New Zealand-based Viva La Dirt League — the closest thing to a StarCraft boy band we’ll ever get (though, let’s admit, they should be in a higher league) — whose latest video is…

Microtransactions for ‘Customization Items’ Come to Black Ops 2 on Xbox 360

Beginning Wednesday, Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 will begin offering “personal customizations” on the Xbox 360, the game’s community manager said this morning. The items don’t affect gameplay—they’re items like weapon skins, targeting reticles, and player calling cards. Moreover, the multiplayer map Nuketown 2025, originally a preorder incentive back in November, will be made…

Sony tells Joystiq that they’re changing the name of God of War: Ascension’s “Bros Before Hos” trophy via a patch.

An Ingenious Mod Turns Doom 2 into Twisted Metal

Why do we bother putting out new games when there’s so much life left in the old ones? Zandronum forum member mr fiat takes the classic Doom 2 multiplayer deathmatch and replaces the marines with cars, complete with dashboards. I want to play this right now. If I had the time, I could download the…

Fight for Humanity with this Awesome Mass Effect Gun Replica

Weaselhammer of Vector Sigma Creations is the very talented person behind this magnificent-looking replica of the M-12 Locust submachine gun from Mass Effect 2 and 3. The overall creation process took about three months, during which Weaselhammer crafted the model piece by piece, attaching synthetic polymer components to a wooden frame, and then giving it…

Turns Out That $1,000 ‘Steam Box’ May Have Nothing to Do With Valve

In January, hardware manufacturer Xi3 announced the Piston, a living-room-friendly PC built to play Steam games in your living room. The Piston, Xi3 said at the time, had received a financial investment from Valve. Just a few days ago, Xi3 said this unofficial ‘Steam Box’ would be out this holiday season for $1,000 But according…

Here’s a moving tribute to Kenji Eno, which was shown at the recent BitSummit

4chan Is Making Its Own Pokémon Game. Looks Pretty Good So Far.

Members of 4chan’s /vp/ board are teaming up to make their own Pokémon game. Because how often do you get a Pocket Monster trainer named “Doucherado”? Not often enough! So far, there’s a lot of concept art, a finished Pokédex, and sprites—all of which look quite impressive. Over on Reddit, Redditor Atheism4tw linked the game’s…

Ron Gilbert Leaves Double Fine

Ron Gilbert, the developer responsible for classic adventure games like Maniac Mansion and The Secret of Monkey Island, has left longtime collaborator Tim Schafer’s Double Fine Productions, Gilbert revealed tonight in a post at his personal blog Gilbert writes: Now that The Cave is done and unleashed on an unsuspecting world (ok, we did do…

This Unborn Baby Looks Exactly Like Emperor Palpatine

If I were Heather Large, an expecting mother in Illinois, I’d have mixed feelings about the above ultrasound. On the one hand: Your child is probably going to be very powerful! On the other hand: Evil. This image, which comes to us via Metro UK, pretty much speaks for itself. Unborn babies can look like…

OCRemix’s latest collection focuses on the music of Kirby Super Star. Download the whole thing for free here

It’s Not a Real Anime, But The Fandom Around It Is

All that ‘officially’ exists of this anime is about 30 seconds of young, hunky swimmers. That’s it; the anime isn’t real. It doesn’t even have a name. The clip is a promotional thing for the Kyoto Animation studio, but that hasn’t stopped anyone from falling in love with the idea of the anime according to…

The Hardcore Horror Flick That Turns Up In Tomb Raider

Tomb Raider wears its cinematic aspirations on its grimy, blood-soaked sleeve. In the mode of Uncharted, this is a game that very much wants to be a movie—its ‘camera’ is a constant companion, never missing the opportunity for a close-in tension shot or a jumbled, handheld action sequence. As Lara Croft runs through the rain…

The Visual Evolution of Sci-Fi Real-Time Strategy Games

StarCraft II‘s expansion pack, Heart of the Swarm, is already out in some parts of the world, and it’s launching tomorrow in North America. To celebrate, let’s take the opportunity to examine more than 20 years’ worth of real-time strategy history in today’s Show Us gallery, and see how much the genre has evolved visually.…

Acoustic Piano Meets Chiptunes, And It’s Freakin’ Lovely

Chiptune music is all well and good, but I like to give my ear something to hold onto along with all the bleeps and bloops. So I very much enjoy Aivi & Surasshu’s new album “The Black Box,” which mixes the keyboard chops of pianist Aivi Tran and the chiptune stylings of Surasshu. It helps,…

The Only Way to Get Past This Tomb Raider Glitch Is By Using Another Glitch

There’s a moment in Tomb Raider where you get a crucial piece of gear required to finish the game. But a bug that can screw things up the first time you try to use the Rope Ascender is stopping some people from progressing through Tomb Raider. Lara needs to get that crate to slam through…

SimCity Needs An ‘Undo’ Button

No, I’m not making a joke about how SimCity‘s makers doubtless wish they could hit “undo” on last week’s embarrassing, disastrous launch. (Though I don’t doubt that’s the case.) I’m saying I think SimCity actually needs an undo button. You know, Control+Z. A shake of the smartphone. A little button with a backwards-curving arrow on…