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This lengthy write-up of Dwarf Fortress at Ars Technica is well worth a read.

Yes, The Legend Of Korra Returns This Year For A Second Season

The question is when, exactly. Some, like MTV, muse that the second season of the animated show starring elemental “benders” will hit this fall. Nick is a little cagey with the details, offering no specifics beyond “for the 2013-14 season” in the press release cited by MTV. And aside from that… Still, it’s good news…

Kneel Before This Massive Tower Of Borderlands 2 Boxes

When the games have been sold, and the swag remains: What do you do? What does a man do with 180 promotional boxes for Borderlands 2? He stacks them, apparently. This image set, uploaded to imgur by bitterguy a week ago, was tweeted at Gearbox’s Randy Pitchford this morning. The imgur description: “What to do…

It’s Not Every Day a Free Mobile Game Launches With a $100 Licensed Headset

Real Racing 3 launches in North America tomorrow, and fans won’t need to drop a single red cent on the third installment of Firemonkeys’ console-quality racer if they don’t want to. That’ll free them up to spend $100 on the special Real Racing 3 edition of SteelSeries Flux headset. I can’t recall another mobile game…

The Derpface in the Middle of this Politician’s Anti-Video Game Speech Says It All

Here’s Rep. Frank Wolf of Virginia, who has served in the House of Representatives since 1978. He chairs the House subcommittee that funds the National Science Foundation. Yesterday he took the floor to complain that the Obama administration was ignoring its friends in the entertainment industry while demonizing the National Rifle Association, which is baloney.…

You Can Play Bomberman Online Against Hundreds Of People Right Now

You no longer have to imagine a world in which you can jump into a 1,000 player Bomberman match at any moment, for free, through your browser. Thanks to Bombermine, that world is now a reality. Judging by their sparse Twitter, the Bombermine team launched this addictive MMO game less than 48 hours ago and…

FarmVille 2 ‘Counting Sheep’ Quests: Everything You Need to Know

As part of the new Sheep Shack event in FarmVille 2, farmers are now encouraged to complete a series of quests called “Counting Sheep.” There are eight quests in this series, and they require the use of some limited time crops in the store. That being the case, you’ll want to start them as soon…

Can We Talk About How Insane The Last Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance Boss Is?

Now that Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance has come out and people have had time to play the game, I think it’s time we had a frank discussion about how next-level insane the last boss battle is, because holy crap (Obviously, spoilers ahead and in the video above) Up until this point in Revengeance has walked…

A Halo Easter Egg That Took Years To Discover

The people at Bungie are famous for putting obscure Easter Eggs into their games. Halo‘s creators have packed the massive sci-fi shooter franchise with all sorts of references and secrets, and fans love finding them But sometimes, Halo‘s little secrets are so obscure, nobody ever sees them. A tipster—who asked that we not use his…

Deadpool has an inflatable sex doll in it, says the ESRB.

Let Your Ears Be Your Guide In This Fantastic Musical Puzzle Game

Music is enough of a puzzle already. You’ve got your parts, your sections, your structure. Then, you have to make those parts fit a into whole, and get them to make sense together. Say, wouldn’t that make for a fun game? As it turns out, it would. Enter Musaic Box HD, a game that’s been…

Proof That God Exists: My Favorite Indie Game of 2012 Is Coming to Vita & PS3

I loved Thomas Was Alone, the minimalist platformer released last year by Mike Bithell. The hilarious narration, memorable characters and awesome music defied my expectations I had after first hearing about the game and I was glad to see Thomas find a home on Steam. I’m never going to stop wanting for more people to…

Remember Me, Capcom’s memory-stealing sci-fi game, comes out in North America on June 4 and in Europe on June 7.

Technically, The Graphics of First-Person Shooters Have Improved A Lot Since 1992

Sit back and watch two decades of video game graphics flash before your eyes. YouTube user drloser333 has uploaded a video from French site NoFrag that unfurls the graphics of more than a dozen first-person shooters, from 1992’s Wolfenstein 3 to 2011’s Battlefield 3 Did the FPS get better-looking? They have at least become way…

As Calls to Action Go, ‘Shoot Animals Out of Your Face’ is Right Up There

The call to action is the battle cry of the marketeers, a modest collection of words crafted to grab the potential customer’s attention and send them charging their credit cards for whatever is being sold. I’m not sure if Butterscotch Shenanigans knows me or just stumbled upon this accidentally, but I will buy anything marketed…

Thor’s hammer was an Easter egg in Black Ops 2? Fine, it’s an Easter egg in Crysis 3, too. Here’s where to find it.

Mars: War Logs Won’t Come In a Box, but Does Think Outside of One

This is Mars: War Logs, a game I had no idea was coming, but evidently was announced back in December. The fact this is a console downloadable (both XBLA and PSN, it’ll also be available on PC) is intriguing to me because this trailer is promising a lot of stuff normally associated with boxed goods.…

This Week’s Android Charts: Music of the Cubes Vs. Spheres

Just when you’re ready to write off the Android gaming community’s good taste, a game like ShockPanda’s Cubes Vs. Spheres sneaks onto the charts, reminding us that there are discerning gamers on the platform. Not that there’s anything wrong with buying Ruzzle a couple million times, and heck—one of the top games for the past…

There’s something going on around the freaky Japanese dream simulator Yume Nikki. What could it be?

This Assassin’s Creed Heroine Is a Great Black Game Character. Here’s How It Happened.

The odds should’ve been against Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation. It starred a woman—specifically the half-black, half-French heroine Aveline du Grandpre. And it was an exclusive on the PlayStation Vita, a system that many people see as a sadly under-supported platform. But Liberation shipped a very strong 600,000 units, according to Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot. Sure,…