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If This Isn’t One Of The Most Absurd Classes In An RPG, It’s Certainly Up There

So, there’s new Fire Emblem: Awakening DLC. With it, comes new maps and characters. One of these characters comes with a special item that can transform other characters into a special class. The bride class. I’m serious. Watch the trailer above if you’d like to get a quick glimpse. Curious about the class, I ended…

Natural Selection 2 is getting some free new DLC on February 28. That’s right: free DLC.

This Swordsmith Forged Adventure Time’s Iconic Sword. Then, He Cut Stuff With it.

If you’ve ever watched Adventure Time, or if you’ve played Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why’d You Steal Our Garbage?!, then you’ve probably seen Finn’s awesome sword, Scarlet. Here’s Man At Arm‘s Tony Swatton forging the sword in real life—scratches, dents, golden color and all. Neat. …I want one. For harmless adventuring, of course. Forging…

Minecraft‘s 1.5 “Redstone” update will be out in early March, says the game’s lead designer. More details here

A writer for The Walking Dead has teased ‘a little something extra’ to come in advance of the game’s second season.

The Best Celebrity Appearances in Video Games

Now that we had the Oscars last night, it is time to gather a list of games that enhanced their storytelling by featuring real-life actors, actresses and other celebrities—not just as voice actors, but sometimes even as the main characters. Chow Yun-fat as Inspector Tequila in Stranglehold Bruce Lee as himself in Dragon: The Bruce…

From Estonia to a Top NFL Draft Pick, with Help from Madden

You’ve got to figure there’s a screenplay somewhere in the story of Margus Hunt, from his native Estonia to a potential top-10 pick in the NFL draft. The best detail, according to SB Nation, is that the guy taught himself the basics of football by playing Madden NFL—including how many players are on each side.…

The People Who Created Call of Duty Imply We’ll See Their Next Game At E3 [UPDATE]

Vince Zampella, one of the studio heads of Respawn Entertainment, says his team will “be” at E3 this year, presumably showing off whatever kind of game you make next after you make Call of Duty the biggest thing going. We scoff at most announcements of announcements, but this is a special one. After all, one…

Runner2, the sequel to the frustrating but awesome Bit.Trip Runner, drops tomorrow. Here’s a trailer.

Watch The Beginning Of DmC‘s Vergil’s Downfall DLC

Vergil’s Downfall, the first downloadable add-on for DmC: Devil May Cry, may not be out until March 5, but that didn’t stop some quick-moving European gamers from redeeming their codes early and documenting the entire expansion. Inferno has uploaded a playthrough of the entire DLC, if you’re inclined to watch. Or, you can watch the…

What Happens When A Comic Nerd Asks About the PS4’s Top-Secret Superhero Game

I knew I wasn’t going to get any real details about Infamous: Second Son out of Sucker Punch’s Nate Fox. But I’ve been a big fan of the open-world PS3 exclusives, especially because their take on superhero action makes great use of the tight thematic bond that a superhero has with his city. Lots of…

Finally, A Game For The Crazy Cat Lady In All Of Us

You’re on the internet, so you must love cats. It’s the law. Though, even if you don’t love cats with the obsessive fixation of a crazy cat lady, perhaps there’s still something for you in Team Meat’s upcoming Mew-Genics? I mean, it’s Pokemon meets Animal Crossing plus a pinch of Tamagotchi and a dash of…

Intel’s First Dual-Core Mobile Processor Takes a Tour of Epic Citadel

The free Epic Citadel app is the Unreal Engine 3-powered way to determine how game-capable your mobile hardware is, so Intel decided to use it to demonstrate the power of the Clover Trail+ Atom Z2580, its first dual-core smartphone system-on-a-chip. There are three different configurations of the new Intel SOC representing three different CPU speeds—2.0…

From Dream To Disaster: The Story Of Aliens: Colonial Marines

On December 11, 2006, Sega announced that they had snagged the rights to the much-beloved sci-fi franchise Aliens. Eager to get people excited, Sega quickly announced that they had two big games in the works: a role-playing game and a first-person shooter. In the coming years, one would be cancelled. And the other probably should…

Trophy Listings Point to Dishonored‘s Next DLC, “Other Side of the Coin”

Ten new trophies for Dishonored hint that the title of its second DLC extension is coming soon, and it’ll be titled “Other Side of the Coin.” When additional chapters were first mentioned by publisher Bethesda back in the fall, it said the second installment would deal with Daud, the leader of “The Whalers,” a group…

FarmVille 2 Vanilla Heirloom Recipes: Everything You Need to Know

You might already be satisfied with the amount of crafting recipes available in FarmVille 2‘s Crafting Kitchen. But Zynga always releases more. In fact, the developer has released a brand new “Heirloom Recipe” feature to the Crafting Kitchen that will see new recipes released for a very limited time to encourage players to come back…

Zynga is shutting down its Baltimore (Frontierville) studio and “consolidating” Texas and New York studios. [Zynga blog]

Let This Halo, Mega Man and Metroid Stained Glass Turn Your Home Into a Video Game House of Worship

If you grew up Catholic like me, you can only have one response to seeing the creation above: “Holy Samus, Mother of Metroid, hallowed be thy name.” Hang these translucent beauties where they can catch some sun and you might see people genuflecting. Those glowing renditions are the work of Evan Daniels, who sells his…

The Most Terrifying Game I’ve Played In Ages Is Not Technically a Horror Game

Death is coming, and it’s coming large. This grim reaper needs no dark shadows or flickering lights. There is no slender ghoul lurking just outside the periphery of vision. Where one would expect shrill violins there is thrilling chiptune. The coming darkness isn’t a metaphor—it’s the gaping maw of an enormous space worm, and I’m…

FBI Profilers Don’t Believe Violent Video Games Cause Violence

FBI profilers don’t view video games as a cause of shootings and other violent crime, a former profile said yesterday morning on CBS’ Face the Nation Profilers still include an interest in games when making their threat assessment of whether a person is at risk to act out violently, Mary Ellen O’Toole (above) told the…