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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…

I Wanted a Bigger Phone, Samsung, But This is Ridiculous

Last year I switched from the iPhone to the Samsung Galaxy Note II. Going from the slender Apple device to the five-inch “phablet” took some getting used to, but these days I hardly notice it’s larger than guy-sized phone, thanks largely (tee) to my oversized paws. I’m not sure those paws are ready to handle…

The Latest Legendary Pokémon Transforms Into a One-of-a-Kind Creature

Meet Meloetta. She’s special. Coming to Pokémon Black and White and Black and White 2 as part of a distribution campaign throughout GameStop stores for three weeks starting March 4, Meloetta is the first combination Normal and Fighting-type creature to grace the series, as long as you take her out to the right bar. It…

The Infamy Shows Assassin’s Creed III Still Has A Little Room For Experimentation

Assassin’s Creed III was, for me, an agonising paradox. It’s both one of the best games of last year and also one of the most frustrating, one where a strong foundation of combat and exploration was undone by poor pacing and mission design. You’d hope, then, that new singleplayer content for the game—released months after…

The Kingdom Hearts ‘Remix’ Is Coming To North America This Fall As A PS3 Exclusive

For PlayStation 3 only, Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 Remix—yes, that’s the full name—will be coming to the U.S. this fall, Square Enix said today. From Square: Fully remastered in HD, KINGDOM HEARTS HD 1.5 ReMIX is a compilation of the critically acclaimed KINGDOM HEARTS FINAL MIX, previously exclusive to the Japanese market, and KINGDOM HEARTS…

Development Costs Mean Next-Gen Leap ‘Won’t Be As Obvious’ as the Last, Says BioWare’s Art Director

If you’re accustomed to a new console generation delivering a big leap forward in technology, particularly visual fidelity, BioWare’s art director suggests you temper your expectations. The PS4 and whatever Microsoft is cooking up will be “a big leap, but it won’t be as obvious,” Neil Thompson told Official Xbox Magazine. Noting that the transition…

Shigeru Miyamoto Link Cosplay Portraits Are A Wii U Exclusive

I thought giant Majora’s Mask illustrations were good. And, hey, they are. But enormous portraits of Shigeru Miyamoto in Link cosplay are even better. [via AndrewNK]

Valve’s Gabe Newell will be awarded an Academy Fellowship at the 2013 BAFTA Games Awards. Congrats, Gabe!

Chinese Gamer Almost Dies After Gaming Marathon

Long gaming sessions are excruciatingly hard and tiring. They often require a superhuman constitution to endure, but gamers beware, all that stress can lead to terrible things. One gamer in Fuzhou, China had a gaming marathon during the Chinese New Year and is now in the hospital. Thirty-six year old IT administrator Xu Yi spent…

One Way Sony Could Fight Piracy: Load Times

Piracy is bad news! That is, if you are a big game company. If you are a pirate, then, I’m sure, it’s all gravy. But big game companies like Sony are hoping to put an end to that freeloading gravy train. A Sony Computer Entertainment patent from August 2011 that was published this month and…

One Of The Most Underrated Racing Games Of Our Time Might Be Making A Comeback

Both the series and the studio kinda lost their way eventually, but for a while there, Bugbear’s FlatOut—which combined ugly racing with brutal damage—was the most interesting thing in racing games. So it’s nice to see them returning to their roots. With what, exactly, I have no idea, this is just a teaser trailer, but…

Sometimes, You Need To Build A Video Game House In The Real World

Death Inc. is an upcoming strategy game where you play as Death. Not the badass one like you see in Darksiders. More like, the one who’s running his business from the basement of his gran’s house. It’s a quaint setting, especially when you consider the fact his “business” – and the aim of the game…

Persona 4’s Chie Is High-Kicking Onto Your Desktop

Oh look. Just in time for my delayed-thanks-to-a-late-PAL-release playthrough of Persona 4 Golden. It’s a terrific figure of Chie, the game’s loud-mouthed ass kicker. She comes with two outfits and glasses, but also a strangely absurd pricetag; ¥9,400 (USD$100) is a lot for a 1/8 scale figure that doesn’t really do anything.

This Is Not A Borderlands 2 Screenshot. It Is, Somehow, Cosplay.

And not even that heavily-photoshoped kind, either. I mean, outside of the obvious effects, that is just one absolutely incredible costume, right down to the smallest detail. It’s a great photo by Jesús Clares, too. It shares the spotlight this week with a bunch of other cosplayers who, whether it be Zelda, Skyrim, Star Wars…

It Will Blow Your Mind To See How Much It Costs To Add ONE New Character To A Fighting Game [Update]

Lab Zero Games, the guys behind 2D fighting game Skullgirls, want to add a new character to the game’s roster. To do this, they’re going to set up an IndieGoGo on February 25. And ask for $150,000 This has, understandably, led to some puzzled looks and unkind words being hurled their way. If all they’re…

Custom Interactive GIFS Will Make/Ruin Your Day

The Gifmelter takes an animated GIF file and can, through the powers of dark magic, transform them into interactive images. Imagine that “moving” part of the file as a paintbrush, and you’re on the right track. It works for any GIF—just bookmark Gifmelter and click on it when you’ve got an image open—but it really…

In The Video Game Alphabet, Link Is Crushed By The Moon

Comic artist Brentalfoss has come up with a video game alphabet that I would buy as a poster in a heartbeat. Oh, it’s available as a poster? Wonderful. Based on vintage child-death catalogue The Gashlycrumb Tinies, the temptation is there to put it on a kid’s wall, even some of these are actually pretty dark.…

Skyrim Mod Videos Look Like A Next-Gen Elder Scrolls Game

It’s one thing to look at screenshots and gape, but video of Skyrim looking like a next-gen game is something else entirely. Austrian PC gamer SkyrimTuner runs a YouTube channel where all he does is post footage of the game running with all kinds of mods, sometimes with over 150 going at once. It’s basically…

No, the Government is Not Paying $1 Million for People to Play Video Games

Did you know the government is spending $1.2 million to pay people to play World of Warcraft? I didn’t either! Maybe that’s because it ain’t true, but truth is a relative thing when you’re one of the assclowns leading an intellectually bankrupt legislature that can’t go two months without a self-inflicted hostage crisis. That describes…

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