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The Power Rangers Take On NYC

Sure, the Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers have saved countless cities from countless huge, hilarious monsters. But how do they fare without their Megazord, when they’re reduced to mere tourists? This goofy video from BaderTV takes a look, in honor of Power Rangers‘ 20th anniversary. Man, there’s really not much to the Power Rangers theme song…

Doctor Krieger Would Not Be Happy With This Hyperdimensional Virtual Girl

The virtual wife of Archer‘s resident scientist (and potential genetic clone of Hitler) Dr. Krieger is much more animated than the pair of anime girls in NIS America’s Hyperdimension Neptunia the App for iOS, and likely not as expensive either. Hyperdimension Neptunia the App is a virtual companion app featuring two characters from the odd…

Crysis 3 Makes The End Of The World Look Fantastic

Damn, Crysis 3. You lookin’ gooood. No but seriously though: while the point of the game is to have the protagonist—Prophet—prevent the ‘end of days,’ when the end of the world looks as great as it does in this trailer, would you even want to, really? Can’t we just… marvel at the scenery? No? Well,…

How Scott Pilgrim Blended Comics, Film and Video Games

“Transmedia” has become something of an annoying buzzword lately, or at least, a loaded one. It calls to mind corporate boardrooms where phrases like “maximum brand impact” and “synergy” are bandied about. But transmedia—the act of taking a story or fictional world outside its original medium and into others (books into movies, comics into video…

How Aliens: Colonial Marines Fell Apart

Aliens: Colonial Marines is a bad game, by most accounts. Reviewers have almost all trashed it, fans don’t seem to like it, and the final product looks nothing like the impressive demo that developer Gearbox showed last year So how did it happen? Although the full picture isn’t quite clear yet, over the past few…

Forget The Most Powerful Characters. Use The Ones You Like.

Don’t let the wallpaper fool you. Underneath every game is an endless matrix of numbers that rule each and every possible action. These numbers dictate everything from how well you can swing your sword to how effectively you can shoot a gun. Numbers don’t lie: some actions are better than others. Some characters are better…

Gabe Newell Says Valve Layoffs Don’t Affect Any Current Projects [UPDATE]

Gamasutra today reported that several employees from Valve Corporation were laid off on Tuesday, terminations said to involve “large decisions,” according to their report. Further, Jason Holtman, Valve’s director of business development, is among eight persons no longer listed in the company’s public employee directory Valve has not responded to requests for comment on the…

Planescape: Torment Designer Chris Avellone Plays Old RPGs For Our Amusement

The latest update for development studio Obsidian Entertainment’s Kickstartered RPG Project Eternity isn’t about Project Eternity at all. Instead, it’s a solid 57 minutes of veteran game designer Chris Avellone playing the old role-playing game Arcanum, which is both entertaining and fascinating, even if you haven’t played the game. Avellone simultaneously plays the roles of…

The Aliens: Colonial Marines Demo Looked Great. The Actual Game, Not So Much.

By almost all accounts, Aliens: Colonial Marines isn’t a good game. Patricia certainly didn’t care for it, saying that “it was literally a pain just to get through.” But hey, it happens. Sometimes, for various reasons, video games aren’t as good as the people who made them wanted them to be. What’s remarkable with Aliens:…

On the PlayStation Blog, Naughty Dog confirms that The Last of Us is being delayed until June 14th.

Pro-Games Talking Point Calls Japan the Home of Violent Games, but Is That Really Any Better?

On Sunday, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the Democrats’ leader in the House of Representatives, went on Fox News and deflected blame from violent video games as a serious, actual cause of mass shootings in the United States. “In Japan, for example, they have the most violent games and the lowest death-mortality-from guns.” Now here’s Martin Short,…

Build Custom Creatures on Your iPad, Bring Them to Life Through 3D Printing

The latest entry in Autodesk’s 123D line of 3D design tools, 123D Creature gives iPad owners the power to sculpt and paint their own three-dimensional creatures and then share them with the community, export them as a 3D mesh, or have them sent to a 3D printing service to be transformed into real stuff. 123D…

Spawn Creator Todd McFarlane Said that 38 Studios’ Unfinished MMO “Was Going to Raise the Bar”

Thing I didn’t expect to learn at Toy Fair: the guy who created Spawn loves crazy video game rabbits. Specifically, Todd McFarlane loves the titular characters from Ubisoft’s wacky Rabbids franchise and thinks that that they’re going to be a huge pop culture phenomenon. I talked to McFarlane earlier this week at Toy Fair and…

In This Mind-Bending Game, You Fix Other People’s Memories

Imagine a future where memory loss and mental illness could be cured. Sounds a little crazy, right? But that’s the premise behind upcoming adventure game, Ether One. You are what they call a “restorer,” someone who has the ability to enter people’s memories and fix them. A little like To The Moon in that way,…

ChefVille ‘Sauce Man’ Quests: Everything You Need to Know

Last week, ChefVille players were asked to cook pasta dishes in bulk to complete one of Bello’s Valentine’s Day quest sets. Now, Bello’s back again with another challenge: Cook dishes containing Tomato Sauce. This series of three new “Sauce Man” quests that will be available for the next three days. We’re here with a complete…

BioShock Infinite‘s Lead Creator on History, Video Game Violence and… What Happens to the Sewage in a Floating City?

In an office in Union Square last week, BioShock Infinite ‘s lead creator, Ken Levine, said I could ask him about anything. He was in a kind and generous mood, offering me a strawberry from a bowl of them—he at eats at least half a pound of them a day, he told me. Anything? OK……

Insane Kickstarter Promises A Video Game You Can Play With Your Mind

In the world of zany Kickstarter projects, this is one of the zaniest. Give these guys $40,000 and they’ll let you blow things up with your mind. The aptly-named Throw Trucks With Your Mind is a video game that promises to let you use your mind to move things around in-game. You use a regular…

This Robot Racer Will Make You Love To Race (And Hate) Your Friends

These days, it feels like the phrase “iPhone racing games are a dime a dozen” is an understatement—heck, more than a dozen of these games are free. So when I’m playing a new one, it had better grab me in the first thirty or forty seconds, else I’ll just go back to playing Time Surfer…

Here’s video of the Empire Strikes Back table for Zen’s Star Wars Pinball series. A look at Boba Fett comes next week.

Gabe Newell and JJ Abrams’ Wonderful, Unprecedented Talk Has An R2D2 Easter Egg

A week after it happened, you can now watch the DICE Summit’s kick-off talk between Star Trek/Star Wars‘ JJ Abrams and Steam/Half-Life 3‘s Gabe Newell. It was a fun talk that ended with Abrams and Newell talking about making games and movies together. That’s the news you probably saw last week. But watch everything that…