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Tell Us Your Favorite Zelda Music

Few video game series have music as iconic as The Legend of Zelda. Over sixteen years and more than a dozen games, Koji Kondo’s memorable themes have been transposed, re-arranged, and re-imagined countless times. Each game in the series has its own musical identity, and each player has his or her own favorite song. What’s…

Ever wonder what it’d be like to be a trombone slide? This video gives some idea.

One Chiptune Greatest Hits Album To Unite Them All

If you’re just casually interested in chip music, it can be tough to track the work of groups like 8 Bit Weapon. First a solo project by Seth Sternberger that added Michelle Sternberger (a.k.a. “ComputeHer“) to the mix, 8-Bit Weapon and ComputeHer have been making chip music for more than ten years. Now, the duo…

How HEALTH Made That Amazing Max Payne 3 Soundtrack

The band HEALTH’s killer Max Payne 3 soundtrack was easily one of the best of last year, and a chunk of the reason Max Payne 3 was among my personal top games of 2012. This video from The Creators Project shows the band talking about the process of scoring the game, focusing on the stadium…

Congratulations, Australia, you finally have your very first Adults-Only video game

From Carl Sagan to Cheech & Chong: The Netflix Board is The Most Diverse Part of the Miiverse

The Miiverse is full of amazing and creative output, but If I had to choose one board that consistently impresses me, it’s the Netflix community. Not only is it full of truly talented people, it’s surprisingly varied in subject matter. Everything on Netflix is fair game, from Large Marge to Jay Sherman. Today’s Miiverse Moment…

I Want To Move Like They Do In Video Games

I have these dreams. Dreams where my body gets out of the way, dreams where I’m not restricted by the natural limitations of bone, sinew and gravity. The dreams are not always the same. Sometimes I glide. Sometimes I float. Sometimes, I fly. And then reality clips my wings, and I’m thrust back down onto…

Proof That The Best Thing In Max Payne 3 Is Messing With The Hilarious, Glitchy Bullet Time

I can’t tell you how many hours I’ve lost in Max Payne 3 doing exactly what YouTube user birgirpall is doing here. Poor Max. There he was, brooding and going on about not saving the girl and what is my butt doing? Trying to do ‘trick shots’ with his body. Can I clear this gap?…

Survey: 75% Of Parents Think Violent Video Games Contribute To Actual Violence

Sure, there have been no scientific studies that connect violent video games to violence, but why let nonsense like science reflect the way you think? In a new survey released by Common Sense Media, a whopping 75% of polled parents say they think violent video games contribute to violence. Just ’cause. 1,050 people were surveyed,…

Tomb Raider‘s Collector’s Edition Controller Comes Pre-Distressed

As we’ve seen in trailers going back to E3, Lara Croft gets the crap beat out of her trying to escape from the bandits’ camp in the Tomb Raider reboot, though to be fair, she gives as good as she gets. That must have been on the mind of whoever came up with this design…

This Friday, Joe Biden Will Talk School Shootings With The Video Game Industry

The head of the Entertainment Software Association, Michael Gallagher, will be meeting with vice president Joe Biden on Friday as part of the U.S. Vice President’s efforts to find sensible actions that could avert future tragedies like the Sandy Hook Shooting. The ESA confirmed the meeting but did not offer any further detail about their…

This Alarm Clock Turns Waking Up Into A Multiplayer Video Game

This is it, video games. You’ve hit your peak. Things aren’t getting much better than Wake-up Club, a free game that comes out Tuesday for Sony’s PlayStation Vita handheld. Wake-up Club, you see, is a social alarm clock. Let me repeat that. Wake-up Club is a social alarm clock. “What does that mean?” you might…

I Bet You Didn’t Think You’d See An 18-Minute Sonic the Hedgehog Fan Film Today

This is… well, it’s certainly something. It’s an eighteen-and-a-half minute Sonic fan film, created by the folks at Blue Core Studios It’s… amazing. (via NeoGAF)

How To Play Hitman Like An Idiot Versus Like A Professional, Explained In Glorious Live Action

Playing Hitman: Absolution professionally requires a lot of stealth and planning. You scope out the scene, and land your kills in such a fashion that no one will notice. Playing Hitman: Absolution like—in timtimfed’s video’s words—an “idiot,” however, doesn’t require much planning at all. It just requires a trigger happy finger and maybe a chicken…

Demoman’s Fro is among nine hats Team Fortress 2 is “retiring.” Mann Co. blames raccoons and spoiled mayonnaise.

At Least One Person Has Paid For College By Selling Team Fortress 2 Items

College can be expensive—ridiculously so. Most people can’t afford college, and those who can sometimes end up paying the price of entry for years to come. You know what can make mad cash, enough to pay for college and then some? Selling popular Team Fortress 2 items. A writeup on PC Gamer profiles a number…

Stardock’s CEO dove into a nearly-frozen lake to rescue his dog today. “Definitely the coldest I’ve ever been.” Brave!

Here’s Your First Look at Cyberpunk 2077, The Next Game from the Makers of The Witcher

Details have been scarce on Cyberpunk 2077 since the adaptation of the cult pen-and-paper RPG was announced last May. Now, CD Projekt—best known for their hit fantasy action Witcher franchise—is revealing a first look at the futuristic dystopia of their next game. The clip appears to be showing the two factions from the upcoming game,…

If Far Cry 3 Does Get Dinosaur DLC, I Hope It’s This Ridiculous

Looks like we’re not the only ones hoping that Far Cry 3 gets some dinosaurs sometime soon (Though it’s not like we ever really thought we were alone. I mean, come on: EVERYONE WANTS THIS, UBISOFT.) This video from ExplosiveAlan imagines what Ubisoft’s first downloadable content pack might look like if it was called The…

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