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A Big Name Barely Makes the Cover of His Own Video Game

Tiger Woods isn’t on the cover of the “Historic Edition” of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14, the fifth such box—special or main edition—in which the game’s titular star has not appeared alone, or at all, in the past four years. Bobby Jones, who designed Augusta National Golf Course, and Bubba Watson, who won the Masters…

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PS3 Owners Might Still Be Getting Skyrim’s Dawnguard and Hearthfire DLC

PlayStation gamers, Bethesda swears it’s not ignoring you. Owners of Sony’s game console have been angered at how their platform hasn’t gotten any of the add-ons for Bethesda’s hit action RPG yet. The outcry has been that the publisher doesn’t care about the PS3 portion of the Skyrim player base. An announcement that the just-released…

Ash Ketchum Hasn’t Owned Very Many Pokémon, Has He?

Maybe I’m being unfair, but compared to the whole Pokedex—which has over 600 Pokémon, at this point—the number of Pokémon Ash has owned over the years seems laughable. Here’s an image that breaks down what Pokémon Ash has caught and when in the show, along with who his (human) companions were at the time. Click…

This Is One Way To Go About Making A Game Where You Slap Butts

Slight warning, this post contains talk of butt-slapping (just in case that wasn’t clear.) Earlier this year, we told you about a Kickstarter project for Makey Makey, an invention kit that allows you to turn nearly anything you want into an input device. The kit has been out in the wild for a while now,…

The Friend Game Asks: How Well Do You Really Know Your Facebook Friends?

Do you think I’m a bigger tipper than you are? Do you think I remember the name of my kindergarten teacher? Imagine that we’re friends and that a video game is asking you these questions. Imagine that it asks you to answer questions about yourself, too. For example, if you were the first person on…

Somebody Take Magical Ride Away From Me, Please.

Wandering through the Facebook App Center can be a dangerous thing. I’ve been playing Pretty Simple’s endless broom rider, Magical Ride, for an hour now. The only reason I am not playing it right now, is because I have two minutes before I get another life. One minute. Actually, be right back. Magical Ride would…

Some of This Year’s Best Indie Games Will Come to Steam Next Year. We Just Don’t Know Which Ones Yet.

For the last few years, titles nominated for the Independent Games Festival’s various awards have been amongst the best digitally playable experiences in the preceding 12 months. But, as good as some of these games are, they haven’t all been as lucky as, say, Fez, which was able to make it to a wide release.…

The Importance of Being A Bro

Few games understand the true meaning of being a bro. Being a bro is more than being a burly man in a group of burly men who shoot at anything that moves. The concept of “bro” reaches beyond polo-wearing frat boys double fisting red plastic cups. Bro is a mindset. It’s not even constrained to…

Like All Things, 2K Play’s Latest Game Gets Better When the Sheep Show Up

Despite the fact that 2K Play sent me a plush cow stuffed with a whoopie cushion to promote it, I wasn’t finding Herd Herd Herd nearly as charming as I thought I would. Then the sheep showed up. First demoed at E3 2012, Herd Herd Herd transforms your finger into a sheep dog. Nowhere in…

League of Legends‘ Massive Pre-Season-3 Patch Released

Riot has released a whopping pre-season-3 patch for League of Legends, which will doubtless make a ton of diehard players very happy. Since everyone loves massive patches that change tons of things about their favorite video games. In the video above, Riot’s Joshua “Jatt” Leesman and Ryan “Morello” Scott walk viewers through the many changes…

Far Cry 3 PC Performance Test: Graphics & CPU

Designed exclusively for PC, the original Far Cry sold 730,000 copies in the first four months following its March 2004 release and was hailed as one of the best shooters, combining an adventurous plot that followed ex-Army operative Jack Carver’s heroic exploits on a mysterious Micronesian archipelago with engaging sandbox combat and some of the…

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is Go on Mobile, and It’s Glorious

I shouldn’t have to tell any self—respecting gamer to go drop $4.99 on the tenth anniversary edition of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City on iOS or Android (once it’s live). For those that lack self-respect, go drop $4.99 on the tenth anniversary edition of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. It’s better than ever. Along with…

Join Dikembe Mutombo, a Sweater-Wearing Bear, and a Random Turkey in Their Quest to Prevent the Apocalypse

According to the Mayan Calendar, we are all hurtling toward inescapable destruction. On December 21, the world will cease to be. What better way to help prevent the apocalypse than to join former NBA player and current Old Spice Champion Dikembe Mutombo in his quest to add more time to the calendar? Three whole levels…

Feminist Game Critic On Her Online Attackers: They Cast Me ‘in the Role of the Villain’

The woman behind Feminist Frequency hasn’t been shy about sharing stories of the harassment she’s gotten while trying to create Tropes vs. Women in Video Games. Anita Sarkeesian’s goal of examining how women get portrayed in video games won her lots of enemies but, according to her, they thought of themselves as heroes. In this…

Can You Guess Which Of These Bioshock Infinite Influences Are Legit?

I love reading about what sorts of things influence people. I don’t know if I’d ever truly understand or approach genius myself, but the next best thing is to look at the things that inspire it. Then I can only wonder how people can take such random, disparate things and make them into art. It’s…

Zynga’s CoasterVille: A Complete Guide to the First 10 Quests

Zynga‘s CoasterVille has finally launched on Facebook, an outlet for players to build the theme park of their dreams, complete with customizable roller coasters, plenty of attractions, stalls and much more. To help you get started, we’re here with a complete look at the game’s first 10 quests, along with some tips. To start, you’ll…

Watch Four Of This Year’s Biggest Video Game Characters Beat Each Other Down

The action and fighting in this live action video is pretty fun. It’s just too bad they made Cortana so robotic and Lee so out of character. I have to commend Max for that nice trigger finger. He keeps it steady until the very last second. In the video above is also Connor from Assassin’s…

What It’s Like to Play a Game About Someone Else’s Dreams

Dreams are such personal things. No matter how vividly you describe them, it’s hard to put someone in your shoes, to convey the utter weirdness of dreams. Telling never works: It’s about the experience. Which is why LSD: Dream Emulator gets it so right. In the video above, I discuss the Playstation cult classic LSD:Dream…

Come for the Unintentional Call of Duty Parody, Stay for the Stellar Multiplayer

In early 2011, Epic Games released Duty Calls, a Call of Duty parody game that made fun of the military shooter in order to promote the release of Bulletstorm. The story mode for Modern Combat 4: Zero Hour is ten times as funny, only I’m pretty sure it wasn’t meant to be. Modern Combat 4…