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What a Hylian Shield Looks Like in the Real World

Taking the fragile wooden medium of many of the series’ crappy first shields and mixing it with the design of later, badass Hylian shields, Brazilian craftsman Paulo Vinícius D. Horstma has made this beautiful piece of replica Zelda gear. I don’t use the term “craftsman” lightly; Horstma has done some incredible work here, with many…

Dishonored’s Star Can Do Everything (Except Pour a Beer)

Corvo, the star of Dishonored, is a deft man with a blade. He can leap, and sneak, like a cat. Dude even has magic powers. You’d think, then, he could do anything and everything, but no. This clip, showing him trying to pour a pint, is heart-breaking. Won’t someone just pour it for him? Corvo…

Nintendo Knows Your Family Doesn’t Know The Difference Between Nintendo Handhelds

So Nintendo is here to help. Perhaps wanting to get out in front of holiday season returns, when Little Johnny furiously explains he wanted a 3DS and not a DS (or your grandmother buys you a game that won’t work in your system), Nintendo has—hastily, judging by the sound quality—put together this instructional video outlining…

How To Instantly Own The World’s Coolest Star Wars Action Figure Collection

Collecting nearly 2000 Star Wars action figures the hard way would have taken thousands of dollars and decades of work. The easy way is to let someone else do it, then buy their collection straight off them. If that’s more your style, the Star Wars museum at Rancho Obi-Wan are auctioning off a lot of…

The Xbox 360 Won’t Be Banned By a Silly Court Case

While it seemed unlikely, there was always the chance, however remote, that a battle of patents between Microsoft and Motorola could have seen the Xbox 360 taken off store shelves. A US judge, however, has ruled that this won’t be happening. The two companies have been fighting for years, with Motorola saying the Xbox 360…

Knock Knock. Who’s There? Animatronic T-Rex Costume.

It’s fun enough to walk down the street, but you know what’s probably more fun? Walking down the street in a huge animatronic T-Rex costume, as demonstrated in this video from Roman Atwood Aw, look at the doggies run. This looks to be the same costume we caught at New York Comic-Con, made by KHA…

Pro League of Legends Player Banned For Harassment, Abuse & “Negative Attitude”

Proving that professional gamers can be no different to the casual players of the same game, League of Legends pro Christian Rivera has been banned from the game for “persistent toxic behavior”. While the game’s Tribunal recognises that “the decision to impact someone’s career is not one we make lightly”, they’ve been left with little…

Interested In The Tech Behind The Wii U’s GamePad? This Breaks Down How It Works.

Perhaps it’s not surprising, but what this video from The Clan of the Grey Wolf reveals is that much of the tech behind the Wii U’s GamePad is stuff you may already be familiar with—only used in a clever, innovative way. As the video points out at the start, this seems to be a thing…

The Gameological Society’s Drew Toal examines the potential upsides and downsides of the recently funded LA Game Space.

Yep. McLovin Is In Far Cry 3. Here’s How To Find Him.

It’s cool that Christopher “McLovin” Mintz-Plasse is in Far Cry 3, though perhaps funnier that the poor kid is doomed to be called “McLovin” for the rest of his life. I mean I still call Sean William Scott “Stifler” even all these years later. (Side note: Did you know that Stifler’s insult for Finch in…

Wii U Gets Sneaky Firmware Update For “System Stability” And “Other Minor Adjustments”

Wii U users, there’s a new firmware update available for your system. Clocking in at around 600MB, it doesn’t appear to do anything drastic (like speed up loading and menu times). Here’s what Nintendo says it does do: Further improvements to overall system stability and other minor adjustments have been made to enhance the user…

This Might Sound Weird, But MMO Shopping Is A Real Thing. And It Looks, Err, Fun.

I’ve never been one of those people that considers shopping “fun.” I shop because it’s necessary, because I need something. If gamification has taught us anything though, it’s that all it might take for something to become fun and interesting is to make it a game. In this case, a start-up called Little Black Bag…

The Perilous Process Of Reinventing Lara Croft

Lately, it seems everyone’s been talking about Lara Croft. The iconic star of the Tomb Raider franchise is getting a makeover in next year’s Tomb Raider reboot—or rather, a makeunder. The new game is a combination reboot and origin story, focusing on a young Lara’s fight for survival on a terrifying island lousy with hostile…

Looks Like Dragon Age III Will Definitely Be Influenced By Skyrim

Last year, we reported that Bioware had specific opinions about Skyrim. They went on the record and stated that they admired the scope of Skyrim, and also acknowledged that both Skyrim and Dragon Age are lore-heavy games where your actions mattered. While cagey on where they’d take Dragon Age next and whether or not it’d…

If Everyone In Metallica Got Killed Fighting Aliens In XCOM

Everyone thinks that Metallica fell from grace, sold out, became corporate shills. But what if they’d gone out a different way? What if they suited up for battle, XCOM style, and went down in a blaze of glory while fighting off chryssalids? Gus Mastrapa, metal-head games writer extraordinare, has imagined this exact scenario, renaming his…

Leigh Alexander went to Toys ‘R Us in NYC and came away with some interesting conclusions about video game retail.

This Year’s Biggest Shooters Remind Me Why Multiplayer Unlocks Suck

The other day, a colleague mentioned that she felt like there was something off about Halo 4’s multiplayer. She was getting destroyed by other players, eventually feeling like she didn’t have much of a chance when up against people with advanced abilities or gear gained from Spartan point unlocks. This seemed like a marked difference…

Full Bloom is One Puzzling Gardening Simulator

I wasn’t actively seeking a social game that combines cultivating a garden with puzzle adventure progression, but I’m not unhappy I stumbled upon it in Playdom’s Full Bloom Last night, after an incredibly long work day, I went poking about the Facebook App Center (you knew they had one of those, right?), where Full Bloom…

Behold The Terror of Far Cry 3‘s Goat Island

The uprising has begun, and you’re trapped on an island with the rebel goats. YouTuber Robbaz used Far Cry 3‘s editor to create a fictional universe where goats are your primary enemy. It’s a silly video, but it’s fun to watch the goats fly into the air because of explosions. I would play the hell…

This Is What It Looks Like To Ride A Dragon In Skyrim

Shot this afternoon, here’s what it looks like to ride a dragon in the world of Skyrim. You get this ability toward the end of Dragonborn, the new DLC that came out today for Bethesda’s open-world RPG. It’s kind of… disappointing. It doesn’t seem like you can actually control the dragon very much, so don’t…