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9 out of 10 Game Creators Who Praised The Wii U Made a Wii U Launch Game

E3 is a time for a lot of huffery and puffery about video games, much of which turns out to be true—just not all of it The bluster is biggest when a new console is being launched. Promises are made or at least implied. Then the system comes out. So. The Wii U. It just…

Seems Like the Best Version of The Binding of Isaac Will Be Coming to Consoles

Edmund McMillen’s The Binding of Isaac gave players a horrific, addictive roguelike experience when it came out last year. After a planned 3DS release was scuttled, the only place to play the super-tough dungeon crawler has been on PC platforms. But Isaac is being reborn for consoles, with a new edition that packs even more…

Here’s a Monstrous New Way to Celebrate 40 Years of Pong

Celebrating 40 years of Atari’s take on video game tennis, Pong World transforms those primitive paddles into furry animated monsters, because why the hell not? Pong World is the end result of the Pong Indie Developer Challenge, a contest that gave small devs a chance to deliver their take on the game that launched a…

The SNES is Back, And in Four New Pastel (?) Colour Schemes

Lekki, a French company specialising in the restoration and resale of old electronic devices, has recently turned their eyes towards the PAL version of the Super Nintendo console. Fixing old units, cleaning them up and giving them a new coat of paint, they’re not cheap—around €150—but considering the work that’s gone into it, and the…

Here’s Dirty Bomb, A New Multiplayer Shooter From The Folks Behind Brink

Via VG247, here’s a first look at Dirty Bomb, an upcoming PC first-person shooter from Splash Damage, the developers of last year’s Brink, with what looks to be a nuclear twist. Dirty Bomb Splash Damage Trailers [VG247]

Angry Birds Star Wars iOS adds 20 new Hoth levels and the Leia bird today. Android, Mac and PC update coming soon.

This Isn’t Plastic Surgery, It’s Nightmare Fuel

Kids these days! With their computers and fancy software, they get up to all kinds of fun, doing things like freaking out the internet, for example. Oh to be young! Earlier this year, it was a bit of a thing in China for teens to post altered photos of themselves with pointy chins and enormous…

Jailed ArmA 3 developers sent a letter from prison (via Eurogamer).

Don’t Build This Model Gun if You Plan on Committing Crimes

In sci-fi anime Psycho-Pass, authorities take out individuals with a high probability to commit crimes. Their weapons of choice to suppress precrime are called the “Dominator” (above) and can only be used on those likely to do illegal deeds. As Otaku News pointed out, Japanese gun model maker Poseidon produced this full-scale Dominator model. A…

DRM Goes Haywire, Drops Skull & Crossbones on Game Sprites

Game Maker is a useful tool for indie developers, allowing them to craft simple games made from 2D sprites. Over the weekend, it got a whole lot less useful, as the program’s digital rights management system went haywire, branding many people’s artwork with a giant skull and crossbones. That’s normally the punishment for when the…

Well, Planetside 2 Looks Like One Enormous Murder Simulator

The whole point of Planetside 2 is that it’s a big shooter. Even by Battlefield or ArmA II standards, it’s enormous. Big maps, even bigger battles. To give you an idea of just how big, take a look at this amazing video. This is apparently 100% “organic”, in that none of the actions were staged…

There’s a Documentary About Crytek, And It’s Surprisingly Good

Being the result of a corporate partnership between Intel, VICE magazine, Kill Screen and whatever studio is being covered, the new Behind The Scenes web series should be the very worst in developer diaries. But it’s not. It’s really well done. I mean, yeah, in parts they’re selling you on Crysis 3, but for the…

Ubisoft Considering Co-op For Assassins Creed III Sequels

A report on website TGL claims to have screengrabs of a survey currently being conducted by Ubisoft, sounding out people’s thoughts on the future of the Assassin’s Creed franchise. The two pertinent questions they’ve posted give an insight into things Ubisoft is obviously thinking about. The first is asking whether people would be into the…

Nintendo’s President is “Very Sorry” About All Those Wii U Updates

When users first got a Wii U home after its launch, it was tough to just plug it in and play. There were firmware updates. Many services then required their own updates. You couldn’t play Wii games without downloading updates. Updates updates updates While it was an understandable inconvenience – come on, it’s a new…

Real-Life Mario Kart Race Ends in Broken Bones

For his school’s annual billy cart derby, 12 year-old Australian William Wong did the awesome thing and dressed as Mario, even building his cart to be a replica, of sorts, of the plumber’s more recent vehicles in the Mario Kart series. What’s more, via The Australian, he won the race! But then he started celebrating.…

This Week’s Android Charts: Incredibly Late Morning Edition

What’s that? It’s a little late for this morning’s weekly Android game charts? Poppycock! It’s never too late for the morning. Well, I suppose the next morning would be too late. Looks like I made it just in time for Ralph to wreck it once more. Now that Ralph and the magical Vanellope have finished…

Persona 4 Golden Takes On Twilight

What’s that? A book in Persona 4 Golden called Witch Detective? And it’s about vampires? Ouch. (via TinyCartridge)

If Only Sauron Had Xenomorphs On His Side

In honor of my (and our) recent rewatch of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, I thought I’d share this oldie but goodie forum thread that wonders: How would Xenomorphs from Aliens do in Lord of the Rings? This is my favorite kind of speculation, largely because everyone in the thread is so considered and…

Zelda Gets The Skrillex Treatment, And It’s Surprisingly Great

Yeah, I know. Skrillex game channels The Legend of Zelda. Seems like it might be bad, or at least, haphazard. But as it turns out, Skrillex Quest, a new browser game, is really pretty cool. It comes as something less of a surprise considering that it comes from Jason Oda, the same guy who brought…

Combining war, politics and the economy in a massive Cold War strategy game? Must be a Paradox joint.