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Sometimes a Bad (Read: Tired) Game Just Needs a Little More Time

I had a very strange thing happen to me this week. I went back and re-played a game I hadn’t previously enjoyed. Only this time, a year removed from my first experience, I actually enjoyed it. The game in question was Assassin’s Creed Revelations. With Assassin’s Creed III out this week, and being a fan…

The Oliver Twins want to make a brand new Dizzy game. Here’s the Kickstarter

Your Official Holiday Gift Guide, For All Your Shopping Needs

Another year, another round of holiday gift shopping. But what should you buy all those special people in your life? What should you be looking for on this hectic Black Friday? We’re here to help. We’ve covered a ton of gift-buying options, from games on various platforms to specific price ranges to help make things…

The Avengers’ Agent Phil Coulson, Yours to Own And Hold And Do…Whatever

Hot Toys has all the super heroes of The Avengers covered with their amazing line of highly-detailed figures, but what about plain old regular heroes? Here’s one. Everyone’s favourite super dork, Agent Phil Coulson. Available in June 2013 for $175, he comes with all kinds of super accessories like a…folder. And his Captain America trading…

How The World’s Biggest LAN Party Is Built

Over the rest of this week and the weekend, over 10,000 gamers will be gathering in Jonkoping, Sweden for Dreamhack Winter, the world’s largest LAN party. There’ll be games, parties, e-sports, food, swag, you name it, if it’s got to do with PC gaming, it’ll probably be somewhere at Elmia Fair, where the attendees get…

THQ Tries To Clear Up Comments That The Wii U “Has A Horrible, Slow CPU”

Oles Shishkovtsov, from Metro developers 4A Games, delivered a short-but-interesting verdict on Nintendo’s new console recently when he said “[The] Wii U has a horrible, slow CPU.” 4A & THQ PR man Huw Beynon (THQ being the publisher of 4A’s Metro: Last Light) elaborated a little more at the time, but in the wake of…

Angry Birds is Now Hanging on a Wall as Art

It’s not often you get to see a game guide, of sorts, written by an artist. But then, it’s not often a game is as simple as Angry Birds Artist Evan Roth has finished Rovio’s mobile game in a pretty unique way: he managed to record every swipe of his finger throughout the game’s levels,…

Pump Train Puts You In Charge of Saving New York City’s Subways After Hurricane Sandy

One of the most chilling consequences of last month’s brutal superstorm was how Sandy flooded and shut down huge chunks of New York City’s mass transit system. Entire subway stations were submerged and the tunnels that trains travel through were flooded to an unprecedented degree. Much of the subway system was up and running in…

Holiday Gift Guide: What Do You Get The Vita Gamer?

Here we have yet another handheld gamer, and the Vita gamer needs holiday love, too. Perhaps more so than any other gamer, since the pickings are still somewhat (at least relatively) slim. What suggestions do you have for the Vita gamer? Watch out for our editors’ picks down below, but feel free to add yours,…

The Slickest, Sickest Dishonored Killing Spree I’ve Ever Seen

You know how you can play Dishonored either violently or stealthily? I tended to opt for stealth, even though I liked how fun the game was when things got action-packed. But I have never, ever seen someone take on the game with the kind of violent aplomb shown by kekkoSoNicSyNdIcAtE in the video above. Dude…

Tim Schafer Wants You to Know How Double Fine Makes Its Games

The Amnesia Fortnight sessions at Double Fine have been a sort of open secret at Tim Schafer’s Double Fine development studios. People can point to what’s come out of those brainstorming marathons, in the form of Iron Brigade, Costume Quest and Stacking. And the folks at Double Fine have made the latest Amnesia Fortnight public,…

This Digital Boyfriend Game Is Like Dating Cleverbot, Except Even More Hilarious/Creepy

Who knew that you could use an app to get a made-to-order boyfriend? Seriously. I’ve spent the last couple of days occasionally “chatting,” shopping and playing dress up with a virtual boyfriend while playing the game Boyfriend Maker. Yes, I’m aware that this is a game meant for pre-teen girls. I can tell by looking…

Here’s A Trailer For The Enhanced Edition of Baldur’s Gate

Happy Thanksgiving! Take a trailer for the upcoming remake of one of the greatest RPGs ever made. After some big delays, Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition should be out next Wednesday for PC (and somewhere around then for iPad as well). For more on the new enhancements coming in this edition of the iconic game, check…

Your Thanksgiving Video Game Adventures

Playing a good Vita or iPhone video game under the table instead of eating turkey? Trying to convince your family to play the Wii U with you? Or maybe you’re trying to escape your family so you can get some PC gaming in? Celebrate or commiserate right here. Up top: pics of the Pikachu and…

Israel Has Turned Propaganda Into a Game, And It’s Pretty Gross

To help spin the good spin in its current stoush with Hamas, the Israeli Defence Force has launched a program called IDF Ranks. Which is, essentially, a game about being a mouthpiece for the Israeli Defence Force. It’s aimed at young internet users, both inside Israel but especially internationally, who are told that by signing…

Peter Molyneux confirms that a big update for Curiosity is coming. Also, there might be a GODUS crossover. (via VG247)

Holiday Gift Guide: What Can You Get For Over $100?

Oooo who is that special someone you’re planning on buying such lavish gifts for? Whoever it is, they’re lucky! There are definitely a wide array of fancy gaming gift options. The new Wii U? A swanky headset? A gorgeous leather bean bag chair from Restoration Hardware that I really wanted to get my big brother…

See How Pretty Far Cry 3 Looks On PC

For nearly all of its pre-release marketing, Ubisoft has for some reason decided to focus on Far Cry 3’s cast and weird stuff like animals. Instead of, you know, the things people like most about those games: free-roaming action. This 16-minute clip, on the other hand, has almost nothing but, and is of the PC…

Talk Amongst Yourselves is where you should go to talk about games. And life. Happy Thanksgiving, Americans!

Capcom tweets that Dragon’s Dogma is coming to the PC. UPDATE: False alarm. Tweet pulled. Capcom: “sorry.”