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Why We Like To Shoot

A few days after the release of Call of Duty: Black Ops II, the first-person shooter game’s publisher, Activision, released their annual braggadocious press release about the success of their most successful video game series. “Life-to-date sales for the Call of Duty franchise have exceeded worldwide theatrical box office receipts for ‘Harry Potter’ and ‘Star…

This Week’s Android Charts: All Hail the Mighty Fruit Ninja

As Angry Birds Star Wars fever beings to calm and we move into the Thanksgiving weekend here in the U.S., our thoughts turn to food, more specifically how badly we want to slice it with a katana. Fruit Ninja isn’t at the top of the Android charts this week, but it’s on both of them,…

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

Does your gaming friend or relative have a PlayStation 3? Maybe you want to buy them one. But even if they already do own Sony’s home console, your friend, relative or puppy (don’t judge) might need some new games. So what will it be? Drop your suggestions down below, while our editors do the same.…

The Best Things We’ve Found In the Wii U’s Miiverse

If you’d asked me a week ago what I thought the best feature of the Wii U was, I wouldn’t have thought ‘Miiverse’. But now that we’ve all had a chance to see it in action, my opinion is quickly changing. Sure there are terrible stick figures, but there are also some great and sometimes…

It’s Gameloft’s $.99 Thanksgiving Saletacular

Starting today and running through the Thanksgiving weekend, Gameloft is discounting a bunch of its $6.99 titles on Android, iOS and Kindle Fire to $.99, giving us something to do while camping out for Black Friday sales. As of this writing the Kindle Fire titles are already discounted. Still waiting for the Google Play and…

World of Warcraft’s 8th Birthday Video Spectacluar

World of Warcraft is 8 this year, so Blizzard put this video together highlighting… well, lots of gameplay. You could joke that the reason there’s no “then and now” shots is because the game has barely changed in that time, but seeing as it still attracts millions of players a month that’s probably more of…

These Japanese Commercials Will Delight and Amuse You

The Wii U is out in North America, but Japan will have to wait until December to get the new Nintendo console. To build hype, Nintendo is now running commercials for the hardware. But that’s not the only game in town. There are entire channels filled to the brim with wonderful Japanese commercials. Some of…

The new Call of Duty: Black Ops II update fixes the Theater Mode error and the Scorestreak snafus.

The Tough Women (and Bearded Lady) of Sailor Moon

A generation of Japanese girls (and, yes, boys) grew up watching the original Sailor Moon anime and reading the manga. No wonder Sailor Moon has become so iconic. No wonder people love dressing up as the characters. What made Sailor Moon so revolutionary when it debuted in the early 1990s is that it reworked both…

Heads up! Hulu Plus is now live on the Wii U. More here

Sure, Battlefield 3, Let’s Flip a Tank Onto The Roof of a Building

Battlefield 3 has some pretty realistic physics, but let’s not get carried away here. It’s a video game. Meaning those physics exist solely so people can do cool shit like flip a tank onto the roof of a building. I don’t want to know how much planning and trial-and-error went into this, but I don’t…

All I Want For Christmas is a Headcrab Zombie Action Figure From Half-Life 2

Supremely talented custom toy builder Jin Saotome is back with another masterpiece, this time featuring the Half-Life series’ most sharply-dressed bad guy, the headcrab zombie. Standing 7″ tall, the headcrab comes off to reveal a zombified skull inside. He’s also got a busted-open chest and some great blood detail. The good news? He’s for sale!…

Halo 4 Was Shaped, At Least In Part, By One Of The World’s Great Concept Artists

You’re in for a treat today. Today, we’re looking at a collection of Halo 4 art by Nicolas “Sparth” Bouvier, aka one of the most talented concept artists in the world, regardless of the industry. Sparth’s ability to convey not just the look of a sci-fi setting but its mood is legendary, so it was…

Tolkien’s Estate Very Unhappy About Some Lord of the Rings Video Games

A lawsuit that began with spam emails and an investigation into slot machines has turned its great all-seeing eye to the world of video games, with Tolkien’s estate claiming that some of Warner Bros’ recent titles violate the company’s licensing agreement. Arguing that the licenses for merchandise granted to companies like Warner, New Line and…

When Should The Next Mass Effect Game Be Set: Before Shepard, Or After Shepard?

That’s the gist of a question put forth to Mass Effect fans today by BioWare’s Casey Hudson, who wants to know whether series fans want the next game in the franchise to take “place before the trilogy, or after?” How closely they’re going to be listening is anyone’s guess, since for all we know those…

When Your Job Involves “Painting Exposed Buttocks To Look Covered By Latex”

The video game industry isn’t all fast cars and trips to Japan. For every studio head basking in the glow of media attention there are 100 developers lower down the food chain whose job can be a little more mundane. Like the guy/guys/gals who had to paint some butts for a trailer. Speaking with GI.biz,…

The Great Mass Effect & Dragon Age Crossover Project

Artist Andrew Ryan has been working on this crossover for a while now, but today he let us know that he’s done. Finished. The worlds of Dragon Age and Mass Effect are now one. In the epic image below, you’ll see just about every major character from the Mass Effect series dressed up as a…

Man Threatens Cops With Wii Remote, Gets Jail Time

An unnamed Dutch man has been sentenced to six months’ prison for threatening police officers with a heavily-modified Wii controller back in May. Dutch news outlet De Volksrant says the man, 29, had transformed the remote into a “sniper rifle”; whether it was a custom job or he was simply using an off-the-shelf accessory is…

The Most Romantic Organ-Donation Story I’ve Seen All Day

Who knew that heart transplant surgery could be so romantic? I did not. And yet this video for “I Have Your Heart,” by artist Molly Crabapple, musician Kim Boekbinder and animator Jim Batt, is one of the most delightfully romantic things I’ve seen in a while. The whole project was funded by a Kickstarter campaign,…

The Wii U “Has A Horrible, Slow CPU” According to These Developers

4A Games’ Metro: Last Light is coming to the 360, PS3 and PC. It won’t, however, be coming to the Wii U, because its developers say they are far from impressed with the new console. Speaking with NowGamer, 4A’s Oles Shishkovtsov explains the reason pretty bluntly, saying “[The] Wii U has a horrible, slow CPU.”…