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Don’t Forget the Wii U’s Camera

The Wii U’s second screen gets most of the press regarding Nintendo’s new console, but there’s another interesting oddity bolted into the new machine’s controller: a camera. The camera is front-facing and, in the launch games I’ve played, barely used. When it is used, it’s a reminder that there are lots of new possibilities available…

By Stephen Totilo Published November 16, 2012

Animal Legends Lets Me Control a Rogue Raccoon. That’s All I Ever Wanted.

Cute and colorful free-to-play social RPG Animal Legends from Appy Entertainment was released on iOS this week. It features a raccoon that stabs giant pink rabbits. There’s a rhino warrior and an owl wizard as well, but let’s focus on what’s important here—raccoon rogue. Raccoons are, hands down, my favorite animal. They are fluffy. They…

By Mike Fahey Published November 16, 2012

Man Accused of Hacking an MMO, Then Stealing the MMO, Then Building His Own Clone

Dutch national Anil Kheda, 24, has been indicted by US Federal authorities for hacking an online game, bringing it down, stealing its code then setting up a cloned rival. It’s alleged Kheda attacked the online PC game Outwar (a text-based browser MMO) a few years back, at first knocking it out of action for a…

By Luke Plunkett Published November 16, 2012

I Survived Mr. Torgue’s Arena In The New Borderlands 2 DLC That Drops November 20th

What do you do when you visit the Badass Crater of Badassitude? You try to become the number one badass. Duh. The Badass Crater and your number one title await you in a new DLC campaign for Borderlands 2. The world of Pandora is no stranger to zany characters, so it shouldn’t be surprising that…

By Patricia Hernandez Published November 16, 2012

“Help! My Wife Won’t Stop Playing Animal Crossing.”

The plea appeared on Yahoo! Japan’s Q&A section. It began: “My wife won’t return from Animal Crossing.” The latest AC game, Animal Crossing: New Leaf, was recently released in Japan. The Animal Crossing games are hugely popular in Japan. According to the husband, after his wife downloaded her copy of New Leaf in the middle…

By Brian Ashcraft Published November 16, 2012

Relive The Horrors of the Original Xbox Live Dashboard

Microsoft’s Larry Hryb has been digging through the archives in honour of Xbox Live’s 10th birthday, and has come up with a few dusty old relics. Above and below, you’ll find images of what the first, original Xbox Live dashboard used to look like. And you thought the current dash is bad. While it sort…

By Luke Plunkett Published November 16, 2012

Yes, it is Off-Putting When There’s an Achievement for “Staring at a Woman’s Tits”

Rock Paper Shotgun points us towards this great video by OXM, on the subject of women in video games. It starts a little slow, but bear with it. By the time you get to Mass Effect’s “dicks in a cupboard”, you’re well on your way. I wouldn’t often say a video I post here is…

By Luke Plunkett Published November 16, 2012

My Favourite Black Ops II Moment Was When a Hollywood Legend Gets His Dues

There are a number of Hollywood stars lending their talents to Black Ops II. Sam Worthington returns as Mason, for example. The only thing Worthington provides, though, is his voice. Others got to be in the game. You might recognise Admiral Briggs as Tony Todd, while Harper bears a resemblance to his voice actor, Michael…

By Luke Plunkett Published November 16, 2012

Wife Leaves Game-Addicted Husband Who Spends 25 Hours a Week Playing… Second Life

No, you didn’t just wake up from a bad dream of the future and find yourself safely back in 2006. It’s still 2012, and an Australian man who still plays Second Life has seen it cost him his marriage. The 51 year-old man, who “cannot be named for legal reasons”, saw his 33 year-old wife…

By Luke Plunkett Published November 16, 2012

Star Wars Action Figures Inducted Into the Hall of Fame. Let’s Celebrate With Awesome Pictures.

Because there is a hall of fame for everything you can put in a hall, there is of course a National Toy Hall of Fame in the United States. Which this week has inducted perhaps the most popular figures of all time into its ranks. From a rocky beginning in 1977, when not enough figures…

By Luke Plunkett Published November 16, 2012

This Grand Theft Auto Movie Doesn’t Just Work, It’s Incredible

This is RISE, a Grand Theft Auto-inspired short film by director Gevorg Karensky. Whatever quality and budgetary limitations you might think this has because it’s “fan made”, you go right ahead and throw them out the window. If this is what Grand Theft Auto VII looks like on my ValveBox TVPC, then the future might…

By Luke Plunkett Published November 16, 2012

Skyrim, Smooshed Into Teeny Tiny Little Planets

Drawing on some awesome photography work, Dutch artist midhras has taken three of the biggest video game worlds around—Skyrim, Fallout 3 and RAGE—and condensed them into tiny little planetoids. It’s like Super Skyrim Galaxy. You can see some here, but the whole collection is at the link below. Planetesimals [midhras, via Save Room Mini Bar]

By Luke Plunkett Published November 16, 2012

Your First Dragon Age 3 Screenshot is Tiny, Blurry

BioWare revealed the first screenshot for the upcoming Dragon Age III yesterday at… the Bradford Animation Festival in England. It was only shown for a few seconds, but according to this report on Eurogamer that was long enough for an attendee to grab a shot. As you can see, Dragon Age III will feature both…

By Luke Plunkett Published November 16, 2012

Black Ops II’s Ending Sure Was Terrible (For Me)

Stephen made a great point earlier in the week when he compared Black Ops II to, of all things, Mass Effect. The way the game is punctuated with moments that can re-shape an entire experience with a single decision is an unexpected and welcome move for a series that’s so often criticised for being little…

By Luke Plunkett Published November 15, 2012

Over 100 Million Friendships have Been Made Over Xbox Live (And Over 200 Billion Achievement Points)

Amidst all the back-slapping and high-fiving going on at Xbox Live today, Microsoft released a statistic related to the service that I found pretty interesting. Seems that since Xbox Live’s inception in 2002, over 100 million friendships have been made. 122,265,266 at time of printing, to be exact. No word on how many friendships were…

By Luke Plunkett Published November 15, 2012

Oh No Big Deal, It’s Just A Thought-Controlled Robot

I mean we all knew this was coming, but it’s still cool to see. Here’s a video of the progress of researchers working on a thought-controlled robot in a joint venture by the CNRS-AIST Joint Robotics Laboratory and the CNRS-LIRMM Interactive Digital Human group. We know this starts innocently enough, but it’s only a matter…

By Kirk Hamilton Published November 15, 2012

Spike VGAs Announce Nominees for Best Video Games of November

Assassin’s Creed III, Dishonored, Journey, Mass Effect 3 and The Walking Dead are the nominees, announced today, for Game of the Year at the 2012 Spike Video Game Awards. The rest of the list contains, as you might expect, a number of nominees that were just released only days ago, if at all. Halo 4…

By Owen Good Published November 15, 2012

Next Year, Gabe Newell Becomes a Video Game Hall of Famer

John Carmack’s in there. Will Wright’s in there, too. So are Tim Sweeney, Peter Molyneux and Shigeru Miyamoto. And now Gabe Newell will be joining all of those video game luminaries in the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame According to the AIAS, the Hall of Fame Award goes to “game creators…

By Evan Narcisse Published November 15, 2012

Black Ops II‘s Zombie Mode: a Bit of Left 4 Dead, a Bit of Adventure Games, and a Whole Lot of Fail

When I had enough of Call of Duty: Black Ops II’s campaign, I decided to spend some time with its more fantastical mode, Zombies. These are my thoughts. There are three game types: the story-based “Tranzit,” the classic “Survival,” and, less excitingly, the maliciously spirited “Grief.” All overtly have the same premise: using teamwork, survive/kill…

By Patricia Hernandez Published November 15, 2012

The Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation Soundtrack Is A Stealthy Success

Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation , the new portable entry in Ubisoft’s popular historical adventure series, offers up a few genuine surprises. It’s impressive how well Ubisoft managed to cram a fully-packed Assassin’s world onto the handheld PSVita, and players might be surprised at the myriad ways that historical tropes from the African-American experience show up…

By Evan Narcisse Published November 15, 2012