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Collectors Can Explode, Sandstorms Are Creepy, and Other Things I Learned The Hard Way In Mass Effect 3: Retaliation

When BioWare added all sorts of new challenges, modes, and enemies to Mass Effect 3‘s multiplayer mode yesterday, they also added a new stat-tracking page that tells you, among other things, how many hours of your life you have spent shooting down enemy waves. It is a number that I kind of wish I hadn’t…

BioShock Infinite‘s Facebook page is teasing a new trailer that should go live October 21

NBA 2K13 Misspells Oklahoma City’s New Uniform [Update]

Multiple images leaking out last night show NBA 2K13 featuring Oklahoma City’s new alternate jerseys—with the team nickname misspelled as THUDNER. What’s crazy is that everyone seemed to miss the misspelling the first time it was posted. That image above comes from Operation Sports’ Steve Noah on his Twitter account. Daily Thunder, a fan site…

Talk Amongst Yourselves is where you should go to talk about games. And life. And how depressing The Walking Dead is

You Loved Wing Commander. Now Meet Wing Commander‘s 21st-Century Successor

Somebody needs to get the President, Mitt Romney and the Joint Chiefs of Staff in a room and show them the next game from the creator of Wing Commander. Because the awesomeness on display in Star Citizen is a brilliant argument for why mankind needs to be in space. Star Citizen isn’t anywhere near done…

This is a Game About Collecting Garfield Trading Cards — Just Collecting Them

There is no crazy trading card battle system woven into Garfield Collections. It’s just a game about buying, selling and collecting virtual trading cards. I am not sure how that makes me feel. Developer DeckDAQ wants to bring collecting and trading into the digital age, so instead of collecting and trading real items, Garfield Collections…

Borderlands 2 Update Hints That The Game’s First DLC Pack is All About Pirates

Achievements and trophies added in yesterday’s patch for the PC and PS3 versions of Borderlands 2 hint at a new piece of downloadable content called “Captain Scarlett and Her Pirate’s Booty.” Gamers on NeoGAF and other big message boards are reporting the details. Here are the three trophies, as posted on both GAF and PS3Trophies,…

The Walking Dead’s Episode Four Finally Broke My Resolve

Spoilers for previous episodes follow, as well as minor episode four spoilers. For all my positivity and knack for comforting others, for all my efforts to preserve any sense of morality in a dark, dim world full of death, nothing I do seems to help for more than a moment. Last night I played as…

After an extended period of iOS exclusivity, Square Enix’s mobile RPG Chaos Rings is now available for Android devices

Human Hands Can Actually Touch This Mass Effect 2 Sniper Rifle

Prop builder Zander Brandt specialises in turning video game guns into real-world playthings. Wonderful playthings. And his latest work is no exception. It’s an M-97 Viper sniper rifle from Mass Effect 2, and what I like about it—like most of Zander’s work—is how well-crafted it is. He builds practically the entire thing out of wood,…

You’re One…Ugly Predator Pumpkin (Amazing, Too)

I was planning on getting a pumpkin, carving out a face. Maybe something fancy, I thought. Show what I can do, you know? Then I saw this, and now I think, hey, why bother? It wins every pumpkin carving contest until the end of time. This is the mind meltingly wonderful work of the wizards…

GoG launches a pay-what-you-want Divinity series bundle with an advertised value of $32.

What Bayonetta Loves More than the Wii U. For Instance, She Loves Her Fancy Outfit.

Bayonetta is one of the most iconic, memorable characters to appear this console generation. Whether it’s her glasses or her bodysuit, she’s iconic! No wonder cosplayers love dressing up as her. And since her debut in 2009, that’s exactly what cosplayers have done: Bayonetta often shows up on game and geek events throughout Japan, with…

Hey Readers! There’s a new indie Story Bundle as well as a Humble eBook Bundle. Both support charity and are DRM free.

This Poor Old Xbox Has Seen Better Days

Part of a nice gallery of Instagram photos over on Attract Mode, this pic shows one of two possible uses for an old Xbox machine in 2012. The other being, of course, an Xbox Media Centre. But that’s way less fun. A PICTURE OF FLAT SHADED POLYGONS, ON A FUZZY ARCADE MONITOR, WITH AN IPHONE…

This Halloween, C-3PO and R2-D2 Are Dressing up as Pokémon (or Mario)

Artist Andrea Gerstmann has some ideas for Star Wars‘ most famous droids. In particular, what they can wear this Halloween. It’s a little cosplayception, what with them being characters within characters, but I like it. I can hear them arguing over them already. “What makes you think there are Princesses over there?” “Beep Beep” etc…

The Most Terrifying Video Game Focus-Testing Imaginable

Given how they can often result in fence-sitting games that specialise in AAA blandness, gamers are right to be wary of focus testing groups. These girls, though, should have been wary for a very different reason. “I’m watching you, girls”. So creepy

This Guy Built Traffic Lights to Tell Him When His Pals Were on Xbox Live

Obviously feeling that the Xbox 360’s notification system wasn’t good enough, Kiwi Andrew F. went and built himself something a little more elaborate: this set of traffic lights. Basically an Arduino hooked up to the internet, it pings Microsoft’s servers every five minutes to see if Andrew’s friends are online. If nobody is online, the…

Ninja Gaiden Cosplay to Slice Your Eyeballs Wide Open

Snapped at DragonCon 2012 by Elysiam Entertainment, this is a human looking as close to Ninja Gaiden’s Ryu Hayabusa as a human could ever possible look. Amazing. ZomG Dragoncon 2012 Friday! [Elysiam Entertainment, via Cosplay Blog]

XCOM Has HD Cutscenes, But They’re Hiding

If you’re playing XCOM on PC, you might have noticed a little discrepancy between the standard in-game visuals and those of the game’s cutscenes, which can look a little blurry. You can actually change that. Reddit user loinbread did some looking through the game’s folders and found that, in addition to the video files that…