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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…

See How Modern Warfare Shatters One Family’s Home

Every war has its tales, even ones from a video game. But this “soldier” has been more than a little rattled by it. The video from College Humor is pretty great—as long as you don’t take it seriously—but it does kind of teeter off near the end. Feel free to cut out early. Modern Warfare…

No Dog Has Ever Been Shamed As Badly (Or Hilariously) As This Poor Thing

Fortunately shaming also equals hilarity for us. And cuteness! Stick around for the end, it’s well worth it. Head over to the Talk Amongst Yourselves forum for more conversations, off and on-topic. The Ultimate Dog Shaming [YouTube via Modern Primate]

Looks Like There’s a Problem With Borderlands 2’s Compatibility Update [Update]

We’re getting emails from people who own Borderlands 2 on Xbox 360, saying that they can’t download the new Mechromancer compatibility update Seems that, when prompted to download the new content, they’re being greeted with the above message. My advice? You might have to sit tight. This is the same message you get when trying…

Microsoft’s New Gadget Lets You Control Any Device With A Mid-Air Gesture

Sure, the Kinect can recognize gestures your full body makes. But wouldn’t it be nice to get the finer details of hands and fingers reflected accurately on-screen? And better yet, wouldn’t it be grand not to have to stand in the exact two square feet of living room that the Kinect can pick you up…

League of Legends’ Playoffs Will Try Again Tomorrow

After suffering serious technical hiccups and even allegations of cheating, League of Legends’ World Playoffs will try and finish up tomorrow at 5pm Pacific Time. The three unfinished matches will be streamed on Twitch and Own3D, and they’ll take place at USC’s Galen Center. Riot promise that the broadcast and playing conditions will be to…

This Ad For The Wreck-It Ralph Arcade Is Straight Out of The 1980s

Disney’s upcoming animated feature Wreck-It Ralph, which stars a video-game villain trying to make good, is digging hard into gamer nostalgia. Disney made real-life versions of the fictional arcade machine the movie’s titular star springs from. Now, via Empire Oline, Disney has released this “vintage 1982” ad that further inserts memories that never were into…

Team Fortress 2’s Mann vs Machine mode just got a pretty big update

Superstar Japanese Designers Made These Three New 3DS Games

Here’s a new trailer for three of the 3DS eShop games that are coming out this fall thanks to publisher Level-5. Developed by a who’s who of Japanese designers, the three games are Liberation Maiden, by Suda 51 (No More Heroes); Aero Porter, by Yoot Saito (Sim Tower); and Crimson Shroud, by Yasumi Matsuno (Final…

The Gears of War Film Adaptation May Not Be Entirely Doomed After All, Unless It Is

Ah, the Hollywood process. There have been talks in Hollywood about a Gears of War movie for a long time. In 2009 it looked likely. In 2010, it seemed plauged with delays. 2011 saw it sliding into “development hell.” It seems like we’re due for an annual update, then, and Variety has provided one—this time,…

Fool Me Again? The New Sonic Racing Trailer Looks Good

The problem with the Sonic Cycle these days—the experience of getting excited by the hype for a Sonic games before playing the mediocre game that Sega then delivers—is that recent Sonic games have been pretty good. Sonic Colors. Sonic Generations. People like those games and aren’t embarrassed to admit it. Still, any new trailer for…

The First Minute of Microsoft’s New Kinect Game Doesn’t Exactly Instill Confidence in the Kinect’s Tech

One of Microsoft’s big holiday-season Kinect games, Fable: The Journey, came out today. As our reviewer notes, it’s not very good, because Microsoft’s popular Kinect sensor often fails to properly detect the movement of the player trying to control the game. It seems that even the people at the Microsoft-owned development studio behind the game…

Reviewers Love Killing Aliens One Turn At A Time In XCOM: Enemy Unknown

I’ll admit to rooting for XCOM: Enemy Unknown to be a hit ever since I got a speeding ticket coming home from a press preview event for it over the summer. Sure, I deserved it, but I wanted that embarrassment (and money) at least to be worth something. So did XCOM deliver on its promise…

Buying the Total Recall Blu-Ray that goes on sale on Dec. 18 will get you God of War: Ascension‘s E3 demo. Details here.

Making Gorgeous Maps In Halo 4‘s Forge Mode

Via GameSpot, here’s a great ten-minute video showing off some of the cool things you can make in Halo 4‘s version of Forge, the map editor first seen in Halo 3. Enjoy! Exclusive Halo 4 Forge Mode Details [GameSpot]

OK, Persona 4 Golden Looks Friggin’ Tremendous

The graphics! The music! The new social links! The beaches! The skiing! Atlus released this video today to show off the new features in Persona 4 Golden, and holy crap. It looks fantastic. Between this and Paper Mario: Sticker Star, I am going to be staring at small screens all damn fall.

Valve Wants You To Come Test Out Their Games And Hardware

Valve is looking for playtesters to come try out all of their cool new gadgets and games. They want Seattle/Bellevue-based testers for now, but they also might have plans for remote playtesting in the future, according to Valve’s Burton Johnsey, who posted on Steam’s forums to announce the playtesting: We’re looking for folks to come…

Three Upcoming Mobile Zombie Shooters All At Once, All For You

Halloween is right around the corner, and that means its time for a flood of zombie games to iOS and Android devices. Gamevil, Gameloft and Foursaken Media each sent me info on a different zombie game today, so I’ve bunched them together into a shambling zombie game horde. What’s new with the walking dead? Check…

This Is What Your Very Own Volus Biotic God Looks Like In Mass Effect 3‘s New DLC

The new Retaliation multiplayer DLC for Mass Effect 3 is out today. I’ve dabbled with it a bit so far and, sadly, luck is not with me when it comes to unlocking a volus. (I got a vorcha, instead. So close, game, and yet so far…) Other folks, however, have had better luck with their…

Apps Plus Toys: Zapped Battleship and Spellshot

Hasbro’s Zapped line of app-enabled toys and games combine the company’s popular properties with interactive iPad apps, creating a compelling hybrid of the old and the new. The initial entries in the line were products in which the iPad was used to supplement popular board games like Monopoly and The Game of Life. These are…