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A Fighting Game That Will Let Famous American Presidents Throw Down In The White House

Just yesterday, we saw this funny Slate article that re-imagined the current presidential elections as a Mortal Kombat-style fighting game. But if the folks at Candax Productions have their way, we won’t have to imagine it. Their game, Battle For Presidency, is currently doing pretty well on Steam Greenlight. You can see a trailer above,…

Need Lessons In Avoiding The Big Yellow Monster? Go To Ghost University.

The “Soviet propaganda” art style has been trendy for fan art lately, and that’s what artist Joseph Baranowski’s Pac-Man themed design project seems to have started as. But I think the best part are the two above: posters for Ghost University! I can imagine it now. A whole campus of ghosts, flitting and flirting through…

Someone Made That Giant xkcd Comic Into An Actual Game

Remember that giant, expansive, awesome xkcd comic that was packed full of video game references? A group of intrepid designers have turned it into an actual video game. You can stomp and fly around the huge comic panel, hovering atop trees and bouncing over cars to your heart’s content. You can even see who’s playing…

Our Favorite Monster-Killing Move in Resident Evil 6 Involves a Microwave

In Resident Evil 6, you can microwave an enemy’s hand. Why would you do that? Because the hand is trying to kill you! This is our favorite Resident Evil 6 easter egg, so far. Find it in Leon Kennedy’s campaign, fourth chapter. The video above shows you how it’s done.

E.T.‘s Mission Continues 30 Years Later in The Green Planet

It’s been three decades since Steven Spielberg enchanted the world with E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, changing the way a generation thought about potential alien life and Reese’s Pieces. Chillingo and Universal celebrate 30 years of friendly aliens next week with E.T.: The Green Planet, or as I like to call it, E.T. Farms Home At the…

Mobile Gaming Apps Are The Beanie Babies Of Our Age

Remember Beanie Babies? Anyone old enough to remember the 1990s can probably remember the stuffed toys that became not only a craze, but a phenomenon. They were everywhere. Small children, old women, and a whole great swath of the American population in-between knew all about them. Collectors fought over rare ones on eBay. The little…

Reconstruct the Life of George from Physical Bricks in This LEGO-Powered Gaming App

There are plenty of LEGO video games out there, but most of them focus on the appearance of the popular building toys rather than the most important element—construction. Rather than assembling the LEGO memories of a pretty awesome guy via button presses, Life of George has you build them out of physical bricks. Life of…

Mysterious Dangers Stalk Our Survivors In The Next Episode of The Walking Dead

Around every corner is yet another danger. Around every corner is another hard decision. Another mystery, and more paranoia. Around Every Corner is the next episode in the fantastic episodic series of Telltale’s The Walking Dead series. We find our group of survivors in a new area (episode 3 spoilers)—Savannah, GA—fighting against both zombies and…

Stop Playing Politics on Facebook and Start… Playing Politics on Facebook

Rocket Surgeon’s For the People: Fantasy Politics officially launches on Facebook on the early January swearing in day for new members of Congress. If you consider that a holiday, then you might want to be sworn into the open beta. Congressman Fahey reporting for duty! For the People: Fantasy Politics casts players in the role…

Here Are The Names Of Some Good Things, Mostly Video Game Sequels, That End In 6 (Or “VI”)

The release of Resident Evil 6 raises the question of whether we can reasonably expect any sequels that include the number six. This is a question I asked the good people on Twitter. The good people replied, sometimes usefully. Sometimes not. And… So, yeah, there have been some good sixes, after all!

New Super Mario Bros. 2 Gets Three DLC Packs This Week For $2.50 Each

You can start buying downloadable content for New Super Mario Bros. 2 this Thursday. The first three DLC packs for the game, each including three courses, are the Gold Rush Pack, Coin Challenge Pack A, and Nerve-Wrack Pack. Here’s Nintendo’s description of each: Gold Rush Pack: Fun new courses that give novice players the best…

Jimmy Kimmel And His Celebrity Friend Are Pretty Terrible At Draw Something

It’s hard to say, really, who is more at fault in this sadly failed guess from last night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live. While Kimmel got sidetracked and failed to remember pertinent information that would have helped him, the celebrity—armed not with a phone, but with a full-sized iPad—could have done a much better job rendering their…

Xbox Site Says That the Karateka Re-Make Is Coming Out in November

Microsoft’s official site for their game console has been known to let things slip out before they’ve been publically announced. Like that one time it outed Halo 4 before last year’s E3 Jordan Mechner has talked about the re-imagination of his classic kung-fu adventure before but no release date has ever been mentioned by the…

It seems Batman: Arkham City GOTY Edition will be getting a Mac release this November.

This is What Happens When You Cross Scrabble with Tron‘s Light Cycles

The rise of Words with Friends has brought the slow and plodding casual word game genre into the spotlight. With Lexatron, Fictorial‘s Brian Hammond seeks to add a little excitement to the scene with a keen competitive twist. Rather than trying to fill a board with expensive words, the goal in Lexatron is to make…

Dumb Running Sonic Meets an Untimely End

Call me crazy, but this is the kind of realism I want from my Sonic games, not regrettable mouth-kissing or a never-ending sense of crushing disappointment. Silly Sonic [DeviantArt, via insanely gaming]

You Won’t Believe How Nice Notch’s Office Is

Well, maybe you will. Mojang, the folks behind Minecraft, is a success story. Great news for them! That not only means Mojang honcho Notch (aka Markus Persson) can afford nicer hats, it also means the studio can afford nicer digs. And boy, look a these digs. The studio recently moved to a bigger pad, MCV…

It Won’t Be Long Until An Elder Scrolls-Size Game is Running on a Phone

Sure, it’s not going to be the same size as something like Skyrim, or even Morrowind. But the upcoming sequel to Ravensword: The Fallen King, called Ravensword: Shadowlands, isn’t for PC. It’s for mobile phones. The rate at which these mobile devices are catching up to other platforms is more than a little terrifying. ‘Ravensword:…

What Happens When Mario Galaxy Meets Minecraft

This is MaK (pronounced “Make”), an upcoming game from indie outfit Verge Game Studio. Primarily a “third-person physics sandbox game with an action focus”, it’s based around the idea of building, customising and moving around some tiny little planets. Which means, yeah, you can build stuff out of blocks, but because the game’s got a…

Official StarGate Games Suck, so These Fans Are Making Their Own

For a movie/series with such a cult following, you’d think Stargate would have been better served by the world of video games, but nope. Fans have long been left wanting. Which is probably why a bunch of them have been modding the original Crysis for four years to make their own. The result is StarCry,…