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This is Quite a Trailer You’ve Got Here, Resident Evil 6

I’m not going to get excited about this game. The sad faces I make every time I think of Resident Evil 5 have made sure of that. But “surprisingly enthused”? I can do that.

Your PC Needs to be *This* Tall to Play Assassin’s Creed III

Ubisoft just released the specs for the PC version of Assassin’s Creed III. Note they’ve only released the minimum specs…anyone looking for recommended, you’ll just have to compare your system to these in your head and make an educated guess! Supported OS: Windows Vista (SP2) / Windows 7 (SP1) / Windows 8 Processor: 2.66 GHz…

League of Legends Attacked By Small Group of Jerk Players

League of Legends is one of the biggest games in the world. Which means it also attracts some of the biggest assholes in the world as well, who despite being active players of the game, have banded together to try and bring it down. Developers Riot Games have caught ” a handful of players…attacking our…

Read EA’s Aggressive Warning Letter to a Former Employee [UPDATE]

Like any other big company, there are probably good sides to working at EA, and there are probably bad sides. Here’s one of the bad sides: the publisher keeps track of former employees, and sends them threatening letters when it’s worried those former employees will start spilling company secrets. Below you’ll see correspondence sent by…

When Liquid Nitrogen Meets 1,500 Ping Pong Balls

If you’ve ever wanted to see more than a thousand ping pong balls detonated by a bottle of liquid nitrogen, have I got a surprise for you! This video of Plymouth University’s professor Roy Lowry uploaded by Techietickets shows just what happens when a garbage can full of ping pong balls gets… angry. Update: Well…

Turns Out Bayonetta on PS3 Was a Massive Failure

I quite enjoyed Bayonetta, but then, I played it on Xbox 360. The PS3 version on the other hand had more than a few problems. So many, in fact, that creators Platinum Games say the game was the studio’s “biggest failure”. “The biggest failure for Platinum so far, the one that really sticks in my…

Whoah, System Shock 2 and Thief 2 Just got Surprise Patches

Surprise! Out of almost thin air, a pair of unofficial patches have been released for PC classics System Shock 2 and Thief 2 that not only allow the games to be safely played on modern hardware (and operating systems), but look great while they’re doing it. Their origins are a bit of a mystery; they…

Your Cable Company Wants To Try To Be Your Next Console

Despite the rather dramatic meltdown of OnLive earlier this year, “cloud gaming” remains one of the go-to buzzwords for the future of game delivery. With so many American internet service providers capping data or providing slow and/or unreliable bandwidth, a fully-streaming future has seemed likely to take a while to catch on. A recent Bloomberg…

The Latest Humble Bundle Keeps On Getting Bigger

Just because there’ve been a lot of humble indie bundles over the last few years doesn’t mean they’re any less of a good deal. The latest humble bundle offers a crapload of good games, all for whatever price you want to pay. For as little as you want, you’ll get EFF, (Wait, that’s not a…

These Lovely Fan Made Posters Are For Mass Effect Movies I’d Actually Love To See

We keep hearing rumors here and there about a Mass Effect movie in the works. As much as I love the franchise, I’m not sure I ever really want to see one. My Shepard is, well, my Shepard, and any movie starring someone of that name is unlikely to tell the story I preferred having…

Solve The Mystery Of A Composer’s Life Through Hidden Clues And Music

There’s something very cool about a game that lets you explore a house and learn about its inhabitants. Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor cast players as a spider who, by casting webs and moving through an abandoned house, learned the story of its inhabitants and what transpired there. In The Fullbright Company’s upcoming PC…

Turns Out Kirby Is Not Very Good At Playing Piano

Kirby must not be very smart, either, or he would go inhale Elton John instead of just trying to slam his body against a keyboard. Poor Kirby. Other things Kirby is not good at: chores, modeling:

Gameloft’s Mobile Call of Duty Goes Up a Number in This Spectacular Trailer

If I didn’t know this was a trailer for a game coming to iPhone, iPad and Android this fall, I would have complained about how we already have too many modern combat games on consoles. This is just gorgeous. The Modern Combat gets prettier and prettier with each new installment. Gameloft might be making copies…

Season or No Season, NHL 13‘s ‘Hercules Check’ is Hockey’s Greatest Hit Ever

This is a glitch video to end all glitch videos, and not just because that’s a player getting checked over the glass and into the fourth row of a hockey arena. It’s also Sidney Freaking Crosby, the Pittsburgh Penguins superstar who has lost, like, an entire season’s worth of games due to concussions, going back…

Mitt Romney’s Campaign Is Sort Of Like A Video Game Because Of Reset Buttons Or Something

Here’s Rachel Maddow with one of the most ham-fisted video game references so far this election season. Hopefully we’ll get more and more Atari references as we get closer to November. Something something Obama something something Commodore-64 something something health-care mandate.

Turn Your Face Into A Portal Turret With This Badass Mask

We’ve seen artist TwoHornsUnited come up with some Portal referencing gas masks before, but this one is even more creepily awesome. I also get the impression that I would look like a Valve-inspired Transformer if I wore that, and then my brain goes on from there to invent wild action sequences where I’m flying through…

Borderlands 2 GPU & CPU Performance Test

Although it was somewhat of an underdog when it arrived in October 2009, Borderlands quickly became a hit among PC and console gamers alike, selling over 4.5 million copies and propelling Gearbox Software to new heights. Despite complaints about repetitive gameplay and finicky menus, fans loved the title’s unique comic-like art style and its seamless…

After a delay, 2001 PS2 classic Grand Theft Auto III is finally available for download on the PS3. File-size: 4.35GB!

The Best Worst Reasons To Punch Someone (According to Dead Or Alive 5)

Unless we’re talking about Persona 4 Arena, stories in fighting games tend to be pretty awful.They usually boil down to a series far-fetched excuses for random characters to beat the tar out of each other. Dead or Alive 5 is no exception. In the video above, I show off some of the more ridiculous rationales…

Watch This Adorable Kitten Desperately Swipe At The Rats In This iPad Game

In preparation for the release of Dishonored in just two weeks, Bethesda recently released an iOS game that’s basically like Fruit Ninja but with rats. So: more delicious. While this little kitty might not understand the precise rules of Dishonored: Rat Assassin, her enthusiasm and adorableness more than make up for it. My 5 weeks…