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My Current Facebook Game Obsession: Song Pop

Despite listening almost exclusively to talk radio for the past two decades, I’ve managed to amass an almost encyclopedic knowledge of popular music from the 70s to the present day. Freshplanet’s Song Pop has me testing that knowledge against Facebook friends at a disturbing rate. When I was younger I knew a great many things…

Social networking, I choose you! Pokémon finally has official accounts on Facebook and Twitter. What took so long?

New Amazing Spider-Man DLC Lets You Play as the Wall-Crawler’s Super-Villains

Boy, was the Lizard ever annoying to fight in this summer’s Spider-Man movie tie-in game. You, like me, may have wondered what it might be like to have all that reptilian power at your disposal. New DLC packs will let play as Spider-Man’s arch-villain and his co-creator, too. Four separate packs will hit today, including…

Plants vs. Plumbers vs. LEGO

Illustrator and photographer Chris McVeigh is quite talented with LEGO. He’s got a whole assortment of LEGO pieces photographed and presented all nice and pretty on his Flickr page, but this one might be my favorite. It’s the two famous gaming plumbers—Mario and Luigi—and their infamous pipe-planted piranha plant in a pose reminiscent of Plants…

The Folks Behind Duke Nukem Forever Want Your Money for a “New” Game

For years, 3D Realms toiled on Duke Nukem Forever. After the game languished, another studio (Gearbox Software) came in and finished it. Now, 3D Realms is working on a new game. A game it’s been working on for a while—and it wants your money to finish it. The game is Earth No More, a first-person…

It’s the Pokemon MMO I’ve Always Wanted

Somehow this is the first time I’ve gotten my hands on World of Warcraft‘s version of Pokemon. This short video will give you a basic overview of what the next few months of PC gaming hold for me. You can capture them, heal them, eat them should you run out of food (probably not that…

Mists of Pandaria is Live in North America, and Today I Am a Panda

World of Warcraft‘s next expansion has gone live in North America, and the first thing I did was transform my Worgen into a Panda. And give him a sex change, because tails. So far things have been going rather smoothly on the Ysera server. I was disconnected once early on, but could log right back…

If Star Wars Had Been Made in the 1950’s, Alec Guinness Could Have Been a Dashing Han Solo

Canadian artist Dean Reeves has taken Star Wars back to a galaxy an even longer time ago, away from the 1970s and back a little further to film noir’s heyday of the 1950s. I would so buy these to frame and hang up and…oh, you can buy them. Awesome. GraphicLanguage [Etsy, via Super Punch]

Transformers: Fall of Cybertron‘s Multiplayer Gets Infinitely More Buggy Today

The recent introduction of the Dinobots to Transformers: Fall of Cybertron’s multiplayer seems to have been a rousing success. Now comes the time of the Insecticons. The Insecticons downloadable content hits later today, adding Shockwave’s big bad bugs to the online battle. High Moon has morphed the mechanical critters so they fit into the four…

Firefall’s Developers Accused (OK Not Really) of Giving New Recruits Something Very Nasty

There is nothing more mundane in the world of video game marketing than the bullet-point announcement. Unless the game’s developers go to the trouble of kinda realising this, and dressing the “news” up as an excuse to make a neat little video where everybody who works there gets to pretend they’re about to give the…

There’s a New Nintendo 3DS XL Color in Japan

Japan is getting a new 3DS XL color: “Blue x Black”. It will join the other available 3DS XL colors in Japan (Red x Black, Silver x Black, White, and Pink x White). Priced similarly at ¥18,900, it will go on sale October 11 in Japan. Update: Well, new for Japan—where I live. This was…

Google Has Been Watching What You Search For, Gamers

Google has published a report detailing everything it’s learned about gamers and their online search habits. As you’d expect; the company thrives off its advertising, so understanding how searches can be tied to ads is important for business! The results have been published in a paper called “Understanding the Modern Gamer”, which reveals things like…

EA Hired a Man Just So You’d Stop Quitting

Valve is far from the only video game company hiring total outsiders to come in and help make them money. Electronic Arts has done something similar, with Forbes reporting they’ve hired Danish data analyst Jonas Lygaard, despite the fact he has absolutely zero experience in the games industry. What he did have experience in was…

This NES Zapper is Now a Real, Dangerous Laser Gun

It may have looked like something out of a more safety-conscious Star Trek episode, but Nintendo’s Zapper was about as harmless as fake plastic guns can get. Oh, except for this one. Which North Street Labs has turned into an actual laser gun that can set things on fire. It’s not an easy process –…

Good news, classic adventure game fans: Beneath a Steel Sky 2 is now in development

Looks Like Someone Has Already Hit Level 90 In World of Warcraft

Wow. That didn’t take long. World of Warcraft expansion Mists of Pandaria isn’t even out yet for most people (it unlocks in the US a few hours), but already it looks like we’ve got someone breaking through to hit the game’s new ceiling of Level 90. According to data-mining site Guildox, that someone is FS,…

There Are Two Types Of People: Those Who Love Movies Clichés, And Those Who Don’t

There really are two types of people in this world. A dichotomy, if you will. Okay, a lot of dichotomies, but dichotomies nonetheless. This amazing supercut pulls together clips from movies when a character says that “There are two types of people in this world.” Or, as Evan said when he showed me this: “There…

Japanese FemShep Statue is Surprisingly Unsexy

Kotobukiya, one of the world’s top collectible companies, has a line of pieces it calls “Bishoujo”. What that normally means for fans are statues of female characters rendered in anime style and with, um, disproportionate proportions There’s a market for that kind of thing, I’m sure, but for many it’s a little much. Which is…

Here’s Cloud And Sephiroth Doin’ It Gangnam Style

This might be my favorite of the many Gangnam Style parodies to be released so far this fall. It’s just so well done (nice work, Christian Wright). Enjoy. Final Fantasy Gangnam Style [YouTube via GamerSpirit]

Has Inflation De-Valued The Mario Coin?

If you’ve heard anything at all about the latest Super Mario Bros. game, you know that it has a lot of coins. So many coins. The diligent player can collect a million of the shiny little guys. An article over at Scripted Sequence ponders whether the ongoing inflation of coins in Mario games has led…