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New iPod Touch Is Faster, Bigger, Better For Gaming

This is the new iPod Touch, announced at Apple’s press conference today. It’s got the iPhone 5’s screen and the A5 processor, which makes it about as fast as the iPhone 4S. The new iPod Touch is out in October. $299 for 32gb; $399 for 64gb. The iPod Touch is “the world’s most popular music…

Apple has announced that iOS6, the latest operating system for their iPad and iPhone, will be available on September 19.

Hey, Mom, Your Seven-Year-Old Knows Uncharted 2 Isn’t Real

I can’t say I was happy when my wife’s friend brought over her seven-year-old terrorist of a child, Charlie, one summer afternoon in 2010, the same day I brought home a freshly cellophaned copy of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. All I’d wanted to do was pop it into my first edition PlayStation 3 (the one…

Konami’s New Little King’s Story—sequel to the quirky Wii RPG—comes to the Vita on October 2.

Here’s A Video Game Running On The iPhone 5

Announced at Apple’s press conference today, this is the iPhone 5, out September 21. The new iPhone will come with a bigger screen, a faster CPU, and better battery life. In other words, it’ll be a more powerful gaming device than any previous iPhone to date. (Check Gizmodo for a full breakdown of the new…

Your First Look At The Newest Game From The Creator Of Mega Man

Here’s a quick first look at Yaiba, the stylish new zombie game by Keiji Inafune, designer of Mega Man and Dead Rising Not much to see yet, but what’s here is a fun tease.

Square Enix’s Latest Mobile Game Has Rhythm Combat And A Talking Teddy Bear

Here’s some gameplay footage from Demons’ Score, a rhythm-action-combat-music game for mobile platforms published by Square Enix and developed by iNiS, the Japanese studio that made Elite Beat Agents Maybe that’s why it’s so groovy. Demons’ Score is out “very soon” for iOS and “this fall” for Android, Square Enix says.

Sweet Mother of Assassin’s Creed III, I Would Wear This Jacket Up And Down And Everywhere

I don’t like most gamer clothing. They’re usually tacky, or have a huge, ugly logo plastered everywhere. Plus, personally, they’re usually all too large. I have a zillion gamer sleep shirts, but nothing I would actually ever wear outside the confines of my apartment. This, though. This. I’ve been following Volante Design for awhile now.…

This Confounding, Addictive Counting Game Will Tear Your Brain In Half

No no wait, it’s a good kind of brain-tearing! Welome to Nuclien, a new iPhone/iPad game from James Barnard. It will test you. It will push you. It may break you. And if you’re like me, you’ll get really, really into it. Nuclien has a distinctive, stark visual style that reminds me of nothing so…

8 Things You Should Know About LittleBigPlanet On The PlayStation Vita

LittleBigPlanet Vita doesn’t come out for another couple of weeks, but Sony has decided that they don’t mind if we go ahead and talk about it now. How nice of them! I’m taking my time playing it—LittleBigPlanet games have a lot of nooks and crannies, and I’d like to explore every one before I do…

Feed The Team Fortress 2 Turret Milk, And It Grows Up To Be The Terminator

What the hell did I just watch, you ask? Why, the most adorable squees of delight you’ve ever heard, I respond! Look at that twinkle in the engineer’s eyes. He’s like a proud, excited parent, ready to embrace the possibilities of a new future and… Oh. Oh, my. The Calcium (Source Filmmaker) [YouTube via Reddit]

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You Can Watch Nintendo Announce The Wii U’s Release Date And Price Live Tomorrow Morning

Nintendo’s releasing a new console soon, in case you haven’t heard. And Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime is having lots of important meetings with cartoon characters in order to commemorate the occasion. Tomorrow at 10am Eastern, Nintendo is holding an event in New York City to announce some big news about the console—including, presumably,…

It’s Hard to Be Excited About The Secret World‘s Next Update With the Lead Designer Gone

Hey look, it’s a video for the changes coming in The Secret World‘s Issue #2: Digging Deeper update. Plastic surgery, bazookas and an extension of “the Kingsmouth Code” investigation mission — these are things I would have been thrilled about two days ago. Now that lead designer Martin Bruusgaard has been let go, not so…

The Resistance People Are Making a New Shooter. This One Should Be Better.

Last year, Insomniac Games surprised the gaming world by showing up at EA’s E3 2011 press conference with an all-new game called Overstrike. Once the shock of seeing the PS3 stalwart studio outside of a Sony event wore off, the buzz on Overstrike was high, thanks to the developer’s trademark sharp humor and trademark weapon…

Here’s To Looking Good in Halo Battle Armor

The world is getting a new Halo game this year, Halo 4. That’s pretty exciting, I reckon! Many gamers love Halo, but some don’t just stop at playing the games. They love dressing up in Halo combat gear. And why wouldn’t they? Here’s a sampling of some—certainly not all—of the finest Halo armor cosplays the…

Magic Cards Turned Into Basic “Computer”

While not a full-blown computer, as we’d know them today, a Turing Machine is nevertheless an important part of the history of the field, and its design is still studied and referenced today. You can build working representations of the idea out of everything from computer parts to LEGO, but what’s blowing my mind today…

Sorry Father Grigori, Half-Life Has Never Been Scarier Than This Mod

It’s been a good run for true horror games lately. Amnesia scared people’s socks off, Slender is doing much the same, and now we’ve got an update to Cry of Fear, one of the ten lucky games to have been “greenlit” by Steam earlier today. Cry of Fear is a total conversion mod for the…

US Official Killed in Libya Was a Senior EVE Online Player [UPDATE]

Sean Smith, the US State Department official killed by “militia” in Libya yesterday, was a senior figure in the EVE Online community, and frequent member of the game’s Council of Stellar Management (CSM), a fan-elected governing body. A player of the sci-fi MMO from its early days, where he played under the handle “Vile Rat”…

Game Site Countdown Backfires Over “Legal Rights Issue”

Game site countdowns are annoying as hell. So perhaps it’s karma that the one planned for Fuse, the latest game from Insomniac and EA, has backfired, with a “last-minute legal rights issue” preventing it from actually ticking over to a new trailer. Instead, there’s just…an apology. You can read a full statement from Insomniac boss…