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Grand Theft Auto 2 Lives, Sort of, Inside of GTA IV

The last numerical installment of Rockstar’s open-world crime franchise has proven to be a goldmine of really awesome mods on PC. We’ve seen everything from giant megaladon sharks to Transformers to the Back to the Future DeLorean in Liberty City. And there have been self-referential mods, too, with a GTA IV to GTA III conversion…

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Even Square Enix Admits The PlayStation Era Was The ‘Golden Age’

Seen at Square Enix’s Final Fantasy party at PAX last week: these posters, complete with game names, dates, and monikers describing each era of the iconic RPG series. As you can see, even Square Enix has some strong notions about when they got things right. (Although Final Fantasy VI should clearly be part of the…

PC Players Can Now Get A Look At, And Pre-Order, Their Version Of XCOM: Enemy Unknown

I enjoyed getting my hands on XCOM: Enemy Unknown last month. I even liked the multiplayer. One omission, though, kept leaping out to me: there I sat, playing a remake of one of the most widely beloved PC games I could think of, and I had only seen the Xbox 360 version. Well, no more.…

Hey Kids! Now You Can Buy Skylanders Toys Directly from the Mobile Game

The Skylanders Cloud Patrol game is coming soon to the Kindle Fire and Kindle Fire HD with exciting new functionality that will forever change the nonchalant manner we hand our tablet devices off to our bored children. Exclusive to the Kindle Fire version: in-app physical toy purchases. In the IOS version of Cloud Patrol, players…

Here Are 19 Ways to Destroy the Undead in Resident Evil 6

They say ‘There’s more than one way to skin a cat’. Man, that’s such a weird saying. Who skins cats? They should replace ‘cat’ with ‘zombie’ and ‘skin’ with ‘utterly destroy’. That’d make way more sense! In that vein, here are 19 ways you can utterly destroy the living dead in Resident Evil 6. Served…

Violent Video Games Increase Pain Tolerance? Okay, Hit Me.

Researchers at Keele University in England decided it would be neat if they had 40 volunteers play either a violent or non-violent video game for ten minutes and then submerge one of their hands in ice-cold water. This study into the sort of silly things researchers can make subjects do yielded fresh information on the…

Way Before “Gangnam Style”, Gangnam Was Very Different

This summer, the K-pop single “Gangnam Style” hasn’t only been popular in its native South Korea, but it has also captured the imagination of those outside the country. Gangnam is a ritzy area of Seoul and the term “Gangnam style” obviously refers to that district. However, Gangnam wasn’t always galloping horse dances, tennis courts, and…

Maybe Zynga’s Not Such a Bad Place To Work After All…

Zynga, the home to games like Farmville, doesn’t seem to be the greatest place on Earth to work. It’s not entirely awful, though. Here’s a new multiplayer gaming setup built into the company’s cafeteria. That’s sixteen screens. Is it enough to make me want to work there? Hell no. Is it enough to make me…

These Real Soldiers Are Being Trained On Amazing Video Games

The use of glorified video games to train military personnel is nothing new, but traditionally, it’s been pretty stodgy stuff, not really the kind of thing casual users would be particularly jealous of. This stuff, though, I am jealous of. Laser Shot is a company that specialises in providing military training gear to clients like…

Watch as Dead Keyboards Become Portraits of Celebrities

My last keyboard that broke, I gave it to my kid. It’s now being used for tea parties. The one before that ended up straight in the bin. How wasteful I’m being! Instead of disposing of dead hardware, I could have been recycling it all this time, turning the keys into awesome portraits of celebrities…

This Old-School RPG Might Give You One More Reason To Buy A Vita

Here’s another look at Dragon Fantasy Book II, out for PlayStation 3 and Vita early next year. As you can see, it’s very SNESish. Gotta love that fake Mode 7

We Are One Step Closer To Real Metal Gears

Continuing a process that began back in the 1960s, the United States has this week taken us one step closer to a world in which Metal Gears cease to be science fiction and start being part of the military’s everyday life. Boston Dynamics, whose military robots even look like Metal Gears, this week released video…

Eidos Developer Fired Over Murder Comments

Blake Marsh spent four years working for Eidos Montreal, the team behind Deus Ex: Human Revolution. He was fired this week. Not for anything he did while on the job, but for stuff he said on Facebook. As the latest reminder that anyone with a full-time job had best watch what they say on a…

The Best Crime Show No One Watched

Remember Terriers? Man, that show was great. (Too bad about the terrible name.) In the annals of dead-before-their-time TV shows, Terriers is right up there with Firefly, for my money. And hey, as it turns out, both of those shows had amazing flashback episodes written by Mr. Tim Minear! Yeah, the guy who wrote “Out…

That Harry Potter-like Spellbook for PlayStation Move Is On Sale in November

Wonderbook; The Book of Spells, the not-really-Harry-Potter-but-endorsed-by-J.K.-Rowling-so-you-think-it-is bundle of game and hardware, is gonna hit shelves in November, Sony said earlier today. Sony’s selling it in two forms: The Wonderbook: Book of Spells Move Bundle, for $79.99, which comes with the game, a peripheral, and the PlayStation Eye camera and Move controller that makes the…

Report: G4 As We Know It Is As Good As Gone

According to a report on Variety, G4 – one of the only TV stations in the world with a “geek” mandate – will be “rebranded” early next year, resulting in a change of focus and possibly a change of name as well. In other words, it’ll be an almost entirely new/different channel. NBCU, the station’s…

One Last Dragon

Hey, maybe you’re playing some more Skyrim lately. Maybe you’ve even downloaded the latest DLC, Hearthfire? Seems like a good enough excuse to share this amazing image by Dead End Thrills. It’s part of his “Parting Shots” series, which he’s put up to bid Skyrim farewell. Jason’s been playing Hearthfire, so check out his list…

League of Legends has introduced a new streaming integration and curation service. Think of it as LoL TV.

Let’s Listen To Some Bitchin’ Music From Torchlight II

In just a few short weeks, Torchlight II will finally come out. I’m looking forward to digging in to Runic’s dungeon-crawler for a number of reasons, and of course, the question of “What can they get right that Diablo III got wrong?” is at the top of my mind. But one of the very coolest…