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Pissed Off ‘Employees’ Bash Pretty Much Every Major Video Game Company

For those who are not familiar with the site, Glassdoor.com is essentially a repository of information on companies—anonymous reviews, salaries, interview questions, etc. contributed by former and current employees—for job seekers seeking an “inside look” into those companies. In addition to that primary purpose, Glassdoor might actually be one of the most compelling sources discussing…

PlayStation Home Just Got a Lot Weirder

For some reason, Metal Gear publisher Konami will now let you buy these horse heads/”masks” in the PlayStation 3’s virtual world, Home, for 99 cents a pop. We’ve got a Home avatar modeling them here in this animated GIF. You’re welcome! Yeah, nothing strange about this at all. Nope. PlayStation Home: Out Of This World…

Ten Things You Should Know About Skyrim‘s New DLC

Skyrim‘s latest downloadable content is all about houses. Big houses, small houses, brown houses, and… well, they’re all kind of brown. Out this week for Xbox 360, Skyrim‘s Hearthfire puts you in charge of your very own dream mansion. You’ll get to collect lumber, mine ore, craft nails, and build a house from the ground…

Marvel’s Avengers Initiative Is Almost The Strongest Portable Game There Is

So, maybe Marvel’s console game portfolio is a collection of hits and misses. But Avengers Initiative sure makes it seem like the House of Ideas wants their portable releases to be a different story. Avengers Initiative will be very familiar to anyone who has played Chair Entertainment’s Infinity Blade title. Players will be controlling the…

Freddie Mercury as an Angry Bird Is Both Wonderful And Weird

I’ll be honest, I like Angry Birds. And of course I like Queen. But I’m really not sure how I feel about the two of them together. Rovio evidently envisions the late Queen front man as a yellow bird, complete with fabulous crown and mustache. The king pig is right to wilt in sad shame…

StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm is now in closed beta. You can opt in on your Battle.net account. Good luck!

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Here Are a Bunch of Portal Turrets Being Cute

BioWare cinematic designer Zachariah Scott tinkers around with Source Filmmaker quite a bit on his personal YouTube channel. But this week, it’s turret week. And he’s already made a bunch of really short videos of turrets being really adorable. Enjoy the released ones all rounded up for you below.

YouTube Trolls Turn This Into One of The Game Trailers of The Year

Indie outfit Big Men Games are currently working on a strategy RPG game called GUTS, which would otherwise be unremarkable if not for the fact one of the three men in the team – Chris Haga – used to work for Blizzard. On Diablo III. Once word of this got out trailers for GUTS, which…

Cosplay Plus “Gangnam Style” Equals This

You sick of “Gangnam Style”? No? Up for watching this DragonCon 2012 Gangnam Style mash-up?

Europeans can now play Ico and other games on the Vita via Remote Play. The PS3 update should be coming soon to the U.S.

11 New Dates and Cities for Nintendo’s Big Zelda Concert Series

Nintendo’s big fall Zelda “Symphony of the Goddesses” concert will be touring through the following cities, according to a press release the game maker just sent out: Sept. 15: Toronto; Sony Centre for the Performing Arts Sept. 22: Minneapolis; Orpheum Theatre Oct. 12: Dallas; AT&T Performing Arts Center Oct. 18: Boston; Wang Theatre Oct. 25:…

All the Lara Croft You Can Possibly Handle

She’s one of gaming’s biggest action stars. She’s iconic. She’s Lara Croft. How many video game characters can say Angelina Jolie played them in a movie? While gamers might argue over whether or not said Hollywood movies were any good, they cannot dispute her mark on popular culture—and more importantly, that’s she’s appeared in some…

Finally, a Battlestar Galactica Game Worthy of the Name

Actual Battlestar Galactica games have been pretty awful. Most fan-made mods never end up being finished. But Diaspora, one of the more promising attempts to put players in the cockpit of a Viper (or a Raptor), has actually made it to the finish line, and is now available for download. You should get it. Now.…

Ubisoft Gives Up On Its Stupid PC DRM

For the last few years, Ubisoft’s attempts at battling piracy have been something of a running punchline, seeming to achieve little but annoy the company’s actual paying customers. Looks like all the protests have finally sunk in, because the publisher has told Rock, Paper, Shotgun it’ll be rolling back most of its most offensive methods.…

These Guys Are Turning One of Fallout’s Great Characters Into a Movie Star

If you’ve played Fallout: New Vegas, you may have come across Lanius. Second Legate. Military commander of all Caesar’s Legion’s forces in the field. Sharply-dressed badass. Well, a group of Aussie filmmakers are trying to bring the man to the big screen, roping in a bunch of talent that includes former WETA effects men, professional…

Medal of Honor’s “Authentic” Marketing is Still a Joke

This is “Dog”, supposedly an Australian sniper who’s been brought in to advise Electronic Arts on development of the new Medal of Honor. Make sure the game is an “authentic special operations experience”. I’m guessing by “authentic” they mean “we got the uniforms right”. Because last I checked even special ops soldiers can’t go into…

Bros Are Blowin’ S**t Up in Broforce, And it Looks Awesome

I look at this trailer for Broforce, and I see Terraria. Being blown to pieces Due out next year from South African devs Free Lives, it’s a blast, and I know this because you can download a playable build right now People keep talking about making the video game equivalent of The Expendables…how about somebody…

You Will Never Chop The Head Off These Cute Game of Thrones Figures

I’m not normally a fan of Funko’s Pop! figures, being as they’re just another take on older, existing styles like Munnys, but that was a view formulated before they got the rights to make some Game of Thrones pieces. Which look great. It’s an interesting choice of characters – we get The Hound and Khal…

The NES Fighting Game That Featured Sonic, Mario, Ryu and Goku

I’ve talked about classic fighting game World Heroes here on Total Recall before because it’s amazing. But this, this is something else entirely. It’s called World Heroes 2, but it’s not the official sequel to SNK’s game. It is instead a 1994 pirate Famicom game, one which throws together the biggest video game stars of…