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Three Comics That Open Up New Worlds This Week

< If you're here in the Panel Discussion programming block, you might be a lapsed comics reader, trying to find a way back to the JLA Satellite. Or you might someone killing time until you pick up your weekly Wednesday pull list. Or maybe you've said goodbye to dozens of longboxes to embrace the promise…

The New Avengers Looks a Lot Like the Old Avengers

Die-hard comics fans know that Marvel has a universe-shuffling reboot coming up in a few weeks. We’ve already gotten a glimpse at Uncanny Avengers and how Marvel Now’s flagship book will fuse the X-Men and Avengers characters into one unit. Now comes a look at the relaunch of the Avengers, which does that to a…

The Marvel Comics Series Where You Never Knew Who Would Die Needs to Be a Video Game

Comic books become TV shows that turn into movies that get spun off into games. Or the whole thing happens in reverse. Ideas from all these media feed off of each other—or they should. Source Material will take an occasional look at how elements from great comics, games, movies or TV shows show up in…

Guild Wars 2 Trading Post Is Online, Grouping Still Troubled

Although Guild Wars 2 has mostly avoided catastrophic launch problems, the online game has been plagued by a number of small nuisances. Among them, that the “Trading Post,” which is ArenaNet’s term for its auction house, hasn’t been available, and perhaps more problematically, that it’s been difficult to keep a group of players together. The…

Steam’s new community features are now live. An overview can be found here

This Insane Donkey Kong A Capella Makes Me Laugh And Feel Afraid

What the… I don’t… why? Who? You’ll ask all those questions and more as you watch Max and Sam’s “Geekapella” performance of an iconic track from Donkey Kong Country. Why is the guy making claws over his nipples? What’s with the wig? Did someone slip me some drugs this morning? Wow. Props, guys. Your video…

Hey, jerks of the world: do not, ever, expose yourself to women at PAX parties. Or any other party, for that matter.

That’s Not A Cosplayer, That’s Actually Commander Shepard!

Picture it: You’re at DragonCon, enjoying the cosplay during a sunny break away from the con floor. Then yet another guy in a Commander Shepard outfit struts by. There’s something different about him, though. He looks familiar. Kinda. Wait, that’s the guy who actually plays the male version of Commander Shepard’s Voice in Mass Effect…

I Want This Fantastic ED-E Sculpture To Follow Me Around For Real

ED-E and I were inseparable, when I first played Fallout: New Vegas. Well, except for all those times that the demands of the plot separated us. But no matter: his perks, cheerfully sarcastic beeping, and killer laser were great company on an endless trek through the Mojave Wasteland. This real-life ED-E, sent to Geekologie by…

I’d Totally Watch This Live-Action Final Fantasy VII Fan Film

Well done, don’t you think? This was directed by Italian film-maker Gionata Medeot, who told me he hopes to send this teaser to producers and raise funds to turn it into an actual film. “Aren’t you worried about Square Enix’s lawyers asking you to stop?” I asked him in an e-mail. Square shut down a…

Sex Game Pulled From Steam Greenlight. You Can Guess Why. [UPDATE]

In theory, Steam Greenlight will let any aspiring game developer get their game onto PC gaming’s hottest online marketplace as long as enough gamers vote for it. But that promise doesn’t appear to apply to the makers of the erotic game Seduce Me. The game’s listing was pulled from Steam’s new Greenlight service last Thursday,…

Their Last Games Were Cute as Heck. This One Looks Scary as Hell.

The last thing I was expecting from the creators behind cutesy platformer Bumpy Road and funky rhythm/stealth hybrid Beat Sneak Bandit was a gothic scare-fest. But it sure looks like that what their next game is going to be. Due out next winter from indie dev studio Simogo, Year Walk is a first-person iOS game…

Elegant Puzzle Games Should Be On Oprah’s Non-Existent List of Video Game “Favorite Things”

I don’t know if Oprah Winfrey plays video games. For all I know she plays Angry Birds while commuting from her estate in California to her apartment in Chicago. Facebook games, at least, seem to be on her radar. When I was playing Splice, an indie puzzle game born on Steam and now brought to…

Gaming Accessibility Project Hopes To Help More Developers Make Games Disabled Gamers Can Play

There are two kinds of accessibility that come up in gaming discussions. One is that understanding how a game works, or how to master it, can often be impenetrable to the newbie. But the other is that no matter how experienced a gamer is, if he or she has certain disabilities, the games can be…

Video Game Controllers Are Art

The debate as to video games are art is tired. Either you think they are or that they’re not. Turns out the controllers used to engage with games can become sublime, too. Who knew decades-old wired video game controllers could be so beautiful? The lines of insulated copper and aluminum—is that what they were made…

Here’s the full list of games that Sony’s bringing to the 2012 Tokyo Games Show. No, The Last Guardian won’t be there.

The Next Game From the Makers Of Angry Birds Stars The Pigs

You like the pigs in Angry Birds? Do you feel bad for the pigs? Well, good news: the pigs are the stars in the next game from Rovio, the creators of Angry Birds. The game is called Bad Piggies and, Rovio hypes, there’s “not a slingshot in sight.” So what kind of game is it?…

Hearthfire, Skyrim‘s New DLC, Is Now Available On Xbox Live

Skyrim: The Sims is now available on Xbox Live for 400 Microsoft Points, according to a press blast sent out by Bethesda this morning. “Hearthfire allows you to purchase land and build your own home from the ground up – from a simple one-room cottage to a sprawling compound complete with armory, alchemy laboratory, and…

This Real-Life Assassin’s Creed Parkour Runner Has Great Moves

Cosplay is one thing; many men and women have worn the Assassin’s hood. Actually going out into the city and scaling buildings, though… well, that’s another thing entirely. This Assassin doesn’t quite have all of Altair’s or Ezio’s moves down—there are no convenient haystacks for ten-story leaps, and it’s just as well that he doesn’t…

PAX Attendees Trade in Bottle Caps for an Engagement Ring At Bethesda’s Booth

Two PAX attendees in Fallout cosplay thought they might be able to trade in months’ worth of bottle caps savings for some cool swag at Bethesda’s booth in Seattle this past weekend. Little did Alisha, Trevor’s girlfriend of three years, know what was hidden inside the ammo box the Bethesda booth representative handed them. Skip…