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Steam Greenlight—which lets users vote for indie games that they want on Valve’s download service—launches today.

We Love The World’s First Post-Apocalyptic Competitive Eating Card Game

“The game is about eating and spewing and chewing and swallowing,” game designer Zach Gage says in this beginning of this 25-minute video that features me and Evan Narcisse playing Gage’s new card game Guts of Glory. With that, Gage led me and Evan through one of the most fun half-hours of gaming I’ve had…

Xbox Live is supporting Gaymercon, the first-ever gathering dedicated to LBGT video game players

Double Fine’s Next Game Is For iPhone, And It’s About Superheroes

Being a superhero is exciting, no doubt about it. You get to wear a cool costume, use cool powers, and fight crime! But what about the nitty gritty bureaucratic aspects of being a superhero—the paperwork, the scheduling, all the stuff behind the scenes? Surely someone’s got to take care of that, as well. Enter Middle…

Apple Blocks App That Alerts Users to American Military Drone Strikes

iPhone apps exist for all sorts of purposes: games and media to entertain, file viewers and creation programs for productivity, news for information on the world around you. To creator Josh Begley, Drone+—which lets people know about American UAV attacks—fits the bill for that last type of app. Nevertheless, Apple has rejected his creation from…

Powerful Mobile Destruction Physics Dedicated to Beating Up a Poor Old Woman

The rollerskating Granny Smith is a spry old bird. She has to be, as developer Mediocre has dedicated substatial technology towards beating the living hell out of her. Granny Smith falls from great heights onto her back, her intense pain communicated through the loss of the large gold coins she’s collected. She jumps off of…

Gold Vs. Plus: How Sony Is Making a Mockery Of Xbox Live

You can pick your preference between PlayStation and Xbox. You can argue that Halo is better than KillZone or that Uncharted tops Gears of War But it is becoming increasingly hard to argue that the Xbox 360’s online subscription service is superior to the PlayStation 3’s. This is what competition does, and, today, the long-running…

Hooray, Darksiders II‘s Janky PC Version Is Now Substantially Less Janky

Good news: true to their word, Vigil has issued the first update for the PC version of Darksiders II, addressing a number of problems players have had with that version of the game. Among the fixes: easier key-mapping, in-game crashes, and crucially, the broken v-sync, which resulted in unfixable screen-tearing for some (but not all)…

This Long-Lost Nintendo Knitting Machine Would Have Let You Make Sweaters With Your NES

Nintendo launched several peripherals for the NES back in the 1980s. Most of us remember, or at least heard of, the power glove and the light gun. But then, there were the stranger attempts, like Nintendo Knitting Machine, designed to help you make those oh-so-delightful ’80s sweaters. And no, I am not making this up.…

Fable: The Journey Might Be the Next Kinect Game Worth Caring About

I’m not really anti-Kinect. It’s just that a lot of Kinect games really suck. But I absolutely love Dance Central and Fruit Ninja Kinect is always a hit with my non-gaming friends when they come over for after-partying. But those hits are few and far between. I wasn’t expecting to enjoy Fable: The Journey. For…

In This Week’s Nintendo Download, Meet the Majestic Animals of Africa. Then Shoot Them.

In Africa Unleashed 3D for the Nintendo 3DS you charged into Africa to hunt wild animals like the leopard, rhino and elephant, bringing more than 30 weapons to bear on 15 different types of wild beast. Shouldn’t this be called Hunter Unleashed 3D? Granted I don’t believe any of the animals roaming deepest Africa are…

Forza Horizon Takes Racing Simulations To The Open Road World

The next Forza game is set in an open world. Wait, what? Yes, it’s an open world modeled after Colorado. And smack in the middle of the game’s setting is a racing festival that you will partake in when Forza Horizon releases October 23 for Xbox 360. This won’t be all of Colorado, mind you.…

Here’s the First Look at Whore of the Orient, the Next Game from the Makers of L.A. Noire

Brendan McNamara’s most recent game had players exploring the seamy underbelly of an impressive, gleaming recreation of 1940s Los Angeles with L.A. Noire. The first glimpse at his next game—being produced with director George Miller’s film production firm KMM Interactive—the grime is all out in the open. Despite the fact that McNamara’s Team Bondi was…

Escape from Aliens: Colonial Marines at PAX Prime

Sometimes you stand and fight. Aliens: Colonial Marines new Escape multiplayer mode, debuting this weekend at PAX Prime, is not one of those times. PAX attendees, including our own Tina, Jason and Kirk, will have the chance to try their hand at some player-driven survival horror multiplayer this weekend, as a team of four Colonial…

This Skyrim Armor Is the Stuff of Legends

Once of the most memorable things about The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is the in-game gear. So when cosplayers Sheila and Sylar feel in love with the game, they decided to replica Skyrim’s Nightingale Armor for the above photo shoot. Because, you know, they being cosplayers and all. This is the result. The truly impressive…

No Metal Gear Solid 5, But Here’s All of Last Night’s Big Metal Gear News

In Tokyo earlier today, Konami held a 25th anniversary party for Metal Gear. Twenty five years! The time has just flown by. If you were hoping for Metal Gear 5, you’re going to be disappointed. But if you were hoping to be wowed, then wowed you will be. Here are the highlights from the event:…

Giant Polygon Animals Come to Life (It’s OK, They Won’t Eat Your Face)

British artist Arran Gregory has an exhibition currently running in London where he’s showing off these terrific polygonal animals, which are covered in mirrored glass panels. If you’re in London, you can catch them at the Print House Gallery, where they’re showing until September 6. I’d love to buy that rhino head. I’ve been lying…

Konami Reveals New Metal Gear Solid Game [Update: Now With First Images]

Today in Tokyo, Konami showed off its brand new Fox Engine with a demonstration. The engine’s demo ran footage of something called Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes. The thing is, this is not just a tech demo. This is an upcoming, new, open-world Metal Gear Solid game. “This announcement is a challenge from Kojima Productions…

An Okami Figure That Looks Like it Was Made From The Skin of a Cloud

I’ve seen some Okami statues in my time, but I’ve never seen one made using a technique called “needle felting”, which I’m going to imagine involves flying to 20,000 feet, scooping some cloud into a basket then coming back down and knitting with it. The piece was made by artist Piquipauparro, stands around 8″ tall…

Guild Wars 2 Thinks Fun is More Important Than Money

There’s a reason I’m highlighting this quote from ArenaNet co-founder and president Mike O’Brien: you just don’t see it anymore at the top end of the video game business. Pre-order money and first-month sales are everything for most publishers, and while Guild Wars 2 has had a big week – there were 400,000 people playing…