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No One Gets Excited About Console News Anymore

1999 seemed like a much more exciting time for console news, at least according to the comedians at Mega64. Wireless controllers, backwards compatibility…these were once fascinating new features. Have consoles reached their peak? Can they really not please us anymore? What about the Ouya? Mega64: New Consoles, Then and Now [YouTube]

EA Sues Zynga, Says The Ville Rips Off The Sims

A week full of bad news just got way worse for the people who make FarmVille: EA is suing them for copyright infringement. In the lawsuit, EA says Zynga’s The Ville “copied and misappropriated the original and distinctive expressive elements” of their game The Sims Social This isn’t the first time someone has accused the…

QWOP Creator Gives Players a New, Awkward Unicorn Quest

From the creators of QWOP, you can now gallop as a horse in an awkward dance between the K, H and J, L keys. The video above is of Kirk trying to play the game. In his defense, he couldn’t hear any audio while he was doing a screen recording, which made the game harder…

The Lead Game Designer of Transformers: Fall of Cybertron is Answering Your Questions Now

Matt Tieger is the game director on the next Transformers game. That’s probably a fun job, but let’s not assume anything. How about you ask him yourself? Tieger, whose team at High Moon Studios is releasing Transformers: Fall of Cybertron this month, is joining us right here to answer your best questions, starting at 1pm…

I Can’t Wait To See More of Chell’s Life After Aperture

(Caution: Portal 2 ending spoilers ahead!) Portal 2 had a satisfying, if ambiguous, ending. The player, in the form of Chell, finally got to breathe the air free of Aperture. There was no deer. But what comes next for our silent heroine? One fan started this music video using Valve’s new Source Filmmaker. It’s the…

Flight Takes You Around the World in 120 Days , With a Paper Airplane

Flight begins on a very sweet-hearted note—a little girl writes a letter to Santa Claus, saying she wants to see her mother for Christmas. She folds it into a paper airplane and flings her wish into the sky. It’s your job to get that message all the way around the world. Earnest and even a…

These Are The 40 Most Powerful People In Video Games

The world of video games is full of mighty people—people whose mere whims control what video games we play, what we play games on, how we buy them or even what games are like. We’ve often wondered who the most powerful person is in video games. And we’ve wondered who the second is, the third…

John Madden Jinxes Madden 13 Cover Athlete

For sports fans, there’s nothing more powerful than superstition. Sometimes we wear the same worn-out jersey every Sunday. Sometimes we put good luck charms in our sneakers. And we never, ever, ever say something that might inadvertently jinx our favorite players. Unless we’re John Madden, who passionately declared in an interview with the Detroit Free…

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Dishonored Gets an Incredible List of A-List Actors to Go All Steampunk

Hit Girl from Kick Ass. Roger Sterling from Mad Men. Louise from Thelma and Louise. Princess frikkin’ Leia. The actors responsible for those much-praised performances will all be showing up in Arkane Studios’ highly anticipated alt-reality adventure when it comes out this fall. It’s kind of incredible, really. Publisher Bethesda Softworks let the news of…

Watch The Mars Rover Landing Live On Your Xbox This Weekend

The game that lets you try your own hand at landing the next Mars rover may not be as cool as advertised, but the real event probably will be. And the real event is coming up this weekend, with Curiosity scheduled to land on the Martian surface late Sunday night (or early Monday morning, depending…

Wait, They Were Serious About Rambo: The Video Game?

I know Reef Entertainment announced last year that they’d be making video games based on the Rambo series. I read it here. It registered in my consciousness. Last month, when the company announced the game would be making an appearance at GamesCom in Germany, my mind kind of skipped over it, like it wasn’t a…

Leaking Early Code of the Pony Fighting Game is Not Magic

To call My Little Pony: Fighting is Magic a fan-made game is doing the tremendous effort by the Mane6 development team a great disservice. They’ve assembled an amazing team of programmers, animators, artists and musicians. They’ve recruited amateur voice actors. They’ve shown the game at the EVO 2012 Fighting Championships. What they are doing, really,…

id’s John Carmack Gets a Reminder on How Mario Used to Kick Our Ass

Here’s a short, cute clip from id boss John Carmack’s keynote address at this year’s QuakeCon, in which the brutality of Super Mario Bros. 3 is compared to the more pedestrian Mario games of today. Why do I bring it up? Well, Carmack and his old colleague John Romero once took Super Mario Bros. 3…

The Mass Effect 3 Ending I Wanted, But Never Got

It may have been extended, but the “new” Mass Effect 3 endings still didn’t give me the closure I needed. I didn’t want touching moments and galactic melodrama. I wanted rainbows Sass Effect [Tumblr]

The Game That’s Been Downloaded 100 Million Times (and Isn’t Angry Birds)

Proving that iOS games can steamroll their way to world domination without having any fat red birds in them, Temple Run – a game about little else but running – has crossed the 100,000,000 download mark. For a game that I used to call “Canabalt for less awesome people”, that’s one hell of an achievement.…

Just Cause 2 Supports Multiplayer? Holy Exploding Crap.

Sandbox action game Just Cause 2 was a blast to play solo, but sadly shipped without any kind of multiplayer. No matter. Fans of the game’s PC edition have whipped up a version that lets a reported 600 people play it at once. On the same island. The results are predictably…insane. Note that this is…

Conan O’Brien Plays Skyrim as “Mr. Buttons”

As you may have guessed by now, comedian and talk show host Conan O’Brien is fairly rubbish at video games. Mostly because he neither plays nor really even likes games. But then, that’s exactly what makes his “reviews” so good.

World of WarCraft Movie Gets a New Writer, Not so Dead After All

It was only two weeks ago that the World of Warcraft movie, fresh off its big-time director leaving the project, looked set to join the scrapheap of failed video game adaptations Today? It sounds like there’s some serious push behind the movie, because not only has a new writer been announced, but Activision boss Bobby…

See The Giant GameStop Factory in Texas Where Your Used Games & Consoles End up

Around 80% of trade-ins that take place in a GameStop store are re-sold in the same location. Those that aren’t, though, are moved on to this enormous factory and processing facility in Texas. If a game is traded in and the disc is looking a little worse for wear, it’s sent here for cleaning (with…