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Amazon Brings Achievements, Cloud Saving To Kindle Games

This is Amazon GameCircle, a new service that Amazon hopes will help it compete with Apple’s Game Center. Designed to keep track of leaderboards, achievements, and other various stats, GameCircle is built for Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet. You can sign up for the service right here. Announcing Amazon GameCircle – A New Gaming Experience for…

By Jason Schreier Published July 11, 2012

The Future of Rare, A Vita ‘Iteration’, and a Pair of Avalanche Mysteries

Editor’s Note: The shadowy figure known as Superannuation is back with more armfuls of gaming gossip about the people who made Perfect Dark, a possible Disney Skylanders clone, a strange Vita job listing at Sony and some tantalizing mysteries that maybe only you can solve. What has Superannuation dug from the World Wide Web to…

by Superannuation Published July 11, 2012

A Pixelated Big Lebowski Game Would Have You Play As ‘The Dude’ And It Would Be Awesome

He’s known only as ‘The Dude,’ and he’s the greatest bowler of all time. But that drink in his hand does not look like a White Russian. Someone give the poor dude a White Russian! You can buy a print version of The Dude online. Check out Jesus and Walter down below, too. Dammit, Walter,…

By Tina Amini Published July 11, 2012

Mass Effect 3‘s Free New DLC Brings Maps And Weapons To Multiplayer Next Week

Mass Effect 3‘s Earth DLC will hit PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3 on July 17, developer BioWare confirmed today. It’s a free multi-player pack that adds new maps, weapons, and characters. Here’s the official info courtesy BioWare: Three New Maps – With the fate of the galaxy at stake, Earth’s military efforts have concentrated…

By Jason Schreier Published July 11, 2012

This New Trailer Proves Assassin’s Creed III Can Be Just As Badass On Vita

Here’s a new trailer for the upcoming Assassin’s Creed III Liberation, the Vita version of Ubisoft’s popular action series that will be out October 30. It’s set in 18th-century New Orleans and it’s the first Assassin’s Creed game to star a female protagonist, a stylish assassin named Aveline. Go ahead and watch as she dives…

By Jason Schreier Published July 11, 2012

Microsoft Has Spent Millions Bringing Halo 4 To Real Life

The upcoming Halo 4 live-action series will cost between $5-10 million to produce, reports the Los Angeles Times today in an excellent new feature about Microsoft’s ambitious new project. Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn, which will preview this Thursday at Comic Con and launch October 5, is a prequel that re-creates the first invasion of…

By Jason Schreier Published July 11, 2012

Touch A Single Firefly To Set Off a Soothing, Addictive Chain-Reaction

If you grew up in certain parts of the country, you’ve no doubt got some fond memories regarding fireflies. A cool summer’s dusk, the stars just starting to be visible, the chirping of insects—and flashing lazily about, the lights of fireflies. Fireflies! the game has an exclamation mark in its title. That enthusiastic punctuation should…

By Kirk Hamilton Published July 11, 2012

The Witcher, The Witcher 2 Sell Four Million Total Copies

Developer CD Projekt Red has sold over four million copies of The Witcher and The Witcher 2, it said today in a press release. That’s a combined total for both PC and consoles. Impressive stuff!

By Jason Schreier Published July 11, 2012

This New Video Game Does Some Hilarious Impressions Of Barack Obama And Mitt Romney

Here’s the trailer for The Race for the White House, a new game released today for PC and Mac that simulates the 2012 election. Looks kinda funny, no? While The Race for the White House certainly isn’t the first election game—veteran developers Stardock Entertainment are releasing Political Machine 2012 this year as well, a follow-up…

By Jason Schreier Published July 11, 2012

The Evolution of Stars: The Unusual Astronomy of Mass Effect, Halo, and StarCraft II

Science fiction games are littered with dead and dying stars. Mass Effect has its supernova-blasted Mu Relay, eezo mines near neutron stars, and Adepts slinging miniature black holes around. In the Halo universe, artificially-triggered supernovae are the ultimate weapon for exterminating Flood-infested systems. In Spore, you can use black holes as entrances to the galactic…

By Ryan Anderson Published July 11, 2012

Report: The Next Batman Game Will Be A Prequel To Arkham Asylum

The next Batman game will be a prequel that centers around Batman’s first encounter with the Joker, according to a new report. According to Variety, the prequel to Rocksteady’s Arkham Asylum and Arkham City will be based on the Silver Age of DC’s comics from the 1950s. Variety says the game will be out in…

By Jason Schreier Published July 11, 2012

LEGO Brings Fresh Hobbits, Heroes, Jedi and Ninjas to San Diego Comic-Con

San Diego Comic-Con is where science fiction, fantasy, comic books and toys collide, so what better place for LEGO to show off their upcoming building sets? The four days of Comic-Con equal four days of huge LEGO reveals across every major nerd-relevant product line. What’s in store for brick fans? Each day at 2PM Pacific,…

By Mike Fahey Published July 11, 2012

This Pikachu Can Pull a Man’s Arms Out of His Sockets

It’s Han Solo’s co-pilot, Chewbacca, crossbred with Ash’s buddy, Pikachu. The result? Wookimon? Chewbachu? Pikachewie? Yes, Pikachewie That’s what custom figure maker KodyKoala is calling it—and he should know because he made it. According to KodyKoala: I used a Jakks 2007 Electronic Pikachu and I covered him in Apoxy sculpt and made him look hairy.…

By Brian Ashcraft Published July 11, 2012

Go On, Let Morrigan Drive You Batty

The hair. The tights. The wings—especially ones coming out of her noggin. Since debuting in 1994 Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors, Morrigan Aensland has become one of gaming’s most iconic characters. A fan service favorite, Morrigan continues to attract cosplayers, eager to put on succubus’s revealing outfit. But who dons her duds best? Who pulls off…

By Brian Ashcraft Published July 11, 2012

This Giant LEGO Bridge Looks Photoshopped (But It’s Not)

Street artist MEGX painted this bridge in Wuppertal, Germany to look like it was made out of LEGO. His use of colour and contrast makes the thing look like a hideous Photoshop job, but nope, it’s real. The guy got busy with paintbrushes and, after four weeks on the job, left the world with the…

By Luke Plunkett Published July 11, 2012

This Giant Hunk is Playing Master Chief in the Halo Series

This is Daniel Cudmore. He’s a Canadian actor who you’ll probably recognise most easily as Colossus from the X-Men movies. You’ll also soon be seeing him play the role of Halo’s Master Chief. Well, sort of. With the sci-fi series’ big-screen adaptation dead in the water, Cudmore will be the first man to play the…

By Luke Plunkett Published July 11, 2012

The Murder Rate (and Bastard Rate) in Game of Thrones Explained, in Pictures

While you naturally think about them while reading the books/watching the show – I mean, they’re right there – it’s not until you see them mapped out in graphs that you realise just how messed up the death rates (and incest rates, and boring food-eating rates) are in the realm of Westeros.

By Luke Plunkett Published July 11, 2012

Oh God, Sub-Zero, STOP LOOKING AT ME LIKE THAT

This is a life-size bust of Mortal Kombat’s Sub-Zero. That means, yup, if you held it up to your own head, unless you are a small child (GO TO BED), it’ll be about the same size. Hopefully that’s where the similarities end, though. Because if your face could pull an expression like that, you’d be…

By Luke Plunkett Published July 11, 2012

If You Hate Capcom’s DLC Policy, Read This

Japanese publisher Capcom has taken a lot of flak this year for its policy of hiding “downloadable” content on a fighting game disc, then charging users to unlock it. Sure, they had their business reasons, but when people spend $50-60 on a game, they expect to own everything on that disc. So it’s awesome to…

By Luke Plunkett Published July 11, 2012

Two Reasons You Shouldn’t Ride Motorbikes in DayZ

Reason #1: They’re really, really hard to find spare parts for (the game forces you to repair a vehicle before driving it). Reason #2: They’re bad for your health. [via PC Gamer]

By Luke Plunkett Published July 11, 2012