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Video Games Raised $46 Million On Kickstarter Last Year

Video games took in $46,177,705 on Kickstarter in 2015, according to new stats released today by the crowdfunding company. That’s significantly more than 2014 but not quite as much as Kickstarter made from games in 2013. Close to 25% of that money came solely from Shenmue III and the Castlevania spiritual successor Bloodstained, which raised…

The children of Angolan resistance leader Jonas Savimbi are suing Activision over their father’s portrayal in Call of Duty: Black Ops II. They’re unhappy with the game making him out to be a “barbarian,” they say in the suit.

Actor Alan Rickman Dies At 69

The great British actor Alan Rickman, famous for his roles in Harry Potter and Die Hard, has passed away. A member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Rickman’s breakout role with mainstream movie audiences was as the terrorist Hans Gruber in 1988’s Die Hard. High-profile parts like the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood: Prince of…

Not All Anime Characters Look Freaky in Real Life

There’s a notion that anime (and manga) characters look good in their respective formats because they are so stylized. In real life, this notion goes, they’d look strange. That’s not always true. As previously, a set of highly realistic Attack on Titan statues are on display at Universal Studios Japan in Osaka. Two of the…

Let’s Rank the Star Wars Movies, Best to Worst

With a new Star Wars movie out, the first in ten years, now is as good a time as any to see how all the films stack up. That’s right, it’s time to put the Star Wars movies through the Pecking Order paces—much like with have with everything from the Final Fantasy games to, more…

Motörhead’s Lemmy Lives On In GTA V

Once was a time you’d pay tribute to a fallen idol by writing a song, or maybe placing some flowers. That was then. This is 2016, and some Motörhead fans have taken to frontman Lemmy’s passing a little differently. Thanks to a mod (by Christian Brandes, David Violante and jedijosh920), Lemmy Kilmister himself is now…

Snoop Is Not Happy About Xbox’s Servers: “Fix Your Shit”

And now, a message from disgruntled Xbox owner Snoop Dogg.

The Final Station Looks Like Snowpiercer vs Zombies

tinyBuild Games—of Punch Club and Lovely Planet fame—are also putting out The Final Station. Which looks both grim and cute-as-hell at the same time. Grim because the world is dying! Cute-as-hell because just look at that cute little hero and those cute little zombie ghost things. Here’s the official description: Travel by train through a…

What Star Wars: The Force Awakens Looks Like Without Visual Effects

Let’s take a closer look at the CGI and special effects in The Force Awakens, shall we? Oscars has a great breakdown of the VFX before/after featured in the latest Star Wars, and it’s definitely worth a watch. Amazing to see how much of this stuff is recorded ‘in real life’ versus what is constructed…

Nice Monkey Island Reference, Assassin’s Creed

I was kidnapping a guy the other night in Assassin’s Creed Syndicate and overheard a couple of Londoners engaging in some insult sword fighting. If you ask me, most of the enemies in these games fight like dairy farmers…

Unravel Dev Shows Us How To Make Our Own Little Yarn Friend

One of the best moments of E3 2015 was watching Coldwood Interactive’s Martin Sahlin take the stage during EA’s presser, nervously gripping the hero ofUnravel. Now Sahlin’s released a video showing us how to make our very own Yarny. Its a simple process, really. All you need is some wire, some yarn, scissors, maybe a…

Metal Gear Online PC Temporarily Disabled After Players Bypass Microtransactions

Well-known carpet distributor Konami has disabled the Metal Gear Online beta on PC following the discovery of an exploit that allowed players to get free MB coins, the in-game currency that costs real money. “Due to a possible exploit, we’ve removed access to the Beta temporarily while a hotfix is being prepared,” Konami community manager…

Louis Vuitton Interview With Final Fantasy‘s Lightning Should Be Canon

Many fans were surprised when Final Fantasy XIII’s pink-haired heroinetraded in her Firaga in favor of being a fashion model. In a completely made-up interview given exclusively to UK’s Telegraph, Lightning reveals how significantly pricey clothing has changed her life. Fans called Lightning modeling purses and other items designed by Louis Vuitton creative director Nicolas…

Fallout 4 Mod Gives You Actual Seasons

Forget nuclear winter—a new Fallout 4 mod for PC lets you play the whole game in actual winter. The Fallout 4 seasons mod (via Eurogamer) gives you access to spring, summer, fall, and winter, just in case you want to prance around like it’s football season all year long. This one’s pretty cool. Watch YouTuber…

PlayStations Get Free Civil War And Ant-Man DLC For LEGO Avengers

LEGO Marvel Avengers is a massive game packed with iconic comic book characters. It’ll just be a bit more massive on PlayStation 3 and 4 when it launches later this month. And with Ant-Man involved, a bit smaller as well. As announced over at the PlayStation Blog, gamers that grab LEGO Marvel Avengers for PlayStation…

That’s One Gruesome Game Boy Cartridge

This cartridge certainly won’t fit into a Game Boy. But it looks really awesome! It’s a unique Resident Evil-inspired piece made by Belgian modder Vadu Amka. It totally would have been a cool design for an imaginary Resident Evil game or something similar for the Game Boy. But those were simpler times. The only special…

Eight Cool Things In Diablo III‘s New Patch

Diablo III’s long awaited patch 2.4 is now live both in the US and in the EU. It’s quite a big update with new zones, items, game mechanics and small tweaks. The game feels a lot different if you haven’t played in months. The full patch notes are over here, if you wanna see them.…

BioShock’s Floating City of Columbia, Translated to Fallout 4

Is it exactly like the Columbia from BioShock Infinite? Nope—but that Columbia never had to survive nuclear annihilation and 300 years’ worth of wear and tear. So it’s still rather well off, considering. Built by Girlplaysgame (via Eurogamer), the settlement manages to look like a post-apocalyptic Columbia thanks to a variety of mods, including GPG’s…

League Of Legends Has A New Champion: Jhin

Riot today unveiled the newest addition to the League of Legends roster: Jhin. He’s “meticulous and calculating – League’s slowest marksman yet”. The gist being that he takes time to kick ass, but when given the time, kicks a lot of ass. You can read his full breakdown here Here’s a teaser Riot released last…

Courtesy of Tiny Cartridge, we now know that Japanese publisher Natsume, probably most famous here for Harvest Moon, has the cutest little eBay store where they sell their old games and merch.