As if we needed another reason to say that The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is the best game to come out recently, Rice University in Houston has announced an upcoming course that will allow students to play the game as part of the course. The course is ENGL 312: “Scandinavian Fantasy Worlds: Old Norse Sagas and Skyrim” [...]
Alright, so we’re a little late on the jump, but last Saturday Ubisoft announced a deal with Nickelodeon to make a television show out of the popular game series Rayman Raving Rabbids. Here’s the Press Release: SAN FRANCISCO – October 6, 2011 – Ubisoft today announced a licensing agreement with Nickelodeon to bring a new [...]
Good lord. Say what you will about OSU but it’s pretty damn clear their marching band doesn’t fuck around. Oh sorry, we’re just going to do nine minutes of video game music while doing crazy choreography. Seriously. They make a running horse about six minutes in. A running horse. While playing Zelda themes. No big. Also featuring [...]
Well, well, well. Looks like we started something and it just cannot be stopped. We brought it back so hard last year that we didn’t even need to do anything this year. It just showed up because Mountain Dew doesn’t want another war. They know better. It could also be that Game Fuel was born [...]
We’ve all seen them, and we all hate them, movie tie in games. For the few that don’t know, a movie tie in game is a videogame that releases either before or very close to the release of the movie hits theaters. Here, I’ll give you a few examples. Let’s take one of the big blockbuster [...]
Alright listen. We all know what happened with NHL ’12. It should’ve been Tim Thomas, no doubt about it. Sure, Stamkos has about 7,000 goals this season and that’s cool and all. But Tim Thomas won us the Stanley Cup after 39 years of kicking rocks. It was a straight robbery for Bruins fans everywhere. [...]
The premise of the TacoCopter is quite simple: you use an iPhone app to place your order and in a matter of minutes a badass unmanned quadcopter will deliver your warm tacos using the GPS coordinates it got from your phone. As you pay online, the TacoCopter simply drops the order where you want it and then [...]
Kotaku – “Two-time Pokémon champion Ruben Puig Lecegui was stripped of his his title at the United Kingdom Video Game Championship following a scandal in which he and members of his team are accused of leaving their hotel rooms to take a dump in the hall.
Most gamers have grown up with Mario and playing Mario games since they could touch a controller. Platformers are usually simple games that require you to run, jump and get past a few bad guys to get to the end of the level. Seems like a solid formula to me. But what happens when you [...]
I say it about everything I enjoy but get the duck boats ready! Just living the high life right here in the bean! PAX East is easily the most fun we have all year and I’m so happy it’s staying in Boston for another ten years. Now when everybody from the country wants to go [...]
