It's March 14, 2015, the last day the U.S. date will align with the first five digits of pi until 2115. If that's not cause for celebration, then I'd probably just find some other reason to review six of the best pies the U.S. has to offer. I'm dedicated like that.
While Final Fantasy Type-0 HD isn't due out in North America until Tuesday, a special ending cinematic teaser from the end of the game has hit YouTube, suggesting game director Hajime Tabata's desire to make Final Fantasy Type-1 is being realized.
The sequel to Interplay's legendary post-apocalyptic role-playing game was bigger and badder than the original Fallout, which translates into more space on the cutting room floor for discarded storylines, abandoned features, unrealized non-player characters and a fully-upgradeable, completely drive-able vehicle.
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Searching as I do from time to time through the video game crossover wonderland that is FanFiction.net, I happened to turn off the mature story filter for a split-second, during which I encountered the raunchiest, steamiest Shadow the Hedgehog-meets-Borderlands story I've ever read.
Following up on last year's spectacular Simpsons house set, LEGO returns to Springfield with one of the fictional town's most iconic retail establishments. Your own miniature Kwik-E-Mart franchise can be yours in May for $200.
At Chattacon 1994 we got snowed in, and during a quiet moment when everyone else was off scavenging for something to do, I found an unattended box of chicken wings and ate every last one.
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Oh wait, it says here the game’s name is Angry Birds Stella POP!. Oh well, too late to change the video. We’re just going to have to roll with it. It’s only five minutes, no one will notice.
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Want to watch Richard from HBO's Silicon Valley playing Total War: Attila? Actor and writer Thomas Middleditch is streaming live on Twitch right now, and he's so excited about the game it's adorable. You can watch along here.
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Over its first four iterations Gameloft's Diablo-esque Dungeon Hunter has transformed from excellent premium mobile game to mildly greedy free-to-play. With this week's release of Dungeon Hunter 5 the series becomes a mildly greedy free-to-play hack-and-slash card-collecting defense game, aka just about everything…
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Traversing portals to solve puzzles split between two worlds, one black and white, the other white and black? Sounds like a simple enough concept to grasp in five minutes.
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What can the first five minutes of a video game tell you? We're about to find out with Tokyo Twilight Ghost Hunters, a new visual novel adventure available today for the PlayStation 3 and Vita. Here goes 300 seconds of something.
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I really enjoyed DMC upon its first release, dark-haired emo Dante and all. Released today, the Definitive Edition for PS4 and Xbox One gives fans of the first game a more traditional demon spawn hero to play with. He'll do. Let's play!
You got two of my five. Crysis 3 and Metro. I also do Tomb Raider (to test the hair), World of Warcraft (baseline) and Bioshock Infnite, for that built-in benchmark .
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Apple's next big thing ships next month, and soon wrists all around the globe will be thrumming with iTechnology. What can a wrist-based device with a tiny screen bring to gaming? Quite a lot, probably.
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During Comedy Central's biennial Night of Too Many Stars benefit for New York Collaborates for Autism, Weird Al Yankovic and 13-year-old autistic singer Jodi DiPiazza performed a stunning rendition of the classic "Yoda" that moved me to tears.
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Sideshow's partnership with Blizzard has resulted in some pretty amazing collectibles—Deathwing from World of Warcraft, the Diablo III version of the Prime Evil—but nothing nearly as spectacular as the meticulously crafted sixth scale figure of StarCraft's Jim Raynor in his signature space marine armor.
22 wasted Pucco soft candies.
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"He's killing during the hour that doesn't exist!" From the makers of Saving Daylight comes Saving Daylight: The Vanishing Hour.
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It's some indie gems mixed with big-budget remakes this week, with Ori and The Blind Forest topping my list of games most likely to be the top image for The Week in Games. Oh look, it won.
Since early 2013 Nvidia has announced three different Nvidia Shields, the latest being the Android console that debuted at GDC earlier this week. At this rate they're going to need a lot of help coming up with new things to call Shield. That's where you come in.
