I have a friend who is a huge pothead. He smokes all day every day — his life revolves around the stuff. At the same time, he’s one of the most responsible people I know. He’s worked at the same …
Let’s talk about boobs. Gaming’s hottest topic right now is the chest of a fantasy character in developer Vanillaware’s upcoming beat-em-up Dragon’s Crown. Her breasts are very, very large. In the videos I’ve seen, they look almost too large, but …
Today, gamers are putting down violent games out of respect for the victims of the Newtown killings. If you really respect those families, then you should do something that matters.
Nothing will make your gaming collection pop like custom cover art. We've gathered up some of our favorites and explain how you can make your own.
Follow these guidelines to fit in and survive in the field during a Call of Duty midnight launch.
I'm sorry to the staff of GamesBeat and the followers of the GamesBeat Twitter account for inadvertently causing an awful message from a bigoted individual to appear on the site's official Twitter.
I did intend to retweet the hate-filled post (you can …
My life is a constant struggle to find more things to waste time on. I try to procrastinate, but the world just doesn't have enough distractions. Thankfully, not today.
I found this game Sinuous kept me away from anything resembling …
The phrase "OUYA launch game" kinda weirds me out. That is like calling Guild Wars II a launch game for the PC I'm building right now. A lot of casual observers and even veteran journalists still don't seem to understand what
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Reddit user S282 posted a collection of Batman mods to the community-driven news aggregator for the open-world crime game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. The add-ons (which can be downloaded here) transform the west-coast metropolis into a decent approximation of …
Developer Matt Gemmell, who produces apps primarily for Apple's iOS, wrote a blog that condemns Google's open operating system, Android. His most damning accusation is that the OS is "designed for piracy from the ground up." His point is that …
I would only ever burn my Optimus Prime action figure if I were, let's say, freezing to death in a global ice age. Unfortunately for the children in Little Inferno, the new game from World of Goo developer 2D Boy, …
The guys from GamerUnplugged.com walked into the lobby of developer Treyarch (the team responsible for Call of Duty: Black Op and Black Ops II) and found a big red button. As is our nature, one of the men from the …
I often find myself lollygagging in the wilds of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Something about the setting puts me in a lackadaisical mood. Usually, I have a list of goals I hope to complete each time I power up …
I taught Extreme Makeover Home Edition host Ty Pennington everything he knows about interior design. After tending my koi pond and eating hot dogs, IntDes — as we call it in the back aisles of Lowes — is my greatest …
I founded a religion last night. We worship trees and stone. Unsurprisingly, my cities are surrounded by forests and stone quarries. By shaping my religion based on my surroundings, I’ve gained bonus happiness for my people and improved their faith. …
A team at publisher Nordic Games is working on an HD remake of Painkiller. The 2004 first-person shooter was the first game from Bulletstorm developer People Can Fly. Apparently, developer Reinhard Pollice of Nordic Games has a build of the …
Bungie is off of Halo. Developer 343 Industries has moved in with designs to change things up and make Halo 4 multiplayer relevant again. Not that it’s completely insignificant, but Major League Gaming (professional gaming’s biggest competitive circuit) dropped Halo: …
Guns are out! What's in? Bows! That's right, kids, 2012 is all about the bow and the arrow. Screw that weak Donatello bow-staff garbage. All the cool kids are lashing together a bundle of sticks and then flinging another stick …
Fashionable. That's how I describe my circle of gaming friends. They know that nothing is classier during 15-hour sessions of Diablo III than a cashmere ascot, a pair of decorative spectacles, and an eight-inch cigarette holder. It's with that type …
This weekend is the 2012 installment of the Blip Festival, where a score of the world’s finest chiptune artists will commandeer The Gramercy Theater on 23rd Street in the Big Apple and manipulate old Atari 2600s and NES sound boards …
Chiptune musician Quinton Sung has gone ahead and given us the gift of song. Well, he regifted it, but he’s wrapped it in a new, NES-style bow…so it’s actually quite sweet.
Sung used the bleeps and bloops from an 8-bit-era …
I've tried to decorate my personal game room. The walls are covered in easily removable Super Mario Bros. stickers, and it doesn't look like a complete mess. That's only because I let my girlfriend handle the placement. The decals would …
A group of upperclassmen at Wilkes High School in suburban Champagne, Illinois has discovered why so many people buy "bad" games.
“It was a scheme conducted in secret by Activision, Electronic Arts, Microsoft, Rockstar, and many others,” student Caiden Miller …
I finally got Dark Souls. Please leave your words of encouragement and/or your dire warnings to never play it in the comments.
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Irrational Games delays BioShock Infinite into 2013. “When we announced the release date of BioShock Infinite …
I tried really hard to make this intro paragraph about something other than The Avengers. I failed, but I want you to recognized that I made the effort. Now, please call me "Hulk" for the duration of these Blips.
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Welcome to an especially swampy installment of the News Blips. My air conditioner broke, so the act of writing is physically demanding enough to cause my eyeballs to sweat out.
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Microsoft reportedly plans to begin selling a …
In today’s Blips, another company does something questionable, but I still find a way to lay the fault at BioWare’s feet. Let’s find out how.
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"BUT YOU SAID LASIK IS PAINLESS!"
God of War: Ascension will feature 8-person …
Television personality Adam Sessler is in the news today. Have you seen his new look? It’s like he has a crew cut growing from his chin up, while his head is completely barren.
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Adam Sessler has left …
My neighbors love it when I play Trials Evolution They get to listen to me stick my head outside the window and scream, “I am the leaderboard god!” It’s a very spiritual experience at 3:30 a.m.
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Valve Managing …
Trials Evolution, the greatest motorcycle platformer since Trials HD, is finally out. Since Wednesday, I've been spending most of my nights taking my rightful position at the top of the leaderboards. In that time, I've sharpened my skills and gotten …
Trials Evolution sounds like a game that takes place in a small Louisiana court room and has lots of old, sweaty lawyers arguing about Darwin and Genesis. Replace lawyers with motorcycles and that’s basically right.
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THQ reports a …
E3 Blips already? Good, I hate being in my twenties anyways. Let's get to 30 as quickly as possible! Thanks a lot, relentless march of time.
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Surprise, Nintendo will have a Wii U Mario to show off at …
Carbon Games’ AirMech was one of the coolest demos at PAX East. Turns out the real-time shooter/strategy title is available for free right now on the Chrome Webstore. Follow this link, install, and enjoy.
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According to the Better …
My girlfriend has left me alone for a few days while she does business and makes money. The room in my home that I'm in right now smells like a Taco Bell Doritios Locos Taco Supreme and farts as a …
I’m making a checklist for my PAX East trip. Let’s see. I have my deodorant, my socks, my 20-sided dice, my Sailor Moon cosplay, my GamerGrub (no relation), and my unopened case of Jolt Cola. I’m ready to nerd.
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I’ve been trying to get Nintendo to change the ending to Metroid for a few decades now. I thought I was playing as a manly man’s man before they pulled out the rug to reveal that Samus is a dainty …
I’ve been sucked into the daily routine of Draw Something. Although I’m noticing that the central conceit of the game is escaping some of the randoms I’ve played against. One drew the word “Luke” and the secret word, unsurprisingly, …
If you look closely at just about everything written on Bitmob right now, it’s easy to see everyone on the staff suffering to get back to Mass Effect 3. It’s a cruel universe that takes you away from ME3 to …
I made a girl cry. I punched an alien. I ate a day-old Hot Pocket. One of those things does not apply to my in-game time with Mass Effect 3, but it does apply to the sad state my …
Mass Effect 3 only just came in the mail, but I’m going to write these blips anyway. Not because I used up all my Bitmob sick days for Skyrim, but because I used up all my vacation days for …
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