Tweet Stephen Totilo over at the MTV Multiplayer blog decided to spend a portion of his Halloween holiday by treating himself to the “New Xbox Experience”. Microsoft claims that the NXE will have your Xbox 360 games loading faster than ever before, so Stephen popped in a few titles, hit record, and published the split [...]

Tweet You know that saying about shit rolling downhill? Yeah, well you better believe it does. A few nights ago, we reported that a long time EA Command & Conquer community staff member had made a forum post informing members that the company would be linking bans on the forum to their line up of [...]

Tweet Halloween is upon us, and we thought it would be a good time to share some “I just shit myself” scary video game moments. Turn the lights off and inch yourself closer to the warm inviting glow of our web page — Boo! Alright, not so scary. Hit the jump to find out what [...]

Tweet If you’re anything like me, you love to watch behind-the-scenes footage of pretty much anything. The making of a Snickers bar? Sign me up! Alright, that might be a bit much, but this Monday’s X-Play at 8pm EST promises an all access pass inside Epic Studios with insight into the making of Gears of [...]

Tweet Remember the good old days of Popcap Games when they had online multiplayer? Psychobabble, a creative twist on magnetic poetry, was one of these games. Popcap decided a couple years back that the cost of maintaining these online games was simply not feasible anymore. People were pretty upset about Popcap’s actions, even going so [...]

Tweet Left 4 Dead surprises me everyday with the amount of sheer awesome that’s being generated by the game’s hype machine. If you kill every zombie in the infected town of Willamete, you get an achievement. Doesn’t sound so bad, right? I mean, when the zombie apocalypse comes around that’s kind of the plan. You [...]

Tweet Hoverit Ltd, a UK-based design company, recently announced their new levitating lounge chair. Yeah, I know it’s a tongue twister, but say it slowly. Levitating. Lounge chair. Sexy.

Tweet The Watercooler, as always, is the best thing you will see on the Internet today, mainly because it is the best thing I saw yesterday, or since the last Watercooler at least. There is, however, the possibility that you will see tomorrow’s Watercooler today, in which case the best thing you saw today is [...]

Tweet We previously reported that The Beatles would be coming to Rock Band 2 based on what the Wall Street Journal Online deemed information from “several people familiar with the matter”. Unfortunately, those individuals apparently weren’t familiar enough. The reality of the situation is still pretty cool for gamers and hardcore fans of the group, [...]

Tweet You may never get to be President of the United States, but if Senator Obama wins this year’s election, you can play one in a video game. That’s right people, the rumor regarding Barack Obama and everyone’s favorite punching bag, Sarah Palin, coming to Mercenaries 2: World in Flames is most certainly true. Hit [...]

Tweet Some of you may remember the Donkey Kong rap we featured approximately 91 days ago, most likely because the song has been stuck in your head ever since. If not, watch it now. Go ahead, it’ll make you more cultured. Anyway, one of the dudes behind its creation was Todd Michael Rogers. He’s what [...]

Tweet Economic hardships have officially hit the previously thought to be untouchable games industry, as Electronic Arts has announced that it will lay off 600 of its employees. This comes as an effort to conserve development resources and expand profit margins, as Mariam Sughayer explained to Kotaku. “All parts of EA have reviewed their team [...]

Tweet Back in 2002, I first played Klonoa 2: Lunatea’s Veil when my neighbor found a copy in the bargain bin at GameStop. We spent hours on end trying to get to the end of the game before dinnertime, and never actually did. But without a doubt, I can say that parts of the Klonoa [...]

Tweet The latest update on the Playstation.blog announced the first DLC coming to the Playstation Network for LittleBigPlanet, which includes the free (from 11/6 to 11/9) Halloween Mask & the Launch Space Suit. Unfortunately, they’re limited time only downloadables, so get them while you can. They also announced that in the coming weeks, there will [...]

Tweet Well well well, what we have here is a failure to communicate — or so it seems. You decide. We reported late last night that an EA community staff member on the Command and Conquer forum advised posters of a policy change that would allow them to ban individuals banned from forum access from [...]