Tweet Warning: The Watercooler is the best thing you will see on the Internet today, mainly because it is the best thing I saw on the Internet yesterday. Be advised that these Watercooler stories are not necessarily videogame related (they usually won’t be), and are often silly, controversial, and/or not safe for work (NSFW). If [...]

Tweet What’s the one thing you wanted for Christmas but were disappointed you never got? That’s right, it’s Episode 9 of the Ripcast! After a long holiday break, Jon, Dan, and Beau are back to satisfy your need to hear nerds talk about games. As always, the boys talk about the games they’ve been playing [...]

Tweet All you readers mark your calendars because this is the PS3 you will more than likely want to import. The “Cloud Black”, as they are calling it, is being released to the world (okay, just Japan). Even with a just a small amount of design change, it is beautiful.

Tweet The Escapist and Valve developer Robin Walker have, in an article about my all-time favourite game, Team Fortress 2, noted that “A new Payload map is in the works, more community maps are on the way and the team will soon unveil a very different new game mode.” Very different, eh? Sounds good to [...]

Tweet I’m a fan of indie game Plain Sight. Developed by UK-based Beatnik games, the game is delightfully destructive and superbly simple. Now I’m done with the alliteration, I direct you here. The open beta of the game is finally here, much to my delight. Indie fans and anyone who has a decent enough PC [...]

Tweet Although an oft-heard phrase for Team Fortress 2 players, the title refers to this video. You remember Matt, right? Of course you do. Well, meet his videogame counterparts: Medic, Heavy, and Spy. Not much to say, other than that this is one of the best machinima (sort of) videos I’ve seen. TF2 keeps proving [...]

Tweet …in more ways than one. Nintendo Everything report that New Play Control! Pikmin and New Play Control! Mario Power Tennis will be released in Europe on the 6th of February and 6th March respectively. “New Play Control!”, as well as being a fantastic example of Engrish, is possibly the most literal title to a [...]

Tweet ThreeSpeech reports that Sony are releasing a Killzone 2 PS3 bundle in the UK, priced at £299.99. That’s about $418 at the time of writing. The bundle includes the game and an 80GB PS3 console, as well as the fancy box. The release date is TBC currently, but expect it to be very near [...]

Tweet Video Games Blogger reports that Sony Computer Entertainment Benelux (In case you don’t know, that’s Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg) have put put a release list for the first quarter of 2009. The list shows that Wipeout Pulse (originally a PSP game) is being released on PS2, and that Flower and Fat Princess are releasing in [...]

Tweet Another Monday, another update for the Virtual Console and WiiWare channels. Two new games added to the WiiWare with High Voltage Hot Rod Show and Family Glide Hockey, both up to four players, and a Sega Genesis oldie, Musha, is up on the Virtual Console to download. Hit the jump for the full descriptions [...]

Tweet 2 weeks and 58,736 votes ago, community modding site Mod DB began voting on the best 100 mods from the year. The votes are in, and you can now browse the 100 best mods of 2008, as well as the best upcoming mods. Make sure to vote for your favourite, to ensure it makes [...]

Tweet Another week of January games releases, which hasn’t been too much to get excited for as of late. However, this week seems a lot better than the past few with Skate 2 for the 360 and PS3, SimAnimals on the Wii and DS and Star Ocean: Second Evolution for the PSP, all hitting stores [...]

Tweet Researchers at the University of Rochester have surveyed 2,670 frequent game players, as well and over 300 undergraduates, and found that violent content has no real effect on the appeal of a game. Using Half-Life 2 and a dev kit, the researchers made two scenarios for the participants: a “violent” one where the player [...]

Tweet I’m sure you’re all as sick of these “Gamer assaults family member for stopping games” stories as I am, but this one has a twist. Rather than using an actual weapon or engaging in fisticuffs, Zachary Moir of Orlando, FL chose to assault his mom… with a taco.

Tweet According to Kotaku, via Reuters, Final Fantasy XIII won’t be coming overseas until 2010. In an interview with Reuters, Square Enix Boss Yoichi Wada confirms that the Japanese release of FFXIII will be in 2009, but the Western release won’t be until at least April 2010. This sucks because FFXIII was one of the [...]