I make no secret of my disdain for Internet culture in general: the ridiculous memes that people embrace, the horrific online lingo, the flame wars, the lawsuits between wimps who can’t fight their own battles (you had to have been around the SA anime scene about 10 years ago to understand that one). And every [...]

As seen on PC Gamer: someone made an Achievement-grinding map, filled with stuff needed to just kill random bots and pick up weapon ammo crates until you get the Achivements you’re looking for, but with a twist. A user, knowing the right command, can trigger Cat-mageddon. The video explains it all: Laser Death Cat Some [...]

This is a short one, but things like this deserve to be seen. Ever want to see how an act of sheer dumb luck can win a game? Well, look no further than this crazy knife kill from Modern Warfare 2. Seriously, the guy just throws it in the air and it pegs some poor [...]

OK, I seriously couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw some of these things. If you thought that the Guitar Hero stuff, the DJ hero turntable and the upcoming Tony Hawk controller were pushing gaming peripherals further than they needed to, think again. Games Radar has rounded up some of the most extreme gaming peripherals [...]

It’s been a while since we’ve heard anything along these lines, some fool committing some kind of atrocity and blaming it on a videogame. Scandalous stories like these were rampant during the ‘90s when videogames were just starting to push the envelope as far as violence goes. And while this story isn’t quite as shocking [...]

We’ve heard the concept of “adaptive difficulty” mentioned and even used in videogames before. Games like Devil May Cry and Ninja Gaiden Sigma offer to lower the difficulty when players are clearly struggling – which functions as both an act of mercy and a statement about the player’s action game skills. Halo Wars too, apparently, [...]

Honestly, just when you think the Japanese can’t get any stranger, more hopeless, or any more cringe-inducing, they go and surprise you again. It turns out that the latest in a line of “virtual idol” software from Crypton Future Media, Hatsune Miku Virtual Idol, can now be made to inject her voice into any song [...]