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House rules Youre standing still on an escalator and, as you travel up, people keep walking past while giving you dirty looks. Its confusing, until it hits you: youre standing on the left-hand side. Youre blocking the agreed-upon side where people walk, thus breaking the social contract and becoming a …

Blades of steel Oh sure, Cloud Strife’s person-sized Buster Sword looks pretty cool…but if you were going toe-to-toe with an opponent, you’d probably be better off with a plastic butter knife for a weapon. Video games and real-world science get along like vegans and cannibals–for proof, just look at how …

Twenty-eight years ago this month, Atari took on Nintendo… and lost. In January of 1986, Atari re-released the Atari 7800–and promptly ran into the buzzsaw that was the Nintendo Entertainment System. Little remembered today, the event marked the end of Atari’s status as the dominant player in the home console …

Hey, you. Yeah, you! Listen, I want to know how your holiday break was. Why? Well, because there’s fuck-all to talk about in the video games department, and this show must go on! Join the RadioRadar crew as we reminisce about the holiday that was and the year ahead. Hosts: …

They took an obsoletin’ and kept on beepin’ Its easy to look at video games and see an industry with serious sustainability issues. Every year brings an influx of impossibly shiny new gear to lust after–and with it, presumably, a brimming scrap-heap out back to house all the dust-covered relics …

Telltale has done it again. From the creators of The Walking Dead (the best game of 2013 according to GamesRadar) comes an adventure based on the Fables graphic novel. The Wolf Among Us takes place in a world where fairytale characters are transplanted from their lands into ours. Don’t let …

An earlier version of this article originally appeared on this site on November 21, 2012. Cooking with Pokemon As we discussed when we wrote about The Top 7 Most disturbing things about the Pokemon universe, the humans of Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh, and Unova all eat Pokemon. All the time. …

The bureaucratically corrupt but martial artistically strong world of Sleeping Dogs will return in Triad Wars. UFG officially confirmed its next project after fans spotted a trademark for the name. A post on the developer’s site refused to say anything more about the project aside from “it’s another game based …

Shadow of the Eternals, the proposed spiritual successor to cult horror game Eternal Darkness, has been postponed indefinitely. Precursor Games chief creative officer Denis Dyack delivered the news in an update on the studio’s forums. “It is with a heavy heart that we have decided to put the Shadow of …

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