Work On Valve’s Augmented Reality Glasses Continues… Outside Of Valve

Valve was at work on a set of augmented reality glasses when several employees were let go back in the summer. Two of them are continuing to work on the project, with the company’s blessings.


Patton Oswalt’s Amazing Star Wars Episode VII Rant, Brought To Life

The totally improvised, seven-and-a-half minute filibuster from an episode of NBC’s Parks & Recreation last month, in which Patton Oswalt outlines his vision of Star Wars: Episode VII (with Marvel crossovers) could not possibly have been more perfect, could it? Well, yes, it could, actually…


This Week In The Business: ‘What A Bunch Of Elitist B.S.’

What’s happened in the business of video games this past week …


PC To Get Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, Says Hideo Kojima

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is coming to PC, Hideo Kojima’s podcast revealed.


Xbox Exec Points To A Christmas Release For The Next Xbox

While not a direct confirmation, during the latest Major Nelson podcast episode, Aaron Greenberg, chief of staff for interactive entertainment at Microsoft, seemed to imply that whatever is shown during the Xbox reveal will be out this Christmas.


Tomodachi Collection Is One Odd Little Game

I spent this past week playing what is currently the best-selling game in the world: the Japan only 3DS game Tomodachi Collection: New Life. After scouring the internet for Miis to populate the game, I spent my first three hours with the game in a state of nostalgic, yet amused, bafflement. My extra hours with the game have done little to change my original opinion: it is a crazy random game designed from the bottom up to take as much of your time as possible.


The Largest Transformer Ever Made, Until Metroplex Ruins Everthing

The late 80s was the best time to be a toy-obsessed child. Back then toy companies weren’t afraid to release a toy that looked like a gun, contained toxic paint or weighed more than the kids it was being marketed to. It was a time when Hasbro, a couple years after releasing a toy aircraft carrier that measured more than 2m in length, gave Transformers fans the largest official Transformers toy on the market for more than 25 years — Fortress Maximus.


LulzSec Members Behind Sony, Nintendo Hacks Of 2011 Sentenced

Four members of LulzSec, the group behind 2011′s hacker attacks against Sony and Nintendo, were sentenced at a London court yesterday.


A Fünke Bit Of Arrested Development Makes These Capcom Games Amazing

Arrested Development‘s imminent return means that its stars have turned up in the weirdest places. Like frozen banana stands in various cities. And while Tobias Fünke’s sizzle reel had a brief snippet of video games in it, Capcom’s taken things to a whole new level.


Virtual Same Sex Marriage Is Thriving In This Online Fantasy Game

You can play as an orc or dark elf in loads of massively multiplayer online games. But you can’t marry someone of the same gender in most of them. That’s not the case in Nexon’s Mabinogi.


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