My Best Games

Gabe Newell, CEO and co-founder of Valve, has told PC Gamer that if a Half-Life movie were made, it would have to be made by Valve itself. Oh, and Valve has considered it. Really! Here’s Gabe on Valve’s previous attempts at creating a Half-Life film adaptation… …

Any game where you’re trying to stop delicious pig-based meat products from happening should be considered as playing from the perspective of the villain. Nonetheless, even though you’re doing the unthinkable by trying to stop your piggy friends from being transformed into a taste sensation, Super Turbo Action Pig is pretty good… …

Still drooling over Dragon Age 2’s ‘Destiny’ debut trailer? Brother, that was so last week. If you really want to be part of the cool kids’ club, then you’d best be setting your hellfire eyes on developer BioWare’s new, new ‘Director’s Cut’ Destiny trailer… …

Please enjoy this video as our way of saying thank you to all who played all nigh and day. Or watch it and see all the fun you missed out on. For more of the 24 our marathon click inside… …

There are robot prostitutes in Fallout: New Vegas. If this news had been revealed any other way, it would only have been mildly amusing, but because it was revealed by the ESRB’s description of the game’s content, it’s extremely amusing. We know it didn’t go down this way, but all we can imagine is a thin-lipped, snarling woman with Betty White hair dictating to a typist in a drier-than-Death-Valley voice, “There is also an extended sequence suggesting sexual activity with a robot.” …

Step aside, MIT, there’s a new geekiest school in town, and this one actually requires that you play Starcraft. The University of Florida is offering a course called “21st Century Skills in Starcraft,” and it’s only available to honors students. True story… …

Sure, there are plenty of gaming awards kicking around, but the Golden Joysticks are the ones to be voted by you, the guys and girls who actually buy and play the games. There are no committees of journos and games industry execs deciding who wins, just a giant online ballot box where gamers cast their votes and a piece of software spits out the final counts. So in a nutshell, that’s why you should care about the Joysticks and head to www.goldenjoystick.com to vote. Now! …

Where would we be without Playboy? Without it, who would have awkwardly sponsored our first fap? And how the hell would we have ever seen Olivia Munn in the buff without constructing some elaborate peephole periscope in the bushes outside her house? Hugh Hefner’s company just keeps on giving, too, with the announcement that it’s teaming up with developer Bigpoint on an MMO called Poisonville. …

It might lack the satin sexiness of Ada Wong or the strike-a-pose foppishness of Leon Kennedy, but this inspirational Licker costume has a special charm all of its own. It is quite simply the best Resident Evil cosplay I have ever seen. …

Ever since the late ’80s, the phrase “darker, grittier” has been synonymous with two things. Firstly, stimulating adult reinterpretations of existing media. Thankyou, The Dark Knight Returns. Secondly, misguided reboots that grind all the joy out of their predecessors in the name of an adolescent sales boost. Damn you, Prince of Persia: Warrior Within and Final Fight: Streetwise

The Mega Man franchise has greatly fluctuated between light and dark over the years, the original games making up the former tone and the X and Zero sagas taking care of the latter. Being a mash-up of all Mega Man eras, we expected the tone of the upcoming Korean MMO Mega Man Online (MMO MMO?) to be pretty eclectic, but yikes, does this anime trailer imply very serious business indeed. It’s epic, it’s bleak, and it implies that the finished game is going to take in an apocalypse roughly every 15 minutes.

Though surprisingly, I might actually love it a bit. In fact I’m pretty sure it’s incredibly badass. In fact I’m pretty sure I want it turned into a full-length movie instead of a game. Immediately. Take a look and tell me what you think. …