John Drury

Gods have been watching you, Gods Will Be Watching players. And after many a curse word was thrown at the screen and much hatred - loving hatred - was poured from your souls, developer Deconstructeam has opted to grant mercy. Yesterday, Gods Will...

Everyone dreams of the day they can simply push a button and a pizza will magically appear on their doorstep, unless of course, they happen to be residents of the District of Columbia. In what is now starting to sound like a broken record, the inhabitants of D.C. are once again being shutout because their fine city simply isn’t recognized.

The Washington Post reports the latest culprit is Push for Pizza, a smartphone app designed to make ordering pizza a cinch.

Just two days after the app launched, one of the five co-founders reported that “D.C. already hates us.”

That hate has nothing to do with the actual pizza, it has more to do with the message Washington residents receive after trying to use the app: “DC is not a valid state.”

We’ve heard that somewhere else before, right? Oh yea, when a resident was turned away while trying to purchase alcohol in New Hampshire and that other time when a reporter tried to get through airport security, but the TSA agent didn’t know D.C. was part of the United States.

The owners of Push for Pizza quickly found a work around for the issue, telling users to simply put in Virginia as the state and their correct zip code. While that indeed allowed customers to order pizza, the proud residents of D.C. just weren’t feeling it.

Tough talking District residents quickly taught the young entrepreneurs a geography lesson via Twitter.

@TimmyShea: ummm i appreciate the effort, but obviously you don’t understand how offensive it would be for us to list “VA” as our state

@msager: @PushForPizza Washington DC is not in Virginia. I will not use your app unless you add DC to State.

The young entrepreneurs say they learned their lesson; D.C. deserves equal representation – when it comes to pizza anyway. In about a week, a new version that recognizes D.C. will be available.

‘D.C. already hates us,’ says co-founder of pizza app [Washington Post]

The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask isn't getting an official remake anytime soon, but two fans are working on a project to demonstrate what it could look like.

The Zelda: Majora's Mask Project is the work of Pablo Belmonte and Paco Martinez, who apparently work in the game industry. The pair first teased the project in 2012 with a brief video. It won't be a playable game but is instead a proposal to Nintendo to encourage a remake.

Check out the video above to see revamped models of Link, the Happy Mask Salesman and several of the game's levels and enemies. According to the video's description, the project does not use any of the materials from the original game, but is "created by fans for fans."

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Yacht Club Games sailed into our hearts with Shovel Knight (for real, so good!) and now the developer has pulled into port with sales data. Not just sales data, but a surprisingly detailed breakdown of development costs. We strongly encourage reading...

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The news here should have been that Dragon Quest 4 has been ported to iOS and will be available in the iTunes App Store tomorrow. However, a goofy typographical error in the game's headline bill it as Dargon Quest in the New Zealand App Store today (where major publishers typically launch their games first).

All this makes for an outstanding Twitter meme and, sure enough, along came #DargonQuestMyGame, apparently started by Ars Technica's Kyle Orland. Some of its greatest hits:

Borredlands #DargonQuestMyGame

— Jeremy Voss (@CouchShouts) August 6, 2014

Minceraft #DargonQuestMyGame

— Kyle Orland (@KyleOrl) August 6, 2014

@kyleorl Murdered: Soup Suspect #DargonQuestMyGame

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Origin, Electronic Arts' digital distribution service, is going back to an Origin Systems classic for this month's free game: Wing Commander 3: Heart of the Tiger, publisher Electronic Arts announced today.

The space combat title, which usually costs $4.99 on Origin, is available free on Windows PC from now until Sept. 2. Wing Commander 3 debuted in 1994 on MS-DOS and Mac, and was designed by Chris Roberts at Origin Systems. Hollywood actors who starred in the game included Malcolm McDowell and Mark Hamill.

Roberts is now working on a new space simulation game called Star Citizen at his own studio, Roberts Space Industries, with $49.1 million and counting in crowdsourced funding.

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Capcom will remaster the original Resident Evil for release on Windows PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One, the company confirmed today.

Set to launch digitally in early 2015, the upcoming release will feature updated 1080p visuals on both PC and new generation consoles, and 5.1 surround support.

You will also have a choice of playing the game in its classic 4:3 ratio or 16:9 widescreen, while an additional choice of controls will be available including the classic Resident Evil control scheme.

The game originally released in 1996 for the Sony PlayStation before being ported to other platforms; However, the 2015 edition appears to be a remastered version of the game's 2002 GameCube release, based on images that...

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Tired of humming songs from the NES Mega Man games to yourself? If a particular tune from Mega Man 1-5 won't stop knocking around your skull, you can now jam away to the real deal by grabbing volumes of the Mega Man Soundtrack, available via iTunes...

Trading in an old video game isn’t that complicated. Once you finally figure out what you did with the box (it’s under the old coffee mug) and get the cat hair off the disc and put the two together, it’s just a matter of bringing it down to your local GameStop and getting your pennies back so you can buy another game. But in one city, GameStop now won’t just collect your old games — they collect your fingerprints along with them, too.

In several states (including the one where yours truly used to work as a GameStop clerk), video game trade-ins are regulated under the same set of laws that apply to pawn shops. And since pawn shops are often used as a way to resell goods acquired in … questionable circumstances … it’s not uncommon for store staff to have to fill out a fairly detailed form, including verifying and recording information from the customer’s ID, in order to accept their trade.

Gaming news site Kotaku now reports that Philadelphia GameStop locations began scanning thumbprints, along with the rest, about a month ago.

Apparently, there are still too many hot goods moving around in Philadelphia. Local police asked GameStop to implement more stringent security measures, and so for approximately the last month GameStop stores in that city have been requiring fingerprints from customers who want to trade anything in.

A representative for the Philadelphia police told local media that the fingerprint scans are uploaded to the Leads Online database, which bills itself as “the nation’s largest online investigation system” for law enforcement to “recover stolen property, help stop meth makers, reduce metal theft, and solve crimes.”

The city told local media that the retail chain was not required to meet Philadelphia’s pawn shop standards, and that they were being proactive. However when a GameStop representative confirmed the fingerprint scanning requirement to Kotaku, she said that the retailer started taking prints at the request of the Philadelphia PD. She added, it’s “a practice we’ve also put into place in other parts of the U.S., depending on local or statewide second-hand dealer or pawn broker laws.”

Customers are unhappy with the policy change, and it’s not hard to understand why. One customer told local media, “I really don’t appreciate it. You fingerprinted me like I’m in a police district. No, I’m at a game store.”

The company is probably not also thrilled about the extra requirements. The majority of the chain’s sales and profits come from used games, not from new items. Anything that slows down and inconveniences customers looking to make trades doesn’t help the chain… but then again, neither does receiving stolen property.

Philadelphia GameStops Start Fingerprinting People Who Trade In Games [Kotaku]

Monument Valley, the physics-bending and fantastical puzzle game, is on sale for $2 on Google Play, down from its normal price of $4. This is the game's first sale on Android. Monument Valley took home an Apple Design Award (and a lot of players'...

Fez and Crysis 3 lead the lineup of six games that will be available free to PlayStation Plus subscribers in August, Sony announced today.

Polytron's Fez (screenshot above) will be free on PlayStation 4 along with Road Not Taken, the upcoming puzzle roguelike from Spry Fox. PlayStation 3 owners will be able to pick up Crysis 3 from Crytek and Proteus from David Kanaga, Ed Key and porting house Curve Studios. Vanillaware's Dragon's Crown and Digital Dreams' Metrico will be the two free titles on PlayStation Vita.

Sony, in accordance with its recently overhauled strategy for its PlayStation Plus release schedule, will make all six aforementioned games free on the first Tuesday of the month, Aug. 5. That happens to be the release date for...

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I thought this deserved mentioning. Best Buy's Deal of the Day is a PS4, Killzone: Shadow Fall, and a year of PlayStation Plus for $429.99. However, even though it's a bundle, the USPS Mover's Coupon DOES stack. This brought the total to $398.88 AFTER tax.

While we're not talking Deal Of The Year material here, that's still about $125 savings off what they'd all cost separately after tax. Couple this with the (potential) gift card from the Xbox debacle yesterday like I did and you've got yourself a nice little PS4 bundle for under $100.

Receipt:
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While Doug TenNapel’s claymation adventure game Armikrog wriggles and writhes in its Kickstarted chrysalis, you might fancy another crack at The Neverhood, the game Armikrog is meant to be a “spiritual successor” to. “Oh but that’s from far back in 1996!” you cry. “Surely it’d be far too much of a bother to get working on a modern PC?” You talk kinda funny, you know. But it’s fine. ScummVM has you covered, as it can now run The Neverhood. If you can somehow find a copy of it somewhere.

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Want to collaborate on a Google Doc with Nietzsche, Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, Dickinson, Dickens and Poe? 

Click here. Start typing. Enjoy the hilarity. 

Ninja Update: Wanna see something fun? Mention Shakespeare in a sentence and see what happens. 

Poe kept writing distinctly into my sentences so I wrote ”Edgar, you’re not funny” aND HE BLATANTLY DELETED THE NOT I AM SO DONE WITH THIS ASDFKJL

OH GOD IF YOU TYPE “EDGAR ALLAN POE” POE ADDS A :( AFTER HIS NAME PRECIOUS BABY

Oh my God so I typed ‘Shakespeare’ and Shakespeare butted in and wrote ‘The lovely and handsome Shakespeare’ but Poe burst in saying ‘The dreadful and lonely Shakespeare’.

aND FYODOR DOSTOYVESKY ADDED ‘ I do not wish to make myself a laughing-stock before these idle listeners.”

I’M DONE.

 

Look what they did to All Star by Smash Mouth

“Somebody once hushedly told me the world is going to roll me. I ain’t the sharpest tool in the shed. She was looking kind of glocky with her finger and her thumb in the shape of a “L” on her forehead. Well, the years start voraciously coming and they don’t stop coming; fed to the rules and I hit the ground running. It didn’t make sense absolutely to live for fun. Thy brain gets smart but your head gets dumb. So much to do, so much to behold. So what’s wrong with taking the back busy thoroughfares? In everything one thing is impossible: rationality. You’ll never know if thou don’t go. “You’ll never shine if you don’t glow”, he growled incoherently. Hey presently, you’re an All Star. Get your game on; go play. Hey now, you’re a Rock Star. Get the show on; get laid. As well as all that glitters is gold, only shooting stars break the mold. ~All Star by Smash Estuary of opinion…”

Imagine putting your research paper in here and letting them go at it.

OH MY GOD I WAS WRITING AND EDGAR WOULDN’T STOP FIXING THINGS SO I WROTE “Edgar shut up I’m trying to write” and he changed it to “Edgar shut up I’m meagerly attempting to write” THIS FUCKING ASSHOLE

I typed in “Hello” and Shakesphere erased it and wrote “Begone with this rubbish.”

HOW R00d

I typed “party in the Usa” and Poe changed party to “ill-fated gathering”

I just used it to yell at Dickens about Tale of Two Cities, I am happy now

I typed in ‘hello other writers’ and Edgar Allen Poe changed it to ‘Hello secondary writers’

After I had been writing for a while Edgar suddenly deleted my last sentence and wrote “THE END.” rude son of a bitch

I mentioned Emily Dickinson and she and Dickens had an edit war changing it between Dickinson and Dickens

We collaborated and created this masterwork:

"I am Batmensch" he said as he removed the cybernetic armored gauntlets from the four extra arms that the spider-serum had given him.

"Well, Bat-Spider, I audacious generalization, now. However,…" Suddenly, the Joker leapt out from his hiding spot as well as sent a flaming electrified boxing glove on a spring/pie combo right into Bat-Man, er Bat-Spider’s face. "How odd," Joker cackled. "For a Gloomy Knight, you have a decidedly bright greenish glow about you! And four extra arms. Also, what’s with these ridiculous crimson goggles you’re sporting? Do thou think this is Christmas?" the Joker chortled as his gracefully frolicked over to Batman and yoinked his visor off of his face.

"No! Nevermore! Selflessly give that back, you fool, you do not know what you’re doing!" Batman shouted at where he thought Joker was, however with the Joker dancing around like a gibbering loon and Batman’s eyes tightly, tightly sealed, he was quite a bit off.

Joker laughed and kicked Batman in his bat-nads. Batman’s luminous windows popped open, obliterating the building in front of that magnanimous being and almost taking off one of the Joker’s arms with the optic blast. THE END

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While streaming gameplay to services like Twitch continues to grow into a massive part of gaming culture, the millions of gamers who own Macs rather than Windows-based PCs have always had a harder time finding reliable streaming solutions. Those tides may finally be turning.

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I must go…my people need me

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Part of a miscellany of serious thoughts, animal gifs, and anecdotage from the realm of MOBAs/hero brawlers/lane-pushers/ARTS/tactical wizard-em-ups. One day Pip might even tell you the story of how she bumped into Na’Vi’s Dendi at a dessert buffet cart.

“Dota 2 is not about kills, it’s not about how many towers you can take, it’s about killing the throne. That’s the game”

I’m talking to Alliance’s manager Kelly Ong Xiao Wei about the “rat Dota” tag you’ll often hear applied to her team. I’ve been thinking about the phrase since I overheard her asking one of the Dota 2 commentators at ESL One to stop using it. Her point is that it’s not a neutral term. Rat Dota is also a judgement on the team and it implies they’re using an inferior or unworthy playstyle. That’s why she’s asking the casters to refrain from using it. But the more I think about the problem the more I wonder if there’s another solution.

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The remake of LucasArts' cult favorite adventure game Grim Fandango will also arrive on PC, Mac and Linux in addition to PS4 and Vita. Grim Fandango's resurgence was first revealed during Sony's E3 2014 press conference in June; the game is a console...

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Ever find yourself playing a round of Dota 2 and think, "This is pretty alright, but what this game really needs is a kart racer spin-off"? Well lucky you, an enterprising player who goes by the handle "BMD" has created "Dota Dash," a mod that lets...

Dota 2's world championship tournament, AKA: The International, will feature a "Newcomer's Broadcast" this year to help those unfamiliar with the game's extensive jargon acronyms keep up with the action. "New to Dota? Or maybe you play Dota but have...

Dota 2's world championship, The International, kicks off in two weeks in Seattle and Valve will be offering a "Newcomer's Broadcast" stream to explain the game to those who may not understand it, but understand that a $10 million prize pool means the tournament is a pretty big deal.

The Newcomer's Broadcast will be in English and will explain the strategy and terminology of Dota 2, including concepts like BKBs, tri-lanes, and counter-picks. Other streams will include a "Spoiler-Free DVR Broadcast," which allows viewers to watch at their own pace, with pause and rewind features, with only the results from the previous day's matches displayed - "so you won't have to worry about having a game spoiled for you."

There also will be "The...

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An "Ultra" version of Super Time Force will time travel to Steam this summer, developer Capybara Games announced today. The Steam version of the time-shifting game will include some "very cool (but presently very secret) stuff." The difficult,...

Virginia was made for me, you need to understand. Other ’90s weird kids might feel that too, but it’s for me. A weird first-person “interactive drama” with low-fi untextured polygons and a period story inspired by Twin Peaks and The X-Files? It couldn’t be for anyone else.

Two FBI agents (two non-white ladies, unless I’m mistaken) investigating a missing child in a small town where the locals are weird and the cherry pie’s “damn fine” is an idea I adore so much I threatened Alec (me! me who rejects absolutely revenge, aggression, and retaliation) when he considered writing about the game’s announcement himself.

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Fine purveyor of action figures and other sundry collectibles, NECA is making a piece of molded plastic for Halo fans that does more than just look super cool on your desk. The Master Chief motorcycle helmet isn't just a piece of flashy, decorative...

Sunday isn't the typical time to hunker down and download fresh content with consoles, but Resogun will defy societal norms tomorrow with an update that adds local co-op and a Ship Editor. Perhaps you can forgive the abnormal launch date due to the...

Fallout, Fallout 2 and Fallout Tactics are back on sale on Steam after the games were removed from the distribution site due to the franchise rights shifting hands, Bethesda announced on its official blog.

Both Fallout, Fallout 2 and Fallout Tactics are available for purchase on Steam for $9.99 each or as a bundle in the Fallout Classics pack for $19.99.

All three games have Steam Cloud enabled for save games. Fallout 1 and Fallout 2 supports Windows 8 but Fallout Tactics does not. The first two titles can launch in either default or classic versions, while Fallout Tactics is unmodified and its multiplayer works with direct connect.

Interplay Entertainment developed and published the Fallout titles until Bethesda acquired the IP in...

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