There was a fan event today for the new Star Trek Beyond film, but the most interesting piece of news from it might be totally unrelated. As part of the presentation, JJ Abrams took a moment to defend the fan film, saying that the law suit ‘should not be happening’ and announcing that it was dropped. It was shortly…

So Blizzard Entertainment finally released a trailer to the final game in the Starcraft 2 trilogy, titled Legacy of the Void. The trailer shows the Protoss, led by Artanis, as they move to reclaim Aiur from the Zerg menace and rise to challenge the threat of the 'Dark Voice' Amon who threatens to remake the galaxy in…

Anyone remember Eternal Crusade, the once-massively multiplayer online role playing gameturned... free to play something? It still remains in development, with little more than alpha footage to show. They recently opened up founder's program, but that wasn't apparently their first decision. According to This article…

My friends are apparently getting into Magic: The Gathering and want to turn weekly play into a thing. Which means I'm doing it too. I'm familiar with the rules of Magic and CCGs and general but I have no cards from previous editions and I have not played since Sera Angels and Shivan dragons were OMFG AMAZING cards.

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The Seattle EMP is an Entertainment and Music Museum up in Seattle that includes large exhibits on Jimi Hendrix and Kurt Cobain (and has extremely awesome exhibits currently in Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror with some great stuff). However, among the exhibits is a board that allows guests to select a 'best song'…

I risk this turning into a pity post, but whatever, I'll try to steer this in a direction of discussion.

I'm a quiet gamer. Partially this is because I'm not exactly social to begin with, but partially because it's just easier to treat fellow players as intelligent bots. In fact, in some games I'll just mute…

So yeah, I ended up picking up Wolfestein: The New Order via the summer sale. To be honest, I wasn't expecting much: A decent FPS to while away a few hours while I wait for another release. I wasn't expecting to enjoy it much, and I definitely wasn't expecting to actual give a crap about parts of the story.

Let me be…

Best part is the female characters bitching about their own designs. (Who 'evolves' High Heels anyway?)

Pretty much what it says. However, I know that it's murderously difficult to actually figure out what a person's individual tastes are, so here's a sampling of some of the stuff I've read recently:

NOS4A2, Heart-shaped Box, and Horns by Joe Hill
The Republic Of Pirates (Nonfiction)
In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
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Another game on my radar as of late, Evolve is from the creative time behind popular Zombie Shooter Left 4 Dead, and sites it's inspiration from the Predator films, among other things (a shot in the trailer is clearly an homage to it). As with L4D, it's focus is on asymmetric, multiplayer gameplay that pits 4 hunters…

Everyone who's ever played a round of D&D or any of their favorite tabletop RPGs has had a moment. A moment where all careful planning and tactics have failed utterly, and all that's left is a roll of the dice. The odds are insurmountable—the math does not even remotely favor you, but if you succeed, oh, if you…

Most of you (on Io9 anyway) know of Games Workshop, the creators of Warhammer, and Warhammer 40k as 'those assholes who tried to sue a writer over the word space marine'. A few of you know it as the company that previously made a beloved tabletop game that have spent the last 10 years or so systematically alienating…

But I know which one she would play.

Anyone from around here play? Wanna go a match or two?

Basically, it looks like a more frantic version of DoTA or League of Legends, and also a bit simpler. Not a bad thing, but it is what it is.

A friend of mine also went to the movie panel, but I hadn't seen anything posted about it on Io9. The story will involve Lothar vs. Duratan and will involve both sides fairly…

First of all? Oh my god, the fanservice. Hahaha.

Okay, now on to the meaty bits: These are the portraits I spotted in the end which I suspect denote who's playable:

Starcraft:
Jim Raynor
Kerrigan
Tassadar(?)
Nova.

Probably the most interesting thing about Arkham Origins is a return to the not entirely often seen asymmetric multiplayer mode, with three teams competing for objectives. As was pointed out to me by a few other commentors, it's divided into three discrete chunks: The Jokers and Bane's Gang are playing Gears of War,…

In which Ellen Page is chased around by cops and dogs.

It's basically yet another evolution of games like Dragon's Lair (Or more recently Heavy Rain) but it managed to be interesting, in a 'WHAT IS GOING ON!?' kind of way.

Unfortunately, like Heavy Rain and Indigo Prophecy before it, I expect it to go off the rails…

Why everyone is flipping out about Valve's new controller?

I mean, I get looking at it and being like "Wow, that... looks awful." I mean, that's an opinion that's valid. Nobody's used it, so you won't REALLY know, but it certainly doesn't look like something I'd use. What I'm talking about is people who are using it…