You know, when we at eGamer make a mistake, we can just edit the article and it’s all hunky dory. We still proof-read our articles (some better than others) anyway. You’d imagine then that when clearing whatever text may appear on the box of a game there would be an army of people to check that all is kosher and then another army of quality control people to make sure that the first army wasn’t full of degenerates who couldn’t spot the mistakes.

How then did the above faux pa slip through? Resident Evil: Revelations for the 3DS has just been released and people who picked the game were having problems before they even got to the counter. As you can see, the spine of the box reads: “Resident Evil: Revelaitons”.

This pic was snapped by gaming journalist Dan Ackerman who writes for Spin and CNET. Game Informer called Capcom out on this tiny little microscopic error and got a rather interesting reply:

“It has come to our attention that there was a misspelling on the Resident Evil Revelations packaging. We apologize for the mistake, which will be corrected for subsequent productions of the game. We are working on a solution to provide affected customers with the correct packaging. Please visit Capcom-Unity for updates.”

Where’s Homer when you need a “d’oh”?

So Microsoft made a little 2 minute short to promote the release of Star Wars for Kinect and had the humility to call it “hilarious” themselves.

Judge for yourself whether this spoof of the iconic lightsaber duel between Vader and Obi Wan in Episode IV is any good. You may also recognise the dude in the bathrobe but I’m not saying who he is.

The game is set for an autumn release and will give you the power to “unleash your inner Jedi – with no controller in the way” across single and co-op, competitive and duel modes.

Doesn’t it just sound fantastic in every conceivable way?

Okay so it’s not exactly the entire nation. It’s just one guy so the rest of Australia can still be considered a bunch of inbred felons who consider Mario Kart as violent and sexually themed. Also these aren’t so much real Pokéballs as they are Photoshopped.

Anyway, Oz artist Barry Wazzy (Christian name?) has served up a gallery of some fine Pokéball artwork. It’s all themed and there are a few that take inspiration from the likes of The Dark Knight, Harry Potter and Dragonball Z.

They are super awesome and are so cool that even James Dean would want a few, if they were real and he didn’t die that one time. Check them out below.

The world’s biggest game controller was unveiled in London’s Liverpool St station this week, in order to celebrate the release of the Guinness World Records Gamer’s Edition 2012.

The controller weighs 18 stone (265 pounds), which is slightly over 120 kilograms if those other weird systems of measurement don’t make sense to you. To blow your brains even further, this awesome monstrosity costs £4,000, which converts to a staggering R49029.60 – certainly not pocket change.

Modelled after the famous NES controller, the record-breaking device is 12 feet long, which is about 3.6576 meters, and according to Guinness World Records is just about 30 times the size of a normal NES controller. Would you believe that the controller actually works too? That’s right, you can use it for gaming, and you can imagine what a unique experience it must have been for commuters to operate the device by actually jumping on the buttons to play NES titles.

Ben Allen, a British Engineering student and the creator of the controller, said: “This is really a labour of love. We’re passionate about gaming and wanted to honour its most iconic device; the NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) joypad.

“We put our heads together in the pub and decided to create this absurdly large working version! It’s such a rush to know we’ve made history and are being included in the Guinness World Records Gamer’s Edition.”

The Guinness World Records Gamer’s Edition 2012 officially went on sale yesterday.

It’s Skyrim but all the dragons have been replaced by My Little Ponies. Best. Mod. Ever.

Imagine if shouting at the dragon ponies made them hide in a corner and cry. It would be amazing. Watch these videos and your life will be complete.

Did I mention that despite the cuteness, they still breathe fire and all the rest. Allow me to reiterate. Best. Mod. Ever.

So someone decided that instead of receiving the super awesome Kevin Butler treatment, the best way to market the PlayStation Vita now that it has launched in Europe would be with some lifestyle shots showing how happy and aesthetically pleasing the average Vita user looks. I don’t know about you but they just look like colossal tools to me.

However, I am but a bespectacled nerd and so do not understand the finer nuances of coolness displayed by these strapping gentlemen.

I guess the only question remaining is which one of these guys most resembles Alessandro? Speaking of which, have you seen his rather cool unboxing of the PS Vita?

Okay, so I’ve got your attention. Generally Valve CEO Gabe Newell is as cuddly and happy as the pandas he resembles but he’s holding a pair of hunting knives in this picture that’s been circulating on Reddit so someone must have done something to provoke him.

Maybe they poked him or tried to feed him those chocolate-filled biscuit things with the panda prints on them and he got offended? Perhaps there’s a clue in the picture.

Surely this is the ultimate Half-Life 3 troll, one coming from Valve themselves who keep telling us that there’s nothing in the works. Or perhaps there’s something else afoot. So are Valve really that cruel? Of course not, everybody loves Valve.

The Half-Life 3 bit was actually added afterwards as you can clearly see in Exhibit Q. That begs the question though: what was Gabe doing with the knives then? Actually we probably don’t want to know.

So what we actually have is a troll based on what we can only assume to be another troll. Troll physics dictates that this results in the superposition of the original troll resulting in a multi-stage megatroll. Be afraid, be very afraid.

For years we have yearned for Half Life 3 to finally exist and yet all we ever get is at best a little tease and at worst another game from Valve. Now that Duke Nukem: Forever finally emerged from the ashes and then got run over by a truck, Half Life 3 is the biggest game to never happen even if it has never officially existed.

Now we have this Half Life 3 t-shirt spotted by a Seattle-based game developer at a local event. The cruel bit is that this tee was worn by a Valve employee. If he’s trolling, he deserves to be shot. What he’s doing is plain evil and downright sinister.

It’s probably not the biggest revolution in gaming and very likely not a great idea but someone figured it would be intelligent to combine urinals with gaming to get a game that is controlled by your golden liquid waste.

It’s a wacky concept to say the least but how it works is that there are three targets on the urinal – left, right and centre. There’s a screen above the urinal with a game on it and to play the game you aim your stream on either of the 3 targets to move the little character on-screen.

Why couldn’t Nintendo think of this before they decided to name their console?

Did anyone else notice a game which seems to feature nude women? I really don’t want to know what goes down in that game.

Nintendo felt that the best way to promote Mario Kart 7 for the 3DS was to have life-sized fully-functional Mario go-karts made and then show them off at the L.A .Car Show. There was of course only one company up to the task: West Coast Customs of Pimp My Ride fame.

Nintendo put in an order for two karts to be made and then it was on like Donkey Kong although it would have been really awesome if WCC had mounted a 3DS where the instrument cluster should be. Throw some Xzibit in and it’s the perfect way to showcase Mario Kart 7.

Yo dawg, I heard you like to Mario Kart so we put Mario Kart in your Mario Kart so you can Mario Kart while you Mario Kart.

You’ve officially been pimped.

As awesome as Rocksteady’s character designs are for Batman: Arkham City (see: making Robin cool for the first time ever), there’s nothing that can turn that around quite like a The Simpsons makeover to turn that all around.

Fan artist Dean Fraser has a knack for transforming pop culture icons into characters from The Simpsons.

Behold, the epicness of Batman with jaundice. I’d say Asian Batman but who is he kidding with those eyes?

You’ve got to love Kevin Butler whether you’re a PS3 gamer or not. The man is just priceless every time.

In his latest video he pays tribute to all best gamers on PSN and he seems to have a thing for explosives this time around.

Have you seen his last video? Does anyone else want crispy pancakes all of a sudden?

So Taiwanese news channel NMA likes to do little animated videos to accompany its reports. This report talks about Skyrim’s launch and bugs and despite the priceless accent, there’s not much wrong with that.

The animation itself is another beast entirely. It starts with a trio of Skyrim fans bashing copies of Modern warfare 3 with various kitchen implements and rivals Japanese game shows in terms of weirdness, it is just utterly crazy.

WTF, Taiwan?

Yes, the man who scares Superman, has BBM on his Blockia and was playing Duke Nukem Forever 2 years ago now features in a TV commercial for World of Warcraft.

As you might expect, the ad is very cheesy and strange but you’ll watch it anyway.

Cue an endless stream of Chuck Norris jokes.

Whether this is real or not is very questionable but it is exceptionally awesome and really cool to watch. Regardless, it will likely go down as the best assassination ever seen in Skyrim, for now.

It’s probably not humanly possible to have the skill and know-how required to pull this off with an arrow shot but hey, it’s still frickin’ awesome.

The question is, does this beat Cavie’s 1km arrow kill? Be sure to read his epic Skyrim review.

It’s simple really. All you need to do is have relations with a person, wait 9 months for a child, name them after a Skyrim character and then tell everyone all about it on your blog.

Where’s my proof that this works? Well, look no further than Dovahkiin Tom Kellermeyer.

Megan and Eric Kellermeyer have named their newborn son Dovahkiin Tom Kellermeyer which, if translated literally, reads as Dragon-born Tom Kellermeyer. Oh dear.

Most people would be sensible enough to not do this, ever. I might name my son Altair but that’s a bit different. This is just way out there. On a scale of 1 to outrageous, this is insane.

That said, the name itself is pretty badass but Dragon-born will grow up wondering why his parents had to be such nerdy dicks as people constantly ask him about that interesting name and whether he’s foreign. How do you say, “My freak parents named me after a video game character,” in the language of the legendary beast?

By the time he’s old enough to understand what Skyrim is, it’ll be nothing more than a forgotten relic. Admit it, you know it’s true. However, he will have a lifetime supply of free Bethesda games so that’s pretty damn awesome. Apparently Bethesda had a baby-naming competition and the winners would get free games from them for life. The Kellermeyers say they definitely didn’t know about the competition.

The Kellermeyers explain everything quite clearly in their blog:

“We are going to name him Dovahkiin”, said young Dragon born Tom’s mother. “The reason being it is an awesome name… and, yes, it comes with a fantastic prize in Bethesda’s baby-naming contest to coincide with the release of Skyrim. Now, my husband didn’t know of the contest to start with. We conceived long before hearing of it. But it’s been a tough year and I wanted to do something special for my son.

“But the more I thought of it, the more I settled on Dovahkiin, contest or no. It helps that we told all our friends and family and very few are opposed to the idea. My mom thought it was neat! He will have a perfectly normal and common middle name if the first name becomes too much for him or us or we just want to call him a nickname.

“I’ve read several posts on the site and most condemn anyone who would dare name their child such a thing, all for capitalism. Well, I really don’t play many video games (TB plays an ungodly amount though), and I would never name my child a name I found horrible or even terribly mediocre. I think we’re doing a great job with our daughter and will continue to be great parents for our son, too.”

And Bethesda said:

“Be it the real world or the game worlds we create, we wish young Dovahkiin the best in all his adventures. And if Alduin ever reaches this realm, we’ll be in touch.”

There’s only one man I can think of who’d be mad enough to do this. A reward to the first one who can guess this individual’s name though his developer of choice would not be Bethesda.

Yes, Batman: Arkham City has a big head mode and it is awesome.

It’s pretty easy to pull off but you need to be playing in new game + on normal or higher difficulty. It’s also easier if you do the cheat with the cryptographic sequencer out although this is not essential. You simply hold the four shoulder buttons (PS3) or the two trigger buttons (Xbox 360) and then proceed to rotate the analogue sticks in opposite directions for a few seconds. Boom! Big heads for everyone. Repeating this turns it off. When near enemies you can also rotate the right analogue twice to perform a taunt that causes all surrounding enemies to cower in fear.

The cheat works on all characters and skins, even in challenge maps and makes the game so much more hilarious and even kinda cute, in a dark and gritty way. It even makes the villains ham-fisted and big headed.

It makes you wonder though, what other cheats are there in this game? Also, what would Solomon Grundy, Penguin, Bane or Killer Croc look like with inflated heads?

When Eric Smith’s fiancee unexpectedly dumped him, he was about to hurtle into a downward spiral that would only end in one way. Luckily, the plucky kid from Philadelphia picked himself up and soldiered on.

He figured it wouldn’t be satisfying enough to simply sell off the engagement ring he’d bought her and seek happiness through some quality prostitutes (or by investing it, whatever works for you). Thus, Smith took his spoils and splurged on a suit of Spartan MJOLNIR armour ala Halo which should protect his heart from the hurt of this cruel world.

“No one ever sees the Master Chief’s face. You’re trying to disappear,” say his friends. Smith disagrees although it is unclear whether the suit will be used to exact vengeance upon his ex-fiancee and her likely new lover. I hear chainsaws make quite the impression on that front although a working Energy Sword may do the trick.

Smith went on to describe some rather specific imagined dialogue between him and his ex and he’s got some wit about him which helps when writing suicide notes.

“I’m nailing the hell out this tool I met in karate class and while we’ve been driving in my car, you and I have been listening to the terrible mix CD he made me and now you’ll never be able to hear Alkaline Trio without wanting to fucking kill yourself.”

He also justifies his purchase with the following statement:

“I’d wanted the suit for so long, and after such epic heartbreak, receiving each piece of armor—arriving in seven shipments, over the course of eight months-became an unintentionally cathartic process. As the shoulders, forearms, chest-piece, and helmet arrived slowly, one section at a time… well, with each part I got a small piece of myself back.”

In all honesty, it’s good to see that this guy is doing something to fix himself and bring some stability back into his life. Read more of Eric Smith’s story at the link below.

Assassin’s Creed: Revelations has barely been out a full day and we’ve already got a legendary parody video.

Inspired by the musical stylings of Ezio Auditore, the song is based on cringe-worthy ” Higher” by Creed (See what they did there?).

As parodies go, this guy put in a fair amount of effort, he even honed his assassin and parkour skills just for the video. If you’re reading this after watching the video, then yes, he totally should’ve head for the bushes.

Ever heard of actress Michelle Morrow? Yeah, me neither because her career has thus far been restricted to low-budget horror films. Well she seems to be one of the few people in the film industry who’s still fighting for a Warcraft movie or even cares about one, for that matter. Especially after director Sam Raimi said not to expect a Warcraft movie any time soon and then moved on to Oz: The Great and Powerful.

Morrow is desperate to be in the Warcraft movie (because she’s in need of work?) and currently has a 5000 likes-strong Facebook page that asks fans to show their support. Morrow doesn’t just want to be in the movie but she is aching to play Lady Sylvanas. Here’s what she said last January:

“To be honest, I’d be happy to play any of the characters in the movie. But, Sylvanas… I love her because she’s determined. She’s insidious. She’s arrogant and spiteful, but you can’t really blame her. She’s very tortured. I love this imagination of her. She truly takes her own council.”

To show her appreciation, Morrow is giving away a signed two-month WoW game card to a random commenter who comments either on her website or Facebook fan page. Anybody want a game card that she’s scribbled on?

Ironically, given her filmography, if a Warcraft movie gets made she probably won’t be cast in. maybe they’ll give her special mention or cast her as an Imp.

This would all be kinda adorable if it wasn’t so pathetic but hey, that’s just my twisted opinion.

Skyrim’s out today and it doesn’t matter if I tell you that the game is openly racist, sexist and homophobic or that it gives little children cancer because you will buy it anyway. I’m glad we can agree on that.

Thus, me telling you about a tiny little bug is not going to mean a thing. Rest assured, Skyrim is not Oblivion 2.0. However, there is one particularly interesting bug that shouldn’t be as repeatable as it is.

We could just be witnessing one of the game’s awesome mini-features but notice how the swinging club of an enemy sends you hurtling comically off into the stratosphere. Of course, he could just be that strong.

Watch below to see how easily people have been able to repeat it though which makes you wonder whether it is a glitch after all.

Apparently, this glitch, or whatever you’d like to call it, doesn’t occur or is very hard to reproduce on the Xbox 360 version of Skyrim.  Therefore, if you have Skyrim for PS3 or PC, fire it up now and try this out. Report back to me with what intel you’ve gained.

Get a look at all the psychotic, awesome and wickedly fun ways you can bring the hurt in Saints Row: The Third in this weapons trailer. Besides being absolutely insane in every respect, Saints Row: The Third also has some awesome cameos such as Burt Reynolds as the mayor of Steelport. There’s really not much more for me to say.

November 18, mark the date.

Sometimes playing online can be tough, especially when you’re not having much fun as a result of dying every seven seconds. Kevin Butler would like to personally thank all of you who persevere and don’t give into the dark embrace of rage quitting.

It’s part of Sony and PlayStation’s ongoing YouTube campaign which thanks the average (PS3) gamer for their efforts. The last time we saw KB, he was astride a horse and Sony’s last ad is quite possibly the best advertisement ever.

The example in this particular ad is one gamer known as Legit_Btness who was too legit. He was too legit to quit. But then he was not legit. He was unlegit. But even that did not lead him to quit.

Personally, I never let the thought of rage quitting cross my mind but then I don’t game online all that much. What about you?

Did I mention that Kevin Butler totally busts a move by the end of the ad? It’s epic.

Saints Row: The Third has been killing us of late with the most awesome trailers anywhere, ever. Seriously, the combined power of the trailers over the last few weeks could end poverty and bring peace to the world. They manage to fix everyday problems ranging from being stuck in traffic to the correct way to play baseball and even the correct manner in which to pimp out a small economical urban vehicle.

Did I mention that Saints Row developer Volition Inc. trolled Modern Warfare, Battlefield and Halo epically in one fell swoop with this awesome trailer. Moving on, if you’re only now coming across Saints Row: The Third, please read our preview and be enlightened as to what you’ve been missing out on.

The latest trailer is all about the madness of the game and just how over-the-top bat-shit crazy everything is in the city of Steelport. You’ll see everything from superheroes to spacemen, gimps, pimps, atomic ATVs, farts in a jar, dildo bats, destroyer jets, zombies, reaper drones and tons more.

How do you cap off an insane trailer like this? With Burt Fucking (yes, that’s his Christian middle name) Reynolds as the Mayor of Steelport, of course.

There are not words in the English language to describe how awesome this game is or how ridiculously fun it looks.

Humblest apologies for the uneven quality of the video but it’s the only copy I could find.

Shh, try to keep your laughter to a minimum or you’ll wake the bitches!

November 18, mark the date.

Okay, so Halloween was several days ago and Microsoft did something a little unique to mark the occasion. They made Kinect intimidating and scary.

Long used as the butt of many a joke, Kinect strikes back in this horror parody as an instrument of torture and murder. It draws quite clearly from Saw and involves some very cheesy moments (look away, if you’re lactose intolerant).

However, the Kinect stuff is pretty cool and I have to say it’s good use of the motion control system. The moral of the story here is, I think, avoid Kinect at all costs if you value your life and sanity. Top notch marketing there Microsoft.

Enjoy.

Assassin’s Creed: Revelations is a mere fortnight away and it will almost certainly be an awesome experience to cap off Ezio’s escapades. What’s even better though is that players will be reunited with the guy who started it all, Altair ibn La-Ahad – the original Assassin’s Creed protagonist. Altair was a killer assassin who just oozed swagger. The question now though is, “What happens when you throw Assassin’s Creed into a modern-day society?”

It’s a pretty valid question considering where the series is heading with Desmond and so the Dutch branch of Ubisoft decided to find out. What they did was put together a series of promo videos showing how Altair grapples with contemporary transport, target practice, weaponry and outfits and the fact that no one just happens to be carrying throwing knives around in their pockets anymore.

Basically, what you end up with is not so much confident, uber-cool swagger  as it is creepy stalker/freak/paedo weirdness. You’ve got to love the Dutchies and their sense of humour and whatever it is that they’re smoking.

Well, in theory you should get something pretty amazing but that’s not how reality works. It’s even worse in the gaming industry because the standard and fairly logical formula of [Awesome Thing A] x [Awesome Thing B] = Awesome² does not prove true for all values of A or B.

Why the Maths lesson? Well, I have to write 4 Maths papers on 4 consecutive school days and decided that someone should share my pain but it’s also a roundabout way of introducing today’s shameless intellectual property cloning.

There’s a new free-to-download game called Cut the Birds available on Apple’s App Store for iPad and iPhone and by watching the above video of it, you might just feel the strong tug of deja vu. You’ll also question the integrity of the App Store’s approval process.

Now, that sounds like an unholy amalgamation of iOS heavyweights Cut the Rope and Angry Birds and funny enough, you’d be dead on the money for thinking so. Not only does it steal the names but it also combines the games somewhat and steals Angry Birds’ visual style completely.

The third in this unholy trifecta of itheft is Fruit Ninja from which Cut the Birds manages to steal the gameplay without blinking an eye.

So, to summarise: name from Cut the Rope/Angry Birds, visuals from Angry Birds, gameplay from Fruit Ninja. It’s actually starting to sound pretty decent.

The only thing keeping me from raging all over the developers of Cut the Birds is that the game is free so they’re not profiting from their little copy-paste escapade.

Sadly, I couldn’t find Cut the Birds on the SA App Store (I blame Telkom. Why? Because it is the root of all evil).

Batman is many things. From vigilante to deranged billionaire with delusions of grandeur to campy weirdo with Bat-shark repellent (I blame you, Adam West); he’s even been branded as “not a real superhero” due to his lack of any real superpowers. What you wouldn’t associate with the Dark Knight though is the term villain. Sure, he crosses the line a little here and there but at least he’s not an alcoholic.

Now let’s wind the clock back to 1989. Some of you (you know who you are) may be quick to point out that this was the year when Tim Burton’s Batman redefined the Dark Knight’s public image outside of comics as a darker, more sinister character. The same people will also be quick to note that Frank Miller did the same in comics with the outstanding Batman: Year One. Now, both of these cast Batman in a much darker, more antihero role than previous but you still wouldn’t exactly call him evil.

Enter The Revenge of Shinobi, a 1989 title for the Sega Genesis. It was your typical side-scrolling ninja-themed game with plenty of 16-bit action. Typical except for one thing that is. One of the bosses you encountered was what looked very much like Spider-Man, he even shot webs at you while sticking to the ceiling. When you dealt this not-Spider-Man enough damage, he’d hop off the ceiling having transformed into what looks suspiciously like the Batman, only battier.

Above is a video of said boss fight. It is 1:08 min of pure 16-bit WTF.

Later versions of the game switched Bats out for a more bat-looking villain. Strangely enough, Spider-Man seems to have been retained. Who is intimidated or even remotely afraid of Spider-Man though? Seriously, Batman is a psychopath with lots of money and nothing to lose, you do not want to mess with him but Spider-Man? Meh. Aficionados of such strangeness will be glad to know that The Revenge of Shinobi is currently available on Wii Virtual Console, PSN and XBLA.

This has got to go down as one of the best unofficial cameos in video game history next to Mikhail Gorbachev in Street Fighter 2 (look it up, it happened). The best cameo except, of course, for Great White Shark in Batman: Arkham City. Free hot dogs to everyone who knows what I’m talking about.

Dark Souls is a sadistic game. No, scratch that, Dark Souls is a game that would bring back the Double-Crunch, Holey-Moleys and all the other great foods that have been cancelled over the years for the express purpose of destroying it all right before your eyes. So yeah, Dark Souls is a game designed to be difficult.

As such, it can take a long time for mere mortals to finish the game. One guy finished it in an hour but he’s Asian so that’s understandable. Another thing about Dark Souls is that the insane difficulty will cause you to die a lot. Thus, I’m sure you can appreciate the poetry in building a custom Dark Souls rig using a coffin.

Yes, that thing we usually put dead people in is now being used to house vegetative gamers. The coffin was built for a competition run by Namco Bandai in Australia and features a sizeable LCD TV, surround sound system and space for either a PS3 or Xbox 360. The whole thing is also padded out very nicely so that you can lie back and die play the game in comfort.

Batman: Arkham City is undoubtedly one of my favourite games of all time.

Besides the fantastic free-flow combat system, the way every villain is so seamlessly and organically blended into the narrative and the game as a whole, the fantastic story with its twists and the amazingly detailed environment; the game world also has a tangible living quality to it with the inmates going about their lives and having discussions amongst each other. I even saw some members of Two-Face’s gang working out in the middle of the street, doing push-ups and so on.

While playing through Arkham City, you’ll hear many strange and interesting conversations between inmates. Some talk about other villains, others talk about how they’d like to get a ‘beat down’ from Catwoman. There was even a modified version of rock-paper-scissors going on between a few guys and one inmate was talking about his mother on prom night which became very weird very quickly.

While traversing the rooftops last night, I overheard an inmate say something along these lines:

“I don’t get it, did they ever explain what the Island was?”

Probably a LOST reference but it’s subtle, right? Well then it was off to the internet to see if I’d heard right and verily ’twas so but in addition to that little bit of satisfaction, I also found this clip with an in-the-face LOST reference from Joker.

A light warning of spoilers. There’s nothing in the following video that I would deem as a spoiler but you might see things differently.

The birth of a gamer is a special thing. That moment when an individual realises that a world of headshots, rage quits and fun unbridled by the confines of reality is what they want.

Watch as a little tyke’s inner-gamer is awakened by Angry Birds and unleashed on all the all the world with a mighty banshee screech. It’s absolutely adorable.

I have a little brother of 2 years who has taken interest in playing racers such as NFS: Shift 2 and enjoys watching me play games such as Uncharted or InFamous. He has recently taken a liking to Arkham City trailers such as this one and even sat through the 7 min gameplay video. Houston, we have a gamer. I’m a very proud big brother right about now.

Got your own heartwarming ‘birth of a gamer’ story? Please share it with us down below.

Being Indian, I probably should have seen this coming. While Bollywood does some great song and dance numbers and easily has some of the most gorgeous actresses around, they do not do scripts very well.

Asa  result, pretty much every Bollywood movie is a rip-off of some at least mildly good idea that a Westerner has had. I’ve actually seen snippets of a Bollywood Superman and it was easily the most bizarre and obscure thing I’ve ever seen but with dance scenes in between.

Now Tamil films are a particular branch of Indian films that tend to be stranger than all the others. It’s sort of like indie but the bad kind. Tamil film Velayudham decided that Assassin’s Creed was a pretty cool idea but wasn’t quite good enough. So it spices the whole concept up with bad cinematography, a sweaty brown man and lots of dance sequences.

It’s difficult to tell whether inspiration has been draw from Ezio or Altair but they’ve pretty much copied the Assassin’s Creed vibe to the tee.

As if that wasn’t enough, get a load of the plot. Velayudham follows Indian actor Vijay as he plays a milkman turned vigilante in the fight against corruption. What the fuck?

Have a look at the official trailer to fully understand what I’m on about.

Does anybody else smell an AC spin-off in India? Don’t these videos just put forth how awesome that be?

Warning: the following article contains mild amounts of strong language.

People Can Fly, the team that developed Bulletstorm, is a Polish studio. As a result, they all speak Polish and so may be forgiven for the following.

First off, whenever you learn a new fucking language from people outside a learning environment, the first thing you learn is motherfucking (don’t worry, we’re going somewhere with this foul language) profanity. You, bitch-faced n*****, learn how to swear at people in that language because it somehow makes sense that this is necessary. It also somehow seems natural to, when in foreign countries, drop a, “Jou ma se…,” every now and then in public places.

Okay, that cunt of a digression aside, read the following and judge for yourself whether you’d cram a game with that much profanity because it sounds fun and exotic.

“Do you know any swear word in a foreign language? German, French, Polish? When you say it out loud, no biggie, right? Not a problem to use it during a family dinner, I assume? That is how all the f-bombs sounded to us. Being Polish, all the strong language in Bulletstorm was just exotic and fun to us. We did not feel its power. In other words, Epic thought this is what we wanted and respected our creative vision, while we had no idea this vision was a bit more than we really wanted. It was only at the end of the development, when I read the Polish translation of the game, that I realized how dirty we were. I swear a lot. A LOT. And yet still I kind of blushed.” – People Can Fly’s creative director Adrian Chmielarz, speaking to Game Developer magazine.

How did something like this even happen?

If you’re Eastern European, please read the above and tell me if it sounds exotic because I sure as fuck think it does.

Sony has undoubtedly made one of the coolest gaming TV adverts ever, if not the best we’ve seen to this date. Seriously, check it out yourself.

The advert features some of the most iconic gaming characters around, including Solid Snake, Ezio, Nathan Drake and Kratos, all rallying to honour and thank their collective hero – which is you.

The advert is the latest part of Sony’s Long Live Play PlayStation 3 campaign, which made its debut in August when Sony dropped the famous “It Only Does Everything” slogan in favour of the new ‘Long Live Play’. And it’s a pretty brilliant move at that, I think.

Also, the ad kinda makes you think how cheesy some of these characters sound out of context. Like Snake.

The enemy is approaching from the East and seeks to lay waste to our land, the Mushroom Kingdom needs you. Join the Koopas now, follow your call to arms. Rid our Kingdom of the plumbing menace.

A lifetime supply of 1 ups to the man who brings me Mario’s head on a plunger!

This is how you stir up a kingdom and get them behind a cause: with a set of well-designed and rather tasteful propaganda-laden posters.

The posters are designed by a graphic designer from the US named Fro.

They make take our power ups, but they will never take our freedom!

Trust me, this is fully on-topic. You see there’s a new top-down game called Burnout Crash which just released on PSN and XBLA but that’s not really important.

What’s important is this Kinect trailer for the game which is seriously about as WTF as a kitten riding a unicycle while juggling pandas and rapping the song 8-Mile.

The Hoff, a chicken-man suit, Asian punks and an ice-cream van; how much more ridiculous can it get? Did I mention he makes stuff explode by laying an egg?

FIFA 12 is out next week and you’re anything like half the people I know, you can’t frickin’ wait. That said, I played the demo for FIFA 12 today and am confident that it will be a major step up from FIFA 11.

One of those big game changers (see what I did there?) is the Impact Engine which accurately replicates collisions and the impact they have on players. What with this being a demo though, there have been some issues, mostly of the freakishly flopping around on the ground variety but there are some gems.

YouTube user Kennybastards must have gotten the “FIFA 11 Tribute Edition” of the demo with added bugs because he’s compiled a video of some seriously ridiculous glitches and bugs. These will be almost completely have been eradicated by the time the game releases next week.

In answer to some of the questions you may have after watching the video let me say the following. Yes, Messi is a Chinese contortionist. No, you should not care that Busquets got killed. Yes, obviously Zlatan was using the force (check out his new hairstyle and you’ll see what I’m talking about). Maybe Xavi has vertical takeoff capabilities.

Enjoy.

Angry Birds is the ultimate fun time-waster, once you get going the hours fly by. What better way to pass time on a long-haul flight than play Angry Birds?

That’s basically the idea behind the Angry Birds Asian Challenge which has participants playing the game aboard a Finnair flight from Finland to Singapore later this week.

What’s more, there’s even going to be Angry Birds non-alcoholic beverages and fried eggs served at the Helsinki Airport press conference prior to take take off.

It’s definitely one of the more unusual things you’ll hear about. Details to follow after the press conference; fried eggs to be served thereafter, please indicate normal, halaal or vegetarian in the comments for catering purposes.

As I was sitting here browsing through the interwebs and drowning myself in thought about all of the world’s most important issues – such as that of the cancellation of the KFC Double Crunch – I found myself looking somewhat intensely at this inspiring image.

The image caused my mind to explode with complex gaming phenomenon and modern trends, and how our world of gaming has evolved and changed over the years.

Actually, I’m just trying to make it sound relevant so I could have an excuse to post this picture. I’m good aren’t I?

Anyway, my reason for posting this profound image was simply to ask the question:

What do you think of social networking games? Have you ever found yourself getting engrossed in the world of Farmville, Mafia Wars or The Sims Social? Have these kinds of games ever appealed to you? Basically, I just want to hear what you guys and girls think about them.

Also, do you think the image below has any relevance to life, the universe and gaming? Yes, Cavie, I’m sure you see what I did there.

If the viewing of pole-dancing women is frowned upon at your place of work or could be mistaken for you trying to get your rocks off, don’t watch this, now. If no one’s standing over your shoulder and you have tissues at the ready you’re intrigued then full steam ahead.

No game show is without its due bit of sexy marketing aides, typically in the form of barely clad beauties. However this is  usually pretty tasteful and even a bit refined and dignified. These guys? Not quite the same. What’s the best way to draw visitors in to your stand at a busy expo? Why, with pole-dancing chicks and smoke machines, of course. But mostly the latter.

You’ll have to hit the link to watch the video on Kotaku, enjoy what is easily the biggest fail in marketing cries for attention. Why yes, that is hair-metal.

As artists, musicians and redneck trailer trash go, Ke$ha is just plainly shit. A talentless hack who would really make the world a better and happier place if she chose to stop existing. Alas, she’s still here but were it not for her, we wouldn’t have this awesome Minecraft video.

This is an awesome video made by 11-year-old YouTube user xNoizeBeatx featuring a montage of Minecraft footage to accompany her very own modified version of Ke$sha’s “Tik Tok”. You’ll notice the slightly off-key singing but put that together with a heavy helping of enthusiasm, what started as the worst song I’ve ever heard and throw in some Minecraft footage and you’ve got a real hoot of a video on you hands. This version of the song is also like a bazillion times better, maybe I’ve just got a penchant for Minecraft.

Enjoy.

Over the years we’ve come a long way in terms of how we interface with the games we play, certainly from the days of the two-button box that was used to play Tennis for Two. There’ve also been some seriously ridiculous ones from the NES power Glove to the scouter-like Laser Scope from Konami. Let’s not forget the Wii U controller which really doesn’t fit in anywhere, as the graphic quite clearly illustrates.

If you can follow the lines, the chart is great in showing the evolution of different types of gamepads/controllers/peripherals and how they’ve all influenced each other. There’s a lot of information crammed into this chart so you’d be best off clicking on the image to get a full-size view of it and save it to your PC to view on your own time.

What happens when you combine the ultimate hero with the ultimate weapon? We’re not really sure but here’s a video of what happens when you give Mega Man a portal gun.

A warning: the ending of this video will haunt you eternally.

While BioShock games may be great pieces of interactive art and offer a well-crafted world rich with the nuances of a living, breathing society (the gameplay isn’t too bad either) there is a lot to be said about the general setting of these games.

Yes, they present a springboard for many political and social debates but let’s face it: the first and second took place in an underwater city and now BioShock: Infinite is set in a floating city. These aren’t the most practical or logical places to build a city let alone revolutionise society but it could have been much, much worse as the posters below will surely indicate.

There are some Kinect games that offer some fun but no matter which one you’re playing you’ll always look like an absolute tool doing it.

Well, this guy reaches a new low with this horse riding game. Most entertaining game ever? Only if you’re not the guy who has to play it. He’s got some caljones to do this in public but chances are there’s a lost bet involved here.

What can possibly be more intimidating than a pumped-up Bane, more torturous than the Scarecrows mindgames and more perplexingly unfathomable than the Joker? Enter the greatest evil Rocksteady’s Dark Knight has ever had to face.

It is none other than the opening sequence to the campiest and most ear-bleed inducing iteration of  Batman ever known to man, the 60′s Batman and Robin starring Adam West.  Yes, more dementing than any Scarecrow sequence and more painful than having his back broken, this video finds Batman trapped in the opening sequence of the 60′s atrocity.

This is effectively Rocksteady’s reply to repeated questions from fans about the possibility of DLC based on the 60′s TV series after the Adam West Batman was announced as a playable skin and rumours surfaced of Arkham City being fed with DLC post-release.

Why yes, Rocksteady is taking the piss in a rather big way here.

So this is a video of a little girl all hooded-up like an assassin as she free-runs around her living room/kitchen. Imagine her skills when she’s actually old enough to play an Assassin’s Creed game. She even does a leap of faith.

This video is almost too adorable, it’s like she’s been trained to behave that way just to put you at ease in order that she may get in close for the fatal strike.