Joe Biden Sues Lollipop Chainsaw Developers, Claims His Likeness Was Used Without Permission

Vice President Joe Biden has filed a lawsuit against Grasshopper Manufacture, the developers behind the 2012 hack-and-slash Lollipop Chainsaw, for allegedly using his likeness without permission. The suit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court claims that the developers used Biden’s likeness for their main character Juliet, copying almost exactly a style that the Vice President sported consistently in the late 90’s.

George R.R. Martin To Kill PlayStation Vita In Next A Song Of Ice And Fire Installment

Author George R.R. Martin revealed a slew of character deaths including the Sony PlayStation Vita while reading a new chapter from The Winds of Winter to diehard fans attending an event in Portland last Friday. Winter is the sixth and most highly anticipated book of Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series to date, and this chapter is the third so far released to the rabid public.

Rockstar Admits They Had No Idea Anyone Would Actually Play GTA Online, No Plans To Ever Finish Heists

Rockstar North admitted in a blog post Thursday that it had no idea people would actually play GTA Online this long, let alone actually expect them to implement the heists mode they heavily advertised around the game’s release. The admission comes just days after they announced a delay to the online heists, eventually succumbing to pressure and telling the truth they never intended for anyone to actually use the mostly-broken service.

Battlefield: Hardline 2 Beta Available Now On PC and PS4

Following a successful round of testing for Battlefield: Hardline, EA has announced that the beta for Battlefield: Hardline 2 is available now on PC and PS4. Much like the beta for the original Hardline that released two weeks ago, this one will feature a familiar experience to anyone who has played a Battlefield game before.

Bioware's Daring Teaser For Dragon Age: Inquisition Involving Real Dragons Backfires Horribly Leaving Seventy Dead And Millions Still Unaware Of Key Features

During their highly anticipated E3 trailer for Dragon Age: Inquisition, Bioware’s decision to unleash living breathing dragons tragically backfired resulting in 73 fans dead and millions still unaware of key features of the upcoming RPG. The loud and terrifying trailer was quickly drowned out by the sounds of four ancient dragons flapping their massive wings and raining hellfire down on media and Bioware fans in the crowds, incinerating everything in their path.

Bethesda Claims Fallout 4 Basically Complete, Won't Release Until They Can Work A Few More Bugs Into It

In their first official statement about the highly anticipated sequel to Fallout 3, Bethesda Game Studios claims that Fallout 4 is “basically complete” and they are just working in a few more bugs and game-breaking glitches before launch. Throughout their press release regarding the game, the Maryland-based developer detailed the multitude of fun glitches and numerous ways your game can completely crash and undo all that hard work you did getting new armor.

Broken And Half-Assed Watch_Dogs Revealed To Be A Clever Advertisement For Upcoming Game Watch Dogs

Early yesterday, following a series of lukewam reviews to their recently released Watch_Dogs, Ubisoft Montreal revealed that this so called game was actually another clever advertising campaign for the actual game coming out later this year. This would be the latest in a series of augmented reality advertisements that included an intuitive Facebook app, pretending to hack several well known websites, and hanging a live man from Chicago until the life left his body.

Disney Announces New Hawkeye Game; Promises The Avengers You Actually Care About Will Be In It Too

Killing all the recent excitement of a rumored Avengers game, Disney announced today in front of a disappointed audience that Hawkeye: The Game will release this summer to the Xbox One and PS4. Simply fulfilling a contractual obligation to make a game out of the archer turned superhero for some reason, Hawkeye: The Game will only force you to play as the dweeb Avenger for as short of a time as possible.

Repulsive Fanboy Owns Three Consoles And A PC; Is OK With Other People Not Liking The Same Consoles As Him

Calling his love of video games no matter the console “normal, I guess” and “not that big of a deal’ gamer and all-around scumbag Peter Dillon claims to own three consoles as well as a gaming PC and favors none of them above any other. What started as a gross personal habit quickly spread to a publicly known disease once his friends discovered his disgusting lifestyle.

Sony Continues Its Quest To Port Every Game In Existence By Bringing Ingress to PlayStation 4

In an effort to port every game released prior to 2014 to their console, Sony announced yesterday that the Niantic Labs developed geolocation game Ingress will be ported to the PlayStation 4. Revealed alongside other upcoming ports such the Mass Effect Trilogy, The Last of Us, Tomb Raider (1996), Bioshock Infinite, Braid, God of War I and III, Beatles Rock Band, LittleBigPlanet 2, Borderlands 2, Dishonored, Demon’s Souls, Dead Space 3, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Horse Armor add-on pack and Madden ‘09 among others, Ingress is expected to release sometime in the summer of 2014 and feature little to no changes to the game currently played on Android devices worldwide.

Recently Divorced Man Estimates He Needs 8 More Platinum Trophies To Feel Whole Again

Struggling to get by in the six months since his wife and kids left him, 31-year-old divorcee Michael Swartz estimates that roughly eight more PlayStation 4 platinum trophies would be enough to make him feel whole again. Once the proud father of two and loving husband, Mr. Swartz recently found himself out and alone with nothing but his PS4, apartment, car, phone, computer and internet connection but feeling empty on the inside.

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New PlayStation 4 SHARE Feature Replaces Your Shitty Screenshots With Ones That Don't Suck

In a recent blog post Sony announced that they are implementing several new updates to the SHARE feature of the PlayStation 4, the most important of them being that the service will now take your shitty and poorly framed screenshots and replace them with fantastic action shots by professional photographers. Up until this point, gamers turned sub-par photographers were taking shots of things things like walking down the street in Infamous: Second Son or any number of stupid environmental pieces in Knack. Each of these horribly amateurish shots hurt the PlayStation brand, says Sony President Kazuo Hirai. 

Ubisoft Reveals More Changes To Watch Dogs In Latest Trailer

Ubisoft finally showed off some new features and changes to their highly anticipated game Watch Dogs yesterday in the form of a new trailer. The four minute video showcased exciting never-before-seen additions to the open world game, as well as some slight alterations and removal of features we previously thought would be included. 

Texture Pop Gaming's Open Letter To 'From Software' Regarding Broken Dark Souls II Game

Like other legitimate gaming blogs, we at Texture Pop Gaming receive review copies of upcoming games from developers so that we can provide beautifully written reviews and analysis of them. While we never actually get around to writing those reviews because Hot Pockets aren’t going to eat themselves, we do appreciate free games. But when From Software sent us a broken game that’s where we draw the line. Although it’s been nearly a week since we sent this polite letter requesting answers, the cowards behind Dark Souls II still haven’t responded.

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Entire Kojima Productions Staff Laid Off Months Ahead of Schedule

Tokyo based Konami recently announced that they had have laid off the the entire staff of their subsidiary Kojima Productions months before the initially planned date. While most big studios wait until their game actually comes before laying off as many employees as possible, Konami claims it is saving tens of millions of dollars by just doing it now before their upcoming game, Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, actually releases.

Well-Meaning Grandparents Accidentally Purchase 16-inch Power Chainsaw Instead of Dark Souls 2

Loving grandparents Bruce and Delores Smith had every intention of buying their fifteen-year-old grandson a killing machine capable of causing pain and ruining families, but instead what they purchased was a 16-inch power chainsaw. After waiting up all night for his grandparents to return with what he thought would be Dark Souls 2, young Bryson Smith claims to not be angry, just disappointed in his elder’s attempts to purchase the newly released sequel to his favorite game.

Zenimax Announces New Payment System For The Elder Scrolls: Online

Artist recreation of "lore burning"

It was a controversial enough move when Zenimax announced they would be charging $15 per month for their upcoming MMO The Elder Scrolls: Online instead of the free-to-play model currently popular in the genre, but with their more recent announcement yesterday, they are shaking up the payment world again by allowing potential players to forgo the monetary payment by way of burning a piece of Elder Scrolls lore.

Breakdown of PlayStation 4 Hardware Reveals Hidden Feature

This grainy footage from an unknown source shows the
alleged game disc being passed between two Sony employees

Internet sleuths the world over are slowly digging up details about a secret feature that Sony's flagship Netflix player, the PlayStation 4, contains. While nothing has been confirmed by Sony or any of their representatives, there is growing evidence that the PlayStation 4 can, in fact, play video games. The rumors started late last week when popular hardware hacker Benjamin Heckendorn (more commonly known online as BenHeck) did a video breakdown of the PlayStation 4 hardware. 

Gamerscore Officially Declared One True Way Into Heaven

Ever since the Xbox 360 introduced the majority of the world to achievements and gamerscores, players everywhere have been bragging endlessly and fighting over who is better based on the simple number. But now they have one more reason to rack up as many achievements as possible - eternal happiness in the afterlife.