Elementary School Students Given Preview Of Doom Reboot With A Blood-filled Puppet Show

Third graders at Stephen F. Austin Elementary School in Richmond, Texas were lucky enough to take part an exclusive preview of Id Software’s upcoming reboot of the Doom franchise early Monday morning. In their behind-closed-doors preview, the students were treated to several of Doom’s new mechanics, story elements, and unimaginably horrific death sequences all played out by a professional troupe of puppeteers and countless buckets of pigs blood.

Xbox One's Mandatory $13,000 Time Machine Peripheral Eliminates The Need For Backwards Compatibility

All Xbox Ones will come packaged with a mandatory time machine peripheral, Microsoft announced with a blog post Thursday. A longtime dream of theoretical physicists and science fiction fans alike that could be used to change the course of history and save billions of lives, the technology behind the time machine has been patented by Microsoft and will be used to transport gamers back to 2001 to experience the original Xbox and Halo as they were originally intended.

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.

34,495 New Characters Announced For Smash Bros 3DS/Wii U, None Of Them Waluigi

A slew of new characters for the upcoming Smash Bros 3DS/Wii U were revealed during a live Nintendo Direct early Monday morning. The comprehensive list of 34,495 characters, internally named “Every Video Game Character That Matters,” contains popular mascots from Sony, Microsoft, SEGA, Capcom, Blizzard, and many others including Nintendo’s own that were not yet in Super Smash Bros, except Waluigi. 

GameStop Exclusive: Pre-Order Alien: Isolation and Receive A Working Ben Kuchera Voodoo Doll

Continuing their tradition of holding crucial sections of video game hostage unless you pre-order with them, GameStop has announced their exclusive Alien: Isolation pre-order edition complete with fully functional Ben Kuchera Voodoo Doll. The special edition of the upcoming survival horror game comes with the actual game, a download code for the only gun available in the game, and the aforementioned Ben Kuchera Voodoo Doll, as well as matches, toothpicks and a small knife to use with the mystical stuffed doll.

Nintendo Defends Its Anti-Piracy Firing Squads, Has No Plans To Stop Executing YouTube Creators

Nintendo has no plans to shelve its controversial “Bullet Bills For Piracy” initiative, sources confirmed Wednesday. The anti-piracy policy that involves lining up potential thieves and YouTube streamers who show more than five minutes of consecutive gameplay footage then firing high-powered rifles until the life leaves their eyes is one Nintendo plans to keep going as long as “[they] keep stealing our games.”

Ubisoft Announces The "Fine, Do It Your Fucking Self" Video Game Creation Starter Kit

In the wake of recent controversies over the lack of female characters and slowing video game sales, Ubisoft announced that it is releasing a do-it-yourself game creation kit in the fourth quarter of 2014 tentatively titled “Fine, Do It Your Fucking Self”.