Although paying for online play is a regrettable reality for the Xbox Live platform, and Sony has been generously sweetening the proverbial pot for PS3 players in recent times with PS+, Nintendo has stated that they have no plans to make people pay for online services on the 3DS and the upcoming Wii U.
Thirty-five trusted publications have voted and the winners are in! Dominating the list with five wins, including Best of Show and Best Original Game is Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us for PS3. Halo 4 beat out Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 and Borderlands 2 for best action game. For all the nominees click here.
To celebrate the release of Meet the Pyro on Wednesday, Valve has started Pyromania! Complete with a handy countdown clock that you can stare at while making wild assumptions about Pyro’s real identity! Man? Woman? Sack of sentient potatoes? In the meantime they’ve also released a brand new map Doomsday: where players race to bring a suitcase to a ridiculously slow elevator up to a nuclear space missile. The map is [...]
Yesterday’s patch brought with it some strange new drops: Banana Peel , Barn Door Plank, Cheese Wheel, Damaged Capacitor, Goldfish, and Pocket Lint. Of course knowing Valve the rumors are flying about what these are for: a new ARG? Meet the Pyro? Any number of things. The capacitor has the number 6.22 on it. Could something be coming this Friday? To see more and read all the super mysterious item descriptions check [...]

