Nerdsourcing digs through all the newest video game projects hitting the web that could use your attention and hard earned money. We give you the pitch and some of the rewards. All you need to do is to see if it’s worth your attention. Nerds unite. Only you can make these projects happen.

Carmageddon: Reincarnation

The Pitch:

When the original Carmageddon hit the streets, the outrage hit the fan as players got to run over cows, people, and anything else that would leave a red smear against their bumper. The original creators behind this death race want to make a sequel that’s every bit as bloody and fun as the original. Focusing on speed and dark humor, Carmageddon: Reincarnation needs every dollar to make every blood splatter look amazing and every buzz saw shine like crisp death.

They also have adorable British accents. And who doesn’t love a good accent?

What’s in it for my $25?

The VIP (Very Flammable Penguins) pack gives you access to their forums, early beta access, a Steam code for the final game, wallpaper, and a credit in the game.

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With our Diablo 3 guide you'll have every piece of information at your fingertips that you'll need if you ever hope to take down the biggest demon around, Diablo. Keep checking back to find more info as the week carries on and as we take on the master of evil in Diablo 3.

• Diablo 3 Beginner Guide - Welcome To Sanctuary - Everything you need to know before setting out on your quest can be found right here.

• The Story So Far… Everything You Need To Know About Diablo – From the very first demon to last drop of blood, find out everything you need to know about the story of the Diablo series before you take on the newest chapter.

After the jump, you’ll find more of our extensive guides, get your hands on more loot, and find out why you should be playing Diablo III right now.

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You talk about our mothers all year; it’s about time that we shared with you stories about our moms and video games for this Mother’s Day.

While not everyone’s mom is so understanding about spending hours in front of the TV playing with something they hardly understand, we still love you for letting us sneak in a few games when we are sick and spending countless hours looking for that one game that we just needed to play.

For this Mother’s Day, we here at G4TV want to say thank you to all the mothers out there across the land who let us drag them into gaming. Here are our stories about our mothers and videogames.

Jonathan Goorvich’s Mother – The Best Around

On a weeknight in 1985, my family was the second we knew to own the original Nintendo Entertainment System. We spent way too long hooking up the single coaxial cable, fired up the console, and excitedly gathered around the TV for a life changing experience. After killing Mario off several times in an attempt to make it past the very first Koopa Troopa, my mom insisted that it was her turn. On her very first life of her very first game, she made it all the way to the first castle. Unheard of!

And so, on a day that should have lived in personal gaming infamy, I ultimately stayed up WAY past my bedtime watching my mom play Super Mario Bros. all night. Until this day, I'm pretty sure she's still better than me at the game.

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The future of gaming graduated this year from USC, the number one game-design school as ranked by USA Today, and I was there this year to take part of their Demo Day activities.

Among the student and their projects, you couldn’t help but run into some of the big names in gaming like EA, Sony, and 2K Games. All of them were looking for their next superstar. With games like flOw and The Misadventure of P.B. Winterbottom coming out of this program, it’s little wonder why everyone is looking to grab the talent coming out of this school.

While you might not have made it for the finger food and cups of coffee, here are some of the big games you need to know about from the USC Demo Day event.

Blink

Not all student games need to look as though those who have never dipped their feet into the professional waters made them. Take Blink for example. From the very first cut scene, you feel as though you’re playing a triple-A title.

As a spy caught by the evil corporation, they try to make you into the perfect warrior by giving you the power to warp over short distances or blink. Even tied down and surrounded by an army of bots, you find a way to escape. (When will evil corporations ever learn?) Now with a new ability and only a knife by your side, you navigate the twisted hallways and training areas as you try to escape.

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With the newly announced Skyrim DLC, Dawnguard, just over the horizon, now would be the perfect time to start making of list of features we expect to see.

Luckily for us, Bethesda tipped their hand at DICE this year to show off some of the projects that the genius developers there worked on behind the scenes. Since then, we’ve already seen the implementation of kill cams for arrows and dragon shouts by using the Kinect. We’re still waiting on a couple of other innovations to come to light.

• Article: Dawnguard Announcement

Here are our picks for things we want to see in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim DLC.

Horse Combat

Bethesda did something no one expected by making horses cool. Remember all of that hubbub during the days of Oblivion when they thought people would actually pay money for horse armor. I know several people who would gladly fork over some cold hard cash for a little steel for their horse. But forget the pony show here; what I want is to make horses even cooler.

Let me attack from the saddle. Swing a sword. Draw a bow. Throw a lightening bolt or two. As it is right now, even a mangy pack of wolves makes me off of my high horse just to dispatch them. Even simple maneuvers would allow me to feel as though I could at least defend my trusty steed.

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Try to describe A Valley Without Wind, this open world dungeon crawler turned on its head, and you’re bound to forget something.

For anyone looking for a truly unique take on an old standard, try surviving in a world where the game plays against your strengths, taking on randomly generated worlds, and beating the game is only the beginning. Instead of your traditional hack-and-slash, you rely on magic to take on your foes in this 2D post-apocalyptic world where Iron Age collides with the world of technology.

See what I mean? I still haven’t mentioned that you have to build your own civilization or when you die to come back as someone else. Every area presents a new challenge or even a new spell in your ever-growing inventory. Even after hours of playing through it, I still have yet to scratch the surface of this game.

Fortunately for you, I’ll let one of the creators of one of the most ambitious games you’ll play all year, Chris Park, tell you about what it takes to create A Valley Without Wind.

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Dragonborn, let your voice ring true with the new Kinect-enabled abilities in the latest patch hitting Skyrim. With the DLC already on the way, we thought now would be a good time to test out our dragon shouting skills.

And it works. Instead of having to flip through the menus of Skyrim to switch shouts, you can simply say what you want. Even if you don’t know your OD AH VIING from your STRUN BAH QO, you can simply say what you want from the shout. That is if you can remember the names.

The patch adds support for other actions such as pausing the game or equipping weapons. Here’s where things get a little sticky. Some of the abilities work better than others, and much like the shouts, you need to say exactly what you want or it won’t work. I find that the pause between switching items or weapons gives me a moment to think when I’m looking down the snout of a dragon.

When it works, the Kinect features really make you feel like you’re a part of the action. Missing a shout by a word or waiting that second for the system to try to figure out what the hell you’re saying kicks you out of the experience. Luckily, it’s all for free so you can try it out without loosing a cent.

Warm up those vocal cords. We’re going to war!

May the fourth be with you all as we go through some of our favorite Star War games.

Originally, we wanted to highlight the best Star Wars games at all times. But after a couple of bloody noses and some broken friendships, we find that it may be best to cover some of our favorite titles rather than play with rankings and hurt feelings.

And not everyone follows the way of the Jedi (or Sith, you happen to swing that way.) Maybe this would be a good time to catch them up on what’s amazing about Star Wars series. A group of us here also hope that you hold off reading this list of our favorite recent Star Wars games until May 25^th, the real Star Wars Day.

Star Wars: The Old Republic

Grab your lightsaber and choose your side. This massively multiplayer title gives you just about every a fan could want out of a Star Wars game. You’ll fight your way through the galaxy while making way for the light side or corrupting all you encounter. With so many classes to play as, stories to uncover, and planets to visit; you might just find yourself a little closer to a galaxy far, far away.

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With the recent passing of Adam Yauch, founding member of the Beastie Boys, it’s time to look back at how his work touched so many people. Adam lost his fight with cancer today at the age of 47. Even if you are not directly familiar with the work of the Beastie Boys, you probably hear much of their music from video games through out the years.

From music games like Guitar Hero and DJ Hero to action games like Madden 10 and Tony Hawk’s Proving Ground, the sound of the Beastie Boys brought high energy and a sense of fun to just about any game they appeared in. Their music spanned generations as well as cultures. From the loneliest geek to the most popular jock, we all sign to the tops of our lungs when we hear the chorus of “Fight For Your Right.”

Though Adam will be missed, his presence will live on for generations both through his fans and those who have yet to discover him in the virtual world.

Thank you, Adam.

As you already know by now, The Elder Scrolls Online wants to bring all their fans together to clash swords and rain down fire in a brand new MMO set a thousand years before the time of Skyrim.

The Elder Scrolls Online promises to bring everything you love about the series to a massive playing field, but what does that mean exactly? With only few details, we can only speculate at this point to how the series will make the leap from single-player campaign to the big world of massively multiplayer. This all means big changes for the game that might excite some fans while upsetting a few others along the way. You can’t have an epic adventure without making a few enemies, after all.

Here are just some of our insights and concerns about The Elder Scrolls Online announcement.

Fight Together, Die Alone

Being the chosen one isn’t easy. Sure, you get to go on epic quests that only you can take on and reap the rewards that only you deserve. But at the end of the day, you’ll be crawling back into your house alone, drinking at the “chosen one”-only bar by yourself, and have no one to give the secret “chosen one” handshake. Let’s bring others to the fold as we expand our world. What make Elder Scrolls interesting are the people, places, and conflict you get when you put the two together.

• Announcement: Game Informer Reveals The Elder Scrolls Online

Thousand of horses line up against the horizon charge against a rain of arrows coming from the battered fortress below. Now imagine being apart of the horde charging into the fray or watching from the castle walls as hundreds fall under a blanket of arrows. Take on dragons with some sort of tactic rather than everyone rushing in with swords and pitchforks. Bringing more people to the party means bigger fights and even greater adventures.

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Unlike it’s modern counterpart, Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 offers more in the way of eras to visit and operations to uncover than just new gadgets to eviscerate the competition. That’s not to say that we won’t get our virtual hands on some of the greatest devices this side of the cold war. This slice of the Call of Duty franchise seems to focus more on the historical espionage of our time as well as those events in the future that have not yet been written.

• Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Trailer - Drones, Horses, and Extreme Explosions

Maybe it’s about time that we started to read between the blacked out lines and think about some of the great operations, military hotspots, and amazing weapons we want to get our hands on this time around.

Here are our picks for things we want to see in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 single player campaign.

Operation Cyclone - Making Frenemies

The team behind Call of Duty has never shied away from controversy or dipping their toe into the darker eras of American history. Taking the fight to deserts of Afghanistan with Russian forces nipping at your heels during the early 80’s could provide a very interesting background for a couple of the levels in the game. Looking to stop the spread of communism no matter where it went, the United States spent millions to support militant Islamic groups in that were already fighting a Marxist-oriented regime in the area.

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PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale comes out the gates swinging with an already impressive lineup of Sony characters, but we here over at G4 think we know who’s next to be added to this stellar list.

The number of fan favorite characters and Sony exclusives could easily fill out five arenas to the brim with fighters. Characters like Jak, Snake, and Dante are sure to make the cut, but what of some of the other characters within the pantheon of Sony titles?

Let’s check out our top five character who we want to see make it to the Battle Royal.

Wander – Shadow of the Colossus

One of the best games to ever grace the PS2 needs to make an appearance in anything with the word “All Stars.” With blade and trusty bow, Wander plays like Link from that other series as you take shots from across the screen only to unleash steel once your opponent closes the distance. For his special ability, a shrill whistle calls in your mighty steed, Aggro, to come trotting into the level to kick and bash anyone who gets in his way.

For an ultimate attack, imagine the stage transforming into the upper torso of a colossus. Fists swinging, the ground shaking, and everyone screaming for their lives; this screen-sized brute won’t simply leave by waiting it out. Like any good colossi, you’re going to have to kill it. As the once-giant killer, Wander turns into a protector as he tries to keep the rest of the team from taking out his big attacker.

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I present to you the hidden language behind all the puzzles in Fez. Journey into this 2D platformer and you might get lost among the hidden symbols lurking around every corner. With these translated codes, you’ll finally be able to take your gameplay to the next dimension.

Once you unlock the secret to Fez, there’s no turning back. This is my warning to you. Grab a friend and a pad of paper as you explore the lush pixelated landscape and poke at every mystery you find. Part of the journey and what makes Fez such an amazing game is slowly solving every mystery that you come across. Having the key won’t solve all the problems presented to you in the game, but you’ll just have to hard crack the monolith just like everyone else.

Turn back now, young readers. The secret world of Fez is about to be revealed.

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The indie world often runs at the speed of lightening which is often faster than me at 7AM before my first cup of coffee. With such a downpour of indie news and games recently in the past week, I thought now would be a good time to take stock of everything that’s going on in the world of indie from events, news, and the games you need to be playing now.

I also never pass up on a chance to talk about

What You Should Know

Speaking of the woman who makes all the geeks swoon and happen to share my love of Kingdom Rush, Felicia Day will be the host of this year’s IndieCade ceremonies. Having just launched Geek & Sundry, it seemed like a match made in virtual heaven as some of the top indie developers and rising talent within the field. And as always, G4 will be there to cover all the great games coming to beautiful downtown Culver City this fall.

Oh geez. If Felicia is going to be there this year, I’m going to start picking out what to wear now. Bowties are cool, right?

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San Francisco, Austin, Toronto; when it comes to centers for game development and instructing the gaming innovators of tomorrow, MassDiGI wants to add one more city to that list – Boston.

Home of some of the most prestigious schools and development studios such as Irrational Games, the Massachusetts Digital Games Institute (MassDiGI) is looking to create an environment where students looking to get into the industry start in college and finish with a real job in a development studio right down the road. One such group of students took a step closer to realizing their dreams of creating their own blockbuster game when they won this year’s Game Challenge.

Started last year and based out of Becker College, this innovative group of educators stretches out across more than twenty other campuses in the region and incorporates local business and government to support the efforts of the students looking to gain real world experience. MassDiGI looks to get your hands dirty in the field as you take classes by bringing the real world games to you.

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