Ethan Gach

RollerCoaster Tycoon Ride From Hell Lasts 12 Years

The point of RollerCoaster Tycoon is to create a successful theme park. Usually that involves keeping people coming back with fun attractions, like elaborate roller coasters, and charging high margins on food and drinks. One player decided to throw that logic out the window and dedicate most of their park to a truly nightmarish abomination:…

Bowser Jr. Finally Gets His Due

When Bowser Jr. came onto the scene in 2002’s Super Mario Sunshine, the first words out of his mouth were “Leave my mama alone!” He’d kidnapped Princess Peach because Bowser had told him she was his mother and was trying to stop Mario from rescuing her. After Mario eventually defeated him, Bowser Jr. confessed to…

Actress Minnie Driver said on Twitter that she was once fired from doing voice work on Gears of War because she couldn’t shout loudly enough. “Only job I was ever fired from…never liked the game tbh,” she said, to which Gears of War series producer Rod Fergusson responded “Sorry about that.” 

Bowser’s Inside Story Holds Up Nicely 10 Years Later

Anyone who hasn’t played the original on DS shouldn’t bother at this point. The remake is better-balanced and better-looking, arriving with a fair bit of extra side content as well. For everyone else, it’s worth remembering that you can still play DS games on your 3DS, and unlike 2017’s remake, Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga,…

Romantic thriller and psychological horror puzzle game Catherine is now available on PC for $20. This version of the game has options for higher resolution, customizable controls and an unlocked frame rate. Unfortunately though here’s still no online multiplayer. Meanwhile, Catherine: Full Body, the remake, comes to PS4 later this year.

Xbox Game Pass Quests Give You Money For Earning Achievements

Today, Microsoft announced a new slate of quests for Game Pass games in January. Earning certain achievements in particular games available through the monthly subscription service will net you rewards points. It’s a small but interesting new development in how the company has been trying to gamify how people play games on Xbox. Announced over…

Artist Turns Sega Master System Into The Steampunkiest Console Ever

Modern video games are almost entirely played on black, plastic boxes. The Xbox One, PS4, and even the Switch sans colorful Joy-Con are non-discrete electronics designed to be as visually unobtrusive as possible. Form can be as important as function, though, and I like a little bit of color and whimsy in the objects I…

I Really Like The Darkwing Duck Game That Capcom Rejected

Here’s a failed game concept that I really wish had managed to survive the gauntlet of development: Headcannon’s Darkwing Duck pitch. Earlier this week, the developers of Sonic Mania revealed that they’d previously approached Capcom about making a spiritual successor to the company’s 1992 NES game. Obviously, they were unsuccessful. The studio has since released…

Top Smash Player Gets Temporary Twitch Ban For Drinking Too Much On Stream

Joseph “Mango” Marquez, one of the “five gods” of Super Smash Bros. Melee, is on an unpaid vacation this week after Twitch banned his channel for allegedly drinking too much during a weekend stream and passing out. Marquez shared the news on his Twitter account, tweeting out a screenshot of the email from Twitch letting…

The Week In Games: Mario Brothers Of Days Past

Not one but two older entries into the Mario Bros. canon resurface this week, because in the world of video games what’s old is eternally new again. And I do hope you like new old games, because otherwise you’re out of luck. In a test of just how many Nintendo fans will buy games they…

Another Eden: The Cat Beyond Time and Space is a free-to-play JRPG coming to iOS and Android on January 28. It’s made in part by Chrono Trigger writer Masato Kato and composer Yasunori Mitsuda, and while it will have microtransactions and character rarities, it will also have a swordsman frog named Cyrus.

The Eternal Castle Is A Great Throwback To Classic Cinematic Sidescrollers

The Eternal Castle is a love letter to old cinematic platformers of the late 80s and early 90s, a throwback to games such as Another World, Flashback. It capitalizes on their virtues without the weight of their technological limitations. It just came out on Steam over the weekend. I haven’t even finished it yet, and…

Wolf Is One Of Competitive Smash Ultimate‘s Most Popular Fighters So Far

Some of the winter’s biggest esports tournaments are still a ways off, but Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, which ended 2018 on a Donkey Kong smackdown, begins 2019 strong with a handful more events taking place across the globe this weekend. Last weekend, I noted that the still-evolving meta around Smash Ultimate meant the Let’s Make…

Hitman: Blood Money and Hitman: Absolution are getting remastered in 4K and ported to PS4 and Xbox One as part of an HD Enhanced Collection. Out digitally on January 11 for $60, the games will run at 60 fps, have improved textures and lighting, and updated controls. 

How I Killed My Switch Charger

It was 11:54 p.m. on New Year’s Eve when people started screaming at me to put the big ball drop in Time Square on my TV. It’s sort of the “you had one job” of throwing a New Year’s party, and I had completely forgotten about it. Many gin and tonics deep, I made my…

Bethesda and Behaviour Interactive announced today they reached an agreement in the case over whether the latter ripped off Fallout Shelter in the creation of the Westworld mobile game Bethesda had filed a lawsuit in June 2018 claiming parts of the code for its game had been copied. That litigation is now over.

Player Discovers That The Legend Of Zelda Has A ‘Minus World’ Too

There’s an infamous, hidden level in the original Super Mario Bros. called World -1 that is glitched and impossible to complete. Dubbed Minus World, it was never meant to be played, instead serving as a hidden depository for data in the game that exists outside of the main path. Super Mario Bros. isn’t the only…

The Capital Wasteland Project, a mod remaking Fallout 3 inside Fallout 4, has been un-canceled. The project’s lead developer had previously given up on it after Bethesda told him he couldn’t re-use audio from the third game. The team has now decided to re-record all of the dialogue themselves.

Rainbow Six Siege Exploit Sends Rival Players Into Polygon Hell

Usually when people think of cheating in a shooter they imagine someone using an aimbot to magically hit opponents from through walls. Recently, Rainbow Six Siege players stumbled across a much more bizarre form of exploit, one that basically sends their characters on a virtual acid trip. Basically, Rainbow Six Siege players are making it…

It Took Three Years To Make This Pocket-Sized Wii

While not quite as elegant as the Switch, the PiiWii is one of the more sleek and practical solutions for playing Wii and GameCube games on a handheld ever modded. And it only took its creator three years to complete it. Shank Mods, who you might remember as the guy who decided to stick the…