Evan Narcisse

A Mind-Boggling 30-Year Collection of Video Games Can Be Yours for Only $550,000

Have you kept every video game, console or accessory you’ve ever bought or owned? You probably haven’t. But, try to imagine if you did. How many things would that be? A couple hundred? Somewhere in the 1000s, maybe? One guy in Italy has you, all your friends and probably a bunch of strangers you don’t…

You Can Visit Heaven with Mega Man, Sam Fisher and Brain Age in This Week’s Nintendo Download

Comparatively speaking, it’s not that often that you get to engage in wanton bloodshed in a game released for Nintendo platforms. (Well, you can creatively interpret Mario’s adventures in an ultra-violent way, if you wanted.) So, The Fist of the North Star: Ken’s Rage 2—where you can kick guys to bloody bits—is a departure from…

The Next Assassin’s Creed Will Get A Total Overhaul: New Character, New Time Period, Coming Next Fiscal Year

Ubisoft announced that a new Assassin’s Creed game featuring a new hero and time period will be coming in fiscal year 2014, which could be anywhere from this October to next September April 1, 2013 to March 31, 2014. Ubisoft president Yves Guillemot promised a major leap forward for the Assassin’s Creed franchise and indicated…

Rayman Legends No Longer a Wii U Exclusive; PS3 and Xbox 360 Versions Also Coming in September

There’s good news and bad news, Rayman fans. First, the bad news: Rayman Legends—the follow-up to the fun, much-praised Rayman Origins—has been delayed until this September, about six months after its original February 26th release date. The good news is that PS3 and Xbox 360 owners will also be getting their own versions of the…

The Wikipad Gaming Tablet Is Finally Coming Out. And It’ll Be Cheaper.

Originally, the Wikipad—an Android tablet with a custom controller dock—was supposed to come out last Halloween. But October 31st came and went with no Wikipads in any store anywhere. But the hybrid portable is alive and will be showing up in a smaller, less expensive form this spring. The Wikipad coming in a few months…

Don’t Call BioWare’s Next Sci-Fi Game Mass Effect 4

Mass Effect 3 is well behind us and fans already know that that an upcoming game set in Bioware’s far-future universe is in development at BioWare Montreal’s studio. That game doesn’t have a name yet. But, the dev studio’s representatives really don’t want you to refer to it as Mass Effect 4 [If you haven’t…

This Game Wants You to Take Your People to Meet a God

What if going to church was an epic quest, filled with hazards and gut-wrenching decisions that affected the people you loved? You’d think pretty seriously about your choices, wouldn’t you? That kind of weighty aspiration is exactly what Unwritten: That Which Happened is aiming for. The in-development PC game being made by Roxlou Games‘ Joe…

Return to the Airbender Universe with Two New Comics Projects

You could make a pretty good case for Avatar: The Last Airbender being one of the best new pop culture mythologies to debut in the last decade or so. Creators Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko made a world where young people embodied hope, even as they were thrust into a war that tore their…

Gabe Newell and J.J. Abrams Say They Want to Make Movies and Games Together

Today at the game industry’s DICE conference, the guy in charge of Valve and the man directing both Star Wars and Star Trek said that they want to make Portal and Half-Life movies. And games, too. Gabe Newell and J.J. Abrams spoke about storytelling in each of their mediums. When the panel ended, this exchange…

Table Top Racing Just Isn’t Fast Enough to Meet My Toy Car Driving Needs

Sure, the venerable kart racing genre revolves around wacky track designs and a rotation of goofy-lethal power-ups. But, no matter how fun the chaos is, I still need to feel like I’m going really fast. Table Top Racing denies me that rush. And, worse, it doesn’t offer up a satisfying option for blowing away the…

Stop Working, Everyone. You’ll Never Make Anything as Good as This Pirated Game Box Art.

In the good ol’ U.S. of A, we like to think that we get some high-class hacks and mods for our video games. Post-release programmers get people naked, transform games into dinosaur parks and throw nightmarish versions of Spider-Man into Skyrim. But, the tweaks we get here are nothing compared to the batshit insanity available…

Six Comics You Should Get This Week

If you’re here in the Panel Discussion programming block, you might be a lapsed comics reader, trying to find a way back to the JLA Satellite. Or you might someone killing time until you pick up your weekly Wednesday pull list. Or maybe you’ve said goodbye to dozens of longboxes to embrace the promise of…

Too Bad This Mega Man & Sonic Comic-Book Crossover Isn’t an Actual Game

The long-teased crossover between Capcom and Sega’s iconic characters inches ever closer and each bit of preview art makes fans teases fans with the fact that this mash-up doesn’t exist in playable form. Hey, if Mega Man can take on the World Warriors of Street Fighter and Sonic can duke it out with Mario in…

Feast Your Eyes on the Amazing Artwork That Will Make You Think Batman Actually Exists

I didn’t like Lee Bermejo’s take on the Batman costume at first. For someone like me who grew up on Jim Aparo and Don Newton’s versions of the Dark Knight in the 1970s and 1980s, the way he rendered certain elements of that classic costume felt… off. The stiff lower part of the cowl? The…

Mario & Luigi Would Make Awesome Ghostbusters, Wouldn’t They?

I was really hoping for a “There is no Princess. There is only Zuul” riff in this mash-up video. But the absence of that doesn’t stop this clip from being a pretty clever blend of Super Mario stuff and Ghostbusters moments. A giant Kirby as the Star Puft Marshmallow Man? Inspired.

Eurogamer takes a deep dive into the Wii U’s graphics processing hardware. Lots of pictures of silicon!

One Writer Explains What Video Game Storytelling Taught Her About Life

“Stories are the filter through which we understand the world.” Those philosophical words come from Susan O’Connor, a writer who’s worked on BioShock, Far Cry 2 and Gears of War. In the TEDx session above, O’Connor discusses how her work scripting characters for video games led her to an epiphany about the people who may…

Fox News Host’s Guns Vs. Video Games Argument Doesn’t Make Sense

In the Fox News segment excerpted above, Judge Jeanine Pirro argues that banning guns won’t stop crime. She should certainly feel free to argue that position. But when she invokes video games in a preposterous culture-war argument, it’s hard to take any of her comments seriously. Here’s a partial transcript of what she says at…

If Pixar Wants to Make a Street Fighter Movie, They Should Hire This Guy

We’ve shown some of the artwork and character designs that Brazilian artist Victor Hugo Queiroz has been doing for his quirky-cool fan film Street Fighter III – Fuurinkazan. And after a few years in development, he’s released a trailer that pits Ryu against Hugo. Be sure to watch until the very end for a special…

Cyberpunk 2077 Will Run On A Shiny New Engine, Just In Time For The Next Generation

Less than a day after Sony teases a reveal of the PS4, CD Projekt Red—makers of the popular Witcher series—have unveiled the engine that will be powering their next-generation games. The timing of the announcement is probably a coincidence, but maybe not! Called RedEngine 3, the tech will be powering the company’s upcoming Cyberpunk 2077.…