Evan Narcisse

Never Alone’s New DLC Is About Preserving  Iñupiaq History

I never expected the world’s first Alaskan Native video game to come out with DLC. But Never Alone’s new add-on means more than just than just extra gameplay. In terms of how it got made and the narrative told inside the game itself, Never Alone stood apart from most video games that came out last…

GTA V Mod Is Trying To Turn PC Version Into An RPG

All the things you love about GTA V. All the things you love about role-playing video games. Together in one place. It’s slowly happening, all thanks to a person who doesn’t work at Rockstar. GTA: RPG is the work of LogicSpawn, a modder out of the UK who’s doing the hard work of adding skill…

You’ve been wondering what Total War: Warhammer would look and play like, right? A new walkthrough video gives a look at the units, leaders and gameplay of the mash-up strategy title.

Lois Lane Finally Figured Out That Superman Is Clark Kent

For decades, Lois Lane’s been the butt of jokes involving Superman’s double identity. A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who gets fooled by a pair of glasses? Come on, girl. This week, Lois puts it all together. And, yeah, she’s pissed. We’ve known that she figured things out recently, but we haven’t known how. Two months ago,…

A Man Who Can’t Die Is the Perfect Private Eye for a Dirty Los Angeles

Do you miss Angel? You remember it, right? The Buffy spinoff where the hunky vampire-with-a-soul was a PI who worked cases involving mystical creatures? Well, there’s a new comic book series that’s similar in concept but with a few different twists. Wolf #1 starts with a man who’s been set on fire, walking down the…

Tetris Grandmaster Takes On The Weirdest Game Mode I’ve Ever Seen

In its most vanilla, near-ubiquitous form, Tetris is already a near perfect video game that challenges you to be smart and fast in increasingly hard fashion. The stuff that gets thrown at you in an ultra-hard arcade version is mind-blowing. Blocks that need to be cleared twice. A stack that flips around. Let’s watch one…

It’s long been rumored that a new Mafia game was in development and now we have confirmation. More details will be revealed next week.

In Brazil, Sega won the video game console wars of the 1990s. An article at Atlas Obscura delves into the Brazilian video game market, a weird place, one where a new PS4 costs three times as much as it does elsewhere. Contact the author at [email protected]

Arkham Knight Glitch Gave Me a Weird, Super-Easy Watchtower Takedown

What’s up with those Arkham Knight soldiers running around like crazy? Batman hasn’t even done anything yet. Gosh, guys. After finishing up the main story in Arkham Knight, I’ve been patrolling the city and going through the various sidequests. You know, removing checkpoints, blowing up drones, defusing explosives… that kind of thing. A few days…

The X-Men Are Great As Old Farts

Fourteen years ago, a run of X-Men comics took Marvel’s famous mutants out of superhero costumes, put them in rockstar leather uniforms and detoured away from years of dead-end storylines. The X-Men got much cooler. This week, we get to see what happens when the X-Men’s cool runs out. One of the core conceits of…

Mortal Kombat. For the Atari 2600.

If Mortal Kombat went back in time and made sweet love to Pitfall, the result would look something like this. Yes, that’s Scorpion up there. What? Yes, I’m sure it is. Just squint and you’ll see how the yellow-and-black bits evoke the garb of the gory fighting game franchise’s undead ninja. Mortal Kombat: Netherrealm Journey…

New Justice League Cartoon Is the Bleakest DC Universe Movie Ever

The versions of Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman who appear in the new animated Justice League film Gods and Monsters are dark. We’ve already seen glimpses, and the full film is indeed full of sick superhero moments. Hell, Superman calls Lois Lane a bitch. You should watch it. In the first ten minutes of Gods…

New Tomb Raider Will Come To PC and PS4 In 2016

Windows players will be able to play Rise of the Tomb Raider a few months after it launches on Xbox. PS4 gamers will have to wait a year. There’s been anger and disgruntlement at the exclusivity of Rise of the Tomb Raider, which was initially announced as an Xbox platform exclusive last August. Turns out…

What Was the Best Boss Fight from the Batman Arkham Games?

We’ve gotten four good Batman games in the last six years, each one bigger and more ambitious than the last. They’ve all pit players against The Dark Knight’s evil enemies in dramatic set-piece showdowns. Let’s see which one you thought was the best. Arkham Asylum, Arkham City, Arkham Origins and Arkham Knight all boast at…

Cyborg Is Going to Be Really Important for DC Comics

I’ve always had a hard time with Cyborg. I wanted to like DC Comics’ bionic superhero but something’s always held me back from digging Victor Stone the same way I like, say, The Black Panther or Robin. That started changing this week. When I first encountered Cyborg in the old New Teen Titans comic, I…

Bro, Read The Great Hawkeye Series That Just Ended. Bro. Seriously.

If all you know about Hawkeye is that he’s a guy who shoots arrows in the Avengers movies, then you don’t know anything about Hawkeye. Lucky for you, then, there’s an excellent comic-book series that shows you just how awesomely complicated Clint Barton is. For example, he’s great with boats. Hawkeye #22—the last issue of…

Seth Killian Wants To Help You Not Suck At Fighting Games

You practice, practice, practice with your favorite fighting game character but, even if you’re really good, the special moves don’t come out the way you want. One of the icons of fighting games is making a game where they’ll come out every time. “Honestly, if you asked me two years ago, I would’ve said what…

Ant-Man Is a Great Comic-Book About a Terrible Superhero

The guy running around in one of Marvel’s oldest superhero identities isn’t all that great when it comes to fighting crime. Ant-Man is not a very good boss, either. And, honestly, he could stand to improve a lot as a dad. But his struggles to be a decent dude are what make his comic a…

What’s Really Happening in Arkham Knight’s True Ending

You have to do a lot of work to get the third, final ending in the latest Batman game. But the scene that plays out as a reward for completing 100% of Arkham Knight is… unclear. So, of course, people are debating what it really means. The sequence unlocked after defeating Scarecrow, the Arkham Knight’s…

The Big Things That Change When Someone Else Becomes Batman

Batman is Bruce Wayne. Except, of course, when he isn’t. Other folks have worn the pointy ears of Gotham City’s shadowy superhero over the years, too, and every new Batman brings a few changes with them as well. In the comics these days, we’ve got a cop in a robot suit as the Dark Knight.…