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Super-Quick Looks At Destiny‘s Character Classes
Bungie’s promising to put players in an huge sci-fi universe with their next game. The new glimpses at Destiny‘s classes that debuted on the game’s official site? Those are very, very small. Three super-short videos give you a glance at the Titan, Warlock and Hunter classes that players will be controlling in Destiny. Brief, lore-centric…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 23, 2014 -
What Creators of Doom and Myst Thought Of Each Other’s Games in 1993
‘”It’s an adventure game! It’s mass market! It’s the anti-Doom! We have to crush this game!” “‘What is this?! Demons on Mars?! People are playing this?!” It’s been more than 20 years since iconic games Doom and Myst changed the landscape of video games forever. One exponentially advanced the language and possibilities of the first-person…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 20, 2014 -
A Health Game That Claims It’ll Improve Your Vision
For a game that says it’ll make your eyeballs work better, Ultimeyes isn’t exactly a work of art. It’s a work of science, though, one that presents a series of eye-training challenges in game-like form. After playing it a few times this week, I feel like it might actually work. Ultimeyes comes from Carrot Neurotechnology,…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 18, 2014 -
Help A Bunny From The Future Become Mayor By Murdering His Enemies
Spoiler: the stupid joke-gimmick glasses I’m wearing at the beginning of this video don’t do anything to make Not a Hero look any cooler. That’s okay, though. The new over-the-top action game doesn’t need help looking cool, because it happens in 2.25D. When I first wrote about Not a Hero after the game was announced,…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 18, 2014 -
Not the Fastest Super Mario Bros. 3 Speedrun. Surely the Prettiest.
Nintendo just release their classic platformer Super Mario Bros 3 for Wii U and 3DS yesterday. The NES classic probably looks great on the company’s current hardware. Good for them. But SMB3 looks utterly amazing in this 4K resolution tool-assisted speedrun posted on YouTube. A/V specialist Andy Dick creates insanely upscaled versions of old games…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 18, 2014 -
A Spaceship Game That Feels a Lot Like Being in a Relationship
Listen, Space Partner, if we don’t figure out how to work together, the space bunnies are going to die horrible, lonely deaths. Stop screaming at me and upgrade those shields! The neon spaceship you’re jumping around in Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime looks like it’s made for half a dozen interstellar explorers. But you and…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 18, 2014 -
A Little Bit of Sonic, Some Super Meat Boy and a Lot of Difficulty
Video game movement’s the best, isn’t it? Jumping higher than possible in reality, dodging, rolling and sprinting with impossible smoothness across precise vectors… it’s no wonder you get limitations like a double jump or short dash distances. Fenix Rage takes those strictures away, giving you infinite dash and infinite jumping. It’s the kind of game…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 17, 2014 -
Sonic the Hedgehog Dances His Way Into Your Nightmares
Warning: the video below contains people in Sonic character suits doing some really terrible twerking. The dance routine featuring Sega’s mascot character has been around for a while but just popped up on my radar via the Facebook timeline of Twitch streamer RaquibMarvelous. The segment originally aired years ago on Puerto Rican variety show Entre…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 17, 2014 -
Coming Soon To An RPG Near You: Panic Attacks!
Life is stressful and sometimes even the bravest people shut down under too much trauma. Darkest Dungeon takes that emotional reality and weaves it into the game, giving players a band of warriors who can get so sick and tired of fighting all the damn time that they’ll just quit or run away. We’re used…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 17, 2014 -
What It Looks Like to Play a Four-Dimensional Game
Some games ask you to shoot, jump or strategize in ways that are similar to what you’ve done. Sure, there may be unique tweaks designed to pique your interest but you mostly go in knowing what to expect. Other games are different deep down in their DNA, challenging the way you do even the simplest…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 16, 2014 -
How One Mario Kart Track Has Changed in 22 Years
If you’ve been playing Mario Kart games since the beginning, you’re probably going to have a bit of déjà vu on the Donut Plains track. The folks at GameXplain take a look at the Donut Plains level as it originally appeared in 1992’s Super Mario Kart and as it’ll show up in next month’s Mario…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 16, 2014 -
Super-Speed GTA V Looks Damn Cool
Los Santos looks even more realistic—and chaotic—when it’s going by very quickly. Canadian artist Benoit Paillé—the same guy who’s making extremely clever real-world trick photography using Grand Theft Auto V—delivers this fun ‘hyper timelapse’ tour of the game’s environments. The jittery quality of the people in the video somehow manages to feel like it’s channeling…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 15, 2014 -
If the Arcade Game from Tron Existed, It’d Look a Lot Like This
Everyone remembers that the plot of Tron: a computer hacker/arcade owner gets pulled into the cyberscape of a cool-looking video game. Now, the actual game that Kevin Flynn journeyed into gets an impressive painted tribute. The renderings of stand-up cabinet versions of Space Paranoids and Starfighter come from Joey Spiotto, the artist who created children’s…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 15, 2014 -
Genius And His Lego Robot Take Cheating To A New Level
Uli Kilian once set a world record by solving 100 Rubik’s Cubes while running a marathon at the same time. So he’s smart. And fit. But the smartest thing he’s done might have been building a robot to tap his iPad screen in the middle of the night so that he wakes up to a…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 15, 2014 -
Another Frustrating Beyond Good & Evil 2 Tease
Well, the weather’s finally starting to get warm. Flowers are starting to bloom. Cherry blossoms are exploding from tree branches. Must be time for another heart-breaking glimpse of the long-brewing follow-up to Beyond Good & Evil The flirtation with releasing actual information about a sequel for Ubisoft’s cult favorite action/adventure is an annual ritual, like…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 14, 2014 -
Someone Wrote A Book About Street Fighter‘s Greatest Match
It’s been ten years since the greatest comeback in competitive video games happened. In the decade since Daigo Umehara and Justin Wong met in a fateful match of Street Fighter III: Third Strike, EVO Moment 37 has become the stuff of legend. Now there’s a book about it. The myriad low-res videos that capture their…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 14, 2014 -
New Game from the Creators of Guacamelee Looks Wickedly Twisted
This is Severed, a game where the heroine has to put herself back together. Literally. Drinkbox Studios—makers of last year’s well-loved luchadore action-platformer Guacamelee—just revealed their next game via the very flashy trailer above. It looks like it’s headed to touchscreen devices, based on the gestural input prompts seen in the clip. Here’s how Drinkbox…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 14, 2014 -
Best Game About Being a Spider Gets a Sequel with a Real-World Twist
Five years ago, Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor became an instant classic in the iPhone games library. The moody, wordless experience turned players into multi-legged predators wending their way into creepy environments and a foreboding meta-story. That game’s sequel won’t just be debuting on iOS; it’ll be on Android, PC, Mac and Linux. It…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 13, 2014 -
You’re the One Writing the Story in This Weird, Beautiful Sci-Fi Game
Usually, games that happen beyond Earth’s atmosphere take you to planets teeming with life. Meeting creatures with tentacles where hair or hands should be or with strangely angled mandibles isn’t uncommon in sci-fi games. But, none of that happens in Elegy for Dead World, which we got a chance to see at PAX East this…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 13, 2014 -
The Cosplay of PAX East, Day 3
Thank you, unknown cosplayer, for your furry tribute to the best thing about Call of Duty: Ghosts. This Riley get-up up top isn’t the fanciest outfit in the world but it still got a lot of laughs and recognition as passersby gawked at Ghosts’ canine hero. Just goes to show that you don’t need to…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 13, 2014
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