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The Most Beautiful Opening Stages In Video Games

A video game’s opening stage or starter zone has an extremely important role: it sets the tone for the rest of the game. Getting it right is essential. Below, we’ve collected some of the best-looking and most iconic starting zones, first stages and opening missions. Green Hill Zone in Sonic Central Highway in Mega Man…

One Man’s Quest To Create Virtual Worlds Yields Spectacular Results

We’ve seen a ton of projects play with the idea of building gorgeous worlds, using randomly generated landscapes—sometimes even paying tribute to Minecraft—but having much more sensitive building and editing tools in a world looking much more realistic, like, say, a sandbox RPG or FPS, is certainly new and refreshing. The engine behind the demo…

The Coolest Mecha In Japanese Video Games

Besides mecha anime, video games also feature some of the most awesomely-designed armoured fighting vehicles. Japanese games—mostly shooters—tend to dominate this field (sorry MechWarrior), so narrowing down our selection to Japenese mecha was an obvious decision from the beginning. Deus (Xenogears) Federation Assault Suit (Cybernator) GEKKO (Metal Gear series) The First Boss in Assault Suit…

The Most Hilarious Sports Game Glitches, Now In Motion

The constant progression of annual sport titles has another advantage besides the games getting more and more realistic every year. It creates moments where the players go nuts—suddenly, our ordinary game turns itself into Dragon Ball Z or Super Smash TV. We selected below a few of these from the last few years’ FIFA, NHL…

The Best Celebrity Appearances in Video Games

Now that we had the Oscars last night, it is time to gather a list of games that enhanced their storytelling by featuring real-life actors, actresses and other celebrities—not just as voice actors, but sometimes even as the main characters. Chow Yun-fat as Inspector Tequila in Stranglehold Bruce Lee as himself in Dragon: The Bruce…

These City Skylines Prove Just How Far Video Game Graphics Have Come

Wednesday’s PlayStation 4 event showed us what next-gen graphics are capable of, so if you had any doubts that game environments could grow even better looking and more detailed, they’re probably now gone. Cities and city skylines in general were always a perfect way to show how beautiful a game is, so we collected some…

There’s Officially A Legend Of Grimrock Sequel On The Way

Petri Häkkinen, co-founder of Almost Human Games confirmed in a blog post earlier today, that Legend Of Grimrock, the dungeon crawler game that Mike Fahey loved so much is getting a sequel. The project initially started as a DLC or an expansion for the first game, but with an engine update on the way they’ve…

Killzone On The PS4 Is Absolutely Stunning. Let’s Stare At It.

Guerilla Games revealed Killzone: Shadow Fall yesterday during the PlayStation Live Meeting, showing us our dramatic escape through the skyscrapers of Vekta City in the middle of a full-scale Helghan attack, as our animated GIFs show below.

The Most Insane Cyborgs In Japanese Video Games

Cyborgs in fiction are always associated with free will, morality, the importance of being human or the limits of the human body. Toughened up by the harsh, cruel worlds they live in, cyborgs are always insanely cool. We decided to collect some of the craziest ones from Japanese video games. Maxima (King Of Fighters series)…

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The Most Insane Minecart Levels In Video Games

There was a time when mines and minecarts dominated video games. If a platformer or RPG didn’t have a mine stage or a mine-themed dungeon, it wasn’t a game. We felt like mines—where actual mining was eschewed in favor of racing around on minecarts—were the most natural things in the world, just as common as…

This is the First Gameplay Footage of the new Dreamfall

Just as Dreamfall Chapters: The Longest Journey got near its $850,000 funding goal at Kickstarter, developer Red Thread Games put up an early prototype gameplay video. You can see the heroine Zoe running around a rich, fully explorable, shiny forest environment called Riverwood, as well as the new hybrid interface that combines freeroam movement and…

The Romantic Moments In Video Games That Remind You Of Valentine’s Day

With Valentine’s Day putting us all in a romantic mood it was our duty to gather some of the defining aaaawww moments video games offer. A great deal of game endings below so watch out for heavy spoilers! The Ending Of The First Prince Of Persia source: Prince Of Persia Final Level Nate And Elena…

These Video Game Towns And Villages Were Doomed From The Start

Oh those lovely hometowns, starting villages… Their peaceful and harmonious atmosphere ensures that there’s nothing to worry about; our journey is yet to begin. And then suddenly, it’s all gone, leaving behind nothing but dust. And sometimes a bit of fire. The settlements listed below are not necessarily just starting areas, but they have one…

The Craziest Testosterone-Filled Japanese Video Game Characters

When it comes to Japanese developers, creating crazy, nice games isn’t the only thing they’re good at; they also design characters with pumped-to-the-max muscles, half of which don’t even exist in real life and have the size of a truck. And they are all really serious about beating the hell out of everyone around them.…

These Video Games Let You Play As Insects

Controlling a cockroach or an entire ant colony is pretty unusual, even for a video game. So we can say games featuring these ideas resulted in rather unique and underrated titles—and that’s absolutely not a problem. We collected some of the most interesting ones below. SimAnt: The Electronic Ant Colony source: Killerratte’s LP Battle Of…

God Save Mario The Anarchist

We’ve seen Mario as a GTA character, which is badass on its own. But have we seen him fully outfitted as a punk rock anarchist? Brazilian graphic designer Butcher Billy has quite an impressive, pop culture-filled profile on Béhance, including his latest, stunning crossover, featuring Super Mario characters and legendary punk rock band Sex Pistols,…

The Most Amazing Snow Levels And Zones In Video Games

Barring timed underwater escort missions, snow levels, with all their slippery ice and falling rocks (not to mention the fog), are probably the deadliest. Yet it’s easy to find enjoyable—or at least memorable—ones, even if we disregard games where the entire setting is snowy (We’re looking at you, Skyrim). Assault On The Control Room (Halo:…

The Craziest Mad Scientists In Video Games

Mad scientists and evil masterminds are classic villain archetypes, and defeating them is always nerve-wracking. Instead of facing you, they’d rather hide in the shadows and rely on their minions. And when it does come to combat, they usually love to show off their deadliest creations. We gathered some well-known crazies; a mustache or a…

The Most Badass Classic Ninja Games

There’s no doubt that ninja are among the coolest video game characters. They do everything with style; running, jumping, fighting, even breathing. These games—mostly platformers—were able to capture this no matter how limited the hardware capacity was; ninja always look awesome. Ninja Gaiden (NES) source: HardcoreGaming101 The Last Ninja series (C64) source: Atari Age Forums…