It wouldn’t be Mass Effect Week if we didn’t link one more time to “Mass Effect Massive Interface Fail,” game designer Krystian Majewski’s incredible three-part takedown of the first game’s awful user interface. It’s a funny, damning, and wonderfully thorough analysis. If you’ve never met Honk Shepard, now’s the time.
Video game rapmaster Dan Bull has brought his trademark bombastic style to this tribute to BioShock Infinite. Come for the nasty rhythms, stay for the concise explanation of game mechanics.
Who would win, Indiana Jones or Darth Vader? Filmmaker Patrick Boivin thinks he knows how it’d go down. The above clip is one of a just-released trilogy called Don’t Use The Force, which also includes the dark-helmeted one getting whupped by Jack Torrance from The Shining: As well as by Albert Einstein himself: I didn’t…
What are the 100 greatest TV episodes of all time? Funny you should ask! IMDB users have ranked them according to their own hive-mind preference, and Pajiba has pulled out the list of the top 25, along with some helpful gifs and images. While my own top 25 is pretty different, a lot of these…
Close your eyes and think back to it: It’s fall of 2007. That’s quite a while ago. Take your current age and subtract five. That’s about how old you were. That’s how long ago Mass Effect game out. Think about the game itself. How simple it was, how innocent! An Xbox 360 exclusive, released near…
IGN‘s got a video of the first fifteen minutes ofFar Cry 3: Blood Dragon. It looks very goofy, decidedly retro, and like a lot of fun.
Go check out Manic Pixel Dream Girl, a wonderful comic miniseries by Elizabeth Simins about growing up as a girl who likes video games. Part three just went up yesterday, and there’s still one more part to go.
As this (spoilerific) special effects reel demonstrates, The Walking Dead season 3 had a lot of head-trauma. Like, a looooooot. It’s pretty cool to see how special effects house Stargate Studios put together all the tasty, tasty head-cleaving. (Via) Everyone good? Having a decent week so far? Cool. Head on over to Talk Amongst Yourselves…
“Those are however small prices to pay for a game that may not advance some great BioShock canon, but still stands as a great way to round off your view of Rapture – a world that always felt like a designed dystopia more than a failed city suddenly converted into a much more plausible place.”…
Here’s a dispiriting way to look at it: As of last night, we’re a fifth of the way done with season 3 of Game of Thrones. How’s everyone feeling after last night’s episode? I have to say, while I’m enjoying it, they haven’t exactly assuaged my fear that this show is simply going to sprawl…
However you feel about the game itself, this hilarious, interactive take on BioShock Infinite by Cryptic Sea will probably make you laugh. (Contains spoilers.)
Commander Shepard, hero of the Citadel, last hope of humanity, could well spend the rest of his or her life rotting on a hard drive. With most games, the characters live on well after people have stopped playing the game, even if the gaming systems on which they first appeared have long since broken or…
The galaxy has been saved; the battle with the Reapers has been won. The last robot zombie has been obliterated, and the final sexy alien has been romanced. The Mass Effect trilogy has ended. What a journey it’s been. With the recent release of the Citadel downloadable add-on, the current era of Mass Effect drew…
You’re trapped in the dark, and a monster is hunting you. Good thing you’ve got such great ears, and these cute little monsters are helping you! Check out this demo video for Pulse, which was on hand at the IGF booth at GDC last week. Team Pixel Pi are currently running a Kickstarter to try…
One month ago today, EA and Maxis released SimCity into the wild. The game’s launch was… troubled, to say the least. In fact, you could very easily call it a disaster. Server woes, a debilitating online requirement, AI shortcomings, lost cities, and slow customer-service left many gamers angry. In the case of SimCity, a month…
Only one can sit on the Iron Throne. And I can think of no better man than the Godfather of Soul himself, Mr. James Brown. This mash-up of the Game of Thrones theme and James Brown’s This is a Man’s World by DJ Rozroz is way, way better than I would have thought this kind…
Okay, it’s time to talk about it. About what, you ask? About how totally bananas the violence in BioShock Infinite is. The beginning of this game is astonishing. Flat-out. It’s one of the most effective, intoxicating game-introductions I’ve seen in recent memory. So let’s to do an exercise. Let’s imagine watching the opening of the…
Composer Bear McCreary has a great new post up at his always-entertaining blog in which he talks about making the music for Defiance, both the TV show and the game.
The people who make “Lore in a Minute” have been branching out from video games to provide some fun (short!) history lessons about important video game personalities. This week, it’s Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell
In preparation for their new album Random Access Memories, Daft Punk have teamed up with The Creators Project to make a series of videos about their collaborators on the record, who include Nile Rodgers, Panda Bear, Paul Williams (known for writing music for The Muppets), Chilly Gonzales, and in this one, Moog pioneer Giorgio Moroder.…
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