Kirk Hamilton

​The Shovel Knight Soundtrack Is So Good

Shovel Knight, the game, is really good. Shovel Knight, the soundtrack, is even better. Composed by Jake ‘Virt’ Kaufman along with contributions from Mega Man composer Manami Matsumae, the Shovel Knight OST is a collection of anthemic chiptune compositions that, like the game it’s attached to, both recalls the classic games of the past and…

Good News: Rockstar has fixed the annoying Social Club bug that was making the PC version of Max Payne 3 such a nuisance to play. Because hey man, some of us still like to play Max Payne 3.

YouTube Is Getting 60 FPS Support. FINALLY.

YouTube videos are about to get a significant upgrade: Per the YouTube Creators Twitter feed, support for 48 and 60fps YouTube videos is coming soon. Higher frame-rates will be a boon to anyone who wants to post footage of video games in action, particularly PC games, as many of them run at frame rates above…

​This Is How Good Watch Dogs Can Look On PC

Just weeks after the game came out, the PC version of Watch Dogs can already look a lot better than it did at release. That’s thanks largely to TheWorse Mod, which unlocks additional graphics options for the game. We’ve seen plenty of videos of the mod in action, but these new shots from the screenshot…

​Internet Video Tests Your Endurance For Internet Videos

This three-minute video from College Humor dares you to sit still and watch it. All of it. Can you make it to the end? I made it, but it wasn’t easy. I have things to do, I kept thinking. There’s stuff happening. I should probably be looking someplace else right now. This is taking forever…

Tears for Yuna: I’ve always loved reading and talking with critic Leigh Alexander about Final Fantasy games, and her terrific new article about replaying Final Fantasy X is no exception.

​The Penguin Will Not Stop Punching Bruce Wayne

Oswald Cobblepot does not like Bruce Wayne. He’s gonna punch him! And then he’s gonna punch him again. And again, and again… The other day I was playing a little Batman: Arkham City to check something out for a thing I was writing. I started a new game, saw what I needed to see, and…

Electric Lady: Here’s some spiffy new concept art of Fetch, the star of the PS4’s upcoming Infamous: First Light.

​The Closest Thing To Walking Through Westeros

Have you ever wanted to travel to Castle Black, climb the wall, and look out over the frozen north? You’ll probably never be able to actually do that, but you do have options. The latest video from the people at Virtuix demonstrates their Omni VR treadmill, which has users put on slidey-shoes and slip around…

​How Steam Sales Are Like Pokémon

Here in the midst of the Steam Summer Sale, it can be easy to lose sight of why we’re buying so many games. Is this really about actually playing things, or is it just about collecting ’em all? Dorkly‘s got another way of looking at things: Steam sales are just like Pokémon. A lot of…

​Yo, Check Out This Wolf’s Hair

Check out this wolf. This is a wolf from The Witcher 3. Check out how his hair moves when he runs. Look at that hair. That is some hair, buddy. This latest glimpse of the future of hair-tech comes from a video by Nvidia about how their excellently named HairWorks program lets game developers make…

A Browser Extension That Makes Video Game News Much Funnier

Video game developers and reporters are fond of the term “IP.” So-and-so revealed a new IP, so-and-so really wants their IPs to penetrate new markets, and which company has the best new IP? The abbreviation stands for “intellectual property.” But what if it stood for…something else? The whole thing started with a joke. A stupid,…

Too Many PC Games Are A Pain To Get Running

When setting up a new PC, it’s fun to go back and play older games and see how much better they run on your new hardware. Just install them and fire them up. Easy, right? If only. Over the past week, I’ve spent an inordinate amount of time trying to get some of my Steam…

Even The NSA Likes Final Fantasy

Spies are people just like the rest of us, and just like the rest of us, some of them probably like video games. Which games? Well, according to some new documents that have surfaced online, at least a few NSA employees appear to be Final Fantasy fans. Documents published earlier this week by German magazine…

Good News, Vault Dwellers: The classic PC role-playing games Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics are once again available on Steam. All three games were pulled from online stores earlier this year after Bethesda obtained rights to the series from Interplay. No word yet on whether they’ll be back on GOG as well, but we’ve…

Rage Sure Looked Nice

I never could get all that excited about Rage (this was at least partly due to that terrible name), but I did appreciate how good it often looked. Especially those nice, oddly bulbous character models—not everyone liked them, but I did. Duncan Harris at Dead End Thrills has spent some time putting together some high-res…

How You Rated E3 2014: Yesterday we polled our readers on how they rated each major publisher’s E3 performance out of ten, as well as what they thought of the show overall. After 25 hours of voting, the results: Microsoft: 7 Ubisoft: 7 EA: 5 Sony: 8 Nintendo: 10 E3 Overall: 8 Who “Won”: Nintendo…

​Reminder: Your PC Is Gross And You Should Probably Clean It

Yesterday I finally began the long process of upgrading my gaming PC. I opened ‘er up, excited to finally install that new hard drive I’d bought, and I came face to face with grim reality: Ah yes, the inside of my PC is gross and covered in dust and grime. I set about cleaning it—swiping…

​A Children’s Choir Was The Best Part Of The Game of Thrones Finale

Last night’s Game of Thrones season finale had some ups and downs—plenty more ups than downs, in my opinion—but I hope we can all agree that the music stole the show. *** Spoilers follow! *** As much as I enjoyed several big scenes in last night’s episode—chief among them the brutal throwdown between Brienne of…

​One Thing Watch Dogs Does Better Than GTA V

The open-world DriveShoot games Watch Dogs and Grand Theft Auto V have enough in common that they beg a certain amount of comparison. Despite GTA V‘s generally higher production values, Watch Dogs handily outdoes it in one crucial way. Back when GTA V came out, I wrote an article about how the game’s shooting doesn’t…