Kirk Hamilton

WHAT IS THIS HORSESHIT.

Of the many small touches I enjoy about Animal Crossing, one of my favorites is how, when you catch a particularly rare creature, your character FREAKS OUT and says OHMIGOSH or WHOA. At night, when I’m farming for beetles, I live for that WHOA that accompanies a gold or giant stag.

Girl And Her Ridiculously Adorable Kitten Perform A Nerdy Love Song

Okay, the song is pretty cute. But the ukulele-playing kitten? I don’t even know where to begin. This is comedian/singer DeAnne Smith with a song that’s as nerdy as all get out. And then, the cat enters the equation, and all bets are off. Hey, Wednesday’s over! We’re going to make it through this week…

Who Needs A Hero? Let’s Have More Games With Multiple Main Characters

I love a game with a cool, interesting main character. But you know what I think I might love even more? A game with multiple cool, interesting main characters. Why not, right? Modern video games are huge! They’ve got room to spare. I love a hero as much as the next red-blooded American, but it’s…

Check out this lovely tribute to Superbrothers Sword & Sworcery EP by artist Elizabeth Simins. (It’s full of spoilers, if you haven’t played the game yet.) You might remember Simins from Manic Pixel Dream Girl, the excellent 4-part series about growing up with video games.

Very Serious Animal Crossing Question

Here’s what I do most nights in Animal Crossing: I play at night, then have my character turn out the lights and go to bed before I turn out the lights and go to bed myself. I’m curious how widespread this phenomenon is. POLL TIME:

Conan O’Brien Did Not Enjoy The Pacific Rim Trailer

You can’t please everyone, I guess. The red-headed one has watched the trailer for Pacific Rim, and he was none too impressed. Particularly with the robo-bulges

It’s like the Kapp’n lives in San Francisco and can see out my gloomy-ass window.

All Twin Peaks‘ Pie And Coffee References In One Damn Fine Supercut

I finally watched Twin Peaks for the first time about a year ago. Man oh man, did that show make me hungry. All I wanted to do was drink coffee and eat pie. I can’t imagine why that was! Oh wait, yes I can—the show won’t shut up about coffee and pie, as evidenced by…

Sweet Mother Of Beards, This A Cappella Sonic Cover Is Great

How many different ways do I need to say that Smooth McGroove‘s a cappella cover of Sonic The Hedgehog‘s Green Hill Zone music is bananas-level good? Just the one? Okay. Enjoy!

If all this talk of No One Lives Forever has got you fondly remembering your first time playing the game, check out this great 2001 post-mortem by NOLF creative director Craig Hubbard.

The NYU Game Center will be partnering with the EVO competitive gaming tournament to provide a MFA scholarship for prospective game designers to help “create the future of fighting games.” More info is available at the Game Center website. They’re also considering funding undergraduates using the same scholarship money, so if you’re interested in that,…

An Amazing Takedown Of A Massive, Extremely Rare EVE Online Ship

I don’t play EVE Online, but even I understood the gravity of this ambush takedown of an immensely expensive Revenant ship, one of apparently only three in existence. PCGamesN‘s detailed breakdown makes sense of the jargon and of the encounter, which sounds like it left some bruised feelings in its wake. (Via PA Report)

Finally, fans have begun recording live versions of the Kapp’n’s songs from Animal Crossing: New Leaf. Here’s one instant-classic, sweetly performed by YouTuber Misterandell I like the Kapp’n, though most of the girls I know who play this game say he’s always hitting on them. (This post at Electropolis seems to back that up.) All…

Dead End Thrills has shared some very cool warped shots of BioShock Infinite by Joanne Harper. Check ’em out.

Use Time Travel To Get A First Date Right

If you could travel through time and undo a botched first date, would you? That’s the question at the heart of Back to the First Date, one of many goofy games to come out of last weekend’s Molyjam game-jam. The game is based on the Peter Molyneux quote, “I wish I had some time machine…

I had missed that Eurogamer ran a bunch of footage from the demo of Hotline Miami 2 that I played back at E3. Here’s the game in action, with some useful information delivered by a man wearing a chicken mask 1/20th as creepy as the one in the game. I’ve been replaying the first game…

The Console Wars Become A Triumphant West Side Story-Style Musical

Boy, boy, crazy boy; get cool, boy! Something’s coming, I don’t know what it is, but it is gonna be great! Not just lyrics from West Side Story; those could be the mottos of E3, come to think of it. This outstanding tribute to the console wars by AVByte (via NeoGAF) breaks down the coming…

New Trailer For The Pacific Rim Game Is… Kinda Rough

This trailer isn’t for Guillermo Del Toro’s Kojima/Kanye-approved, GLaDOS-featuring robots vs. monsters film. No, it’s for Yuke’s fighting game based on the property. And it is, unfortunately, not really looking so hot. Robots are cool. I like robots! But if you’re going to try to sell me a game about robots fighting monstrous Kaiju from…

Final Fantasy VII is out on Steam, so I thought this might be a good opportunity to point readers to “The Final Fantasy VII Letters,” a series Leigh Alexander and I wrote back in 2011. She was a FFVII veteran and I’d never played, and together we went on a journey that changed us forever.…