This isn’t the first time Zelda fans have found a way to get hold of easy Korok seeds, but it’s certainly the easiest. Where previous exploits have needed quite a bit of timing and skill, this one only needs you to get to the top of the Akkala Ancient Tech Lab and inch your way…
Control’s first big expansion, The Foundation, will be out March 26 on PC and PS4, and June 25 on Xbox One.
Ori and the Will of the Wisps, the sequel to 2015’s beautiful Ori and the Blind Forest, is now out. And as we love to do with all good-looking video games, that means it’s time to take a look at a ton of the gorgeous art that went into its development. Below you’ll find a…
Without any actual games in the NBA or English Premier League for the foreseeable future, teams are stuck having to pretend that matches are going ahead using the power of video games. Take the Phoenix Suns, for example, who having recovered from the shock of the season’s suspension are going to be playing out the…
With more and more folks around the world being asked to work and stay at home, it’s probably to be expected that Steam would get a workout. But even taking that into account, these numbers from the last 24 hours are something else. Earlier today, Valve’s service set a new concurrent user record with just…
Remember, in these new and challenging times, to wash your hands for at least 20 seconds. Wet them, use soap, scrub and…leave your insides by the door? Control, I know you’re trying to help, but you’re also a game set in a brutalist bureaucratic psychological nightmare upside down world. These tips don’t work out here. In…
Broadband data caps, which exist solely as a means for telecommunications providers to gouge you on pricing, are some grade-A bullshit. As proved by the fact AT&T has today made the decision to suspend all of them for the duration of the coronavirus pandemic. As VICE reports, AT&T is the first major company to make…
The entire NBA season has been suspended until further notice, in a move that’s so unprecedented that NBA 2K20 just doesn’t know how to handle it. The game has a feature called Start Today in its MyLeague mode, which lets you begin a career based on the current standings and stats of the NBA and…
Phoenix Suns all-star Devin Booker is pretty much every basketball fan tonight, with his “what the fuck is goin on, bro” response to news the NBA’s season has been suspended. Earlier this evening, the league took the decision to suspend the 2019-20 season until further notice after Utah Jazz centre Rudy Gobert tested positive for…
Paul Medalla is a freelance graphic designer and illustrator from the Philippines. You can see more of Paul’s stuff at his Instagram and ArtStation pages.
Pop-up books aren’t just for kids. They’re also for adults who were once kids, in particular during Sega’s period of arcade dominance during the 1980s. This is SEGA Arcade: Pop-Up History, a new book by Read-Only Memory that’s written by Keith Stuart. While the enormous and extremely well-detailed models are the star, this is also…
Later this year, Steamforged will be releasing Gears of War: The Card Game, which is…a Gears of War card game, whose underlying engine has been created by Magic: The Gathering designer Tyler Bielman. Interestingly it’s a “story-driven campaign style game”, where the actions and results of a previous game determine which cards you can use…
Discord’s Go Live streaming and screen sharing features normally has a limit of 10 users, but for the “next few months” that’ll be increased to 50 to accommodate folks who want to “keep in touch” (or do work/schoolwork) while under coronavirus shutdown. The company announced the increase earlier today, saying it’ll last “while it’s most…
Jens Claessens is a freelance artist from Belgium who has worked on games like Borderlands 3 You can see more of Jens’ stuff at his ArtStation page
The rules of Jenga in the real world are pretty simple. You take the block, and if the tower falls down, you lose. Jenga would be a lot more interesting/horrific, though, if every time you successfully pulled a block out, your fingers got longer. Thanks to the wonders of VR, here’s how that would look.…
Over the coming weeks, as the coronavirus continues to spread and authorities take measures to protect communities, it’s likely more and more people—maybe even you—are going to be asked to work from home. As someone who has done it for 13 years, I thought I’d share some tips on how to make the best of…
Maryanne is an artist from Sydney, currently based in San Francisco. You can see more of Maryanne’s stuff at her site
It’s kinda fitting that the NBA’s All-Star Weekend was held in Chicago this year, because a couple weeks later it was also the setting for C2E2, one of the biggest cons of the year and a show that’s kinda become its own unofficial All-Star Weekend for cosplay. Taking place Feb 28-Mar 1, C2E2 hosted the…
A new collaboration between Adidas, EA and Google has resulted in a rather quaint old video game idea being resurrected for the 2020s: the concept of using a small piece of electronics to track your real-world exercise and have it reflected in a game. Only instead of it being for the Nintendo DS, it’s for…
The game’s title kinda sums it up, really. Super Bernie World is a free, rad platformer where you “Run and jump your way across 11 states and the District of Columbia as Bernie and free the USA from the clutches of four Republicans in their castle lairs”. Super Mario World, basically, only with MAGA hat…
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