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The Most Realistic Fighting Game, In A Manner Of Speaking
I believe that Double Fine’s latest venture into indie publishing, Gang Beasts, is one of the most realistic depictions of combat ever seen in a game. This is because 90 percent of fights are sloppy, awkward affairs where all involved fall down and give each other angry hugs. Gang Beasts is a local multiplayer game…
By Nathan Grayson Published August 29, 2014 -
New Saints Row Expansion And New-Gen Port Coming in January
As part of its big PAX panel Volition just announced a new Saints Row. It’s called Saints Row: Gat out of Hell, and it’ll be out on January 27th. It’s a standalone expansion pack for Saints Row IV in which you play as the ever… colorful Johnny Gat or the booksmart yet utterly badass Kinzie—or…
By Nathan Grayson Published August 29, 2014 -
The Spaceship Game With Firefly-Sized Ambitions
“The TV show Firefly is a big inspiration for us,” Dreadnought project director Peter Holzapfel was saying to me recently during a San Francisco preview event. “So is Sid Meier’s Pirates.” And then, for just a moment, that ceased to matter as a ship ten times the size of mine warped right in front of…
By Nathan Grayson Published August 29, 2014 -
‘75,937,500 Possible Dog Combinations’
“Take control of robot dogs, aliens dogs, huskies, hover dogs, VR dogs and more.” Domestic Dog is, um, not like other dog games. Domestic Dog, to put it politely, strikes me as completely nuts. Barking mad, if you want the obligatory dog pun. But in a good way? I think? So it’s a game where…
By Nathan Grayson Published August 28, 2014 -
A Fallout MMO That You Can Play Very Soon
Interplay’s Fallout MMO might have been nuked into oblivion by a lengthy legal battle that Bethesda ultimately won, but that doesn’t mean all hope for massive scale wasteland shenanigans is lost. FOnline: Ashes of Phoenix is a free fanmade Fallout MMO coming next week, and it certainly looks the part. Ashes of Phoenix is set…
By Nathan Grayson Published August 28, 2014 -
What Games Do You Play When You’re Sick?
I’ve been sick for nearly two weeks. Bluh. But it’s made me notice something: the games I play while rotting on my deathbed are really different from my normal fare. Do you game while sick? If so, what do you play when your brain’s drowning in fever fog and mucus is leaking from a worrying…
By Nathan Grayson Published August 28, 2014 -
Mario Kart‘s Most Hated Item Is Actually Its Best
There’s nothing worse than fighting tooth, nail, and banana peel for first place in Mario Kart, only to lose it because a blue shell decided to saunter up and explode on your parade. Would you believe, though, that it’s actually one of the best things about Mario Kart? This video by Extra Credits does an…
By Nathan Grayson Published August 28, 2014 -
id Software Lives Dangerously, Decides To Change Classic Quake
Quake Live is a free-to-play variant of Quake III Arena, a legendary arena shooter released more than a decade ago. Fans, then, were furious when they found out major gameplay changes would be coming in a new update. They demanded answers. Now id has given them. The biggest changes—made as part of a newly released…
By Nathan Grayson Published August 27, 2014 -
Internet Prank Goes Too Far, Sends Schools Into Lockdown
“Swatting” is a “prank” that involves calling the police on Twitch streamers for bogus crimes. They get arrested mid-stream, one (anonymous) person in the whole damn world has a good laugh, and nobody else wins. This time it got way out of hand. Jordan “Kootra” Mathewson, founder of popular streaming collective The Creatures, was streaming…
By Nathan Grayson Published August 27, 2014 -
Fully Functional Lego Band Plays Depeche Mode
Sorry, music industry. We’re replacing you with a bunch of small plastic robots with cups for hands. Yep, those lego people are playing actual music—all on their own. Or, well, with the help of sophisticated machinery and the tiniest bit of magic, but you know what I mean. The song in question is “Everything Counts,”…
By Nathan Grayson Published August 27, 2014 -
Police Called On Game Creator Over Nuclear War Diagrams
A game called Global Thermonuclear War that uses Google Maps to simulate devastating conflicts between nations? Oh boy. But nobody could ever believe plans for a video game were a roadmap to actual, factual nuclear warfare, right? Yeaaaah, about that. The Guardian brings word that video game developer Henry Smith nearly found himself in hot…
By Nathan Grayson Published August 27, 2014 -
Bonkers Mod Puts Diablo‘s Skeleton King In Dark Souls
There have been a handful of mods for the PC version of the first Dark Souls ever since it came out, but they’ve largely been relegated to the realm of graphical fixes and cosmetic changes for items. This one, however, is an entire boss. From Diablo III Yep, that’s unmistakably the fleshless bonemass of good…
By Nathan Grayson Published August 26, 2014 -
A Cat That Will Live Forever Inside A Video Game
Binding of Isaac creator Edmund McMillen’s cat Guppy recently passed away. He’s understandably heartbroken. An item in Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, however, will ensure that Guppy’s small furry legacy lives on. McMillen wrote candidly about his dearly departed pet, and I’ll just quote that here. I’d only butcher his wonderful words otherwise: “Guppy was our…
By Nathan Grayson Published August 25, 2014 -
Call Of Duty Vs Minecraft Sure Is… Something
Live-action Call of Duty vs Minecraft? In Korean? Yeah, OK. Sure. Why the hell not? Let’s do this. It’s not, like, the greatest thing I’ve ever seen, but this video is pretty slickly put together—verging more into low-budget film-making territory than hobbyist schlock cinema. The choreography is stylish, the effects are refreshingly un-horrible, and the…
By Nathan Grayson Published August 25, 2014 -
You Can Pull Off Han Solo Stunts In Elite: Dangerous
Kirk “two weeks as a space commander” Hamilton has nothing on this person. The stuff they come up with thanks to all of Elite: Dangerous‘ cool details is totally nuts. Seriously, this is like something out of a great sci-fi movie. The video’s a bit long, so here’s a quick summary of the nougaty, completely…
By Nathan Grayson Published August 25, 2014 -
GaymerX May Survive After All
I recently wrote a lengthy piece about GaymerX, my favorite games convention I’ve ever attended, and why its chances of surviving another year were nearly non-existent. Now, however, its organizers have taken to Kickstarter. Perhaps there’s hope yet. The Kickstarter is looking to raise $80,000, which is actually only about half of what the LGBTQ-friendly…
By Nathan Grayson Published August 25, 2014 -
If Dark Souls Came Out 20 Years Ago
Titan Souls might be a little too on the nose as a name, but when your biggest influences appear to be Shadow of the Colossus and Dark Souls, you may as well wear them proudly. Titan Souls is a top-down game about one itsy bitsy ant of a man’s lonely journey to slay a bunch…
By Nathan Grayson Published August 25, 2014 -
How Two Great Games Kept Me From Hating Music
I’ve been trying to learn music lately. Like, really learn it. It hasn’t been going well. Fortunately two recent games, Sentris and Crypt of the Necrodancer, stopped me from giving up altogether. I have a bad habit of taking things I love as leisure activities and trying to turn them into more. I mean, look…
By Nathan Grayson Published August 22, 2014 -
The Elder Scrolls‘ Most Terrifying Tall Tale
It was only a mod, they said. What could possibly be scary about a mod? A user-made modification, Jvk1166z.esp (pronounced “juhvickoneonesixsixzzzeesp!”) surfaced years ago and was supposedly meant to do… something to The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. Thing is, nobody quite understood what, because loading the mod would apparently lock up your game for an…
By Nathan Grayson Published August 22, 2014 -
Penis Pill Spam Leads To Video Game Called Max Gentlemen
Yes. For real. It’s about, um, stacking fine hats on gentlemen. Max Gentlemen is a game about stacking hats while hilariously muscular gentlemen brawl and tussle and sensually wax each others’ mustaches and all the other things hilariously muscular gentlemen do. It’s free, though a quick look at the Steam page reveals a couple (thankfully…
By Nathan Grayson Published August 21, 2014
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