Wanna get people to check out your music? Make a video game out of it. The album in question is Rustie’s Green Language. I’d never heard of Rustie or his music before playing the Minecraft-inspired (at least, visually) free game, but I’m impressed by the whole production. The music is nicely varied—ranging from video-game-style bloops…
Countless games and game locations have been remade in Minecraft. Everything from BioShock to Mirror’s Edge to, er, Ubisoft art game Valiant Hearts. Now, though, someone’s gone and done the unthinkable: create Minecraft inside a video game. Trials Fusion guru Pneumatic Bog posted a video of their creation, a custom track within the motorcycle stunting/silliness…
Game of Thrones plus old-school video game sound effects? Suddenly a lot of profoundly heartbreaking scenes are, um… different. Spoiler warning. Yeah, some of them are downright terrible, but it’s always a joy to see Joffrey choke to death on the vacuous nether pit where his soul should go again. Oh, and classic video game…
“Use the eject button to look like a fabulous dolphin.” This all comes from Grand Theft Auto Online‘s new Flight School update, which just dropped yesterday. It brought with it the popular new Besra jet (with shenanigan-friendly cockpit karate chop action), new planes, new modes, new missions, and a whole host of smaller tweaks and…
Chess is getting a sequel. Yes, that Chess. The game with the little horses and kings and queens has been around for thousands of years. A few video games have transcended our hobby to become household names, but even they have nothing on Chess. They’re footnotes in a gaming history that spans generations, cultures, and…
Believe me, you really won’t see it coming—for better or worse. That was actually pretty impressive right up until, er, that ending. Captured P.T.‘s sickly, skeletal atmosphere nicely. Of course, I suppose it’s not all that hard to walk around your house with a camera strapped to your head and then edit P.T.‘s visual/sound effects…
“Me make new thing!” “Me already have stick.” “No… Pointy stick.” This fan video takes a tongue-in-cheek look at what would happen if Assassin’s Creed rode a wave of DNA science magic all the way back to the Stone Age, and it does not disappoint. I especially like the new blending mechanic. The supposition that…
You know those singing, dancing robots at children’s entertainment restaurants like Chuck E. Cheese’s? The ones whose eyes are unblinking, bottomless pools of rancid death? Yeah, Five Nights at Freddy’s is a game about watching them. At night. Greaaaaat. I mean, look at this: and this: This one has its fair share of cheap-ish jump…
Bloodborne looks great—like Dark Souls‘ cool trench-coat-wearing uncle—but we’ve only really seen it in “epic” trailers, screenshots, and gifs. Pure, mostly unfiltered gameplay footage sounds like just what the doctor (Dr. Dark Souls PHD, to be clear) ordered. Everyone in this game world has such great hats. And fashion sense in general. It’s like a…
Their words, not ours. Yeah, yep, those were… pretty bad. But then, in a world where pretty much every possible amazing GTA V stunt has already been done, I suppose this is all that’s left. It’s a solid gag, even if it goes on approximately a hundred years too long. Watch and chuckle. Or perhaps…
Yes, the one from your childhood. The Pokemon Trading Card Game has been playable online for a while now, but on iPad? That’s just diabolical. And yet, that’s exactly what’s happening. An official iPad version of the Pokemon TCG has made an appearance at the Pokemon World Championships in Washington DC. It first surfaced in…
The Sims 4‘s Create-A-Sim demo is now freely available to everyone (with Origin), and here’s a little known secret about all people: they are completely bonkers. Want proof? Look at the bizarre Sims they dreamed up. OK, let’s start at the semi-normal (yet undeniably impressive) end of the spectrum to get ourselves warmed up. To…
Over the years, Valve has added an almost mind-boggling amount of Stuff (TM) to multiplayer shooter phenom Team Fortress 2. Even more interesting, however, are the things that didn’t make the cut. The video digs deep into TF2‘s lengthy history and unearths all sorts of weird, wonderful relics. The opening bit about how things changed…
People beat the cryptic P.T. PlayStation 4 horror demo. They discovered that it was a teaser for Hideo Kojima and Guillermo del Toro’s Silent Hills. End of story, right? Not even close. How does P.T. actually work? What makes its individual parts churn together? Are there Silent-Hill-related secrets throughout, and if so how do you…
Toren is a puzzle adventure that wears its Ico/Shadow of the Colossus influences on its sleeve. The architecture, the sense of inescapable loneliness, the grimly beautiful color palette—there is, in other words, a lot to like here. Here’s what it’s all about: “Experience the mysterious, timeless world of Toren, the first adventure game from Brazilian…
Something tells me people haven’t forgotten about SimCity‘s notorious online debacle. That something’s name? Cities: Skylines, which will also allow for extensive modding and “massive” cities. The “play offline” bit comes toward the end of the video (worth noting: SimCity can now be played offline as well; it’s still not very good), but that’s hardly…
Eyes, teeth, and gallons of blood. Surgeon Simulator: Anniversary Edition is now on Steam, and it’s more bonkers than ever. New bits include eye/teeth operations, better graphics, new levels (surgery while running down a hallway!), and stat tracking so you’ll never forget how much of a monster you are.
For one moment, Hotline Miami 2‘s Steam page showed that it was coming out tomorrow, but it’s since switched back to just “2014.” A representative for Hotline Miami 2 says the game has no release date yet, so the date was a mistake. Alas. The original version of this post reported that Hotline Miami 2…
Not a panda in sight. World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor got stamped with a release date today, so expect a new round of Serious Orc Adventures in November. The video shows off a lot of nice-looking expansion additions—new zones, new dungeons, new bosses, PVP, and so on. I especially like the look of the…
Drift Stage continues to be the coolest racer we’ve seen in ages. TAY interviewed the retro-flavored racer’s creators recently, but this new video goes all-in on style and deliciously cheesy guitar riffs. Watch.
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