Patricia Hernandez

GTA Online Was Made For Heists Like This

The best players on GTA Online realize that if they’re going to commit a robbery, they should either go big or go home. A proper heist takes planning and a good, committed crew. LetsPlay here has the right idea—this is the most elaborate, ridiculous heist I’ve seen on GTA Online. Granted, for all the organization…

The Internet Reacts To Facebook Buying Oculus Rift

Now that Facebook is buying Oculus Rift, people have all sorts of opinions. Unsurprisingly, reactions have been rather negative: Oculus was supposed to be the future of gaming! Now that Facebook is involved, everything is ruined! Or something like that. You don’t have to browse for very long to find reactions like this—one of the…

The Commandments of Playing Online Shooters

Multiplayer matches around the world would provide a better experience for all of us if everyone just agreed to a few simple rules. Commandments, if you will. Dorkly has gone ahead and drawn up comics for ten commandments for FPS multiplayer games, and they’re pretty great. Like the one above, for example—because seriously, too many…

Boy Is Super Psyched To Get His Tooth Pulled Out By A Mini Helicopter

One of the most dreaded things for me in childhood was pulling out teeth—but this kid? This kid is PUMPED to pull out his teeth. Dang. Malcolm Swan shares this video of a boy named Adam, who decided to get a little creative with pulling out teeth. In this case, he’s using a mini RC…

Kids From Around The World Share Their Favorite Toys

No matter where you are in the world, you can count on one thing: kids love to have fun and play with toys. While researching a magazine article, photographer Gabriele Galimberti took a whole bunch of photographs of children all over the world with their most prized possessions, toys. The toys showcased vary from child…

Seven Things You Might Not Know About Street Fighter

Now that we know who the final character in the upcoming Ultra Street Fighter IV is, it seems like a great time to look back on the franchise. Since the franchise is almost 27 years old (!), there’s a ton of trivia to reminisce about. This video by DYKGaming is jam packed with all sorts…

Here’s A Game You Can’t Judge By Its Graphics

When I sat down at a park bench in the Yerba Buena gardens by the Game Developers Conference last week to play a build of Road Not Taken—a game named after the Robert Frost poem—my initial thought was that it seemed too adorable to say anything particularly deep. Like say, commenting on the inability to…

Lady Gaga Loves Minecraft

Lady Gaga has a wide range of interests—like being vomited on, for example. She’s also a Minecraft fan, judging from her latest music video for G.U.Y—a single off her latest album, Artpop. The GIF above is a sliver of a scene where Gaga uses Minecraft to, uh, revive Michael Jackson, Jesus, and Gandhi. Because video…

Tiny Super Mario 64 Secrets You May Not Have Noticed

Super Mario 64 didn’t skimp out on small details—take, for example, the penguins in Cool Cool Mountain. They do more than just provide you with stars, you know. GameXplain breaks down some of the neat things you might’ve missed about ’em, like how the baby penguin cutely mimics Mario. Aww. Maybe I wouldn’t have cruelly…

How To Move Like A Pro In Titanfall

Movement is everything in Titanfall. A good player knows how to get around the map with ease, sometimes without ever touching the ground. If you’ve been having trouble with movement, there’s good news: you can learn how to expertly use your jumps, wall-running and jetpacks in Titanfall with some help. YouTube user arCtiCvBi, a former…

Five Highlights of the Game Developers Conference This Year

Now that the Game Developers Conference is over, our GDC cartoonist Elizabeth Simins is here to tell us about the top five things she experienced while at the conference. Some are smaller, quieter moments. Some are more overt things that many people who attended GDC this year will recall as a highlight—like meeting wonderful new…

Pikachu Cake, I Don’t Choose You!

Things don’t always go according to plan when you cook meals—that’s normal. Your end result doesn’t always look like the snazzy pictures on the recipe instructions, or the boxes containing the ingredients. But this monstrosity that someone baked is something else. Normally, Pikachu is supposed to be a cute monster—like in the picture above. Recently,…

Hideo Kojima’s Top Five Metal Gear Solid Characters

If you’ve played the Metal Gear Solid franchise, you probably have a few favorite characters. Guess what, Hideo Kojima does too. Some of his picks—like Snake and Otacon—are to be expected. Others, like Raven, Psycho Mantis and The End are a bit more surprising. If you watch this video by IGN, you can hear the…

Milk and Cookies: remember those scrumptious-looking milk and cookie shots? You can make them too, using this guide/recipe by karinsurance.

Silly Titanfall Glitch Lets You Ride Enemy Pilots

Riding mechs in Titanfall? Great idea. Riding other people? Uhhhh. That’s a one-way ticket to sometimes disorienting hilarity (and being called a hacker, probably). Check out what happens when kensim28 accidentally finds themselves rodeoing an enemy pilot—amusingly, despite being so close to each other, actually killing the other pilot proves a tad difficult. And to…

Wait, Are Frozen, Tangled and The Little Mermaid All Connected?

Pixar films aren’t the only movies with amazing fan-theories, you know. Disney movie fans have come up with some rather out-there theories about Disney films, too. Take, for instance, this new Frozen, Tangled and The Little Mermaid theory that has started floating around websites like Tumblr. It postulates that all three movies take place in…

The Fastest Ocarina Of Time Player Beat His Own World Record

Not content with his previous world-record speedrun of Ocarina of Time, noted speedrunner Cosmo Wright is now back with a faster, more impressive playthrough of Zelda—and you can watch it here. The speedrun clocks in at eighteen minutes and fifty six seconds (EDIT: versus the previous record of 19:00 held by skater82297, and before that,…

The Stomping Lands: that DayZ-like survival game with dinosaurs is rolling out a bunch of updates about the game and its mechanics all week. For example: you’ll have to look up and use the stars to track down dinosaurs/pinpoint locations. You can read more about that here.

The Most Badass Weapons In Final Fantasy

As cool as the Buster sword and Gunblades are, they’re not the only memorable weapons in Final Fantasy, you know. IGN here walks us through their pick of the 15 coolest weapons in Final Fantasy, though I’m curious as to what y’all would vote as the best weapons in the game. Mind, I don’t mean…

The Closest Thing To An HD Remake of Super Mario 64

The original Super Mario 64 was made 18 years ago. But if it was being developed today? It might look a bit like this. The footage above, which shows a more realistic, modern take on Super Mario 64, is actually a fan-made remake of the original. The project is being developed by aryoksini in the…