Patricia Hernandez

Dadliest Launch: Octodad, the silly octopus/dad simulator, is launching on Steam, Humble, and GOG on January 30th. It’ll also drop sometime later for the PS4. Here’s the (rather dramatic) launch trailer. Being an Octodad ain’t easy, kids!

Psst: Buzzfeed finds that Whisper, an app where users can post all sorts of confessions, has a ton of women who are unhappy with how much they boyfriends ignore them because of gaming. Uh oh!

Sales Stink: it’s easy to think that sales are good for players, but what if they’re not? What if waiting for sales affected the way players feel about purchases and actually lessened the amount of money devs make? The Castle Doctrine’s Jason Rohrer explores these questions ina fascinating write-up here.

Take a look at the entries for the Naked Twine Jam—they’re great human (and sometimes animal) stories that prove you don’t need fancy tech to make a game worthwhile or touching.

Internet Magic Tricks: Six Seconds Per Laugh

Vines may only be about six seconds long, but that’s all Zach King needs to to pull an awesome trick, illusion or silly stunt. And before you can react or wonder how he did it, boom, he hits you with another neat parlor trick. It’s pretty great! Some of these, like the Pikachu one, you…

Skyrim Guards Are The Worst At Law Enforcement

Sometimes, criminal scoundrels need to be stopped—it’s true. But dang, Skyrim guards, just because some Dragonborn get out of hand doesn’t mean you can just do whatever you want! Granted, it’s the guard’s willingness to do things like sick a vicious dog on someone or outright kill a suspect that makes this Cops parody by…

The Xbox One Can Do A Lot More Than You Might Think

Sure, the Xbox One has a few tricks up its sleeves—some of which we’ve told you about before. But, damn, had I known about some of the more advanced things the Xbox One is capable of, Microsoft would have sold me on the console way quicker. Thankfully, Sean Ong takes the time to walk us…

Save Your Progress: saving is a godsend in video games…but is it something we could do in real life? Specifically, could we save our memories? Here’s Vsauce3‘s crack at exploring this interesting question in relation to video games.

How DayZ Ruins Your Hopes and Dreams For The Perfect Zombie Game

DayZ is still in alpha, but for many, it already features many key elements necessary for a “perfect” zombie game—or at least, it comes somewhat close. Obviously, the developers have a lot to improve on, but as many of you know, it’s the players in particular that ruin/enhance the experience. Dorkly sums that up nicely…

He Forged Sephiroth’s Blade, But Aeris Was Already Dead

Not that Aeris’s death stopped master sword-smithTony Swatton from smashing stuff with his newly-forged seven-foot-something long Masamune, which you can watch him make in this video by AWE me. What else would you do with a blade, after all? Of particular note: he compares it to Cloud’s Buster Sword, which he says is way too…

You’ve gotta check out the ‘Behind The Gifs’ subreddit: it’s where people make up backstories with Microsoft Paint for all the popular GIFs you see floating around web, and it’s kind of hilarious. A quick example: the real story behind the Hamburglar.

YouTube Commenter Slowly Realizes Morgan Freeman Is Not Nelson Mandela

YouTube comments get a bad rap, but nobody can say they’re lacking in entertainment value—this is true even when a discussion is absolutely boneheaded. Look no further than Dead Parrot‘s YouTube series, where grown men dramatically reenact hilarious comment threads to see what I mean. Last time, we saw a Bieber vs One Direction argument…

10 Famous Movie Quotes You Might Be Getting Wrong

Memory is a fickle, faulty thing. The things we swear happened might’ve actually gone down completely differently, sometimes. It should be no surprise, then, that sometimes we might remember famous lines from movies a tad differently from what they actually are. Check out this list of ten movie quotes that people tend to misquote by…

A Version of Grand Theft Auto Just For Kids

Grand Theft Auto isn’t exactly the most family friendly franchise around, what with all the illegal activities and mature content. But with a few adjustments, even kids can safely enjoy GTA’s crime-world. Really! All ya gotta do is make the entire thing more of an educational experience that asks kids to use their judgement and…

By 2014 Standards, Ghostbusters Caused $23 Million Worth of Damage

Ghostbusting isn’t cheap, y’know. That’s according to the calculations by CinemaSins—they take movies like Ghostbusters and tally up the monetary value of the damage featured in the movie. Naturally, though, the damages would be different in the year the movie was made, so the $23 million number is what you’d get after adding inflation. It’s…

Rupees Aren’t As Sparkly As This Custom N64

Custom N64s aren’t so rare, but this green N64 has gotta be one of the more fabulous custom N64 out there—just look at how sparkly it is. Then again, zoki64 tends to only make gorgeous, fabulous N64s—so this shouldn’t be a surprise. And as always, I hella want one. You can check out more of…

A Modern Love Story Unfolds, Courtesy Of Nintendo

Stand back, Romeo and Juliet. Here’s an epic tale of teenage love, rejection, bad grammar, and Miis—all of which unfolds on the 3DS’s Miiverse (or in other words, a social network on the 3DS and Wii U). It all starts with a user asking folks to comment if they need a girlfriend. One intrepid 8th…

Pokémon Fan Loses Game Show, Wins Hearts

Most people might spend game show money on stuff like houses, cars, and other such investments. But this guy? All this guy on The Price Is Right wants is Pokémon cards, according to his shirt. It’s amazing—and so is his enthusiasm while he’s on the show. He’s doing Gob’s from Arrested Development’s rooster dance, for…

What Xbox One Trolling Looks Like

The Kinect isn’t always as responsive to voice commands as it needs to be—but if there’s one thing it always seems to pick up on, it’s when you tell it to sign out of your Xbox One. And that’s exactly what trolls like YouTuber videogames try to take advantage of. Basically, this troll gets online…

You Can’t Pause A Car Accident

Accidents tend to happen because there’s no time to react, or because someone makes a mistake. Either way, once things are in motion, that’s that. You can’t pause an accident if you’re in the middle of one. But if you could pause an accident as it was happening, like in this anti-speeding ad by NZTransportAgency?…