Patricia Hernandez

The Horror Game Where You Play As A Toddler Still Looks Eerie Despite Some Public Outcry

Remember Among The Sleep? It’s that game by Krillbrite studio where you play as a two year old who has yet to “develop a full sense of reality, making you weak and susceptible to the horrifying creatures inhabiting your nightmares.” If you’ve forgotten, this is your reminder that This Cool Game Still Exists. There have…

Uh oh. It seems that Jonathan Coulton is not the only one who has gotten ripped off by Glee.

Unboxing Videos Become Strange And Unsettling If You Really Think About Them

If you’ve hung around YouTube or tech-oriented sites long enough, chances are you’ve stumbled across an unboxing video. These are exactly what they sound like: videos where someone removes the packaging from a new product. Right now, if you type in ‘unboxing’ on the YouTube search bar, it autofills in iPhone, iPad, Wii U, Playstation…

Cartoon Network Needs To Let This Guy Make An Entire Episode Of Adventure Time In 3D

Check out this animation by YouTube user RyleyAndFriends. It redoes Adventure Time’s intro, but in 3D. It’s great. I should catch up on Adventure Time. Not this weekend though. This weekend is for conventions and crazy adventures that I’ll get to write about next week. I’m excited. I’d tell you what those are, but I…

The Beauty Of One Shot, One Kill, As Shown Through Battlefield 3

The precise, ruthless efficiency of using a single bullet to kill someone in a game is kind of like poetry, huh? And that’s exactly what this wonderfully edited montage by TheOkayrussia feels like, poetic. Reminds me of what a master of sumi-e can do in a single stroke of a brush. This is why I…

This Is Like Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’s Catchy Song, Thrift Shop, Only About Used Games Instead

Remember last year’s super catchy tune, Thrift Shop? It was by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, and it was about the joys of being a thrifty shopper with a whole lot of swag. Here’s a parody of that music video by IGN, only about used video games instead. For comparison’s sake, the original song: Great, now…

The Bosses In Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance Look Awesome

I find it difficult not to get excited at the upcoming Metal Gear Rising after watching this video showcase some of the bosses in the game. Particularly Mistral and her million hands, very cool. Everyone seems to be distinct in some way though. Been a while since I looked forward to a boss battle! METAL…

In Defense of the Camper

They hide in the shadows, in the corners. They’re waiting with a high power weapon out, waiting for you. The plan is to gun you down before you have a chance to react. I’m talking about the most hated player in a game, next to a cheater: the camper. Campers play multiplayer games, typically shooters,…

Not All Of Black Ops II’s Emblems Are Penis Swastikas, You Know

The emblems in Call of Duty get such a bad rap. People would have you think it’s a wasteland of genitalia, particularly penis swastikas. Sure, sure. Those types of emblems happen sometimes. Most of what I’ve come across aren’t penis swastikas though. Actually, folks are using the 32 layer capacity of the emblem editor in…

This Legend Of Zelda Love Song Will Melt Your Triforce

Girl, ukelele, and The Legend of Zelda: a winning formula if I ever saw one. Here is a video of YouTuber HelloIamDanica, singing about why she should be Link’s ‘princess of destiny.’ It’s cute and charming—or, at least I chuckled when she says things like “even Ganon can’t keep me away.” Full lyrics are in…

I Have A Complicated Relationship With Sleep, But That’s Not Uncommon If You Like Games or Tech

I can tell you exactly when it all started—two years ago, on a December night, at the behest of an online pal who was surprised that I’d never stayed up all night before. That was the night that I ruined whatever semblance of a normal sleeping schedule I had before, instead adopting something that includes…

Let’s Play Devil’s Advocate And Consider Dead Island’s Severed Torso As A Piece Of Art

Anytime something shocking or awful is done by the video game industry, you’ll have people chiming in that we should leave it alone because it’s actually art and so it has a right to exist (because apparently being art means the ability to exist without criticism and any criticism is actually the equivalent of censorship!)…

This Totoro Skin Suit Is The Stuff Of Nightmares

Totoro, what have they done to you? This… this isn’t right. You’re supposed to be soft and cuddly. I’m supposed to want to bounce on your belly. Instead, Laughing Squid found THIS: As well as THIS: Imagined caption by our own Chris Person, who also created the gifs in this post: “Would you be my…

These Deal Breakers Make Me Give Up On A Video Game Within The First Hour

When it comes to deciding what game gets my attention and why, I am absolutely ruthless. I don’t care how much better it’s going to get, I don’t care that it’s actually an amazing game and I just have to give it a chance. No. If you mess up in the first hour of a…

Mouse And Keyboard? Pfft. How About The Possibility Of Team Fortress 2 On Virtual Reality Goggles?

Every year, a game developers conference is held in San Francisco. In GDC 2013, Valve’s Joe Ludwig plans to give a talk about porting Team Fortress 2 to virtual reality goggles in a talk titled “What We Learned Porting Team Fortress 2 to Virtual Reality.” A summary of the talk: Several people at Valve spent…

It’s Too Simple To Say Games Are Becoming More Like Movies. There’s More To It, Even With Cutscenes.

Here is a fascinating dissection by Vimeo user Matthias Stork which is seven months old, but recently written up by Indiewire and tweeted by Roger Ebert, so I thought it was worth sharing. It delves into the relationship held between movies and games—which goes further than simply having more cutscenes in games (though this, too,…

The Real World: Whiterun: Or, What Skyrim Would Be Like As A Reality Show

Oh, trashy reality TV shows. You’re so formulaic, and so awful, and yet there’s something about you that makes it difficult to look away. Like a car wreck, really. (And sure, sometimes you’re genuinely entertaining.) Here is a Skyrim machinima by Nerdist that takes a look at what happens when a group of strangers get…

In This Game, You Search For The ‘Gay Planet.’ No, Not That One. A Different Gay Planet.

The game isn’t affiliated with Star Wars: The Old Republic, though it is a response of sorts to the recent debacle concerning a ‘gay planet.’ Here is a Twine game by Anna Anthropy that’s all about searching for an elusive gay planet. It’s called, as you might have guessed, The Hunt For The Gay Planet.…

I Returned To Neopets After A Decade Of Abandonment, Only To Get Suspended Hours Later

Remember Neopets? It was that online virtual pet website that was really popular in the early 2000’s, and it allowed you to play games, shop and even battle your ‘neopets.’ You might say Neopets was a step up from Tamagotchi, but a step down from Pokemon. And even though it’s over a decade old, the…

Five Things Online Shooters Should Do Less

Last time, I told you about my (possibly crackpot) ideas on how to improve online shooters by listing what they should do more of. We’re talking things like, letting me play dress up and giving me an ‘everything unlocked’ mode. Now I’m here to tell you my (possibly crazy) list of what I think shooters…