Valve’s Marc Laidlaw, who helped write the Half-Life series and the original Portal, has left the company after 18 years. The news originally broke on the Half-Life subreddit, and Laidlaw later confirmed the news to us. Why’d he leave? He wanted a “break from the collaborative chaos of game production.” You can reach the author…
“I tried to be kind with this level,” said Alex “PangaeaPanga,”a man responsible for many of Mario Maker’s toughest levels. His latest creation was unveiled at Awesome Games Done Quick yesterday evening. Most humans are not capable of beating a level made by Panga. Hell, one guy even started crying after finishing it. We are…
Let’s say you’re interested in Oculus Rift. Maybe you’re like me, and you pre-ordered one to be safe. (You can cancel before it ships!) Thing is, Oculus Rift requires a beefy PC to work, but there’s a tool to let you know if you’re set. The tool is readily available on the Oculus Rift pre-order…
The Master of the League is the latest comic from Lordran & Beyond, a website devoted to telling stories inspired by the various Souls games by From Software. I’m not going to include more than one of the images in this post, so just read the whole lovely thing right here. Lordran & Beyond is…
What you’re seeing above shouldn’t be possible, but krille71 somehow pulled it off. Here’s how. During the Spelunky section of Awesome Games Done Quick, creator Derek Yu idly wondered aloud if anyone had tried pulling off a pacifist no gold run run. Not 24 hours later, krille71 published a video doing exactly that. It’s ridiculous.…
Found this quote thanks to this tweet. It’s from an AllThingsD interview with Oculus founder Palmer Luckey in 2013. I understand plans get altered but dang.
Sometimes, good guys lose. That’s what happened on Sunday; I was unable to beat the latest stage from Giant Bomb’s Dan Ryckert: The Armageddan. I was close—a few times, very close—but in the end, despite my facial hair on the line, I lost. There are Mario Maker levels, and there are Ryckert’s Mario Maker levels.…
2009’s A Boy and His Blob remake is coming to Xbox One, PC, and PlayStation 4 on January 19. I always heard good things about this one, but never got around to playing it on the Wii!
Oculus announced today that Kickstarter backers of the original Oculus Rift will receive the final hardware—for free! It’s a nice gesture towards virtual reality’s biggest evangelists the day before pre-orders officially begin for the Oculus Rift. The biggest problem? We still don’t know how much it’ll cost. You can reach the author of this post…
[Update: Service was restored to the PSN at around midnight] If you’ve had trouble accessing PlayStation Network, Sony’s aware of it. There’s no timeline for when PSN might come back online—you can personally monitor its status on this website—but it’s been more than a few hours. Sony has tweeted about the service problems twice today:…
When the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 arrived, people expected open world experts Rockstar Games to come blaring out of the gate with something truly next-gen. What they got was something surprising: a table tennis game. Yes, that actually happened. “Our mission brief at Rockstar has been clear to us from when we founded the…
Microsoft has revealed the collaboration between Keiji Inafune and Armature Studios, ReCore, will also come to PC. It’s also been re-confirmed Crackdown 3’s multiplayer will debut this summer, but will it be a beta? Something you pay for? Right now, Microsoft isn’t saying, only promising details later this year. You can reach the author of…
The emotional range of games have come a long way; they can make us laugh, cry, and poop our pants in fright. Right now, we’re gonna focus on the last one. [This post originally ran on December 21, 2015] Unlike books or movies, you can’t turn the page or close your eyes and wait for…
Oculus has announced that its Touch controllers won’t ship until the “second half” of 2016. The Oculus Rift itself, however, is apparently still on track for early next year. The delay is disappointing; the Touch devices were the highlight of my last VR demo.
NeoGAF users noticed the hardcore platforming Umihara Kawase games have been removed from Steam and certain PSN regions. This comes not long after the closure of the game’s publisher, Agatsuma Entertainment. If you already bought one of the Umihara Kawase games, you’ll still be able to download it.
Only a few weeks after Just Cause 3 was released, it appears the modding team behind Just Cause 2’s spectacular multiplayer mod have already cracked the sequel. There’s no indication when the rest of us might be playing Just Cause 3 with friends and strangers, but hopefully it’s not far off!
People are making all kinds of stages in Super Mario Maker. There are brutally hard stages, traditional stages, clever stages, and others. These are clever ones. The interesting thing these two stages have in common is their use of comments. Nintendo intends for comments to be exactly that: comments on a level. But with some…
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That might look like Super Mario Maker—but it’s not. It’s Super Mario ReMaker, a fan-made project that hopes to bring Nintendo’s creation tool over to the PC with a bunch of new additions. Nintendo is a company in the business of selling its own hardware. They haven’t released Super Mario Maker for 3DS, let alone…
Sony’s finally announced its PlayStation Plus lineup for next month, and it’s coming with some pretty great games. Though these games are often touted as “free,” remember that PlayStation Plus is a subscription service that you pay for every month. Here are the games coming next Tuesday: PlayStation 4 Grim Fandango Remastered Hardware: Rivals PlayStation…
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