Engine Room

Over the past decade, video game trailers have gone from blurry little montages bundled on magazine cover discs to a…

The new Doom, really, is rather like the old Doom. You fight swarms of hulking demons. You never stop moving for…

“So what does a game designer do? Are you an artist? Do you design characters and write the story? Or no, wait,…

Run-of-the-mill room porn is one thing, but it takes something like Unreal Engine 4 to elevate it to a whole new…

Corsair’s “Void” USB gaming headphones are not actually a black hole of nothingness. They’re just a pair of pretty…

Late last week, captain_slow48 posted an Unreal Engine 4 recreation of Doom’s first level online. “I built this to…

The folks at Storybundle just launched a new pay-what-you-want eBook bundle about video games. Part of it is a new…

Every online game dies eventually. Twisted Metal Black, the gold standard of Twisted Metal games, officially went…

By and large, love is better with other people. And when saving all the love in the universe means shooting a bunch…

So Pokémon wasn’t a thing in North America until I was 25—the point still stands. Younger me could have learned a…