My Totally Reasonable Gaming Plan For The Next Few Months

Lots of games coming up. Got to think this through strategically. Gears 5? Finish that campaign this week. Then move to Destiny 2. Still haven’t cleared that game’s original campaign but don’t want to skip ahead. I’ve got two weeks or so to catch up. Probably won’t catch up but will get close. Somehow juggle…

I Can’t See Myself Enjoying The New Kirby Game Much Longer

Launched following last week’s Nintendo Direct, Super Kirby Clash is a free-to-play multiplayer game pitting multicolored Kirbys in medieval cosplay against massive bosses. I love the battles, but the game’s economy and endless upgrade cycle have me wondering how long that love will last. Nintendo calls Super Kirby Clash a free-to-start game, which is a…

This Fallout Vault Boy Figure Is A Whole Mood

Good Smile Company’s newly announced Nendoroid Vault Boy action figure includes four different faces and several arm and leg pieces for Fallout’s famous mascot. Seems like a waste to me. They had me at angry middle finger. Just look at that face. The brow. The frown. The entire posture just screams sass. I am not…

The Neo Geo Arcade Stick Pro Has 20 SNK Games Built In

Earlier this month SNK announced the Neo Geo Arcade Stick Pro, a fight stick with a design based on the Neo Geo CD’s Controller Pad stick. Turns out it’s not only a joystick but also a standalone retro console that can be hooked directly to a television to play 20 built-in SNK fighting games. The…

Off-World Palaeontology

Yury Ostapchuk is a concept artist from Ukraine who works at Plarium, the Vikings: War of Clans guys. You can see more of Yury’s work at his ArtStation page

If Found is a game where you uncover the story by erasing the main character’s diary. It’s a neat-looking mechanic that sounds like it’ll be paired with some fascinating subject matter. First and foremost: a black hole that’s about to destroy the earth. “Erase her diary, uncover secrets, meet a diverse cast of characters, go…

Why Super Meat Boy Forever Is Taking Forever

Super Meat Boy designer Tommy Refenes knew that the name Forever was cursed territory in video games. Originally, he wanted to give the sequel to his pioneering tough-as-nails indie platformer a different title: Super Meat Boy ∞, pronounced “Super Meat Boy Infinity.” He decided, though, that it’d have been too confusing. “I took the curse…

Nike’s New League Of Legends Gear Sucks

Welcome, everyone, to my strange little wheelhouse, where one of my biggest passions in life (video games) is currently intersecting with a smaller one, collecting sports jerseys The news I’m pinning this on: On Sunday, Nike announced that it had signed a deal to make every single team’s competitive outfits for the next League of…

Here’s To Five Years Of Not Knowing How I Feel About Destiny

Five years ago, I thought we were all a bunch of suckers. Destiny, the new game from the makers of Halo, was an absolute mess, and I didn’t understand why anyone would play it. But people did, and what’s more, they found something compelling in the inexplicable sci-fi shooter. Across five years, numerous expansions, a…

Ten Hours In, Greedfall‘s Detailed Role-Playing Can’t Make Up For Its Unpleasant Setting

I have not enjoyed playing Greedfall, the latest role-playing game by Spiders. That’s not because it is a poor experience in terms of how it plays. Greedfall offers a BioWare-esque adventure with branching quests, companion characters, and exploration. Greedfall frustrates me because it’s a game of half-measures. In the nearly 10 hours that I have…

Gun Gun Pixies Is A Silly Erotic Game With A Serious Message About Your Health

Gun Gun Pixies for the Nintendo Switch and PC is a third-person shooter-platformer about a pair of miniature aliens learning about human behavior by infiltrating a women’s dorm. It’s silly. It’s racy. There are panty shots galore and lots of censored anime nudity. I expected as much from the latest PQube release. What I did…

Monkey Pukes On Developer During Sea of Thieves Livestream

Today some Sea of Thieves developers did a livestream to discuss the game’s new store and purchasable pets. They were joined on stream by a monkey. The monkey threw up on a developer. For most of the stream, Antonio the spider monkey seemed content to sit on people’s shoulders and eat mealworms thrown to him…

The Sims 4 Gets Goddamn Wizards

Meet Lucretia Sand, witch. She’s the Sim I made for The Sims 4’s latest magic-centric expansion. Puns aside, she’s the perfect character to explore the latest game pack, Realm of Magic. Realm of Magic, which comes out tomorrow, is the latest game pack for The Sims 4. It adds a new area, new clothes, and…

Mortal Kombat 11 Rookie Steamrolls Evo Champion SonicFox To Win Major Tournament

The ongoing Mortal Kombat 11 Pro Kompetition made its first and only stop in Canada last weekend, bringing players to the Great White North to compete for a chunk of points towards qualifying for the finals next year. Even with some of the world’s greatest players in attendance, the Mortal Kombat 11 tournament at DreamHack…

Borderlands 3‘s Review Situation Sure Is Strange

Borderlands 3 reviews hit the internet this morning, but only at a select few websites, thanks to a bizarre scenario that publisher 2K says is in place because of security concerns. Typically, video game reviewers work off early retail copies of games provided by publishers. They can be either digital or physical, and they function…

The Scariest Thing In P.T. Was Following You All Along

This summer marked the fifth anniversary of P.T., 2014’s landmark “Playable Teaser” for Silent Hills, an exciting but ultimately doomed reboot of the Silent HIll franchise led by Hideo Kojima and film director Guillermo Del Toro. It became an obsession for streamers and data-minersalike, its allure only increasing after Konami removed P.T. from the PlayStation…