Don’t give up on Transformers’ planet eater just yet. Originally slated to end on August 31, Hasbro has extended the deadline for its $4.6 million Unicron crowdfunding campaign to October 6. Where’s the fun in crowdfunding if a project can’t fail?

Eiichiro Oda Wants To Finish One Piece In Five Years

YouTube comedy group Fischer’s recently visited Eiichiro Oda’s home studio. While there, they asked the famed manga creator how much longer One Piece was going to run. In the clip, which you can see below, Oda’s face was blurred out. In the past few years, Oda has ceased showing his face on camera—probably so he…

That’s A Nice-Looking Arcade Stick, SNK

SNK has announced a new arcade stick for Japan. Dubbed the Neo Geo Arcade Stick Pro, its design was influenced by the Neo Geo CD’s Controller Pad stick. Currently, the stick has no announced release date. Nor are there any details about which buttons SNK is sourcing for the Arcade Stick Pro. More details will…

That Reminds Me, Where The Hell Is Advance Wars

Waldemar Kazak is an artist from Russia. You can see more of Kazak’s stuff (and purchase prints of his work) at his personal site

Oh, It’s Just T-Pain Cosplaying As A Tekken Character

DragonCon, one of the biggest conventions in the US, is going down this long weekend, and among the cosplayers in attendance is rapper T-Pain, living his absolute best cosplay life as Tekken’s Leroy Smith. Leroy is a brand new character for Tekken 7, meaning this could all be just a very good marketing stunt. Then…

Samurai Gourmet Is The Best Food Show On Netflix

Lately I’ve been watching a bit too much TV, which has led to the seemingly impossible problem of running out of TV to watch. Between all the different streaming services, there’s no dearth of stuff I haven’t seen before, but sometimes I just want something familiar. I know this is hard to believe, but there’s…

I Should Stop Quitting Games At Boss Fights

I finally got a chance to boot up Control a couple days after the game launched. Since it was late at night, I only had a little time to explore its unsettling world before I had to go to bed. I quit at the game’s first boss fight, intending to play more later. Instead I…

Final Fantasy VIII Remastered Is The Best Way Ever To Play Final Fantasy VIII

After years of its suspicious absence from Square Enix’s unstoppable barrage of ports and re-releases, Final Fantasy VIII has emerged remastered for all consoles (and PC). This is the best version of the game that has ever existed. Watch me play it for 47 minutes, while discussing 20 years’ worth of crystallized thoughts about the…

The Week In Games: Brr! It’s Cold In Here!

Do you love Monster Hunter: World? Do you love snow and ice? Well, then you are going to be very excited this week! A brand new expansion for Monster Hunter: World releases later this week. Speaking of cooler weather, around where I live the temperature is starting to dip below 80 more and more. Summer…

Midnight Stop

Oleksiy Rusyuk is a concept artist and illustrator at GSC Game World, the studio behind the STALKER series. You can see more of Oleksiy’s stuff at his ArtStation page

18 Years Later, We’ve Got The Perfect Halo Action Figure

There have been a lot of Halo figures over the years, but this new one by 1000toys is easily my favourite. Based on Master Chief’s original Halo 1 design, but also tweaked by Japanese mech designer Izmojuki, it’s 1/12 scale and costs….USD$125. That’s a lot for a figure, but then, it’s a very nice figure.…

A Single Image That Helped Lead To Grand Theft Auto

Mike Dailly, of Lemmings and GTA fame, shared something very cool on Twitter over the weekend: an image he made in 1994 that, in a very direct way, led to the creation of the original Grand Theft Auto He also shared an animated version of the image created for an old talk, which you can…

I Love The Posters Found In Control

Control is a wonderful game. I can’t stop thinking about it and I can’t wait for the weekend to end so I can get back to playing it instead of working. But while many are talking about the incredible visuals or exciting action, I want to take a moment to showcase a small part of…

The Mobile Port Of GTA San Andreas Contains New And Secret Cheat Codes

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas was ported to mobile devices back in 2013 and then this version of the game was ported to PS3 and Xbox 360, as well as a few other places. GTA fans and modders have recently found that in this mobile version of the game there are a host of new…

‘Shop Contest: Why So Serious?

The world will get a new Joker film in October. But some folks, including some film critics, have already seen the film and the reviews are surprisingly positive. Maybe this new Joker movie is actually really good?! Or maybe it’s terrible? I don’t know. But regardless, let’s have some fun with this new Clown Prince.…