I Hope Sony Hasn’t Given Up On Its PlayStation 2 Classics

Sony started porting PlayStation 2 games to the PlayStation 4 in December 2015, beginning with the games like Grand Theft Auto III, Twisted Metal: Black, and Dark Cloud. There are now just over 50 PS2 games playable on the PS4, but the pace of new releases slowed from a trickle to a drip. It now…

The Flappy Bird Fighting Game Is Somehow Good

Remember Flappy Bird, the mobile game that took the world by storm (and made its creator, Dong Nguyen, upwards of $50,000 a day) back in early 2014? Nguyen pulled the game from the App Store just a month after its debut, but the legacy of Flappy Bird continues to influence mobile game development to this…

Game Of Thrones Has A Fullmetal Alchemist Problem

Game of Thrones is near its end. After spending a decade with this television show, the end feels momentus. As I watch these final episodes, I can’t help but be reminded of the pitfalls of another show that I spent multiple years of my life following: Fullmetal Alchemist, and its eventual remake, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood.…

For Honor’s New Season Adds Fun Executioner Class But Ups The Grind

For Honor’s year three, season two update dropped yesterday introducing a host of changes, not the least of which is a new samurai class called Hitokiri. The new class is cool, but not all of the other changes are good. The update revamps the reward system for a number of modes, and now it can…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for going to a Kentucky Derby viewing party and losing some money. Then it’s for consoling myself with video games. I haven’t had much time to play more Baba Is You lately, which means my 10-year-old nephew has made it much further than me. This ends now. (He’s a really smart kid,…

New Detective Game Has You Edit Your Computer’s Files To Solve Puzzles

In the new indie game File://maniac, there’s a killer on the loose. Your job is to hunt them down. But instead of sneaking through dialog trees or picking up clues, you’re opening folders and deleting files on your PC. File://maniac, which came out last weekend for PC, Mac, and Linux, was created by Italian developers…

Starlink‘s Latest Update Confirms Star Fox Is Still The Best Part Of The Game

Ubisoft’s once-toy-powered adventure, Starlink: Battle for Atlas, is a very pretty spaceship game with short bursts of excitement padded with an endless array of repetitive tasks. The game is only consistently enjoyable when the Star Fox crew are winging their way through the Nintendo Switch-exclusive adventures. This week’s new Star Fox downloadable content is no…

A Throwback Detective Adventure Game Set In A Cyberpunk Future

Tales Of the Neon Sea, a new game on Steam, is a throwback to old-school 2D adventure games that takes place on the waterfront of a polluted, neon-lit city. Once I got past the obvious cyberpunk clichés and horny dorm room posters and signs, I realized the game is set in a captivating world that…

Behold, Chun-Li Themed Sneakers

Japanese shoe brand Onitsuka Tiger is releasing two pairs of Chun-Li inspired sneakers. Both are based on Onitsuka’s iconic Mexico 66 SD with Chun-Li themed color patterns and dragon designs. The Tiger and Street Fighter logos are emblazoned on the heel flap. The sneakers come with a download code for players to dress Chun-Li in…

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Look At These Pikachu Air Jordans

For his walk down the yellow carpetat the Detective Pikachu premiere earlier today, Hollywood director Jordan Vogt-Roberts (Kong: Skull Island, Metal Gear) skipped the whole nice suit thing and instead went for this amazing pair of custom Pikachu-themed AJ1s. Vogt-Roberts worked with Stomping Ground Customs to design and build the shoes, which feature a huge…

The Mighty Grand Piton Is A Very Cool Anime-Inspired Short

The Line—who you may remember from that amazing Blizzard anime video from last year—are back with this incredible animated short that basically asks: what if Iron Giant was set in the Caribbean, and was anime as hell? The answer is The Mighty Grand Piton, which is presented in the form of a trailer/pitch. I love…

Shrekiro

It’s Shrek. In Sekiro. Finally, we can all die. This mod for the PC version of the game, hotly anticipated by the whole of mankind since the dawn of time, comes to us by way of modders Dropoff and Katalash. It replaces the Chained Ogre miniboss with Shrek, an ogre forced into a quest to…

No, Pig, I Am Not Putting A Second Bathroom Downstairs

Ala Kapustka is a concept artist and illustrator who works for CD Projekt Red, the developers of The Witcher series and Cyberpunk 2077 You can see more of Ala’s stuff at her ArtStation page

Dungeons & Dragons & Cats

Following on from their very successful Kickstarter for Dungeons and Doggies, Animal Adventures are back with a new line of miniature companions for your D&D adventures. Only this time they’re cats. Cats and Catacombs is a set that includes 13 fantasy cat miniatures, plus “a bespoke set of fifth edition compatible rules” so they can…