It’s Great When A Series Of Assassin’s Creed Side Activities Comes Together Just Right

When I’m playing through a massive open-world video game, sometimes the little tasks I do line up to create the perfect mini adventure. Maybe it’s by design, maybe by accident. Regardless, when it happens, it’s quite nice. Let’s look at a sequence I just experienced in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey when, as is my style, I…

I Can’t Stop Talking With This Red Dead Redemption 2 Character

There’s a lot to do in Red Dead Redemption 2. There’s so much going on that even when I head into a town for a few errands I’m besieged by things to buy, strangers to help, and places to rob. But there’s a guy in Valentine I always make time to speak with, whether I…

Gnomes Are Part Of The Weirdest Sims 4’s Thanksgiving

The Sims 4‘s holidays, introduced in the Seasons expansion, do a good job of mimicking their real life counterparts. In order to complete holidays successfully, you have to achieve certain goals before the day is over. On Love Day, you’re expected to give flowers and go on a date. During Winterfest, you give gifts and…

Goku Is In The Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade For The First Time

Dragon Ball’s Goku will make his premiere (in balloon form, and also Super Saiyan Blue form) at the 92nd Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade today. According to Macy’s, Goku is 56 feet tall and as wide as seven taxis, an enjoyably specific unit of measurement I’d like to see used for other things. Earlier this week Macy’s…

Anniversary Japanese Kit Kat Set For Only $55

Do you like Kit Kats? What about Japanese Kit Kats? To mark the 45th anniversary of when the chocolate treats first went on sale in the country, a special set of 35 Kit Kats is going on sale in Japan. There are an array of Japanese centric flavors, including sweet potato, Japanese strawberry, momiji manju,…

It Takes Lots Of People To Remake Resident Evil 2

While the 2019 Resident Evil 2 game is a remake of the 1998 release, lots and lots of people are needed to make the game happen. Wonder how many? At least 800! That’s according to a recent NHK special on Capcom, as pointed out by Alex Aniel: Aniel adds that around 600 people worked on…

Geralt, Is That You?

It is accepted truth that Maul is the King of Geralt cosplayers, but boy, Joshua Rifle is giving him a run for his money. He made this outfit with the help of his wife, and it’s one of the most impressive pieces of Witcher cosplay I’ve ever seen. You can see more of Joshua’s cosplay…

May you all have as enjoyable and challenging a holiday as Lady Gaga is having playing Bayonetta

Here’s The Actual Basketball From The Cover Of NBA Jam

The iconic cover to NBA Jam, with its image of a logo-adorned basketball smashing through some paper, is not an illustration. It’s a photo, and this is the model, 25 years later. As trivial as this sounds, I had never even considered this possibility, so excuse my amazement at the wonders of early-90s promotional bootstrapping.…

What Makes Ocarina Of Time Great, 20 Years Later 

The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time turned 20 years old today. Link’s first 3-D adventure, for the content-starved Nintendo 64, captivated a whole new generation of players, setting a standard for adventure games and laying a foundation for today’s massive open world journeys. In spite of this, Ocarina of Time remains a unique…

Popular Overwatch Fan Song Has Turned Into An Excuse To Mock Female Gamers

TikTok is a lip-synching app that’s popular among teenagers. If you’re not a teenager, you might be more familiar with this app through “cringe” compilations, which are videos that string together several TIkTok videos, often for the purposes of mockery. Every single “cringe” compilation that I’ve watched contains at least one instance of the Overwatch-themed…

Fallout 76’s Multiplayer: The Promise Vs. The Reality

In the week since Fallout 76‘s release, it since has become one of 2018’s more divisive games. Its Metacritic page is a horrorshow; its official forum and subreddits are battlegrounds between those who have found something to love in the buggy online survival game and those who think Bethesda has taken the series off a…

The Past, Present, And Future Of Diablo

On November 2, 2018, Blizzard closed its annual BlizzCon keynote by announcing, to scattered applause, a Diablo game for phones. It was a baffling marketing decision that immediately set off controversy, as fans of Blizzard’s iconic action-role-playing game franchise loudly accused the company of neglecting its PC players Perhaps Blizzard’s marketing department had expected Diablo…

WWE Star Spends Precious Airtime On Very Relatable PS4 Storage Issue

“I’m thankful for my two terabyte hard drive, so that I don’t have to delete Spider-Man in order to download Red Dead 2,” WWE wrestler Xavier Woods said during a Thanksgiving segment on the Smackdown wrestling TV show last night. You can see him make that statement, which garnered an “amen” from one of the…