Ubisoft’s New Game About Size Is Just Too Small

Ubisoft Reflections, the studio behind Grow Home and Grow Up, continues its growth spurt with the release of Atomega on Steam. It’s a blocky competitive first-person shooter in which players battle over mass, attempting to out-grow and overpower the competition. It’s a cool little game that could use some serious expansion. Atomega is a combination…

Now That I’ve Got A Baby, It’s Harder To Enjoy A Game Like Destiny 2

I had a baby nine months ago. As you might expect, this has significantly changed my relationship with video games, at least temporarily. It has made the Nintendo Switch my favorite console of all time, because I can play it both on the big screen on the occasional evening and in my hands during naptime/train…

Xbox’s Upcoming Line-Up Is Disappointing But Has Some Bright Spots

Microsoft showed off its Xbox holiday line-up at a showcase in Manhattan last week. They spotlit several games and the new, more powerful Xbox One X version of the console. While the games were fun, a lack of flagship titles left me wondering how strong the new console’s launch will be. There’s no denying the…

Nintendo Files Copyright Strikes Against Super Mario 64 Online

Nintendo has issued copyright strikes against multiple accounts belonging to a well-known Super Mario 64 ROM hacker, days after the release of his newest project, a multiplayer hack called Super Mario 64 Online. As of this morning, you can no longer download Super Mario 64 Online or even watch its creator’s videos of gameplay footage.…

Vava Mechanical Gaming Keyboard Review: Not Bad For A Budget Board

There are a lot of big-name peripheral manufacturers making mechanical keyboards, but a search for the term “mechanical keyboard” on Amazon yields a ton of keyboards from companies you’ve probably never heard of. Like Vava, makers of the relatively good $80 no-name mechanical I’ve been typing on for the past week. At this point in…

Fullmetal Alchemist Anime Director Criticizes The Live-Action Movie’s All-Japanese Cast 

The live-action Fullmetal Alchemist movie cast is all-Japanese, even if the characters are not. The anime’s director says this was “a bad idea.” While speaking at a recent stage show in Tokyo, Fullmetal Alchemist anime director Seiji Mizushima is quoted by ANN as saying, “It was a bad idea to only use Japanese actors.” Continuing,…

Pac-Man 3D Cookies are the most popular exclusive product in the Shinjuku VR Zone gift shop. The images of Pac-Man and Blinky on the cookies are printed in red-blue 3D, so when you pop on the included goggles, your food jumps out at you. Guaranteed to be better than that curry

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Here’s The First Trailer For The New Tomb Raider Movie

Goodbye Angelina Jolie, hello Alicia Vikander. Looks like it’s got a lot in common with Eidos and Square’s latest reboots, from the costume design to the “origins tale” intro itself.

Persona 5 Cosplay Won’t Hold Back

Here’s Calssaraas Ann, from Persona 5. Photos by Captured

Never, Ever Eat The Pac-Man Curry

While trying out Mario Kart VR et cetera at Bandai Namco’s VR Zone Shinjuku yesterday, I visited the cafe inside the virtual reality arcade. I was about to make a mistake. The cafe was called Glampers. As in glamping, as in “glamorous camping.” They served some appetizing-looking food such as a burger covered in melty…

Virtual Reality Drawing Brings Overwatch Art To Life

Liz Edwards is an artist who, in a previous life, was a 3D character artist at Total War developers Creative Assembly. She is now a 3D artist in a more direct sense. She’s shifted over recently to doing a lot of work in virtual reality, which lets people sketch in 3D, transforming rough linework into…

Play As A Giant Robot Who Wants To Save Humanity, Accidentally Ruin Planets

It’s not easy being a giant robot with a body better suited to destroying planets than saving them, especially not when people react to your noble, monster-vaporizing efforts with bullets and lasers of their own. Jettomero, though, doesn’t really mind. He just wants to make sure everybody’s alright. Jettomero: Hero of the Universe is a…

Angry Birds Now Sponsors A Football Team, And It’s A Laughing Stock

For the first time in competition history, the English Premier League is allowing teams to put sponsors on a jersey’s sleeves. Everton announced theirs the other day, and it’s…Angry Birds Not the company behind the game, Rovio. The game itself. Right there, logo and all, on the arm of a very serious and proper professional…

Garbage Man Finds Working PS4 In The Trash

TrashM4N is a garbage collector who goes about his business, collecting trash. While streaming on Twitch. Most of the time his channel is fairly ordinary, but on his latest run he opened a bin and found a perfectly fine Slim PS4, along with some cables and a controller. You’d think being thrown into the trash…

Cars With Video Game Names, Ranked

A lot of cars share names with popular video games. Obviously, we had to rank them. 23. Ultima Evolution 22. Dodge Journey 21. Plymouth Horizon 20. Dodge Avenger 19. Pontiac Tempest 18. Pontiac Aztek 17. Land Rover Defender 16. Pontiac Phoenix 15. Dodge Durango 14. Mahindra Scorpio 13. Dodge Monaco 12. Nissan Rogue 11. Toyota…