Nine Tips For Women (And Anyone Else) Attending Their First Fighting Game Tournament

Are you are a woman who wants to compete in a fighting game event, but you don’t know where to start? Maybe you’re worried you don’t know enough or aren’t good enough. (Probably not true.) Or maybe you just want to know what these events are like ahead of time. Which ones should you try…

Wrapping My Nintendo Switch In Wood

Back in June I made my PlayStation 4 look old and classywith a wooden cover by a company called Toast. It was fast and easy. Doing the same thing to my Nintendo Switch took a little more doing. Toast makes covers out of actual wood veneer for all sorts of devices, from smartphones (we can…

Super Smash Bros. Combo Contest Was Full Of Incredible Trick Plays

Super Smash Con, a combination tournament and convention focused on the Super Smash Bros. fighting game series, kicked off this weekend’s festivities with a ridiculous show of skill known simply as the Combo Contest. Inspired by the NBA’s Dunk Contest, this exhibition invites some of the most creative Super Smash Bros. players to showcase the…

Deadly Premonition Creator’s Next Game Is A Slice-Of-Life Cat RPG

Not just a brand of cat food, The Good Life is Deadly Premonition creator Hidetaka “Swery” Suehiro’s upcoming mystery slice-of-life cat role-playing game. It will be the debut game of White Owls, Swery’s new studio. The Good Lifeis set in rural England’s “Rainy Woods,” where a New York photographer named Naomi is struggling to pay…

We Asked New Yorkers If Mario Is Human

I went out on the streets of New York City to ask the people a question that has burned game-likers’ brains since the announcement of the upcoming Super Mario Odyssey: is Mario a human? I promise I’m getting a haircut really soon, by the way.

Nintendo Switch Bending Problems Are Still A Thing

Earlier this year, there were English language reports of the Nintendo Switch warping and bending. Now, there are similar reports from Japan. In the spring, NeoGAF noticed the issue, as did Twitter and Reddit users. This was just one of the early hardware problems, and with all those issues, it’s still hard to say how…

Just A 127-Hit Combo In Dragon Ball FighterZ

Dragon Ball FighterZ lookskiller. Case in point: this clip of Goku unleashing a 127-hit combo on Cell. As EventHubs points out, this is the first 100-plus combo we’ve seen from the game. The clipwas originally uploaded by YouTuber NGI. Dragon Ball FighterZ will be released next year.

3,000 People Lined Up In Tokyo For 105 Nintendo Switch Consoles

Earlier this month in Tokyo’s Ikebukuro, around 3,000 people lined up at a retailer for a chance to buy one of 105 Switch consoles. As Game Memo and Science Plus report, the line was recently featured on Japanese morning show Tokudane. As with other Switch sales in Japan, people lined up to get a raffle…

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West Of Loathing Is A Very Funny Cowboy Game

Most of the time, it’s not terribly difficult to slot games on Steam’s best-sellers list into categories. You’ve got your multiplayer survival game of the week, your triple-A hit, your discounted indie, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, and so on. West of Loathing, though, defies categorization. It marches to the beat of its own drum, spits into its…

Batman, Redesigned

Adrian Wilkins is a concept artist and illustrator who has worked on games like Lawbreakers, Black Ops 3, Injustice 2 and League of Legends The Batman image up top, and the bigger versions below, are from a personal shot at redesigning Gotham’s universe to give it a slightly more modern look. He also helped out…

A Love Letter To The F-14 Tomcat

From Top Gun to Macross to Sega to GI Joe , the F-14 was a 1980s superstar

Lona, An Adventure Game About Being Trapped By Art

Lona: Realm of Colors is an adventure game in development from a small team based in Sweden. There’s a strong Miyazaki vibe running through the game’s art style, and it looks cool as hell. Here’s the pitch: What happens if you could escape from life difficulties that you can do nothing about? What if you…

Upcoming MMO’s Cryptocurrency Marketplace Was Inspired By Other Games’ Black Markets

When black markets develop on the sidelines of most massively multiplayer online role-playing games, most developers would panic. But with today’s rise of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, a growing group of game-makers are embracing some gamers’ tendency to turn in-game currency into real-world money. In general, publishers often take steps to prevent the selling of in-game…

A Substantial And Interesting Discussion Of Pyre, Feelings, Dogs, Mustaches, And God

Every character in Pyre has a story. Some are about the nature of freedom. Others focus on religion. Others invite you to scrutinize systems that purport to offer justice while privileging a select few. But the story that helped the game find its voice and its heart was the unlikely story of a dog’s mustache.…

Sonic Mania Has An Irritating Home Button Bug On Switch

Sonic Mania may just be the best Sonic game in years, but it also seems broken in a small but annoying way on the Nintendo Switch. If you’re playing Sonic Mania on the Switch you may have already noticed a weird flaw. According to multiple Switch owners, there’s a delay with hitting the Home button…

Growing Up, I Bonded With My Older Brothers Through Games

As a kid, when I told people that I was the youngest in my family and had three older brothers, they would often say, “Three older brothers? Oh, you poor thing!” My brothers Bob, Mike, and Joe are 11, 10, and 7 years older than me, respectively. At first, I didn’t understand why adults thought…