The Night They Turned On The First NBA Jam Machine

In this early excerpt from NBA Jam, a book from Boss Fight Books and author Reyan Ali coming in 2018, we learn about the night the development team from Midway let arcadegoers get their hands on their innovative, soon-to-be-legendary basketball game for the first time. Boss Fight Books’ next “season” of books about video games…

Haunting New Hiroshima Anime Illustrates Life Before The Bomb

The specter of the Hiroshima bombing hangs over the World War II anime In This Corner of the World, and yet, the movie easily lures viewers into a specious calm with easy vignettes of ‘40s Japan. Falling into the regularity and mundanity of surviving a seemingly far-off war only serves to make the inevitable more catastrophic.…

No Man’s Sky Players Are Marveling At The Lush New Grass

Want to know how No Man’s Sky has changed since launch? The first thing you should do is check out the beautiful grass. The Atlas Update for No Man’s Sky said, “The variety and visual quality of planetary biomes has been improved,” but it didn’t detail how or what. While there’s a lot of cool…

Which Games Scared You As A Kid?

When I was a kid, I begged my parents for a Game Gear. When I eventually wore them down, they bought me the handheld, along with six games—but I only had the courage to play five of them. I made my way through Sonic the Hedgehog, Ecco the Dolphin, Lemmings, Winter Olympics: Lillehammer 94 (my…

Razer Gear Looks Really Nice In White

I’ve been reviewing Razer accessories and hardware for ages, and aside from the odd license tie-in and those rainbow headsets, they’ve mostly had one thing in common—they’ve been black. Well now we’ve got the Mercury line, so bright and white they look like the restless spirits of real Razer products. Razer’s actually gottwo new color…

Pinball FX 3 Is All About Cross-Platform Competition

Coming soon to Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC, the third installment of Zen Studios’ pinball platform will focus on community run tournaments and multiplayer match-ups. Today the studio announced which console and PC platforms can play together, as well as which Pinball FX 2 tables players can import into Pinball FX 3. When Zen…

Massive New Gundam Store Opens This Weekend In Tokyo 

This Saturday, an enormous new Gundam store will open its doors in Tokyo’s Odaiba. Called The Gundam Base Tokyo, the shop will have over 2,000 types of Gundam goods for sale and another 1,500 on display. That is apparently the largest assortment on Earth. The Gundam Base Tokyo joins other Gundam Base locations in South…

A Look Inside Pokéball Terrariums 

This month, a series of officially licensed“Terrarium Collection” Pokémon toys goes on sale in Japan. The collection doesn’t specifically say that this is what the inside of Pokéballs actually look like. But they are shaped like Pokéballs! Priced at 750 yen ($6.80), each one comes with a piece of gum. These Pokéball Terrariums remind me…

Hideo Kojima Thanks Konami 

For the past few years, it has felt like Hideo Kojima and Konami have been at loggerheads. Even last month, the saga seemed to be endless. In a new interview, however, Kojima discusses what was good about his Konami days—namely, letting him make the games he wanted to. “What I’m grateful Konami for is that…

Nintendo Consoles Rendering Themselves

3D animator Elijah Robertson has done a neat thing where he “did models of Nintendo consoles as if they were rendered on themselves”. So the NES is just pixels, the GameCube decent polygons, etc. The results are very, very cool! As elegant a timeline of video game horsepower progression as you’re going to get.

Someone Is Trying To Remake Diablo II In StarCraft II

For years, Blizzard faithful have been clamoring for a remake or remaster of Diablo II, and now that StarCraft’s remaster is fresh out of the hatchery, they’ve only gotten louder. One fan is trying to give them the next best thing. The Curse Of Tristram is a mod project that aims to create an updated…

Shit My Kid Says Playing Zelda

As previously discussed, my son is getting pretty good at video games. Because of this, despite being only four years old, I’ve started letting him play Zelda: Breath of the Wild by himself It has turned out to be a very good decision. If you’re wondering how he manages, he can play the game pretty…

Zane Plays Proboid is a clever animated short from Polaris about a deep space explorer cut off from all forms of communication… except Twitch chat. Somehow, livestream viewers find his emergency channel and think it’s a video game stream. Things do not go well for him.

World War 1’s Giant Mechs Are Coming

Here’s a new trailer for Iron Harvest, the upcoming RTS based in the same universe as 2016’s very good board game Scythe There’s a lot of gameplay footage here, showing that asides from the lumbering dieselpunk giants, there’s also some very Company of Heroes-ish infantry combat going on. Iron Harvest is coming for PC, PS4…

Stolen Diablo Art Turns Up In The Weirdest Places

A few years back, games artist Toby Lewin had an image he drew for a Blizzard contest (above) go viral. You see it all over the internet these days, from posters to mouse pads, but this week it turned up in the real world on…a war memorial in the Ukranian capital Kiev. Most times you…