What Happened After Nintendo Cracked Down On A Zelda Fan Game

Following Mario Maker’s huge success, fans clamored for other Nintendo franchises to adopt easy level-creation tools. “Zelda Maker” seemed like a no-brainer, until Nintendo itself suggested such a game wouldbe difficult to pull off. One game developer took that response from Nintendo as a challenge. “I thought, if Nintendo this it’s too difficult then I’ll…

Persona 5 Players Are Having Some Fun With Team Names

Canonically, the group of charming burglars in Persona 5 is dubbed the Phantom Thieves of Hearts. Persona 5 also allows players to give the group a custom name that occasionally shows up in dialogue and is viewable to friends with Persona 5‘s network features. I named my team Semiotecs, because I’m a fucking nerd, but…

Party Game Where Your Friends Are The Dungeon Monsters Creates The Best Rivalries

Crawl is a spooky, nasty multiplayer brawler that creates good-natured rivalry in a gruesome, 8-bit world. Tomorrow it comes out of early access on Steam and releases for PS4 and Xbox One. In Crawl, up to three players possess a dungeon’s monsters, while a solo player takes the role of a human. Enemies can include…

Breath Of The Wild Speedrunning Is Getting More Elaborate Every Day

I’ve been religiously tracking Breath of the Wild speedruns since before the game was released and have even started my own attempts. What started as a desperate dash to fight Ganon has changed drastically. Here’s some of the coolest stuff. Watching a new game evolve over time as more techniques and tricks are discovered is…

13-Year-Old Prodigy Wins Pinball World Championships

This past weekend, the Professional & Amateur Pinball Association (or PAPA) hosted the world championships of pinball, bringing flipperheads together under one roof to compete on classic machines for the top score and prize. It was a fantastic display of pinball wizardry, marred only by an incomprehensible production set-up. Twelve different machines stood as the…

Final Fantasy VII Player Hits Level 99 In The First Reactor

Over the weekend, a Final Fantasy VII player who goes by the handle CirclMastr got Cloud and Barret to level 99, which isn’t particularly impressive. What’s impressive is that he did it before the game’s first boss battle. It took roughly 500 hours, by CirclMastr’s count, to pull off this ridiculous accomplishment. He’s been plugging…

Minecraft‘s New Marketplace Will Sell Third-Party Creations

This spring, Minecraft will add a marketplace where approved creators can sell user-made content. There, players will buy texture packs, maps and skins with a new currency called Minecraft Coins, purchasable with cash. Previously, creators sold third-party add-ons through their own websites. Minecraft’s store only sold items designed by the Minecraft dev team. In the…

The Entire Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm Saga Gets Bundled Up This Fall

Naruto Shippuden has ended and theBoruto spin-off series has begun. Seems like a good time for Bandai Namco to bundle together four video games covering the entire saga, which is exactly what’s happening with Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Legacy and Trilogy for Xbox One, Ps4 and PC. Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Legacy collects…

Who Knew Mario Sports Was So Stressful 

You have it easy. You’re just controlling Mario and company as they play sport after sport. They have it hard Remember those Mario Mercedes Benz ads? Now the character and his cohorts are starring in a series of Suntory energy drink commercials. The spot is for Dekavita C, a Japanese energy drink, and it shows…

The New Mythical Pokémon Isn’t Only In Sun And Moon

There is a new Mythical Pokémon in Sun and Moon. The character, however, is also appearing in the upcoming Pokémon reboot feature film. Titled Pokémon The Movie: I Choose You!, the movie shows how Ash and Pikachu teamed up and goes from there. As the latest trailer shows, it also features the new Mythical Pocket…

Persona 5‘s In-Game Locations Compared To The Real World

While Persona 4 takes place in a town called “Inaba,” Persona 5 takes place in Tokyo. This article was originally published on September 27, 2016. It has since been updated with more comparisons. The major Tokyo locations, such as Shibuya Station, match up well enough, but it’s interesting to see what inspired where the Protagonist…

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Dragon Age Cosplay Is All About The Romance

This is Yume, a cosplayer from Germany, getting into the Dragon Age spirit (ie, romancing) with her boyfriend. Both costumes were made by Yume, who has been cosplaying for over a decade now. Photos by the always-excellent eosAndy

A Custom Gundam Nintendo Switch

LOVENIN, a Nintendo fan from Thailand, messed up and bought a black & grey Switch instead of a Neon one. To add some colour to his drab new console, then, he decided to take it apart and add some Gundam flavour to the thing. Looks great! A big reason why it looks so good is…

Time To Party Like The Bad Guys

These are grim times we are living through, but that doesn’t mean Landon Meier’s Hyperflesh—creators of terrifying rubber masks—can’t have some fun with them. You might have caught some of Hyperflesh’s ultra-realistic masks last year during the election. Here are a couple of news ones, shown off at Monsterpalooza. Amazing how an over-sized head, some…