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…

Ignore A Party To Pet Dogs In This Video Game

You blink. You rub your eyes. You look around. “Oh crap,” you realize, “I’m at a party.” Pet The Pup At The Party is a game even the most mildly introverted among us can identify with. You’re at a party (a procedurally generated party that seems to take place in an infinite apartment, no less),…

A Sci-Fi Adventure Made With Stunning Pencil Art

Sci-fi adventure game Original Journey entices with its hand-drawn pencil art of alien mutant egg creatures. And luckily, they feel as good to bombard with cannons as they do to look at. In Original Journey, out today on Steam, you are a young member of an endangered species who, despite being late to one of…

Sonic Mania Has Some Cool Secrets And Cheats

Some might joke that the biggest surprise about Sonic Mania is that it was a good Sonic game. The game does have actual secrets, though, and they’re really fun. Sonic Mania looks like it stepped right out of my childhood, that it has cheat codes and secrets only ups the nostalgia factor. For example, if…

Matterfall Is A Metroid-Contra Which Requires Incredible Dexterity

I love complicated action games in general, though I have a particular soft spot for ones that make my hands hurt. I am pleased to announce that Resogun and Super Stardust HD developers Housemarque’s latest game, Matterfall, takes a seat beside God Hand at the roundtable of games which might cause carpal tunnel. In the…

Here’s The Nintendo Switch Game Fans Are Warning People Not To Buy

For the past few days, a Nintendo Switch game has started to gain notoriety as the worst release on the platform. Any time people post about this game online, they warn others not to buy it. So I picked it up. Troll and I is a port of a game for Playstation 4, Xbox One…

Pewdiepie Says He’s Going To Stop Making Nazi Jokes After Charlottesville

Earlier this year, YouTube’s biggest star sparked controversy after Disney severed ties with him over jokes about Jewish people and Nazis. At the time, Felix ‘Pewdiepie’ Kjellberg apologized but continued to make many Nazi references in defiance to the outrage. Months later, Kjellberg says he has a different perspective about those jokes and says he’s…

Hearthstone Pro Gets Instantly Wrecked By New Card

Hearthstone’s new Knights of the Frozen Throne expansion is out, and that means that on top of being able to play with fresh strategies, we get to partake in another more underappreciated pleasure: watching pro players fail to play around new cards. One recent shining example comes from Johnnie “Ratsmah” Lee, one of North America’s…

A Brief @!#?ing History Of Swearing In Video Games

In December of 1999, at the tender age of eleven, I received Donkey Kong 64. It was a birthday gift from my parents and even came with a shiny yellow controller, though sadly not the limited edition banana one. Regardless, I popped it in my N64 (after inserting the expansion pack, of course) and snapped…

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…