Players Have Spent Years Trying To Get Peach To Save Herself In Paper Mario

In 2001’s Paper Mario, our favorite hero in blue overalls saves the day, just like he always does. Peach helps, but in the end, it’s Mario who defeats Bowser. For years, however, speedrunners and glitch hunters have attempted to rewrite that sequence of events. Many of us have played through Paper Mario sequentially, chapter after…

An Interview With A ‘Boring’ Gamer

Alex McCabe isn’t the kind of person who usually gets profiled on a video game website. He doesn’t make games, doesn’t play them competitively, and doesn’t make many videos about them. He hasn’t even found a wild new way to play Fallout or Super Mario 64. He did make himself a multi-colored PlayStation 2 when…

Every Big Video Game Coming Out This Fall

Autumn, when the only things falling faster than the leaves are the big game releases. Check out the pile of big titles we’ll be jumping into as the season progresses. Update November 1: Some of the season’s best games are behind us, but there are still plenty of big name games on the way. September…

The Art Of Titanfall 2

Titanfall 2 isn’t just a very good video game, it’s also a very pretty one, with some of the best character, mech and environment design around. So let’s take a look at where all that stuff came from. Below you’ll find a collection of concept and promo work done by Respawn’s team of artists during…

Katamari Creator Announces Whimsical AR Game [UPDATE]

Katamari creator Keita Takahashi just announced a fanciful new AR game called Woorld. In proper Takahashi style, Woorld is all charm, full of whimsical little items that make me giggle like an idiot. In Woorld, your phone will map the room you’re in and place cartoonish items, from mushrooms to tiny houses, around the space…

Now Way More People Can Play The Zero Escape Series

If you’ve always wanted to play 999 and Virtue’s Last Reward but don’t have a handheld, you’re now in luck. Both visual novels are coming to PS4, Vita, and PC this spring. Developer Spike Chunsoft is packaging the two in a compilation they’re calling Zero Escape: The Nonary Games. Aksys, the publisher behind the PlayStation…

BlazBlue Isn’t As Fun Without English Voices

BlazBlue: Central Fiction arrives in North America today, bringing fresh mechanics and a host of new fighters to Arc System Works’ unique fighting game series. What’s it’s not bringing, for the first time ever, is an English voice cast, and that’s very unfortunate. When the first BlazBlue game, Calamity Trigger, came to the States back…

It’s Official: SNK Playmore Is Ditching The Playmore 

As of December 1, SNK Playmore’s official name will be SNK Corporation, returning the company back to its roots. Earlier this spring, SNK dropped “Playmore” from its logo. Now we know the corporate name will soon, too. According to Famitsu, the company’s web URL will also change from https://www.snkplaymore.co.jp to https://www.snk-corp.co.jp as well. Company emails,…

Kid Dresses As Studio Ghibli Character, Becomes Internet Sensation

No-Face from Studio Ghibli anime Spirited Away sure is adorable as a three year-old from Kaohsiung, Taiwan. As noted by TVBS and The Nanfang, little Meng Meng dressed up as the character for her pre-school’s Halloween party. Her outfit looks great! Even if her classmates didn’t fully appreciate it. Folks online, however, did and even…

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That’s One Way To Handle Rising Sea Levels

Julien Gauthier is an artist who has worked on stuff like the PS4’s “This is for the players” commercial, and on movies like Guardians of the Galaxy and Batman vs Superman You can see more of Julien’s work at his ArtStation page To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button…

Deadpool’s Director Wants To Make A “Hybrid” Live-Action Sonic The Hedgehog Movie

According to a story on The Hollywood Reporter, Tim Miller—director of Deadpool—is going to be “developing an adaptation of Sonic the Hedgehog for Sony Pictures”. Which is a “a hybrid CG-animated/live-action family film”. Miller wouldn’t be directing; that honour would go to Jeff Fowler, the director and co-founder of Blur Studios, aka the trailer guys…

Last Year Is A First-Person Game Based On Bad Horror Movies

Last Year is a first-person game where five people play as scared high school kids, and one person gets to play as the villain in an old horror movie, hunting them down one-by-one. The game is set on October 31, 1996. It’s October 31, 2016. So if we’re ever going to watch a trailer for…