Postal 2 Update Opens Secret Area That Was Closed For 13 Years

Postal 2, a 2003 PC game known for open-ended design and “offensive” humor that ran the gamut from wannabe-South-Park to downright ugly, recently did something pretty clever. We’re a bit late on this, but it’s cool enough to warrant talking about anyway. For more than a decade, Postal 2 contained a roped-off section in the…

Four Sided Fantasy Cleverly Changes How Sidescrollers Work

Four Sided Fantasy as a puzzle game by Ludo Land all about redefining boundaries. It is out now on the Playsation 4, Xbox One, PC, and Mac. Giving the player the ability to lock the screen in place, they can wrap around, fall upwards, and change what it means for a screen to end. Join…

The Highs And Lows Of VR Gaming, Five Months In

It remains frustratingly difficult to convey what is good or interesting about new VR games, especially to anyone who hasn’t already played games while wearing virtual reality goggles. New VR games come out weekly, many of them not so great. Sometimes, though, we find a game with a spark of promise we need to tell…

R.L. Stine Would Probably Love New Text Adventure The House Abandon

Choose-your-own-adventure Goosebumps novels were so frustrating. Some fancy has me kicking open the locked door (it was locked for a reason) only for a thrashing beast to tear me down. Flip back to page 37. But the relief of finding the truest route was worth every false start. Today, I played a classically-styled horror text-adventure…

What A Piece Of Junk

Von Caberte is an artist from The Philippines who has worked with companies like Wizards of the Coast and Fantasy Flight. You can see more of Von’s work at his personal site and ArtStation page To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art is…

EVE Online Goes Free-To-Play In November 

After more than a decade spent slowly building a tight-knit community of paying customers, science fiction MMO EVE Online is ready to open the free-to-play floodgates. With the introduction of Clone States in November’s big update, everybody can play EVE Online for free. Unlike other massively multiplayer online games that launch to an explosion of…

Blizzard, Why Didn’t You Make Roverwatch?

I mean, I like Overwatch. But this seems like an improvement. Because it’s the same game, just…with cute dogs. Actually, if we’re gonna do this, make it the same game, with everyone except Mercy and Soldier 76 as cute dogs. These are the work of former Naughty Dog artist Lily Nishita. I cannot stop laughing…

World Of Warcraft: Legion Realizes The Dream Of Widescreen Loading Graphics

After years of clinging desperately to the squarish 4:3 aspect ratio, Blizzard’s World of Warcraft team finally let go, diving deep into glorious, modern monitor filling 16:9 for all of Legion’s loading screens. It’s a bit jarring, really. As of the previous expansion pack, 2014’s Warlords of Draenor, the only time a widescreen image was…

There’s A Marvel Tsum Tsum Game Out Now

I’ve been having trouble understanding the world’s fascination with tiny Disney character heads, but now that there’s a game featuring tiny Marvel character heads, it’s a little less trouble. Marvel Tsum Tsum is now out on Android and iOS in North America. They’re not technically decapitated heads. They’ve got feet. If anything, Disney’s removed the…

Konami Has No Plans To Finish MGSV The Phantom Pain‘s Mission 51

One of Metal Gear Solid V’s most important plot points, Mission 51, ended up on the cutting room floor. Today, Konami said it does not plan to finish this mission. As Kotaku reported last year, footage of a deleted mission, made up of concept art, narration, and half-finished cut-scenes, appeared in the game’s previously released…

The Reason Behind Street Fighter‘s Iconic Button Layout

This week twenty-nine years ago, the first Street Fighter was released in arcades. There was Ken, Ryu, and some very different buttons. As pointed out on Event Hubs, the first cabinets had giant pressure-sensitive pads that you were supposed to POUND WITH YOUR FIST. Which is nuts. Problems arose from players punching the buttons, such…

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