That Time George Romero Almost Directed A Resident Evil Movie

It would have been cool if the father of modern zombies ended up adapting the biggest zombie franchise in video games, but it wasn’t mean to be. The five Resident Evil movies released since 2002, each written and directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, haven’t been very good. (The first one was OK, I guess?) In…

Battlefield Glitch Or Thumb-Twiddling Gone Wrong? You Decide

Today on the 200th episode of Highlight Reel we have reader questions, horrifying thumb twiddling, bad traps, impressive UFC knock outs and much more! Watch the video above or on our Youtube Page, then talk about your favorite highlight in the comments below. Be sure to check out, like, and share the original videos via…

A Party Isn’t A Party Without The Witcher 3’s Shani

Just when you thought a major character of the Witcher 3 saga had gone uncosplayed, along comes Lyumos to bring the wonderful Shani to life

Persona 3’s Elizabeth, by Riddle

The Numbers Behind The Piracy of A Popular Steam Game

Boxing management tycoon Punch Club hit the top Steam charts at launch, marking it as a game that did well on the digital storefront. Even so, the number of people who pirated the game vastly overshadows the number of people who actually bought it. Developers Tiny Build wrote a post today detailing the piracy data…

How Batman Has Changed Over 70 Years

There’s been a different look and feel for the Dark Knight just about every time he’s been the subject of a new TV series or movie. Come bask in the many flavors of darkness. When Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice comes out this week, it’ll be the latest in a string of Bat-adaptations that…

Nintendo Deletes Every Stage By Prominent Mario Maker Speedrunner

Nintendo has a real problem on its hands with Mario Maker. Left and right, creators are seeing their levels removed from the online servers without an explanation. David “GrandPOObear” Hunt, a speedrunner who makes a living streaming games, is the latest victim. All of his levels have vanished. (We last featured Hunt after he pulled…

Mod Lets You Play As Dogmeat, The True Hero of Fallout 4

Who’s a good boy? WHO’S A GOOD BOY? I’m…the good boy….? Forget the boring humans of Fallout 4. Thanks to the Be The Dog mod (via VG247), you can now take to the wasteland as man’s best friend. Obviously, Fallout 4 was never meant to be played this way, which means the mod gets weird…

Filled Cupcake Oreos: The Snacktaku Review

Only the dedicated food scientists at Nabisco could create a chocolate and cream cookie that tastes slightly different from another chocolate and cream cookie. Or maybe a cupcake? It’s hard to say. Originally published 3/17/2016 In this video cautionary tale about shaving completely just before recording a Snacktaku review, unaware that you’ve cut yourself twice…

Shitty Voltron Turns Four Players Into a Shitty Defender of the Universe

This weekend, a video game made me realize how hard it must be to be part of the Voltron team. I played a game called Shitty Voltron on Saturday. Created by Portland, Ore.-based game developers Jack Meade, Oliver Smith and Terence Lee for the Tinderbox arcade cabinet, the multiplayer game tasks four people with controlling…

19 Years Later, Man Pays Diablo Dev For A Game He Pirated As A Teen

Turns out, it’s never too late to do the right thing. Last week in San Francisco, the Game Developers Conference held a postmortem for Diablo, the classic PC game released in 1996. Headlined by David Brevik, a co-founder of Blizzard North, the presentation gave a fantastic behind-the-scene look at how the action role-playing game came…

Big New Division Patch Will Eliminate Farming Exploit, Improve Dark Zone Rewards

Over the weekend, you could’ve been forgiven for confusing The Division with Stardew Valley. Because both games were about farming! Get it? Heyo! Rimshot! Tip your waiter! A lot of us may have spent some time getting familiar with the Bullet King, but after the server maintenance on the 22nd, it’ll be time to say…

Most Survival Games Have Problems That S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Solved Long Ago

Bulletstorm and The Vanishing of Ethan Carter lead Adrian Chmielarz recently confessed that he liked the idea of survival games more than any survival games he actually played. I feel similarly, but his remark got me thinking about why that might be. I’m always in the mood for a great survival game, so why do…

Blade & Soul’s First Expansion Arrives Just Two Months After Launch

It’s really hard to find a stopping point to review Blade & Soul when new content keeps coming out. Today Ncsoft announced the first expansion pack for its massively multiplayer martial arts role-playing game is launching in two days. Sheesh. I guess with Blade & Soul having been active in Asia since 2012 means Ncsoft…

Super Metroid: Zero Mission And Other Neat SNES Repro Carts

On Saturday, while driving on Long Island with a few hours to kill, I stumbled upon a video game store in Stony Brook called The Revolution. I don’t hang around game stores much—when you spend most of your waking hours playing and writing about video games, the stores aren’t quite as appealing—but something about this…