Undertale’s Final Boss Fight, Recreated in Mario Maker

The design in the video is not an exact recreation of the final boss, but it’s a pretty good likeness, hence the giant spoiler tag. Even the YouTube thumbnail is a spoiler. So, if you have not yet finished Undertale, spoiler alert. Otherwise, hey, here’s a cool Mario Maker reenactment of the final boss fight.…

Dragon Ball, The Super Huge Snow Sculpture

Tomorrow in Sapporo, Japan, the annual snow festival gets underway. One of the main centerpieces is an enormous Dragon Ball Super snow sculpture. Tons, literally tons, of snow were used to create this frosty relief. Below, via the event’s official site, you can see how heavy equipment moved the snow around. [Image: SnowFes] [Image: SnowFes]…

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Mods Turn GTA V’s Map Into Something Out Of The Last Of Us

Half the point of GTA V being set in Los Santos was so that we could drive around the opulence of Bel Air and the Hollywood Hills. I don’t know if Rockstar ever meant for part of the city to be transformed into a post-apocalyptic scene, like something out of The Last Of Us There…

Star Wars: Reimagined Gives The Galaxy Some Fresh New Looks

A group of artists over on CG+, many of them professionals working in video games, have for the past few months been submitting some incredible entries in a competition called Star Wars: Reimagined. The brief was simple: to “to re-imagine your favorite character, creature or vehicle from the Star Wars universe.” Entries are now closed,…

Dragon Eats Nazi Zombie

From the new Call of Duty Black Ops III: Zombies map Der Eisendrache, we’ve got a a wall-mounted dragon chomping on a freshly-shot Nazi zombie. The zombie-eating dragon is a step toward one of the mode’s more involved easter eggs, but watching a dragon eat a zombie is a reward unto itself. See it with…

Brothers Couldn’t Afford Pokemon Cards, So They Made Their Own Game

Redditor one23abc and his little brother couldn’t afford card games like Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh when they were younger, so they made their own, and it’s wonderful. Creature Cards is around 300 glorious hand-drawn examples of the power of children’s imagination. When I was a kid I used to build chess boards out of sticks and…

The Best Cosplay From PAX South

It may not be the biggest PAX show on Earth for video games, but PAX South is one hell of a cosplay convention. As you can see in these shots from the show, which were all taken by Mineralblu (you can see his full gallery here). By Atelier Heidi By Shinka Studios & Atelier Heidi…

Fallout 4 Mod Lets You Play As Big Boss And Quiet

The Diamond Dogs have arrived at the Commonwealth, ladies and gentlemen. What you’re looking at above is not a photoshop. Actually, it’s a Fallout 4 mod that lets you play as Metal Gear Solid characters, and you can download it here. To some of you, this might seem like an odd combination, but let’s be…

Ask Dr. NerdLove: My Friend’s Beautiful Wife Just Made A Move On Me

Hello, Internet! Welcome to Ask Dr. NerdLove, the first dating advice column to survive the Battles of Yavin, Hoth and Endor. This week, we’re talking about doing the right thing, even when every cell in your body is telling you to do something else. Whether it’s recognizing a deal-breaker when it’s presented to you or…

The Binding of Isaac’s Biggest Secret Nearly Broke The Guy Who Made it

It’s 2:00 AM on a night this past fall, and The Binding of Isaac designer Edmund McMillen is in bed, watching a livestream of people digging a hole in Santa Ana, California on his phone. In just a few hours, he’ll have to wake up for his newborn’s first doctor visit. “What the fuck are…

We’re Lucky The Original Pokémon Games Got Made At All

Celebrating Pokémon’s 20th anniversary, Game Freak’s Junichi Masuda looks back on the early days of developing Red and Green. It sounds like a tough time! Masuda notes that his computers would always overheat and break down during Pokémon Red and Green’s development, and that he personally went through four computers in six years. “I sure…

Peek Inside the New Graphic Novel That Tells The Origin Story Of Tetris

Tetris is one of those games that seemingly everybody has played in some form or another. It’s evolved in fascinating ways and players continue to do amazing things with Tetris’ many iterations. Later this year, a new non-fiction comic will look at the beginnings of one of history’s most famous video games. Written and drawn…

Sony Says They’ve Fixed The Vita’s Network Problem

Sony has fixed a “network issue” that was preventing some Vita owners from accessing the PlayStation Store, the company said today. The issue, which many users ran into after downloading Vita firmware update 3.57, would cause the system to hang on a “Please wait…” screen when trying to access the PlayStation Store. This new firmware…

Sorry, Peter Parker, But Miles Morales Is The Better (Young) Spidey

Marvel’s putting out two comics with teenage Spider-Men in lead roles. Spidey features a young Peter Parker at the start of his crime-fighting career; Spider-Man serves to introduce Miles Morales into the newly revamped Marvel Universe. I was afraid that one book would be a carbon copy of the other but, thankfully, that’s not the…

Peter Molyneux Releases Another Godus Game

Today on Steam Early Access, designer Peter Molyneux and his company 22 Cans released a new game: Godus Wars But wait, you may wonder, did they ever even finish making the first Godus, which was crowdfunded way back in 2012 but still isn’t quite there yet? No. As the Steam page explains: With the release…