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…

The Legend of Zelda As Renaissance Art

Interesting concept with an awesome execution. Artist Ástor Alexander made some Zelda fan-art, inspired by 17th century art, and put some of the series’ characters in the role of Renaissance figures. That’s Ganon, Zant and Midna in the top pic, posing as strangers who lived hundreds of years ago. And below is Link with his…

Diablo III Player Reaches Level 70 In 33 Seconds

Boosting a character got a lot easier in Diablo III since the introduction of Paragon levels and Seasons, and it always was quick playing as a level 1 character in an otherwise max level party of four. Still, reaching the non-Paragon level cap in 33 seconds is still pretty impressive. It’s not necessarily the best…

VR Headsets Are (Mostly) Comfortable With Glasses

There’s been a whoooole lot of VR at GDC last week. Every third developer session was about making things for Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and/or PlayStation VR. Of the many major questions about these headsets’ comfort and viability, the one I kept hearing is: can I really wear this thing over normal glasses? This post…

Winnie the Pooh Facial Packs Are Nightmare Fuel 

There are an array of different facial packs featuring different Disney characters. They usually look somewhat silly, but the Pooh bear one looks frightening. The packaging looks harmless enough. But as Japanese site Togech points out, wearing the mask makes people look like goblins. Could it be the location of the character’s eyes? Winnie the…

Paint roller? Nope! This is an official Splatoon lint remover, Famitsu reports. It’s the latest real-world Splatoon product, joining the likes of the Splattershot water gun. Hope it’s overpowered against lint…

Gothic Lolita-Themed Kitchen Knives Exist

What a time to be alive. IT Media reports that that what’s being called “The World’s First Lolita Kitchen Knife” is going on sale in Japan. “Lolita” refers to the Japanese fashion subculture. There are two types: the more Gothic-style Juliette, with a butterfly-inspired blade that’s etched with roses, and the pink Lappin, which features…

Final Fantasy XIV Items and More Coming to Phantasy Star Online 2

Two of the biggest Japanese online games, it appears, are collaborating. And you thought these games were rivals? Ha! This was suddenly announced today at a Phantasy Star Online 2 event in Tokyo. According to Famitsu and 4Gamer, the Final Fantasy XIV incarnation of Odin will appear this summer in PSO2 as an enemy boss…