Halo 5 Makes Me Miss Split-Screen Gaming

Some of my fondest video game memories involve people huddled around one TV at the same time. With Halo 5, the sci-fi shooter series dropped support for split-screen. If there ever was a time to mark the end of an era, this is it. When I was a kid, most of the video games I…

Snacktaku Eats Dried Spam Snacks So You Don’t Have To

Not content with selling tins of meat/gelatin hybrid, Hormel is now rolling out new dried Spam Snacks to select U.S. markets, including the Southeast. Guess where I am? If you said oily hell, you’re pretty close. As much flack as I give the world’s most popular meat in a can, Spam and I developed a…

Forget No Man’s Sky. I’m Getting Hyped To Play Some Spore

In the fall of 2006, the New Yorker and the New York Times Magazine published dueling Spore previews in the span of four weeks. John Seabrook, writing in the New Yorker, said that the game was “anticipated with something like the interest with which writers in Paris in the early twenties awaited Joyce’s Ulysses” Steven…

Why the Original Captain America Is Mad At the New Captain America

Steve Rogers used to be Captain America. Then a dramatic plot development made him old and he passed the mantle on to his best friend and superhero partner Sam Wilson. You’d think they’d still be cool after that. But, nowadays, the man who used to be known as The Falcon is on frosty terms with…

Old Arkham Knight Steam Reviews Are Now Flagged As ‘Pre-Release’ [UPDATED]

Four months and several patches later, Batman: Arkham Knight on PC has resurfaced on Steam. Before Warner Bros. pulled it down, however, Steam users had pummeled the game with thousands of negative reviews. Now, those reviews have been flagged as “pre-release.” UPDATE (11:08 am EST, 10/29/15): The “pre-release” tag appears to have been lifted from…

No One Should Have To Pay For Faster Loading Times

I put up with a lot of nonsense as a mobile gamer, from arbitrary timers and energy meters to pay-to-win in-app purchases. Selling faster load times might just be the worst. Last week Kyle Ward, founder and CEO of developer Step Revolution poked us about his company’s game ReRave Plus on Twitter. You guys cover…

The 10 Best Horror Video Games

If you’d like to be scared shitless tonight, you’ve come to the right place. Horror is a bit like comedy. What scares one person might not scare another person. Have you tried explaining why a joke is funny? It’s a bit like explaining why a monster is scary. But there’s something undeniably attractive about horror,…

The Early Days of Dragon Ball Z, As Told By Its Voice Actors

The internet has changed the way we experience nearly everything—including, in this case, what being a part of Dragon Ball Z is like. Here in a video interview with reddit, Goku and Vegeta’s voice actors in the English dub of Dragon Ball Z explain how different things were back when they were first recording Dragon…

League Of Legends Team Is Selling Its Spot In Next Year’s Championship Series

The North American League of Legends team Team Impulse (TiP) is putting itself up for sale following an unsuccessful 2015 season. Impulse has already qualified for the 2016 League of Legends Championship Series (LCS), however, so whoever buys the team will also acquire their spot in the tournament. First reported by GameSpot, Team Impulse’s decision…

When Batman Becomes a God, He Goes for the Revenge He’s Always Wanted

In the main Justice League comic, some of DC’s preeminent superheroes have become infused with the power of gods. All that increased might hasn’t exactly changed Superman, Batman and the Flash for the better. The Dark Knight’s campaign for justice was already obsessive but, when he becomes the God of Knowledge, it gets extremely personal.…

November Xbox Games With Gold Lineup Is Boring, But At Least They’ve Got Backwards Compatibility

Microsoft’s Games With Gold lineup for November isn’t super exciting, with Pneuma: Breath of Life and Knight Squad leading on Xbox One. However, it’s also the first month in which the company is guaranteeing every Xbox 360 game featured in Games With Gold will be backwards compatible with Xbox One. In that sense, Games With…

Fallout 4’s concept art looks hot. Take a peek at some of the stuff you’ll see in the official Fallout 4 art book here.

Sniper X Is Deer Hunter With Humans. Also Jason Statham. 

I guess Human Hunter 2016 would have been too on the nose, even with the celebrity endorsement. That doesn’t stop Sniper X from being pretty much exactly that though. Oh they are bad humans doing bad things like patrolling camps filled with beige buildings and standing too close to trucks filled with explosive barrels, but…

Quake Live Fans Are Angry About A $10 Switcheroo

Out of all the games to get patched today, the last thing I was expecting to see was a 1GB patch for Quake Live. This story originally appeared on Kotaku Australia As it turns out, I wasn’t the only one. But what nobody saw coming was the fact that the game is no longer free-to-play…