The Five Stages Of Video Game Disappointment

I didn’t want to believe that Fallout 4, the sequel to one of my favorite games of all time, wasn’t really doing it for me. So, like any rational person, I made myself miserable trying to convince myself that I was having A Really Great Time. Originally posted on January 7, 2016 I think it’s…

A Lot Of Work Goes Into Making Skylanders The Most Story-Focused Toys-To-Life Game

Where Disney Infinity delivers a series of small self-contained stories and LEGO Dimensions is just getting started, the Skylanders series has spent the past five years building an original fictional universe—and tearing it apart. With toys from all three series littering my desk at any given moment, I think about the blossoming toys-to-life genre a…

Watch The Final Day Of The Weeklong Awesome Games Done Quick Charity Marathon

Just when you thought the holidays were ending, along comes an entire week of super-speedy runs through your favorite games for an excellent cause. It’s time for Awesome Games Done Quick. Let’s watch together! Along with its summer variant, the Awesome Games Done Quick marathon has quickly become one of my favorite gaming events of…

This Week In The Business: Shinra Falls Again

QUOTE | “[Shinra Technologies] has found no prospective investors at this point, and therefore has to discontinue its business.” – Square Enix, explaining why it shuttered the cloud-gaming subsidiary founded by former Square Enix president Yoichi Wada Elsewhere in the business of gaming this week… QUOTE | “2015 was a monumental year for Xbox –…

Day Two Of The 2016 Smite World Championship Packed With Good, Evil And Mild Pouting

The quarterfinals of the 2016 Smite World Championship passed in a flash of four swept best-of-three matches, including the brutal but not unexpected elimination of both Chinese teams and the boys from Brazil. There’s not much I can say about the first match of the semifinals between European first seed Paradigm and China champions OMG,…

Undertale, As Told By Steam Reviews

Undertale came out of nowhere and turned RPGs upside-down with its deft mix of emotions, dogs, emotions, and more dogs. It’s become one of the biggest games on Steam. Undertale currently has nearly 30,000 Steam reviews, a whopping 97 percent of which are positive. As I discussed in my own review, this is a game…

Deadbolt is the newest game from the developers of the severely underrated Risk of Rain—here’s a trailer Best part? It’s coming out early this year and there’s already a playable demo of the game. Looks a bit like Gunpoint to me! You can reach the author of this post at [email protected] or on Twitter at…

Counter-Strike’s new gloves look snazzy. Valve decided to ring in a new year of CSGO by giving your in-game hands a modern makeover. Players are already coming up with ideas for (pretty cool looking) skins, and other players are saying, “Shhhh, quiet! Valve will get ideas about monetizing glove skins!”

Final Fantasy Adventure Remake Pops Up In English

An English website has popped up for Adventures of Mana, the upcoming Final Fantasy Adventure remake that was previously announced for Japan. There’s no official announcement yet, but the English screenshots pretty much confirm that the game’s coming west. Although the Japanese version of Adventures of Mana is planned for iOS, Android, and Vita, some…

How Star Wars Galaxies Fans Brought A Dead Game Back To Life

It’s been a few weeks since Worth Reading, our weekly round of the best games writing around, but it’s good to be back. Hey, You Should Read These “How Players Revived Star Wars Galaxies And EverQuest” by Steven Messner The video game industry is terrible at archiving what it makes, so we’re left with fans…

Stepmania Played At Super Speed Is Just Not Human

“So this is very, very stamina-intense,” said a commentator watching the Stepmania run at Awesome Games Done Quick 2016 yesterday. “On really hard songs… you actually become mentally tired as well. It’s not just your hands. You actually get tired.” What followed was one of the craziest things I’ve ever seen someone do with a…

Just Cause 3 Is Perfect For Playing Jenga

Giant cargo containers, silly physics and a grappling hook. The perfect tools for a Just Cause 3 version of Jenga. The rules are the same in teamcream’s video. You build a tower and take one block from any level of the tower (except the one below an incomplete level) and place it on the topmost…

Latest Simpsons Couch Gag Is A Homage To 80s Action Shows

The couch gag on The Simpsons will be little bit special (and longer) this week. It’s an 80s-themed one, filled with neon lights and a beefy Homer. It might be boring to see another clip with all these well-known, over-the-top 80s references, but the redesigned Simpsons characters (especially Flanders) make the whole thing pretty good.…