The Ugly New Front In The Neverending Video Game Culture War

Gaming’s culture war hasn’t ended. It’s still roiling, with new fights, new targets, new depths of ugliness, but also many of the same tactics. If you’ve witnessed this kind of “Chanterculture”/GamerGate drama before, you know the playbook: discredit, harass, shame, isolate, maybe find a skeleton in a person’s closet that calls their reputation into question.…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

How is it Friday again? This keeps happening. It’s almost like there’s no way to slow the pitiless advance of time. As is our custom, it’s time to ask what you’ll will be playing over the weekend. (Side note: I’ve been enjoying reading the comments on these posts. It’s cool to know what all our…

The Artful Escape of Francis Vendetti looks wild. Described as a “music-sampling, platforming, rhythm laser-light guitar solo kind of game,” it’s about a musician on a psychedelic journey to create a stage persona. Creatures have sounds, and you can sample them to make your own.

Nintendo Is Leaking Like Crazy

In 2013, when I visited Nintendo’s Redmond HQ for a feature on the company’s Treehouse localization team, staffers there opined that secrecy was essential to their operations. “We’re keeping things confidential until we’re ready to share them with the world,” Treehouse manager Leslie Swan told me then. “We work really closely with the development teams…

Fan Edited Trailer For The New Ghostbusters Is So Much Better

If you were a little underwhelmed by yesterday’s Ghostbusters trailer, this fan edit makes a convincing case it could have used more time in the editing room. As a huge fan of Ghostbusters and just about everyone involved in this movie, I’m rooting for this to kick ass. The original trailer felt a little flat…

The Division‘s New Anti-Destiny Advertisement Is Incredibly Misleading

A recent advertisement for Ubisoft’s upcoming The Division suggests that a gaming website declared it to be better than Destiny. Problem is, the website never actually said that. The Division, which comes out next week, has drawn all sorts of comparisons to Bungie’s Destiny thanks to their shared genre; both games are online-only RPG-shooter hybrids…

I Was Homeless And Video Games Saved My Life

It’s getting dark. The few people left on the street are either actively ignoring you, or warily staring at you, half expecting you to jump up and mug them. You’re hungry, you’re tired, your legs are numb from sitting on the concrete. The six dollars in your pocket will get you something from McDonalds, but…

Google Maps Has A Legend of Zelda Easter Egg Today

You know what they say, it’s dangerous to go alone. If you load up Google Maps today, there’s actually a cool little easter egg waiting for you on the bottom right corner: See that Link icon? It lets you toggle Street View images. If you click it and browse in Street View, you’ll then see…

World of Warcraft: Legion‘s New Druid Cat Forms Look Pretty

Compared to other classes and specs, Feral Druids will get notable extra treatment in World of Warcraft: Legion The old Druid cat form models got an upgrade, and it’s not just a simple model swap. There’ll be 22 different Cat forms, depending on which available races and Artifact Talents the players are using. That’s pretty…

That’s No Ordinary LEGO Brick

What at first looks like a generic, classic red 2×4 brick with tiny holes on it, is a bit more exciting inside. It’s a Transformers-like robot, made by Japenese builder Moko. Very cool! To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

Epic Games Founder Slams Microsoft For Trying To ‘Monopolize’ PC Gaming [UPDATE]

This week, Microsoft has touted a new initiative that they’ve said will unify platforms, making it easier to for developers to release games on both PC and Xbox One. But at least one major developer isn’t thrilled with Microsoft’s plans. In an opinion piece published in The Guardian this morning, Epic Games co-founder Tim Sweeney…

Sylvanas Windrunner, Forsaken Queen, Looking Badass (and Mildly NSFW)

In this particular piece of 3D fan art, Sylvanas, leader of World of Warcraft’s Forsaken, poses in her new set of armor, which appears to lack somewhat in the pants department. Yes, the model’s a bit NSFW, but that doesn’t take away from its overall quality, mind you. Have a look yourself: According to the…

Beautiful Bones Explores the Meaning of Life Through Death

Bones are funny things. They are a vital part of life, literally supporting us from our first breath onward. But, at the same time, they are a symbol of death and are seen as dirty, unclean, and morbid. Beautiful Bones: Sakurako’s Investigations explores this dichotomy through a series of episodic mysteries. In the forest on…

No, Jackie Chan Is Not Dead

People on the internet keep saying that Jackie Chan is dead. He’s very much alive, and I wish they’d knock it off. Recently, a rumor has been floating around Chinese-language bulletin boards that the English-language press was reporting Chan had died in a car accident in Queensland, Australia. This same Queensland car accident hoax apparently…

Goofy Nintendo Execs Are the Best

Meet Satoru Shibata. He’s the President of Nintendo Europe. Honestly, I don’t know if he’s good at the business, but I do know that he’s good at the Yo-Kai Watch dance. Very good. From the most recent Nintendo Direct for UK/Europe: Always nice to see execs in suits willing to have fun and not afraid…

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