Wrestling With The Witness‘ Most Difficult, Divisive Puzzle

“This piece of the game is supposed to be difficult,” the game designer Jonathan Blow recently said to me as we discussed the hardest puzzle in The Witness, the so-called bonus “Challenge” that only 3.3% of PS4 players and 4% of PC players have managed to complete. He was helping me make peace that I…

Snacktaku Goes To New York City, Eats Taco Bell’s Stupid New Quesalupa

This week Taco Bell unveiled its biggest new fake Mexican food product since the Doritos Locos Tacos. What better place to try it than the world’s biggest city with “New” in the name? Originally posted 2/13/2016 You may have seen the teasing signs plastered all over your local Taco Bell restaurants, or watched the commercials…

Firewatch Developer Offers Classy Response To Steam Refund Request

Last weekend, one Firewatch player was having a monetary dilemma. They’d beaten the game. They liked the game, which tasks players with hiking in the Wyoming wilderness. But they also felt that spending $18 for a 2-3 hour experience might be asking for too much. Over at the Firewatch forums, [RG] Undercover Fish explained the…

Fan Favorite Star Wars Rebel Gets The Action Figure She Deserves

Last year Hasbro let Star Wars fans vote for which character they’d like to see join The Black Series of premium figures. Mandalorian explosives expert and graffiti artist Sabine Wren got second place. Second place is looking pretty good. Not that the first place winner was bad. In fact the character that pulled in the…

Check Out R. Mika’s Backstory In Street Fighter V‘s Story Mode

The version of Street Fighter V that comes out tomorrow isn’t packing a full-fledged story mode. That’s coming later. But the plot-driven vignettes available on launch are still enough to get players to like or loathe some of the game’s cast. Some people think fighting games don’t need story modes. I’m not one of them.…

Conan O’Brien Lands in South Korea, People Freak Out

For a guy whose show isn’t broadcast in South Korea and with no official Korean language presence whatsoever, Conan seems popular. Ditto for his Clueless Gamer co-host Aaron Bleyaert. After a Korean fan sent Conan some nice letters and Korean snacks, the late night host decided to visit the country and the fan. “Because,” as…

Your Annual Dose Of Toy Fair Friendship And Magic 

The magic of friendship takes on exciting new forms at Toy Fair 2016’s Hasbro showroom. Sometimes it’s little ponies. Other times, giant dragons. But first we’ve gotta get through these. The Equestria Girls line of toys and animated movies take place in an alternate dimension where equine characters from the hit show are human beings…

Fan Transforms Ganon Amiibo Into Final Fantasy VII‘s Barret

Here’s an insanely great custom Amiibo Barret from Final Fantasy VII, by artist GandaKris It’s not a 3D-printed model, but a skinned, repainted, remodelled version of the Ganon Amiibo. You can see traces of his beard in the WIP photo below, but otherwise GandaKris did an amazing job, and it’s pretty hard to recognize the…

The Punisher Makes the Man Without Fear Bleed in First Full Trailer for Daredevil Season Two

Daredevil hurts bad guys very badly but lets them live. That’s not good enough for Frank Castle. The sophomore season of Netflix’s series about Marvel’s blind ninja lawyer sets up the core conflicts that will plague Matt Murdock this season and includes snippets from the Punisher’s origin sequence. A certain ex-girlfriend of Matt’s shows up,…

Call of Duty: Black Ops III‘s Flaming Bow As a LEGO Replica

Quite an unusual choice for a LEGO build, ZaziNombies remade the Wrath of the Ancients bow from Call of Duty: Black Ops III’s new zombie map Der Eisendrache. It’s a bow with flaming arrows, so a couple of blocks have been sacrificed on the altar of authenticity. To contact the author of this post, write…

Meet the Latest Mythical Pokémon 

This is Magearna. Outfitted with a metallic body, this artificial Pocket Monster was created by humans 500 years ago. The character is set to debut in the upcoming Pokémon film, Volcanion and the Ingenious Magearna, which is due out this year. Via Pokémon.com: In this latest cinematic adventure, Ash meets the Mythical Pokémon Volcanion when…

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The Joker’s Still Ridiculous In Our First Look At Suicide Squad Action Figures

I wasn’t sure about Jared Leto’s Joker in the early images. The full Suicide Squad movie trailer didn’t help. Today I was there when Mattel debuted the official action figures and nope, still not feelin’ it. I’m keen on the movie as a thing. The Suicide Squad comics have always been a lot of fun,…