“A co-op adventure about childhood inspired by The Goonies & Earthbound, from developers on Tearaway, LittleBigPlanet, Ratchet & Clank.” That’sa good Kickstarter pitch right there Knights and Bikes islooking for £100,000 on Kickstarter. Looks cool!

Games Event Moved Over Zika Virus Fears

Fans of Google’s mobile game Ingress were supposed to be getting together at the end of the month in Rio for the latest Anomaly, a thing where Ingress players meet up and play/hang out together. Instead, because of fears over the spread of the Zika virus, the bulk of the event has been moved to…

Microsoft’s Vision Of Future NFL Fans Is A Cold, Gimmicky Nightmare

This is how Microsoft wants you to consume the National Football League in the near future. With Hololens goggles, and pinching, and holographic Russell Wilsons (Russell Wilsi?). It’s the kind of future that only someone working for a giant tech company would want to see. The kind of future that ignores the reality of modern…

Fallout 4, You Valentine’s Day Sweetheart

What do you love more: Fallout 4, or your special someone? Why not love both, and hand out these Fallout 4 Valentine’s Day cards. They’re the work of artist Jillian Bakos, and you can see the whole range of them (most are big enough to print off) here

Seven Stories Of Injuries And Other VR Hazards

HTC and Valve’s Vive VR headset lets you physically move around in virtual reality. You can walk, run, jump, flail your arms, and all that good stuff. You can also be a shambling disaster zone. During last week’s Valve VR demo event, I decided to ask a bunch of developers working on VR games for…

Here’s A PS3 Game, Emulated And Running On A PC

This is After Burner Climax, a PlayStation 3 game, running on a PC courtesy of the RPCS3 emulator. And running pretty damn well, all things considered. OK, so it’s not perfect. And it’s far from the most technically taxing game on the PS3, so it’s not like you’ll be seeing big blockbusters like Uncharted or…

In Space, Venom Is Much More Than A Tired Spider-Man Villain

Between the glut of appearances following the debut of Spider-Man’s nemesis in the late ‘80s and his mediocre appearance in 2007’s Spider-Man 3, Venom was all but dead to me. But now he’s Venom: Space Knight, and I can’t get enough. If you had told me six months ago my second favorite (Squirrel Girl forever)…

Tales of Symphonia Is Busted On PC

Publisher Bandai Namco released Tales of Symphonia on PC yesterday, which would be good news if it weren’t such a disaster. This version of the classic action-RPG is plagued with issues, following in the grand tradition of PC ports for games like Batman: Arkham Knight. The problems, as neatly rounded up in this NeoGAF thread,…

Tips For Playing Gravity Rush

You’re a discerning individual with refined tastes. Let’s say you want a really cool new video game to play. You think, “Hey, that Gravity Rush game is out on PS4. I’ll play that!” Wise decision, my friend. Yes, I really like Gravity Rush. It’s a good game, better on PS4, and I hope you play…

The Skyrim Porn That Has Millions Of Views On Pornhub

For some Skyrim players, reading about the Lusty Argonian Maid simply isn’t enough. While Pornhub might be best known for porn that features human actors, those aren’t the only videos the website hosts. Along with cartoon porn and hentai videos, Pornhub has a fair amount of machinima—movies made using digital character models from video games.…

One Man’s Five-Year Quest To Find A Shiny Pokémon

Under normal circumstances, there is only a one in four thousand ninety six chance you’ll find a shiny Pokémon out in the wild. Some people have played Pokémon all their lives and have never actually encountered a shiny, one of those fabled Pokémon that comes in a special, rare color. [This post was originally published…

The Best World War Two Video Games

A collection of some of the finest video games set during the Second World War

Fan’s Counter-Strike Map Imagines A Far More Deadly Oregon Militia Standoff

I would wager that not even the remaining Oregon militia members want to be part of the Oregon militia standoff these days, but now you can join in on the dismal venture. In a video game, I mean. Nipper’s cs_wildrefuge map was actually made shortly before the whole fiasco took a turn for the uglier-than-it-already-was,…

Five Mods That Improve Fallout 4 Without Changing Everything

My approach to modding Fallout 4 is laid-back: I want to make the game better, but I don’t want to fundamentally change it all that much. I haven’t actually “finished” the game yet, by which I mean I haven’t seen the main narrative questline through to its conclusion. I lost interest in the story soon…

Hearthstone Is Getting Some Big Changes (And More Deck Slots)

Blizzard is overhauling some core features of Hearthstone, adding a new format to their addictive digital card game and, perhaps most importantly, giving players more deck slots. In short, Hearthstone multiplayer games will now be separated into two modes. There’s “Standard” mode, which will require players to use decks built from cards released in the…

Nearly A Decade Later, Twisted Metal Black Online Is Back From The Dead

Every online game dies eventually. Twisted Metal Black, the gold standard of Twisted Metal games, officially went offline in 2008. But some fans weren’t willing to accept that, and recently, they managed to bring it back. Online multiplayer was old hat to PC players, but it wasn’t until the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and GameCube that…

The First Hour Of Megadimension Neptunia VII Says It All

The first PlayStation 4 entry in Idea Factory’s girls as game consoles role-playing game is out in North America today. I’m betting it’ll take less than an hour of playing to decide if Megadimension Neptunia VII is for you, so here’s an hour of playing. Mind the NSFW screen at the end. The Hyperdimension Neptunia…

Carl Sagan’s Incredible Pale Blue Dot Speech, Recreated In GTA V

And now, a moment for us to be humbled by our place in the universe. By now, it’s possible you’ve heard this timeless excerpt of astronomer Carl Sagan’s audiobook. Here it is again, coupled with footage of Grand Theft Auto. Somehow, it works. That’s just how on-point Duggy’s cinematography is. Now, if you’d like to…