The Newest Life is Strange Episode Starts With A Major Shocker

I can’t believe the places where Life is Strange is going. (Spoilers for Life is Strange episode 4 follow!) A week ago I was adamant that the game’s developer, Dontnod, wouldn’t actually make you play through the timeline you open up by the end of episode 3. In my mind, having Max open up a…

The Most Entertaining Speedrun For A Game You’ve Never Heard Of

On the left we have aspiring voice actor Patrick “Patty” Cullens, aka PCULL, whose mother may or may not have been murdered by a windmill. On the right is MrWeables, who possibly lives in a rustic castle with Will Ferrell. They’re playing a game you’ve probably never heard of, and they’re hilarious. Part of the…

New King’s Quest Is Love Child of Dragon’s Lair and The Princess Bride

I took our 5-year-old daughter to see Pixar’s Inside Out a week ago. I wish we had been able to play the new King’s Quest together instead. Like Inside Out, the new King’s Quest is close to a perfect piece of family entertainment. Unlike Inside Out, it would be far less likely to turn a…

Tetris Grandmaster Takes On The Weirdest Game Mode I’ve Ever Seen

In its most vanilla, near-ubiquitous form, Tetris is already a near perfect video game that challenges you to be smart and fast in increasingly hard fashion. The stuff that gets thrown at you in an ultra-hard arcade version is mind-blowing. Blocks that need to be cleared twice. A stack that flips around. Let’s watch one…

StarCraft Mod Inspired By Rocket League

Using themes from WoW, but made with the StarCraft II editor by Bounty, Aqua League looks like fast-paced soccer game with a few funny elements added. It’s something similar to Rocket League but instead of bumper cars it has Nagas and Elementals and it’s for the StarCraft II Arcade. Looks fun, and it’s always great…

Fully Motorized LEGO Tank Has A Cool Mine Flail

This is one compact custom tank built by Tommy Styrvoky, full of motorized goodies inside with a working mini mine-clearing flail outside. It’s a 1/18th replica of the M4 Sherman, a tank used in World War II, fitted with a special flail that helped passing through mine fields safely. The flail’s not just the only…

Black Mesa: Hazard Course drops two brand new screenshots. The mod project, which aims to recreate the Hazard Course tutorial level from Half-Life (a level that was cut from the big HL remake, Black Mesa) has now entered its internal beta, and is looking at a 2015 release. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs…

Hot Toys Look Great. Here’s How They’re Made.

Hot Toys makes some of the most realistic collectible figures you can buy. If you’ve ever wondered about its process—or even how to get a job there—watch this video. So, how do you get a job? According to JC Hong, president of Hot Toys production in South Korea, just post your work online. If you’re…

All of Ace Attorney on One Long Timeline

Ace Attorney is a series that covers dozens of trials across more than a century in its eight games. But with flashbacks galore, it can be a bit hard to keep track of how everything fits together. So here’s a nice little timeline to make it all come together. How, you might ask, did this…

Japanese Baseball Player’s Complex Routine Gets Remixed

You’ve seen that Japanese player’s elaborate batter box routine, right? Now see it again, but this time, remixed with Monster Hunter as well as with Star Wars. Look at high schooler Yuji Baba spin that bat and wield those swords. It’s only a matter of time before the inevitable Final Fantasy mash up. To contact…