Fantastic Metal Gear Solid V Cosplay Has A Real Diamond Dog

Look, I’m not trying to take anything away from Maul Cosplay and Maja Felicitas’ incredible work as Snake and Quiet respectively, but having actual live wolves in the shoot steals the show. We never actually find out what breed of hound the game’s D-Dog is, but when grown up he looks pretty wolfish, so these…

For whatever reason, I’ve made it a habit to play Super Mario Maker stages designed to troll me. The latest? Hypercube by Polygon’s Griffin McElroy, which you can “play” for yourself at B2A3-0000-00AB-C911 or watch me scream here. Contact the author at [email protected]

Dr. Doom Is Very Different Now

At the end of the last version of the Marvel Universe, Dr. Doom became something like a hero. He snatched enough power from near-omnipotent beings to stop the end of the multiverse and saved portions of various multiple realities. Now that things are back to normal, he’s evil again. Or is he? Two weeks ago,…

Bask In The Wonderful Badness Of A Cheap Coast Guard Game

Feeling seasick? Don’t worry, Finn Asdair and the brave men and women of generic country’s Coast Guard are here to help. This bold new $19.99 simulation adventure on Steam is bold, new, $19.99 and on Steam. For more than that, watch me play. Launched this week on that digital distribution platform I mentioned previously, Coast…

Gaming Kickstarter Backers Getting Their Rewards, Thanks To Unexpected Savior

When Woolfe: The Red Hood Diaries raised $72,139 on Kickstarter, its creators hoped to kick off an episodic, sinister take on Red Riding Hood. But when the game was released, it bombed, and the developers filed for bankruptcy and cancelled some of the backer rewards. Then, out of nowhere, things changed. “It’s done, there is…

10 Big Myths About Video Games, Debunked By The People Who Make Them

Today, more people than ever before are playing video games…but most people still don’t actually understand how games are made. Even for hardcore game aficionados, game development remains fairly shrouded in mystery. What’s more, a lot of what people think they know about game development is actually misconception. We spoke to a number of game…

YouTube Is Getting Paid Subscriptions

Today, YouTube announced a premium subscription service that will allow users to pay a fee—$10/month—to watch videos without ads. They’ve titled it YouTube Red—which may remind people of a certain not-safe-for-work website with a similar name—and they say the service will launch this month across the United States. In addition to stripping out ads, the…

How A Game Studio Totally Bungled A Controversy And Lost All Good Will

For years, Payday 2’s developers insisted the game wouldn’t have microtransactions. That changed last week, and the community flipped out. The outrage got them to slightly change the way it works. But most importantly, the way they handled criticism—ignoring it–only stoked the flames. As part of Payday 2’s Crimefest event, developer Overkill Software introduced two…

Play This Clever Adventure Game Entirely On Twitter

If you have a spare ten minutes today, you should hop onto Twitter and play this adventure game. It’s smart, clever, and legitimately funny, which is a major step up from pretty much everything else on Twitter. Twitter powerhouse and talented artist @leyawn has built an entire choose-your-own-adventure game on the Social Media Platform, and…

Looks Like DC Comics Is Trying to Fix Its Massive Teen Titans Screw-Up

The Teen Titans was one of the best concepts in the long, intricate history of DC Comics. It made sense that a team of sidekicks and superhero surrogate children—led by Batman’s partner Robin—would hang out together to get away from their annoying super-parents. But then DC changed their whole universe up in 2011 and the…

Ambitious RTS Hybrid Was Made By Just One Man

WARSHIFT is a new-ish game on Early Access that wasn’t quite sure if it wanted to be an RTS or an action game. So it ended up being both. I’ve been messing around with it today and, while it’s far from perfect—the UI is unnecessarily cluttered and unwieldy for a genre that requires precision and…

Here’s A Game That Could Make Up For That Abysmal Afro Samurai 2

The first installment of the Afro Samurai 2 video game is horrible. The Game Bakers’ newly-announced Furi, featuring character designs by Afro Samurai creator Takashi Okazaki, looks like it might help us forget that other game ever happened. We’re off to a good start, what with Afro Samurai 2 removed from PSN, unreleased on the…

Modded Halo 5 Xbox One Covers Itself in Battle Armor

In honor of Halo 5: Guardians’ impending release, Vadu Amka, Belgian purveyor of excellent custom consoles, has crafted a Halo-themed Xbox One—his first current-gen console mod, in fact. The console box, which is covered in a battered-looking metally design, will actually be given away at a local launch event for Halo 5. Says Amka: In…