Nobody Is As Good As Nintendo At Making Cute Games

Nintendo’s greatest skill will always be game design. Whatever else you might think about Nintendo games, their design is often exquisite, relying on elegant visual and gameplay cues and your natural curiosity to guide you rather than tutorial prompts and objective markers. People who’ve grown up with Nintendo are fluent in the language of this…

Dying Light‘s Japanese Censorship Is Almost Dead

In Japan, video games with dismembered human bodies and red blood are often censorsed. Dying Light is no exception. Make that, was When Dying Light was released in Japan earlier this spring, the in-game blood looked green or blue. In the above GIF, you can see how Dying Light’s Japanese version (greenish blood and all)…

World of Warcraft Class Quests, Then And Now

Class specific quests in World of Warcraft are long gone. These unique quest chains were once part of the leveling process and made players journey through entire continents and dungeons just to obtain a unique mount or ability. It took time to finish them. But not anymore. Nixxiom’s made a short nostalgia trip and his…

The First 60 Seconds! Of The Nuclear Apocalypse Are The Hardest

The nuke sirens go off and you’ve got one minute to grab your family and everything they’ll need to survive a ‘50s style fallout shelter. What do you do? In the case of my first 60 seconds with Robot Gentleman’s 60 Seconds! for the PC, I panicked, which is not a thing one is recommended…

The Mad Max Game Has Me Less Excited Than The Movie

It’d take one hell of a video game to live up to the brilliant, relentless action of Mad Max: Fury Road. This does not appear to be that video game. I got to play the Mad Max game during a brief hands-on session in Los Angeles last week, and although the upcoming game does a…

Final Fantasy VII’s Cosmo Canyon, the home of Red XIII and his tribe, has been redrawn beautifully by Tumblr user hot-fish. Here’s the full pic below, with Bugenhagen’s observatory on top of the staircase labyrinth looking at the moon in the distance. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the…

Resident Evil Zero Is Getting an HD Remaster

And it’s headed for, deep breath, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, and PC. The game is a prequel to the first Resident Evil game and follows the characters Billy Coen and Rebecca Chambers as they discover the origin of the T-virus. Originally released on the GameCube in 2002, a Wii version was released back…

Buy Your Own Star Wars Battle Pod for Just $98,000 [Update]

Star Wars Battle Pod is the first Star Wars arcade game in years. I guess because playing it in game centers isn’t enough, Bandai Namco is selling it to the Japanese public. There’s a catch! And it’s the price. Update: Namco Bandai will be making the Battle Pods available for purchase in the U.S. and…

Dawg, He Put Da City On His Back

The best emails I get from video game artists are the ones that start with “I’m the artist who made the bikini model for the main character of Fatal Frame 5”. In addition to his Fatal Frame contributions, Desmond Wong has also worked on Dead or Alive, and will later this year release his own…

The Dream Nintendo Game That Was Never Released

Shigesato Itoi (Mother), Shigeru Miyamoto (Mario, Zelda) and Tsunekazu Ishihara (Pokemon), all working on the same game? We should have known it would be too good to be true. In 1997, Nintendo announced a game called Cabbage. It sounded weird (by 1997 standards, anyway), was headed for a weird console and had a (presumably working)…

Tracking Where A Mouse Moves While Gaming

Over the weekend, Gking19 posted the results of an interesting experiment: tracking the movement of the mouse through their favourite video games. Most were played for around 30 minutes (TF2 being the exception), and it’s fascinating looking at just where the mouse travels most often, and where it comes to rest. Take Company of Heroes,…

Halo vs Call Of Duty Battle Escalates Quickly

This is great. This video—which introduces just about every explosion, tribute and gag you could think of between the two blockbuster series—was made by the same team behindthat impressive NERF gunfight from last year. In case you were wondering where you’d seen this particular brand of hyper-excited Australian screen violence before.

Huge Star Citizen Leak Gives Players A Tour Of A Whole Carrier

A big part of Star Citizen is the fact that you can earn, unlock (and buy with real cash) certain starships. So it’s a big deal when players get a good look at one of the game’s prize starships. This is a tour of aBengal, a massive carrier from the upcoming space shooter. See that…