The Best  Super Mario Maker Levels (So Far)

Super Mario Maker is largely in the hands of reviewers, entertainers, and YouTubers right now—but even so, we’re already starting to see some fantastic user-created levels. I recorded myself playing through a few favorites, including: A level where mushrooms are your worst enemy. A bullet hell level. A roller coaster. A level with a goomba…

Darkest Dungeon Adds Option To Turn Off Controversial Features

Darkest Dungeon might be the out-of-nowhere Steam sensation of the year. For the game, that’s been a double-edged sword. The punishingly difficult, psychosis-inducing dungeon crawler launched as an Early Access game, but it was already in better shape than a lot of “complete” releases. People flocked to it—significantly more than anybody, least of all the…

The facial animations in Tales From The Borderlands are so good. (The rest of the game—which just released its fourth episode—is very good, too.)

Zombi Glitch Summons Unusually Athletic Zombie

Today on Highlight Reel we have a Fallout character trapped painfully betwixt life and death, CQC in Metal Gear, terrifying mime zombies, and much more. Watch the video above, then link any of your favorite highlights in the comments, and be sure to check out, like and subscribe the original videos via the links below.…

Heroes Of The Storm Sneaks in A Duck Hunt Easter Egg

Add this to the list of things that make me want a Nintendo-themed MOBA more than anything else in my life right now. Heroes of the Storm got a big update this week that changed a bunch of characters and added the Monk from Diablo III into the Blizzard-ified MOBA action. As it always does,…

The New League Of Legends Mobile Game Is Good Simple Fun

If League of Legends were a mobile game, I like to think it’d be something like a slickly produced version of last year’s sleeper hit Flappy Bird: cute, charming, distressing at its difficult low points and dizzying at its high ones. Riot probably feels differently about this, as evidenced by Blitzcrank’s Poro Roundup Poro Roundup…

Mr. Handy Is Now The Funniest Thing In Fallout Shelter

Mr. Handy might be a robot, but he sure has a lot of humanity. I’ve been toying around Mr. Handy in Fallout Shelter lately, and I’ve been pleased to find that he’s become the best thing in the new update. Yes, Mr. Handy is useful—he’ll automatically collect resources for you, as well as help defend…

Blues And Bullets Is A Surprisingly Great Noir Game

Blues and Bullets is a noir adventure series (kinda like Telltale’s stuff) that quietly crept onto Steam a few weeks ago. Turns out, it’s pretty great! Here are a few reasons why. (Warning: slight Blues and Bullets spoilers ahead.) There are not enough noir games First things first: noir is a rarity in games (we’ve…

Marvel Comics’ Best Superhero Right Now Is a Girl Who Talks to Squirrels

Squirrel Girl started as a joke, a character so implausibly silly that you had to laugh at her even in her victories. But, a funny thing happened after the character got her own series: people started laughing with her. Spoilers follow for The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, which you really should be reading already, gosh. Way…

Twitch Is Cheating At Dark Souls

The Internet’s attempt to play Dark Souls has been fun to watch, even if they’ve spent most of the time rolling into walls. But last night, a breakthrough: they beat the game’s first boss. It was awesome, but how they pulled that off calls into question whether they’re really playing Dark Souls anymore. The bar…

StarCraft II Is (Finally) Getting Tournaments

For a long time now, StarCraft II players have been asking Blizzard for variety in competitive multiplayer. Traditional ladder matches are fun and all, but they can get a little repetitive—especially when you’re addicted to StarCraft and play like four hours a day. Enter tournament mode. In addition tooverhauling macro mechanics(RIP MULEs), the next patch…

An Awesome Black Ops III Outplay

“Glitch” is the name of a move in Call of Duty: Black Ops III that lets you teleport—but only back to the position you were in a few seconds earlier. It can be tricky to pull off because messing up the timing or positioning will leave you out in the open, vulnerable to all kinds…

You Can Now Play Triple Triad On Your Phone

Sixteen years after the release of Final Fantasy VIII, Square Enix has finally released an official stand-alone version of its legendary card game, Triple Triad You can get Triple Triad right now on both iOS and Android by downloading the Final Fantasy Portal app. Both the Portal app and the card game—which you download inside…