A Handy Refresher on the Recent History of Black Mesa

Last week’s emergency broadcast is just one of the many things that happened to Half-Life fan remake Black Mesa since its late 2012 release. If you’re one of those people who don’t follow the project religiously, Valve News Network’s video can help bring you up to speed. The seven-minute clip deals with everything that’s happened…

The Metro Sleeps Safely Tonight

Rostislav Zagornov is a Ukranian concept artist who works in both video games and film. You can see more of Rotislav’s work at his ArtStation page To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you can save them as wallpaper), click on the “expand” button in the top-left…

Dude Smashes The Mario Bros. World Record

Tom Votava’s score of 4,678,440, a Mario Bros. world record that has stood since 2009, has been smashed by Florida man Steven Kleisath, who earlier today set a new high score of 5,424,920. Having been playing the game since the mid-80s, Kleisath’s score was set on an original coin-op machine. “I feel amazing,” he told…

The Guns That Never Made It Into Halo

You’ve never used these guns or played these levels in any Halo game, and odds are, you never will. The latest Did You Know Gaming video delves into darkest, strangest portions of Halo‘s history, the most interesting of which center around cut content from the master and chief of alien-blasting’s earliest iterations. The original Halo…

LEGO Rube Goldberg Machine Should Be Something I Can Buy, Damn It

Christian Bechinie’s LEGO Rube Goldberg machine uses dominoes, tiny basketballs and some slides to do that same “everything but nothing” thing that all Rube Goldberg machines seem to manage. I get a little disappointed in the headline that this isn’t something I can buy, but that might change: the project is up on LEGO’s Ideas…

Fans Remaking Warcraft III Using Star Craft II

WarCraft: Armies Of Azeroth is a StarCraft II mod that’s looking to essentially remake Blizzard’s classic Warcraft III. Which doesn’t really need remaking (WARCRAFT II KINDA DOES), but hey, nicer visuals are always welcome. The developers seem to be Russian, so there isn’t a lot of English-language information available outside a sparse Facebook page, but…

Two Interesting Things We Learned From The Xbox One Software Leak

Internal developer documentation for the Xbox One appears to have leaked on the Internet—and after scanning through the files, it appears that there are some interesting things we can learn from it. News of the Xbox One leak began to circulate online shortly before the new year, after the forum Se7ensins started a thread saying…

Fallout Rap Is, Somehow, Pretty Great

You’ll never look at Fallout 3‘s Wazer Wifle the same way again. I say that largely because you’ll immediately get this song’s insidiously catchy chorus stuck in your head, pinging off your cranial walls like so many wazer— er, laser blasts. It loops perfectly, infinitely, like a GIF turned into a song. At this rate,…

GTA Cop Pulls Player Over Like A Damn Terminator

Today on Highlight Reel we have a new way to play Fallout: New Vegas, some lucky shots in Battlefield 4, a bubble city in Destiny and one incredibly dedicated supercop in GTA V Watch the video above, then link any of your favorite highlights in the comments, and be sure to check out, like and…

Track: Grace Kelly | Album: Life in Cartoon Motion | Artist: Mika Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

What GTA V Gets Right (And Wrong) About The Real World

Grand Theft Auto V is a game caught between two distinct impulses: it wants to be real but needs to be fake, too. In his newest Errant Signal video, Chris Franklin takes a look at how Los Santos is constructed both as a place meant to closely mimic reality and as a virtual space meant…

A Paper Mario Fan Remake Five Years In The Making

We live in the age of remakes, some more necessary than others. Even Nintendo’s gotten in on the action with games like Zelda: Wind Waker Wii U. But in the background of all that, a fan’s been rebuilding the original Paper Mario for almost half a decade. The New Paper Mario project aims to replace…

Some Xbox One Users Can’t Play Far Cry 4, Even Though They Paid For It

If you digitally purchased Far Cry 4 for Xbox One, you might have trouble playing the game right now. As first reported by Videogamer.com, some players are having difficulty launching the game, due to a bizarre issue where the game currently isn’t listed on the Xbox Marketplace. Others players are still able to launch Far…