‘Invisible Nunchuck Guy’ And Other Video Game Retail Horror Stories

It turns out a whole lot of parents think video game stores are good substitutes for daycare. Not cool, parents. That’s according to the stories we’ve been getting from all sorts of current and former employees in the world of video game retail, who have shared with us tales of terrible customers, heartwarming interactions, and…

Why I Love Daredevil

Daredevil has superpowers I’d love to have but, honestly, I’d never want to be Matt Murdock. Spoilers follow for various plot points from Daredevil comics. Most superhero creations sell the upside of their power fantasies up front. You see their amazing abilities and fantastic feats first and learn about their terribly tragic pasts much later.…

BioWare’s Star Wars Games Are Not Official Star Wars Canon

With the new Star Wars movies, Disney basically tossed out everything in the Extended Universe. At last week’s fan convention, someone asked what it meant for BioWare’s games. What “canon” means for Star Wars has changed in the last few years. While Disney is reigning in what is and isn’t considered “official,” it’s still open…

The First Five Minutes Of Insomniac’s First-Ever PC Game

The creators of Ratchet and Clank and Sunset Overdrive finally take the PC plunge with Slow Down, Bull, a delightfully simple game about a bull and his art. My how Insomniac’s grown over the past few years. In 2012 the 21-year-old development studio released its first non-PlayStation game with Facebook’s Outernauts. In 2013 came Fuse,…

Mod Turns Dota 2 Into A Third-Person Shooter

You know, I might actually play Dota 2 if it became a third-person shooter. We probably shouldn’t expect Valve to ever sign off on dropping Dota 2 into a completely new genre, but modder BMD_ has done it for them. BMD_ even pulled it off by using the actual Dota 2 tools and game engine,…

The Crazy Urban Legend of the Killer Arcade Machine

Let me tell you a story. It involves an arcade game, the CIA, epilepsy, suicide and one of the greatest urban legends in all of video gaming. Long before the internet existed as we know it today, and long before more contemporary hoaxes about creepy video games, came the story of Polybius. It existed in…

Scientifically Accurate My Little Pony Is Not Magical At All

Hear that? It’s the sound of magic being sucked out of the world as colorful ponies break their spines falling from cliffs and die from horrible hoof diseases. This is not going to be pretty. Real ponies are not fun. They are not your colorful friends. They do not have marks on their flanks denoting…

You Can Explore The Original WipEout‘s Tracks In Your Browser

Dominic Szablewski ported all the maps from the classic 1995 racing game WipEout into a browser-compatible format. So finally, it’s now possible to flowthrough them in a browser without making any mistakes. All the maps are there, and you can switch between them and the camera angles at the top menu. The creator also made…

Artist Michael Ivey replaced fallen mutants from The Uncanny X-Men #141’s iconic cover with unavailable Amiibo figures. All were all hunted down by collectors, instead of Sentinels. To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

Want Cute Selfies? Try This. 

Maybe you’re already cute. Or pretty. Or handsome. Whatever. But perhaps you’re not photogenic. Here’s a surefire way to correct that. Twitter user Nickkoara loves taking selfies in the mirror and decided to stick the face of actor Sota Fukushi on the back of a smartphone case. His original photo was retweeted over 20,000 times.…

Try the Hello Kitty Dim Sum in Hong Kong

According to Sanrio, this is the first Hello Kitty restaurant of its kind in the whole word. The restaurant is opening this month in Hong Kong and offers an array of food shaped like the iconic cat character. Most of the dishes look like Kitty-chan inspired dim sum, putting a cuted-up spin on Cantonese food.…