It can’t be all that fun to be a character in a game called Darkest Dungeon. You spend all your time in caves and ruins, risking your life while fighting horrible monsters, watching your friends suffer and even die. The emotional toll must be high. Turns out that idea—that heroes can suffer from mental fatigue…
This. This is dedication to the source material. Ewenaehasn’t just built a damn fine set of Skyrim armour for herself, but her horse is suitably protected as well. Shame she’s not riding vertically up a cliff while the horse’s legs go all weird, but then, there’s a limit as to how accurately you can recreate…
Game of Thrones finally has a good video game series, with solid cameos by some of the TV show’s most memorable ladies and gents, to boot. With episode two out, many of the major players—Jon Snow included—have made their polygonal debuts. But do they actually look… right? Let’s find out. Cersei Lannister Cersei’s pretty close,…
We live in an age where people are cosplaying characters from games that aren’t even out yet. Sometimes this is advertising, sometimes it’s just excitement, but when it looks this good, I don’t know if many people are going to care. This is cosplayer Lady Lemon dressed up as Senua, from Hellblade, the next game…
England is obvious. So too Japan, and China, and Egypt. But there have been a lot of Civilization games featuring a lot of Civilizations, so let’s take a look at a map (made by sirprizes) showing every nation that has made it into the series and those who, sadly, have not. You want to pay…
When you reach the end of Dark Souls, the players is presented with a big choice. You help decide the fate of the world. When you reach the end of Dark Souls II, the game simply ends. Not many players were satisfied with this conclusion, and the game’s new patch changes this. We’re gonna need…
Come watch me talk about Suikoden, women’s eSports tournaments, and animal sounds on this week’s Co-Optional podcast, where I guest-starred. Fun times.
Would you shorten your life to be really good at something? As in the best in the world? What if you couldn’t negotiate and the deal meant you died in 200 days? Would you take it? That tempting deal is offered to David Smith, the titular lead character in a new graphic novel called The…
The most pleasant surprises from Ubisoft seem to be coming in downloadable forms. Child of Light, Valiant Hearts, Assassin’s Creed: Freedom Cry. We can now add Grow Home to the list, an utterly charming experimental platformer about climbing higher and higher and higher. I’d intended to start Dying Light yesterday. Zombie are kind of my…
Hello, Internet! Welcome to Ask Dr. NerdLove, the only dating advice column that is a registered agent of the Shadow Proclimation under clause 2814 subsection G. This week we have a reader who wants to know: can he save his relationship? Should he even try? Meanwhile, another reader wants to know: how can he get…
Last night, members of the GamerGate campaign exploded with glee as they read through a brand new set of damning, dramatic allegations that seemed to prove serious wrongdoing in the indie game scene. Here it was. A smoking gun. But like with many of the red-lined imgurs and conspiratorial posters that have fueled this controversial…
Assassin’s Creed Rogue is coming to PC on March 10th, Ubisoft announced today. We really liked the console version, so we’re excited. Woo!
The latest Dying Light easter egg that’s been uncovered transports players to a Super Mario-esque stage, only with a lot more zombies inside. YouTuber Arekkz Gaming discovered the secret portal to zombie goomba (zomgoomba? goomzombie?) killing goodness, and was kind enough to show us all where to find it: As he explains in the video,…
When you have an issue on Steam, you typically send in a report, which Steam Support has to deal with. But one Steam user decided to take their problem to the man in charge of Steam itself, Gabe Newell. And amazingly, Gabe actually took time out of his day to fix the problem. In an…
Newegg is continuing their impressive run of preorder cash discounts with The Witcher 3 today. Preorder The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt ($53) | Newegg | Promo code EMCANAS53 Preorder The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt ($53) | Newegg | Promo code EMCANAS53 The Crew isn’t a perfect racing game by any means, but its sprawling reimagining…
I have enough trouble getting from start to finish in a racing game, but Drive!Drive!Drive! wants to push everyone a little further. In Drive!Drive!Drive!, racers are not only managing their position on the track in front of them—they’re managing position on several tracks at once. The trailer provides a slightly better understanding of the madness…
Dying Light has only been out for a week, but many players are already itching for bigger and better challenges than those in the base game. Since there isn’t a “hardcore mode” or anything like that yet, the best way to turn up the difficulty dial is imposing your own custom rules. Here are some…
Even though Microsoft appears to have given up on Kinect as a serious gaming platform, the motion device still has some tricks up its sleeve. Programmer Paul DeCarlo found a way to play Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out by waving his fists around, and it seems to work pretty darn well! This experiment was possible due to…
If you frequently use the recording features on Xbox One, the handy website Xbox DVR has added a neat new feature: the ability to create GIFs based on your videos.
Look, Square Enix—you can keep your fancy graphics and high-octane magic swordfights or whatever else you’re shoving into the next Final Fantasy. You guys know that all it really takes to reel back your old fanbase is a few bars of Uematsu. I mean, listen to this. LISTEN. This is the newly-released trailer for the…
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