Team Fortress 2 Gets Grappling Hooks For Christmas

Team Fortress 2‘s End of the Line update—while paired with a really fun film—was anemic, to say the least. After so much hype ended in such a trainwreck, many feared Valve might’ve been signaling its intention to put Team Fortress 2 out to pasture, or at least ease off on making new stuff for it.…

Borderlands Jacket Lets You Cosplay In Secret

One of my favourite designers on the planet, Machine56, has another piece of Borderlands-inspired gear up for sale on his store. It’s pretty great. Like I said last time, I don’t even like Borderlands that much, but would still wear this any day of the week. Well, provided I lived somewhere cooler. While it looks…

The Games Of The Year, As Decided By Cold Hard Numbers

Now that the end of the year is here, everyone is starting to declare their “game of the year”—and Metacritic has now thrown its hat into the ring. Or, more accurately, ‘everyone’s’ collective hat. Metacritic pools the scores of many different gaming publications, after all. And according to those pooled scores, the top game of…

Halo 5‘s Aiming Has Changed, And Not Everyone Likes It

If you’re a longtime Halo fan, you know that a good amount of the weapons in your arsenal would only fire from the hip. That is, compared to most popular first-person shooters, they had no scope system. But in Halo 5, developers 343 are implementing something they call smart-link—which is essentially an aiming-down-the-sights scoping feature—and…

Guy Turns Grand Theft Auto Into Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater

It’s been a while since I was really into a skateboard game, but I have to say, the idea of Grand Theft Auto‘s massive world as the mother of all skateboard parks hits me right into the Tony-Hawk-shaped portion of my nostalgia. JulioNIB is doing that which not even Rockstar dared attempt: teaching grouchy old…

Playing Basketball With a Portal Gun Would Be Awesome

Two scientists get their hands on an Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device. Do they try to unlock its secrets? Eventually, maybe. But, first, there’s an epic game of hoops to be had. The best parts, for me, in Corridor Digital’s ‘Portal meets b-ball’ short are the hilarious faces the two lab coat-wearing experimenters make while…

Now This Is How You Banana Snipe Someone In Mario Kart

Plenty of people claim to be expert banana snipers in Mario Kart 8. Few can actually show for it. Imagine my surprise, then, when I saw someone boasting online about “banana sniping like a boss,” and they actually were. The pro banana sniper in question is Reddit user martinaee, who posted a flex-worthy video on…

Dark Souls On PC Just Got Worse

Dark Souls publisher Bandai Namco has just issued an official takedown notice to Dropbox to remove DSFix, the bunch of tweaks and fixes and bespoke config files that made Dark Souls actually playable on PC. While it’s entirely possible that there has just been a miscommunication somewhere, Durante — the guy behind the patch —…

YouTube’s Big Subscriber Problem, Broken Down

If you use YouTube much, or if you’re someone that makes videos, then you’re already familiar with one of the fundamental ways YouTube is broken: it doesn’t always show people the latest uploads, even if they’re subscribed to someone. It’s a system that’s crappy for both viewers and content creators. Fans don’t get to be…

I Wish This Was BioShock Infinite‘s Story

In case you forgot, Valve’s Source Filmmaker is an extremely powerful tool for turning games into movies. Sometimes we get things like the fantastic Team Fortress 2 End of the Line short. Other times we get sheer, unbridled madness. These videos starring BioShock‘s Booker DeWitt are the latter. This series from Grubbo uses character models…

The New Dragon Ball Z Game Doesn’t Look So Hot

Dragon Ball Xenoverse comes out in a couple of months, and based on the latest trailer from Jump Festa, well…it doesn’t look so great. And you know what? Being the trash fan that I am, I still want to play it. Such are the woes of fandom. But seriously though. Maybe this trailer is just…

More Reasons Iron Bull Is The Best Party Member In Dragon Age

Iron Bull has the best sex scene in Dragon Age by far. He also has some of the best, if not filthiest, dialogue. If you romance Iron Bull, and you also take him and Cole out with you on missions, this little gem of a conversation happens. It’s pretty revealing: Kinky, huh? I’m not surprised…

Mike Colter, the guy who’s been playing the newest Halo character has just been cast as super-strong hero Luke Cage in Marvel/Netflix’s upcoming interlocking Defenders miniseries, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Fans Spent Six Years Making This Mega Man Game

Mega Man fans aren’t just hardcore. They’re dedicated. Case in point: this awesome fan game that two people have been working on since 2008. It’s called Mega Man: Revenge of the Fallen—and no, that’s not a Transformers reference. It’s a reference to the game’s story: Robot Masters have been revived by Dr. Wily, and they’re…