90s Sonic The Hedgehog CDs Were Pretty Sexual

Like most people in life, I listened to a lot of questionable music when I was younger. But my weird musical tastes don’t hold a candle to the stuff Sonic the Hedgehog was listening to in the 90s. Warning — this discussion of Sonic The Hedgehog contains material that some readers might find objectionable. Before…

​What’s Your Favorite Loot System?

Thanks to its notoriously treasure-filled tunnels, Destiny has sparked a new discussion around an important and often overlooked part of video games: loot. Let’s not allow a popular shooter’s moment in the spotlight pervert our sense of history, however. What video game, in your view, has the best loot? I’ll get us started with a…

Destiny’s Hardest Boss, Killed In Under 20 Seconds

Sure, you can glitch Atheon off the cliff by yourself with a few grenades, but apparently even that isn’t as fast as four players wailing on him with exotic rocket launchers. Also, clips from World of Warcraft, Alien: Isolation, Halo 2 and more! Watch the video above, then link any of your favorite highlights in…

An Ocarina of Your Very Own, Humble Heads to Vancouver, and More Deals

Summon Epona for just $10. For those keeping track, this is a 12-hole Alto C instrument. [Ocarina] Update: Now $17. Their bullet points: 12 Hole Alto C Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time Blame Canada for this Humble Bundle Up for preorderXrd. [ Guilty Gear] DUALSHOCK 4 Controller ($40) | eBay DualShock 4 Glacier White…

The Whole Final Fantasy XV TGS Presentation Is Now In English

Above, for your viewing convenience: a solid 50 minutes of Final Fantasy XV director Hajime Tabata talking about Final Fantasy Type-0 HD, Final Fantasy Agito, and of course, the fifteenth main entry in Square’s ubiquitous RPG series. Though this presentation happened last month during the Tokyo Game Show, this is the first time Square has…

Halo Collection Has A 20 GB Day-One Update

The next Halo game will launch with a massive day-one update, Microsoft announced today—you’ll have to download 20 GB worth of “features and multiplayer content” to complete the Halo: Master Chief Collection, which is out November 11 for Xbox One. That day-one update comes on top of what Microsoft says is a Blu-ray disc packed…

Project Cars—a.k.a. the racing game that you need to squint at to make sure it’s not real life—won’t be coming out next month. It’s being pushed back to March 17, 2015, which is when Slightly Mad Studios’ creation will hit PC, PS4, Wii U and Xbox One,.

New Smash Bros. Leak Reveals Stage Creator, Board Game Mode

For every new Smash Bros. game, there is a new leak. Just a few months after a leaker at Nintendo revealed the full rosterfor Super Smash Bros. 3DS, today we’ve got Amazon leaking new features in the Wii U version of Nintendo’s colorful fighting game. Super Smash Bros. Wii U, which will be out on…

Terror in Resonance Starts Strong But Falls Apart Midway

Terror in Resonance, the latest from the acclaimed director of Cowboy Bebop and Space Dandy, had one of the strongest starts of any anime of the summer season. Sadly, it is an anime that completely falls apart into a contrived mess halfway through. Good – The Soundtrack Before we dive into the plot, let’s look…

Oddworld-Themed PS1 Is A Really Pretty One

Making an Oddworld-themed custom PS1 might feel unexpected at first, but both Abe’s Odyssey and Abe’s Exodus were big on the first Playstation, so Vadu Amka‘s amazing custom work is absolutely fitting. It has brand new bronze paint job, a huge “Rupture Farms” logo and some extra cogwheels to make it look like an actual…

I’d trade my Squirtle for these. Artist Juan Arrabal “Dragolisco” Hernández has some really cool re-imagined Pokémon. Here’s a recent one from him, a Mewtwo with a rather extraterrestrial look and a few other scary-looking Gastlys, Gengars and Haunters. Check out more of his art on his DeviantART page Dayshot is an image-based feature that…

Art Lovers Can Be Figure Lovers, Too

Auguste Rodin’s The Thinker is an iconic work of art. It’s also an upcoming fully posable Figma figure. Warning: This story has famous art dick. As with other Figma figures, you can make also sorts of interesting poses like this: Or this: Or, heh, this: Priced at 3,980 yen (US$37), Figma’s The Thinker will be…

You Got Your Dead or Alive in My Fatal Frame

Other than being made by the same company, survival horror series Fatal Frame and fighting game series Dead or Alive have had little in common—until now that is. Upon beating, Zero: Nuregarasu no Miko, the fifth and newest game in the Fatal Frame series, you unlock a series of four bonus chapters following DoA‘s ninja…