Throwback: How To Wavedash In Super Smash Bros.

Here’s a new trick for those of you that never learned how to do the famous technique in Melee: a GIF that clearly shows the inputs necessary to perform a “wavedash.” Wavedashing, as you might know, is when someone performs a sliding motion while still being capable of doing ground attacks available to you while…

​Simulator Games Are Getting Out Of Hand

I’m sure, at some point, folks made jokes about making a simulator game where you played a simulator game. It’s not a joke. It exists. Used to be simulator games were about painstakingly recreating the details of a particular experience. But nowadays seeing the word simulator in a game means that you’re going to controlling…

Rob Pardo Leaves Blizzard

Longtime game designer and Blizzard executive Rob Pardo is leaving the company, he announced today. Pardo, who has been at Blizzard for 17 years and has worked on a number of games in the Warcraft, Diablo, and StarCraft series, said he is leaving to “pursue the next chapter” in his career. Pardo’s full message: Every…

Nintendo Keeps Guilt-Tripping Me For Not Playing Their Games

It’s hard to keep up with sim games. All those little virtual pets demand your attention constantly, crying out from behind the screen to make sure you know they’re hungry or tired or lonely or bored or whatever. “Hey,” you just want to say sometimes. “I have a life too, you know. What about my…

​GTA Online Music Video Is About Getting Rich. Of Course.

What else is there to do in Los Santos, really? A hit Pet Shop Boys song gets the GTA Online treatment in this machinima music video from YouTubers Vader2K and TK7554. Something about the long shots of suited-up dudes walking and Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous-style glamour pans reads as very 1980s to me.…

Deals: Mario Kart 8, Endangered Plasmas, Smart Power, Free Dino D-Day

The very successful .gif machine that is Mario Kart 8 has dropped to new low of $45. Luigi, take the wheel. [Mario Kart 8] The folks at Humble have put together a nice little Independence Day Eve sale featuring discounts on BroForce and lots more. [Humble] Plasma TVs are set to go extinct, but don’t…

Yep, Shovel Knight Has A ‘Butt Mode’

Well now this is just the best. Shovel Knight, one of the year’s best games, has a secret Butt Mode that replaces most of the proper nouns with “Butt.” To access it, just enter your name as WSWWAEAW. Here’s video of the game’s intro in Butt Mode: (via Castle Geekskull)

The season finale of The Wolf Among Us comes out next week. The fifth episode of Telltale’s adaptation of DC Comics’ Fables series hits Steam and North American PSN on Tuesday July 8. It lands on European PSN and Xbox Live on Wednesday July 9, with the iOS version following on Thursday July 10.

The World of Watch Dogs is More Plausible Than You’d Think

Watch Dogs! It’s a virtual version of an automated American city where everything is hackable. Total fantasy, right? Well… The always-fantastic Jake over at Vsauce3 has an breakdown of how the connected technology we are becoming dependent on is gradually making us weak and exploitable. The world imagined in Watch Dogs is getting more and…

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Blizzard Adds Silly Mount Descriptions In Warlords of Draenor Beta

Still no news on when we can finally name our mounts in World of Warcraft, but that doesn’t mean there can be no cool additions to the UI. One of these are some pretty cool brief descriptions of all the mounts in the game. Here are some of the best ones, collected by Redditor tenthousandthousand:…

That Must Hurt

Snake in Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes is indeed the master of stealth. YouTuber Baconman shows us how to properly get rid of not one but three (that’s a lot in Ground Zeroes) soldiers using a ladder and some stealth. The Greatest Soldier of the 20th Century [YouTube] To contact the author of this…

Nintendo Investor: ‘I Do Not Understand Video Games’

Here’s an excerpt from Nintendo’s annual investors Q&A, which was posted online in English this morning: I do not understand video games and I even feel angry because, at Nintendo’s shareholders’ meetings, the shareholders always discuss things relating to video games or such childish topics as “what the future of video games should be,” while…

Pac-Man Almost Got Into Super Smash Bros. Brawl

The next Smash Bros., Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and 3DS, will be featuring newcomers like Mega Man, the Wii-fit exercise instructor, and the latest announcement from E3, Pac-Man. But, much like the newly announced Mii Warrior, this wasn’t the first opportunity for him to join the Smash Bros. cast. In his semi-weekly column…