​Who Sonic Is, According To Sega

Character guides. They’re full of need-to-know information about famous characters whose faces might wind upon merchandise. Yesterday, we got a peek at a Nintendo guide that told us Yoshi’s real name. Today, some pages for a Sonic character guide have surfaced, letting us know that, among other things, Sega’s blue mascot hates going slow. Shocker.…

Stealth-horror influenced by Thief and System Shock? Okay, yes, please. This is the pitch video for Solarix, an in-development PC game from KISS Ltd. The developers are in the final hours of a surprisingly modest Kickstarter campaign, which they say they’ll use to add animations, record professional actors, and re-work some of the sound design.

A Survival Game Where You Can’t Actually Die

Luke already wrote a bit about Eidolon, the zombie-less, crafting-free survival game, but I figured I’d give it a try as well. The game is massive and mysterious, a ringing, pristine silence after a disaster. It really is incredible to explore, even if not a lot happens sometimes. Watch my video and see for yourself.…

Have you seen an amazing gaming moment lately? Send it to us at [email protected] to get it included in our new feature, Highlight Reel! Check out some of the previous episodes right here For more highlight reel posts, follow the tag right here. We’re looking for anything cool that happens in games. Weird new glitches,…

​Happy Anniversary to One of 2013’s Best Games

Do you remember the moment when you learned how to play video games? When the joystick or the gamepad stop being a foreign object and started feeling like a part of your body? Maybe you do; maybe you don’t. Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons is a game that puts you back in touch with…

Everyone Should Play A Dungeon Crawler With A DDR Pad

Crypt of the Necrodancer — the rhythm roguelike that lets you control the game with a dance pad — is out for PC and Mac on Steam early access, and while I’ve been really digging it in its early state, I wanted to see what other people think. In particular, the average person that hasn’t…

Mass Effect Visionary Leaves BioWare

Casey Hudson, project director on games like Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and the whole friggin’ Mass Effect series, has left BioWare. Most recently he was heading up a new series for the role-playing powerhouse. Damn. Hudson explained his decision in a farewell post on BioWare’s blog: “After what already feels like a…

Very Clever, Xbox One Marketing

This Xbox One-focused comic from Microsoft is both fitting for the summer and certainly makes a hell of a lot more sense than previous ads That’s definitely how I’d interpret her command, too, random gamer child. To contact the author of this post, write to [email protected] or find her on Twitter at @tinaamini

​”Snake? SNAAAKE?!”

A few-years-old cartoon about other Metal Gear Solid characters leaving messages in Solid Snake’s voicemail, done for PSM Magazine by Empowered artistAdam Warren [via Brian Michael Bendis’ Tumblr]

Twitch Already Planning Big Changes To Controversial New Rules

Yesterday video game streaming service Twitch announced new systems that had its legion of streamers steaming. The elimination of an easy “save forever” function on videos came first, but people really got riled when Twitch trotted out a YouTube-style audio monitoring tool. Kinda good news: both are in for big changes. Responding to an avalanche…

Titanfall Makes No Sense

Just a guess here: nobody plays Titanfall to experience realism. I mean, it’s a game where you hop into giant mechs to shoot people. Still, it’s kind of funny to break down the many ways in which the game doesn’t make any sense. Cracked lists at least six reasons why Titanfall’s logic is faulty in…

YouTuber: Twitch Streamers Should Have Seen Music Crackdown Coming

Gamers have been up in arms ever since Twitch began to enforce harsher restrictions against users playing copyrighted music in their videos. Hovering around the edges of this chorus of unpleasantly surprised voices, meanwhile, are all the YouTube broadcasters who are still reeling from the crackdown they all experienced back in December 2013. Popular video…

Worlds Collide

Hey, that’s a pretty cool ex-pro wrestler and a YouTuber that I like. I never expected to see them hanging out together. DDP, who has been promoting his yoga routine and trying to make people’s lives better, visited Boogie for good reasons. The full interview below explains what was up. Very cool.