This Is How You Run A Convention Arcade Room

All you need is a row of projection screens, some colorful lighting and large dark room to put them in. If you do it right, the gamers will bring the funk to finish it off. BronyCon does it right. The best convention arcade rooms stink to high heaven. This is not a comment on the…

Welcome To This Philtaku Weekend

Hello! While Mike is hanging out at Bronycon, you get a weekend of me. You ought to know me by now, but if you don’t: I’m Phil, and Idon’t like my games to run at a high framerate That said, if you like playing Wolfenstein at 120hz, more power to you and your PC. I…

This Week In The Business: Virtual Reality Can Be Bad

QUOTE | “There are a lot of ways you can mess up VR really easily.” – nDreams’ Patrick O’Luanaigh, talking about his studio’s switch to virtual reality and how difficult it is to design good VR games Elsewhere in the business of video games this past week … QUOTE | “Japan is still stuck in…

Where The Pony Fans Go To Spend All Of Their Money

On the very lower level of the Baltimore Convention Center is a large ballroom filled with My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic plushies, prints, toys, statues, comics, cards, clothes and — most importantly — people with a lot of money looking to offload some. They call the dealer’s room for BronyCon 2014 “Blank Canvas’s Marketplace.”…

Fans Enraged Over Misleading Steam Racing Game

Colin McRae Rally is a classic (some would even say “legendary”) racing game. So when gamers saw a game claiming to be a “remastered for HD” version of it pop up on Steam, they were ecstatic. Then they got an unpleasant surprise. As players quickly discovered, Colin McRae Rally on Steam is not a graphically…

The Fastest Ocarina of Time Playthrough So Far, Explained

Cosmo Wright has the current world record for beating Ocarina of Time quickly, with a playthrough that clocks in at eighteen minutes and ten seconds. Even if you’ve watched the incredible near-perfect run before when we initially posted it, it’s worth watching through again just to hear his excellent commentary. Wright explains the history behind…

I love this battle music from Divinity: Original Sin. It doesn’t fit with the overall vibe of the game at all. It sounds more like…spy music? You know, from a spy game. But all the same, I love it. Every time it starts playing, I laugh.

Now This Is How You Demand A New Game Feature

Video game developer won’t listen to your pleas for a big, game-changing feature? Then there’s only one solution: make a song about it. A hilarious, shockingly well-done song. A gamer going by the handle of “godgryphon” put the video together. In it he asks for split-screen multiplayer in the PC version of Xbox Live Indie…

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How’s PlayStation Now Working For You?

PlayStation Now went into an open beta earlier this week in the U.S. and Canada. So now that the PlayStation 4-owning public has had a chance to try out Sony’s new game-streaming service, we want to hear about it from all you wonderful netizens. Tell us about your experience with PlayStation Now to date. And…

This Is BronyCon

Ponies are largely the focus here at BronyCon 2014 in Baltimore, Maryland, but they’re also an accessory, a colorful ticket for fans of other elements of geek culture to join the party. They really do go with anything. For instance, can you spot the pony in this TF2 cosplay group above? Hint: It’s not the…

​What Are You Playing This Month?

August: It’s not just the name of a month, it’s a word that means “respected and impressive.” This August, we hold our gaming devices like the august men and women we are, ready to play some video games while sitting next to the air conditioner. It’s the last deep breath before the fall rush begins,…

Damn You, Counter-Strike Chicken

You gotta love Counter-Strike chickens. Even when they get in the way, the result is hilarity. …and also tragedy. At least that’s the case Mr.JeanJeans, who gets killed by an enemy player because of a Counter-Strike chicken. A typical chicken matchmaking [Mr.JeanJeans]

Flappy Bird Is Back…On Amazon Fire

Just like he promised, Dong Nguyen brought his mobile sensation Flappy Bird back. But there’s a twist: it’s only available on the Amazon Fire Android gaming and video streaming device. The bad news is that this means the legions of Flappy Bird fans who first got hooked on the excruciatingly difficult endless runner when it…

Let’s Talk About SaGa Frontier

Welcome to the Summer of Old JRPGs, where we’re playing classic role-playing games and talking about them every week. Check out the full schedule here I have a confession to make: I didn’t play SaGa Frontier this week. I know, I know. I’m terrible. But over the past couple of weeks I’ve been playing through…