Why am I excited about Real Puck Physics? I think it’s because I love the fact that game developers have to figure out things like how to make a puck move around realistically and that they can always do it better. But it’s just a hype video for an EA Sports video game that I’ll…

League of Legends With Only Voices Sounds Weird

Okay, maybe this is a bit immature, but around the ten second mark in this video, League of Legends almost sounds like porn or something. The clip comes from Taost, who encountered a strange glitch that made all sounds disappear in League of Legends—save for those belonging to the champions. The results are kind of…

“hip-hop has spread its wings”

Time just published an interview with Questlove (thanks, Rich!) in which he gives a thoroughly Questlove response to a question about being pro or anti Iggy Azalea: Here’s the thing: the song is effective and catchy as hell, and it works. Just the over-enunciation of “hold you down”? [Laughs] It makes me chuckle because all…

Honest Game Trailers’ Names For The Original Pokemon Are Much Better

Why is Smosh Games’ honest trailer for Pokemon Red & Blue nearly six minutes long? Because those insane bastards decided to rename each and every one of the original 151 (or 152, depending) pocket monsters, from ‘The One No One Ever Picked’ to ‘Space Fetus.’ You might as well just skip the surrounding bits of…

Astro Duel is out now! We took a look at it back in May, but now you can have your own 4-player iPad deathmatch, for $2.99 on the app store If you haven’t seen the original video, check it out below, or click the link above.

Suspended Kickstarter Says They’re In An ‘Information War’ With Russia

With barely two days left in its controversial Kickstarter campaign to bring “a definitive spiritual successor to the cult hit S.T.A.L.K.E.R.” into the world, Areal developer West Games had the rug pulled out from underneath it yesterday when its project was suddenly suspended. But that hasn’t stopped the Ukrainian developer from trying to bring its…

A Shooter Where You Have To Cheat To Win

“Hey, stop looking at my screen!” is a pretty common refrain when people are playing competitive multiplayer games in the same room. In Screencheat, it’s the only way to win. The competitive multiplayer shooter may, at first glance, look like any other (albeit 17 million times more colorful), but there’s a twist: everybody is invisible.…

‘Quake Is Good For You’

Nowadays many video game ads are loud, in-your-face, and teeth-grittingly serious. Back in the day, though, developer id Software made the original Quake—an unabashedly gore-spattered first-person shooter—look like the perfect Christmas present for grandma and the whole (weirdly creepy) family. Courtesy of imgur user Paperkut, these Quake magazine ads from the ’90s are shotgun blasts…

I Wish Every Oculus Rift Demo Looked This Cool

I’ve seen lots of Oculus Rift-enabled games that offer players a glimpse (or more) inside immersive-looking spaceships and monster-infested hallways. The ideas that truly excite me, however, come from more experimental kinds of games that invite players to experience their own bodies from a new vantage point. Daniel Ernst’s The Shoebox Diorama does this in…

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The Uncharted Movie Snatches Spider-Man 3‘s Release Date

With the third Spidey movie pushed back to 2018 to squeeze in The Sinister Six movie, Nathan Drake’s turn on the big screen is slated to fill Spider-Man 3‘s June 10, 2016 spot. I smell a conspiracy. Here’s how things are going down, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Spider-Man 3 and 4 were originally scheduled…

A Pokémon-Style Game For Those of You Without A Nintendo System

It’s easy to blame nostalgia for the special place in our hearts that the original Pokémon games occupy, but Red and Blue genuinely have a lot of great elements that the modern games in the franchise don’t really offer anymore. Enter Collectems, a new game that blends what made Pokémon Red and Blue so great,…