Remember That Spelunky World Record? It Just Got Topped.

Spelunky players just refuse to give up. It makes sense, considering the game they’ve chosen to spend so much time playing. The world record for highest possible score has been beaten, with an amazing run by YamaYamaDingDong. I asked YamaYamaDingDong what his next attempt is going to be, and he says he’ll be trying to…

​Another Frustrating Beyond Good & Evil 2 Tease

Well, the weather’s finally starting to get warm. Flowers are starting to bloom. Cherry blossoms are exploding from tree branches. Must be time for another heart-breaking glimpse of the long-brewing follow-up to Beyond Good & Evil The flirtation with releasing actual information about a sequel for Ubisoft’s cult favorite action/adventure is an annual ritual, like…

Battlefield 4 Bug Can Kill You When You Try To Shoot

Talk about game-breaking: apparently, if you happen to have a revivable dead body standing between you and an enemy in Battlefield 4, there’s a chance that downed will eat your bullets—or worse, will bounce something dangerous like a grenade or an RPG back into your face. If you’ve been having trouble killing people in Battlefield…

Finally, Someone Did A Statistical Analysis of Bob Ross’ Paintings

You want too much information? Well then, here you go. FiveThirtyEight ran all of Bob “Happy Little Trees” Ross‘ paintings through a giant calculator, and what they discovered is… enlightening. Unsurprisingly, 91% of his paintings contain trees, but did you know Ross refused to have any signs of humanity in his work? It’s actually really…

So That’s Who Watches The Watch Dogs

(Tweeted by Justin Kruger ‏with the caption, “Just saw the best image of #PAXEast. A sole Boston Police Officer watching the @watchdogsgame trailer.”)

A Video Game About People Who Pretend To Be Airplanes

Sometimes a headline and a video are really all you need. You can check out Cult of the Wind on Steam Greenlight

New JRPGs For Vita Make Me Unreasonably Happy

Between PS1 Classics and newer games like Persona 4 Golden, the unheralded PlayStation Vita has become an essential beast for JRPG fans and today brings news of more cool Japanese stuff for western gamers. In addition to Freedom Wars, which we talked about earlier, Sony has just announced plans to localize the Soul Sacrifice remake…

A Breakdown of The New Smash Bros. Mode

Based on what we’ve seen of Smash Run, the recently-revealed multiplayer mode in Super Smash Bros. where players traverse dungeon-like levels and collect power-ups, it looks like the 3DS-specific mode could be a blast. The smaller details hidden in the Smash Run footage—which GameXplain break down in the video above—only solidify that notion. Here is…

Indie RPG Channels Old-School Ys

Meet Chasm, an upcoming indie 2D dungeon-crawler inspired by the likes of Ys III: Wanderers From Ys and other old-school RPG-slash-platformers from the 16-bit days. Chasm is out for PC this fall. We played it at PAX East this past weekend. Hands-on video impressions above.

Child of Light continues to look gorgeous as heck. Ubisoft’s new RPG will be out April 30 for PC, PS4, PS3, Xbox 360, Xbox One, and Wii U. New trailer above.

A Closer Look At One Of The Prettiest Dungeon Crawlers Out There

Straight out of PAX East 2014, here’s Below, a serene dungeon crawler from Capy, the company behind Clash of Heroes and Sword & Sworcery. It’s hard to capture just how pretty this game really is, but we did what we could.

​Dark Souls Erotic Fanfiction is Actually Really Funny

Rule 34 at work again: YouTube user Protag has written some pretty funny Dark Souls erotic fiction, then recorded a reading of it for the Internet in a variety of pleasing British accents. It’s called The Legend of the Twin Humanities. It includes the phrase “He was balls deep in sorrowful lamentation,” and also very…

2DS with Pokemon X for $100, 3DS XLs On Sale, 840 EVO 1TB, South Park

Whether you want a 2DS or 3DS XL, today is a good day to get one. The highlight here is the 2DS bundled with Pokemon X for $100, which is an extremely low barrier to entry to get yourself into that portable game ecosystem. Target is also throwing in a $40 gift card with the…