Please Don’t Ask Repairmen To Fix Your Mario Kart

Poor guy. All he wanted was to provide a service: fixing go-karts. Instead, a jerk repeatedly responded with Mario Kart jokes. textastrophe, a blog that pranks people who post phone numbers online, came across the following Craigslist ad: This is the exchange that followed: Aww. Makes me laugh and kind of wish that this is…

Final Fantasy III Is Coming To PC

Over the past couple years, Square Enix has brought Final Fantasy VII and then Final Fantasy VIII to personal computers via Steam. Naturally, their next step is Final Fantasy III. There’s no release date for the game yet, but there’s a Steam listing up now. This looks like a port of the PSP version, optimized…

A Horror Game You Have To Face As A Two-Year-Old

YouTuber Jackfrags usually posts videos about Battlefield 4, but he took a break from that to play through Among The Sleep, an upcoming horror game where you play a toddler looking for his mother. The game is coming to PC, Mac and Linux. If you’re curious what it’s like to be a toddler in a…

They Took An Oculus Rift On A Real Roller Coaster For Some Reason

You may be asking yourself, why would anyone strap on an Oculus Rift while riding an actual roller coaster—why not just enjoy the experience of riding the roller coaster? Good question. And yet these guys snuck an Oculus Rift on a a real ride anyway. Edmond O’Driscoll and Jonathan Forder concealed the device under their…

Here’s your weekly JRPG discussion thread. No column this week, but chat about JRPGs right here. Playing anything good these days?

The Curious Game That Might Not Exist

Fighting games don’t get a lot of love from the mainstream video game industry these days. So when someone—anyone—comes along promising to bring back the supremely gory glory of nineties-era arcade classics like Mortal Kombat into the modern era, genre-inclined gamers will listen. Necrostorm, an obscure Italian studio that mostly trades in a gruesome sub-genre…

Space Travel Could Be Horrifying For Stupid Reasons

Johnny Express is a short animation about an intergalactic deliveryman who is pretty lazy and… not very careful where he puts things. The animation and character design is adorable, but it’s covering up some pretty terrible events. Poor little purple dudes 🙁 JohnnyExpress[Vimeo] via Reddit

Walking Dead Season 4 Limited Edition, Humble, Free Plants Vs. Zombies

The Walking Dead Season 4 Limited Edition is up for pre-order now, $40 off the list price and with Amazon’s pre-order price guarantee. No charge until August when it ships. For comparison The Walking Dead Season 3 LE is still going that price now, when it’s available. [Walking Dead Season 4 LE, $91] Pick up…

The Walking Dead Season 2, Episode 3 Hits Next Week

Clementine’s journey through the bleak zombie apocalypse world of The Walking Dead continue next week, when the latest episode of the hit series arrives on multiple platforms. Here’s the rollout schedule for Episode 3 of The Walking Dead Season 2: May 13th: PC/Mac via Steam, the Telltale Online Store and other digital distribution services; on…

Action Henk Remembers The Joy Of Hot Wheels

Henk is a Dutch male first name. Action Henk is a video game where you run an action figure named Henk through Hot Wheels-style tracks as fast as you can. Action Henk is basically a Trials-style game where you’re competing to put the fastest time on the leaderboards. There are no tricks to boost your…

World’s First Alaskan Native Video Game Looks Like a Lovely Fairy Tale

Alaska is far. And cold. But, there are beautiful stories there. Like many remote places, it’s home to a rich culture that many people might never learn about. How best to tell the world the tales that come from such a place? Make a video game. The first trailer for Never Alone appeared overnight and…

Asteroids meets LEGO in Captain Forever Remix, a newly-announced remake of the space shooter Captain Forever. It’s being developed by Dean Tate, a veteran designer who worked on BioShock and the excellent iOS game Captain Bubblenaut.

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It’s Always a Mess When Supervillains Team Up

Supervillain teams are destined to fail, whether it’s Carnage and his team of villains, Doctor Doom and whoever he was able to force to join, or—in this case—the Sinister Six. With their ego, it just cannot work. Here’s Dorkly’s piece about the mathematical law of Superhero film villains. Hopefully the Sinister Six will be a…