DayZ Summed Up Perfectly

This is the truth about DayZ. No matter how good your gear is, how careful you are, death will find you wherever you are. And it will strike unexpectedly. And if you survived day 4 somehow, day 5 would be the following: “Met Friendlies – You are dead” Typical lifespan in dayZ [Steam Community] To…

DS Games Are Coming To the Wii U’s Virtual Console

Finally! The wait, it seems, is over. Nintendo announced today that it plans to bring DS games to the Wii U’s Virtual Console. Details are scant, but Nintendo president Satoru Iwata explained that getting DS games, with their dual screen gameplay, on the Wii U GamePad has created a hurdle. However, here you can see…

How Metal Gear Solid Has Changed in a Single Image

Metal Gear Solid has changed. It’s not about rudimentary polygons, or abstract graphics. It’s an endless series of awesome photorealism. Hideo Kojima recently tweeted this image from a Kojima Productions presentation titled, “The Present and Past of Game Development.” My, how far we’ve come. 新人朝会でのジョニーのプレゼン [Kojima_Hideo] To contact the author of this post, write to…

Hey there, tiny TRON arcade dog. What’s up? [Space Ghost Zombie]

Our Pirate Games Need More Kraken

Eduardo Peña is an artist who’s worked on games (that you do and don’t know about) and movies (that you certainly know about…like the Hobbit trilogy). Formerly of Immersion Games, he’s now at Singapore’s FZD School of Design You can see more of Eduardo’s work at his CGHub page (thanks Super Punch!). To see the…

Postal Worker Stole 200 Video Games, Sold Them

If you ever had a video game go missing in the mail in the Boston area, it may be because a former postal worker has pled guilty to stealing over 200 games from packages he was supposed to have been handling. James L. White, 68, was in a Federal court on Tuesday facing theft charges,…

One Awesome Way The Wii U Is Improving: Game Loading

Thank the maker. Realising that the Wii U is a drag to fire up then slog through to get playing, Nintendo is going to streamline the way you get into games and programs on the console. How? Like this. The video up top shows a new, simpler, faster way to get into your games. There’s…

Nintendo Will Release New Platform In 2015-16 (But It’s About Health?)

During a presentation in Tokyo earlier today, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata made a surprising announcement: the company will in 2015-16 be releasing a new platform. For your health. Seems that with its back to the wall, Nintendo is looking out for its next “blue ocean”, the next untapped market. And it thinks it’ll find this…

Nintendo will license its character to new partners, says company president Satoru Iwata. There’s a precedent for this: Nintendo has already done the same for arcade games.

Nintendo Knows The Wii U Is Struggling, Promises Improvements

The 3DS is doing pretty well! The Wii U, however, is not. You know it, I know it, and you bet Nintendo knows it, because the company just announced a raft of changes and improvements they’re bringing to the system (and the way it’s marketed). Recognising that the console needs to be marketed better, president…

Snowball Fights Are Better With Team Fortress 2

You could have a normal snowball fight. Or…you could go all out and dress up like Team Fortress characters and then frolic in the snow. The choice, I think, is obvious…or at least it is for CorridorDigital Though you might wanna be extra mindful about the sniper’s whereabouts in this situation—otherwise things will get gross!…

Mario Kart 8 will be released in May, Nintendo revealed at a financial briefing in Tokyo today. No word if that includes the Western release as well. (Note: It’s worldwide!)

Skeletor’s Voice Actors Play With Skeletor Action Figures

Yup. This is Alan Oppenheimer (80s Skeletor) and Brian Dobson (2000s Skeletor) reprising their roles while…playing with action figures. It’s like the greatest toy commercial that never was. Skeletor Actors Play With Action Figures [YouTube, via Topless Robot]

​The First And Only English-Language Review Of Super Mario Bros.

These days it can feel like half the internet is made up of video game reviews. That wasn’t always the case—after the video-game crash of the 1980s, there were so few video game publications that one of the most important games of all time was barely reviewed at all. In the video above, cat-owning video-game…

A look inside the $80 Diablo III: Reaper of Souls collector’s edition, aka the big box special. It’s everything in the $60 digital deluxe version, plus circular pieces of plastic, a square of colorful cloth-covered gel, and a hardbound art book that makes the whole thing worthwhile-ish.