Toys in 1984 Kinda Sucked

We take a lot of what we have today for granted: Fancy toys, giant TVs, new consoles. So often, we forget just how much holiday gifts used to suck. The video above, taken from ABC News 29 years ago, shows exactly how much cooler a lot of the dumb stuff we own is. The toys…

British Game Store Now Sells Dinner In A Can

Hey there, video game fan. Do you like eating Christmas dinner but hate dealing with inconveniences like “shopping” and “cooking” and “pretending you haven’t hit rock bottom”? Try the Christmas Tinner, announced by British retailer GAME today, and you can come yet another step closer to not being human. Check out these beautiful people eating…

Final Fantasy VIII is on Steam starting today, Square Enix just announced. It’s going for $11.99, and it comes with an optional cheating tool called Magic Booster and the mini-game Chocobo World.

Square’s Going All Out For The Final Fantasy X/X-2 Remakes

Here are a bunch of new trailers for the upcoming HD remakes of sports sim Final Fantasy X and pop star emulator Final Fantasy X-2, which will be out for PS3 on March 18 (and Vita at some point in the undetermined future, unless that version is mysteriously cancelled.) They’re looking good. Certainly better than…

Here’s what’s going on Talk Amongst Yourselves, our reader-written blog: Stormborn isn’t only making Super Mario Brothers characters look cool in his redesign series. He’s making the levels and tertiary assets look awesome, too. J*Rod shares a Star Wars remix of “Bohemian Rhapsody” that’s got some Force to it. And Dear Video Game Expert offers…

Battlefield 4‘s one-hit-kill bug might be dying today on PS4. The delayed update due earlier this week has started rolling out for Sony’s next-gen platform. But DICE warns that this patch isn’t a total fix for some of the game’s other issues

The Ten Most Defining Moments of League of Legends‘ Third Season

League of Legends stepped up its game as an eSport in 2013. More than 30 million people watched the World Championship finals, and it became the number one online game in many countries, including South Korea. After such a strong year, it’s no surprise a video with the best moments of the season would be…

Helpful Tips For Navigating Your Xbox One

The Xbox One’s interface has been a source of much delight and frustration in my household. Xbox Live’s Major Nelson put together this nifty video to help befuddled folks like myself make sense of it all. The Xbox One has quickly become the central hub of my living room — we use it for games…

The Strangest Wii U Peripheral of 2013 Looks Like a Toilet Plunger

It’s called Mike Cover for Wii U. And yes, it really looks like a toilet plunger. See? The Wii U-branded, officially licensed peripheral is designed to be used with Wii Karaoke U, the Wii U karaoke game. It’s basically a hunk of plastic you put over a microphone, but it apparently reduces noise, so people…

Why Bayonetta‘s Creator Isn’t Doing the Sequel

He brought us many memorable games like Devil May Cry and Bayonetta, but Hideki Kamiya doesn’t usually do sequels (though he did work on sequels before, including Viewtiful Joe 2). That’s not to say he doesn’t want to; he just has a greater calling. From early on in his life, Kamiya wanted to be a…

Akihiko Yoshida, a brilliant artist and character designer, is leaving Square Enix. Yoshida, however, said he will continued to work on Bravely series.

100 More Games in Steam’s Immediate Future, Including Space Minecraft

Well, if you wanna get technical, it’s not really space Minecraft. It’s more of a sci-fi sandbox RPG thing. But it’s pretty darn close. Apart from phr00t’s Space Minecraft 3089 there’s a whole bunch of other quirky and interesting titles in Steam’s latest batch of nearly one hundred community-approved Greenlight games. There’s a shoot-em-up starring…

You’ll Never Guess Where Puzzle & Dragons Is Hitting Next

Role-playing game Puzzle & Dragons, which features puzzles and, um, dragons, has been a smash hit mobile title. The game is getting a 3DS version this month in Japan. And next spring, it’s coming to Japanese arcades. Yes, arcades! Remember those? Developed by Square Enix, the arcade version is called Puzzle & Dragons Battle Tournament…