Smash Bros.‘ Director Doesn’t Have To Work Hard. But He Does Anyway

I don’t care what Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai does so long as he makes the next Smash Bros. Apparently, Nintendo seems to share that sentiment. But Sakurai is a man of values and does not abuse the trust that has been placed on his shoulders. Sakurai’s arm still has not healed, but that isn’t…

What the Hell Does Rhubarb Have To Do with Duke 3D?

That and many other questions will not be answered tonight by the Geekapella crew’s latest work, an a capella rendition of “Grabbag,” AKA the Duke Nukem 3D theme tune. Complete with silly dancing. We’ve featured these guys before, but this video takes the cake in terms of sheer, insane randomness as far as I’m concerned.…

That new Pikachu game starring…Pikachu apparently has a title. A recent Japanese trademark Nintendo filed lists “Meitantei Pikachu” (名探偵ピカチュウ) or “Great Detective Pikachu.” This might or might not be the game’s final title.

Where Video Games And Tabletop Gaming Meet

And so, my great tabletop gaming adventure continues. Ex Illis is a tabletop miniatures game with a video game twist. While it has physical units and is played on a table, a lot of the meat and potatoes of the game – stuff that would normally require tokens, counters and books – is relegated to…

Donkey Kong Gets Unofficial Star Wars, Alien, Total Recall Expansions

Donkey Me is a fan project by Bruno R. Marcos which takes Nintendo’s classic arcade game and gives it a ton of new, unofficial “themed” expansions, based on stuff like Star Wars, Conan, Rambo, Indiana Jones and Big Trouble In Little China. He’s hoping to have it out in the next few days. It will…

Assassin’s Creed’s Connor, Who Was The Worst, Is Done For

Nothing typified the regression the Assassin’s Creed series took between Revelations and III more than the game’s star. We went from Ezio, a lovable, charismatic rogue, to Connor, who was…nothing. He was nothingness in a white hood. Sucking much of the life out of the franchise with his solemn frown and humour deficiency, the series…

Gorgeous Racing Game Does The Smart Thing, Abandons Current-Gen

For a game so impossibly beautiful, it always seemed strange that Project Cars was headed not just for the PC, but dated hardware like the Xbox 360 and PS3. It’s less weird now, then, that those old machines will no longer be seeing the game. Instead, the game’s developers announced today that in addition to…

The 1980’s Will Help You Beat Wind Waker

I don’t think this was made in the 21st century. I think time travel was involved. I think somebody found a way to go back to the 1980s and took a copy of Wind Waker with them. It’s the only explanation I can think of as to why this fake tips VHS is so perfect…

This Copy Of BioShock Infinite’s PC Expansion Is Only 1.44MB

Zoe Brookes works for BioShock developers Irrational Games as a graphic designer, so if anyone on Earth was going to find the time to whip something this amazing up, it’d be her. Shame it’s not real (duh, the actual expansion will be counted in GB, not MB). Or that you can’t at least buy them.…

Call of Rupees: check out this unexpected Zelda easter egg in Call of Duty: Ghosts…if you’re squinting, the award is for ‘most bushes cut and pots smashed.’ And the award to the left? It might just be a TARDIS… (via r/Zelda)

​AC IV Lead: Working On Next-Gen Easier Than ‘Nightmarish’ Current-Gen

It must be awfully tricky making a game run on both current-and next-gen systems, taking advantage of the power of new consoles while keeping things running on the old ones. With Assassin’s Creed IV, one of the highest profile cross-gen games around, it sounds like the current-gen side of things was, perhaps unsurprisingly, a real…

YouTube’s Comments Might Now Be Less Awful

The fight to make the Internet a better place never ends, but today we can count one more victory on our side: now, not only can you moderate YouTube comments better, but the way comments appear is now also different. I mean, it’s not like you necessarily care about some rando’s opinion, right? Or the…

GTA Online $500,000 Stimulus Package Starts Now

Starting today, you should begin to see money filling up your delicious virtual Los Santos coffers—Rockstar just announced that the GTA Online stimulus package will kick off today. Anyone who played GTA Online in October will get a free $500,000. It’s Rockstar’s way of saying sorry for all the launch woes and technical difficulties in…

Gerard Butler, Vin Diesel Tied To Video Game Movie No One Cares About

Dear Hollywood, no one wants to see a Kane & Lynch movie anymore — I’m not sure anyone ever did. Notthen with Bruce Willis and Jamie Foxx, and not now with Gerard Butler and Vin Diesel. Just let it die, already. At one point we had movie posters and an appearance at Cannes. That was…