If The Game of Thrones Cast Was Born In The 90s…

Then they’d probably look a little like these stereotypical 80s/90s characters, which are illustrated by the ever-talented Mike Wrobel Why these characters, and not other, more iconic ones? Well, this set of Game of Thrones characters are just a few in a long series of illustrations in this same spirit. You can see earlier characters…

Maybe Using Two League Champs At The Same Time Isn’t Such A Good Idea

Relying on your teammates can be a drag in a multiplayer game, and League of Legends is no exception. Wouldn’t it be great if you could just…handle everything in a match yourself? It’s a good idea in theory, but not so practical in execution for the average person. Not that that stops WQLFY from hilariously…

ALL YOUR BEDS ARE BELONG TO US

I recently headed to Mint, an herb-y, fresh smelling town far away from my own. But when I arrived, I was met with a horrible truth. My host was in some kind of deep, trance-like state! I’m truly sorry for hitting her with my net but I was very concerned and thought some form of…

Know What Would Make Jedi Even More Awesome? Parkour.

Between lightsabers and usage of the Force, Jedi are already pretty cool. Even so, watching the folks at ronniestreetstunts free-run as Jedi over the desert is effin’ awesome. No lightsaber battles here for us to watch, though, alas. Star Wars Parkour – Jedi Free Running [ronniestreetstunts]

Of Course There’s A Sailor Moon Mod For Doom

Bless modders that make it possible to say there’s probably a mod for everything—including, in this case, a Sailor Moon mod for Doom 2. Here’s the gist, as captured by footage by BankaiIchigo12345: you get to play as our favorite magical girl herself, Sailor Moon. Naturally this means you can use the iconic Moon Stick.…

Now This Is How You Sell An Indie Game

If you’re going to make a video pitching your new indie game, might as well go full-infomercial with it. Here’s Action Button Entertainment’s Tim Rogers (sometimes seen writing guest posts for this very site), pitching his new Vita game Ten by Eight. It looks fun, but really, just as with the promotion of his last…

These Horrific Facial Animations Will Infect Your Darkest Nightmares

Usually, the uncanny valley is something you want to avoid like the plague. But sometimes running head-first into it creates horrifying and gorgeous results. Take the video above, Parametric Expression, by artist Mike Pelletier. Made in the open-source program Makehuman, the video blends odd repetitions of uncanny facial animations with a really disquieting soundtrack. It’s…

Modern Mario Has Blood, HD Graphics And…Dragons

Now, there’s nothing wrong with the original Super Mario Bros. It’s a classic. Still, I can’t help but gush over this “modern” take on the game by Deloix; it manages to bring Mario to 2013 without completely shedding its retro roots. At the very least, I’d play an HD remake that looked like this. I…

Assassin’s Creed: San Diego Introduces Cars, Comics Nerds

Picture it: you’re at the 2013 edition of Nerd Prom, finally taking a break from waiting in long-ass Hall H lines and getting something to eat. Then, some dude wearing some sort of outfit from Assassin’s Creed runs up and jumps right over your burgers. It’d freak you out, right? You don’t see much reaction…

Today during an investors’ call, EA announced that the reboot of Star Wars: Battlefront, first teased at this year’s E3, will most likely come out in the summer of 2015 alongside the first of Disney’s new Star Wars movies.

You Only Live Once in XCOM. No, Really. You Only Live Once.

Video game permadeath is not a concept unique to XCOM but it has, perhaps, its most visceral application in that series. Like its predecessors, if one of your men die in The Bureau: XCOM Declassified, that is it. He is gone for good. This can be a tragedy. Or, in the case of this video,…

Watch Us Play Cloudberry Kingdom, The Cute Game That Will Destroy You

I’m not the type of person who plays a game for hundreds of hours, but if I was, Cloudberry Kingdom would be happy to give me plenty of game to play. I knew that it could randomly generate levels of varying difficulty, but I was amazed at the extent of ways to customize this game.…

Finally, An Honest Trailer For The Worst Batman Movie

Batman’s been doing okay lately. His recent movies have been mostly good, and his recent games have been outstanding. So it’s easy to forget just how bad it got for a while there. Fortunately, the folks at Screen Junkies haven’t forgotten. They’ve made another of their “honest trailers,” for Joel Schumacher’s 1997 cinematic crash-landing Batman…

With Top Players Accused Of Collusion, Fighting Game Scene Cracks Down

Major media outlets in the fighting game community are threatening to boycott coverage of tournaments that don’t establish rules to prevent collusion, following an incident last weekend in which two top fighting game players were accused of collaborating and splitting their winnings in the Marvel vs. Capcom 3 finals. The accusations, which occurred during the…

Breaking Bad’s Lead Actor Talks About Cosplaying As His Own Character

Last week, we all took notice of Bryan Cranston’s time at Comic-Con: the man behind Breaking Bad’s meth-making Walter White went around the convention wearing a mask of…well, Walter White. And on David Letterman last night, Cranston talked about what that whole experience was like. The reasons why he would do this are obvious: he’d…

Industry luminary Ian Bogost demonstrates why I put the words “industry luminary” in front of his name, with this beautiful answer to a nagging Facebook survey question.

16-Bit Characters Fit Perfectly In Real-Life Environments

Mixing old video game sprites with real life is not one of the most difficult artforms, but if you’re creative enough the results can be immensely atmospheric, just as the latest pieces from deviantART user Victor Sauron show. Duke Nukem in the night shot above is awesome, but check the rest below. The roller coasters…

Wii U Arkham Origins Won’t Have Multiplayer, But Will It Cost Less?

Holy smaller video game, Batman! Warner Bros. has confirmed that the newly-revealed multiplayer modes for Batman: Arkham Origins won’t be included in the Wii U version of the game. As spotted by Eurogamer and IGN, the official press release accompanying the multiplayer announcement indicated that Arkham Origins‘ multiplayer modes will only be available on PS3,…

Definitely butter a guy up before you bring him crashing down

Cranston, the kinda-Ostrich-thing, invited himself over to my palace yesterday. He immediately told me how great my life is. Thanks, Cranston! It’s because I put green things to the south of my home. Like my trusty desert cactus. Are you talking shit about my cactus? Oh yeah, you’re definitely talking shit about my cactus. Have…

EA Sports’ First Amendment Defense in College Lawsuits Shot Down Again

For the second time, a federal appeals court has struck down a key defense Electronic Arts has used in its long-running legal fight against college athletes who say their likenesses have been used in EA Sports video games without their permission. Electronic Arts had claimed a First Amendment right of artistic expression in how it…