Fixing Video Game Box Art With…Clip Art And Comic Sans

It started with album covers, but if you’ve been browsing Tumblr or forums this week you may have seen it jump pretty swiftly to video games. “It” being people recreating video game box art using nothing but stock clip art, MS Paint and everyone’s favourite font, comic sans. The results are…horrifying, at first. But when…

Jeremy Hsu has written a great story over on Motherboard about the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893, and how it “contrasted powerful displays of U.S. technological prowess with living ethnological exhibits of indigenous peoples from around the world”. In other words, how it was BioShock Infinite. On the ground.

Persona! The Art Of Shigenori Soejima

The series just wouldn't be the same without his iconic style

What Did You Think Of Last Night’s (Awesome) Game of Thrones?

Well then. Guess who you don’t fuck with? You don’t fuck with Daenerys Targaryen. That sure was a lot of fun, wasn’t it? Of course, those who had read the book were likely waiting for that moment at the end of the episode since we first saw Dany and the Unsullied in episode one, but…

Happy Birthday, Konami Code

This week in 1986, the release of Gradius ushered in the era of the Konami Code, a series of button presses that would become synonymous with not just gaming on the NES, but gaming in general. This Week in Gaming History: Happy Birthday Konami Code! [Jace Hall/PSP]

The fantastic #1ReasonToBe Game Developers Conference panel is now available to watch for free online. Brenda Romero, Robin Hunicke, Elizabeth Sampat, Mattie Brice, Leigh Alexander and Kim McAuliffe each shared stories of working as women in the video game industry in a galvanizing, often emotional panel that was emblematic of the overarching theme of change…

Superheroes Designed By Little Girls Are Fantastic

First there was Superheroes are for girls, too!, a website which showcased little girls who love superheroes. Now there’s also Little Girls Are Better At Designing Superheroes Than You, a website which illustrates photographs of superhero-loving little girls. They’re heartening pictures. From the website’s description: Kids are more impressionable than you, but kids can also…

Six Critics Are Divided Over The Fun but Flawed Dead Island: Riptide

In Dead Island, the first-person hack and slash RPG, you went around a tropical island, punching, kicking, maiming and shooting zombies. In Dead Island: Riptide, you do the exact same thing. For some, this is enough—but not quite for others. Bashing zombie heads in is fun. Collecting all kinds of loot is also fun. But…

My Xbox Dashboard Features People Eating McDonald’s Wraps On A Loop

So, this is happening. I booted up my Xbox 360 to snag some DLC and make sure Django Unchained was indeed available for rent, and then I sort of just left the dashboard sitting there. It wasn’t too long before I noticed… This ad has now been looping into my apartment for the past 30…

Bethesda is publishing a mystery game called Endless Summer, according to Australia’s Classification Board

He Forged Minecraft’s Diamond Sword. Then, He Cut Stuff With It.

What do you turn to after forging a Keyblade and a sword from Adventure Time? Minecraft, of course. People begged Man At Arm’s Tony Swatton to forge a diamond sword. So, he did. And boy howdy, is it shiny. Swatton doesn’t play video games, but that doesn’t make his creations any less impressive. Particularly so…

Kicked Out By His Parents, He Played League of Legends To Make Rent

This new documentary short from Machinima shares the story of Peter “Doublelift” Peng, a professional League of Legends player who was kicked out of his home and relied on pro gaming to pay his rent. (Thanks, Ryan and Zach.)

This Is How You Use Video Games To Sell Men’s Lingerie

This weekend, Buzzfeed published an article about Homme Mystere—a lingerie line for men. Homme Mystere offers all sorts of things, from thongs, to bras (bros?) and everything in between. And judging from the promotional photography, it was determined that video games would be a good way to sell this lingerie line. Not that this couple…

So What’s The Oculus Rift Really Like?

We’ve seen plenty of video demos of the new Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, from the exciting to the heartwarming to the pointless to the motion sickness-inducing. But I’ve been waiting for someone to sit down with it and, in clear language, answer all the questions that I’ve had about the thing. Ben Kuchera at…

Darksiders Gets Bought By…Nordic Games? THQ’s Other Games Sold Off Too

The auctions following the closure of former publisher THQ are over. Homeworld, for example, was bought by Gearbox Software—as we learned earlier today. That’s not all, of course. Nordic Games, the publisher behind games like Alan Wake on PC and Painkiller: Resurrection, nabbed a good number of THQ games. Here’s the breakdown according to a…

These folks are making a documentary about The Legend of Zelda. Check out their website for more details—and a very cool Zelda-like Flash game full of details on the film.

It’s Not You, It’s Me: When Multiplayer Ruins A Game

You can’t talk about multiplayer games without having someone lament the loss of solitary experiences, of games where pesky people don’t interfere with your journey and possibly pull you out of it. Plus, people are jerks, man! Why should you have to deal with them? Can’t we just escape into our digital worlds without having…

The Monaco Soundtrack Is Gonna Be A Whole Thing

The soundtrack for the upcoming co-operative heist game Monaco: What’s Yours is Mine is a rowdy, somewhat tongue-in-cheek collection of piano bangers from Journey composer Austin Wintory. But those tunes really only tell half the story. In addition to the music you hear when you’re playing the game, the downloadable soundtrack will include a second…

Rhythm Sensation Idolmaster Makes It Out of Japan… as Three $55 Apps

Since 2005, Namco Bandai’s rhythm-tastic Idolmaster (Idolm@ster) series has been charming Japanese fans (and import gamers) at home and in arcades with its adorable anime style and J-pop music. Today, for the first time ever, there’s Idolmaster available on the iPhone and iPad for the U.S., France, South Korea and Hong Kong, but it’ll cost…

Am I An Idiot For Playing SimCIty?

Never write a question in a headline if you don’t really want people to answer the question, but there it is. I’m wondering how stupid I should feel for playing the new SimCity day after day last week—while I was on vacation! Especially since I was getting angrier about the game day after day. The…