These Guys Make The Best Damn Trailers In The Business

They don’t use expensive pre-rendered cinematics. They don’t license famous old songs. They don’t play on TV during the NBA playoffs. But that doesn’t matter. Niche PC publisher Paradox Interactive still makes the best video game trailers in the world regardless. Above, you can see their latest, for the very hardcore, very PC game Crusader…

All The Stuff The Green Lantern Movie Got Wrong

You may be shocked to hear this, but the questionable 2011 Green Lantern film had some problems. In seven minutes and forty-nine seconds, the folks at CinemaSins went ahead and tallied the sins in the film. The final number is…. higher than you might be expecting, even if you were expecting a high number. How’s…

‘Texts From Zelda’ Imagines Hyrule Infested With iPhones

In Ocarina of Time, heroic Link had a musical instrument that let him change day into night. But what if he’d had an iPhone? That’s the question asked by Texts From Zelda, and the answers they supply are outstanding. And of course… You can find more over at their site. (Thanks, Alex!)

Fuse: Day One Impressions

Insomniac’s new game Fuse is out today in North America. We’ll have more in our full review later, but for now here are a few of my immediate impressions of the game — how it plays, how it looks and where it left me a little cold.

Fire Emblem‘s Chrom Is Now Gaming’s Most Bootylicious Prince

Chrom fans, rejoice! The handsomest prince in Ylisse now has a mousepad dedicated entirely to his most admirable… asset. The mousepad in the picture, made by Deviantartist Toonikun, is one of only two in the world, and you can own one of them. The spare pad will be given away to one person who reblogs…

These Games Let You Play As Aliens

Alien lifeforms aren’t always just non-player characters, enemies or simple decorations. From time to time some games let us slip on creepy, gooey and downright ugly alien suits to play as cool aliens and extraterrestrial races. These alien simulators can usually be put into two categories. It’s always under the context of either a serious,…

Play A Demo Of The Crafty PC Stealth Game Gunpoint Right Now

Gunpoint, an upcoming stealth game by PC Gamer writer-slash-game-designer Tom Francis, earned a “this is pretty cool” judgment from our own Luke Plunkett. But you don’t have to take his word for it: The PC game, which comes out next week, has a free demo you can play right now. If you’re curious how Gunpoint…

“Y Cant Metroid Crawl” Guy Beats Metroid, Is Hilarious

Last time we checked in on Miiverse, some players were having trouble with Super Metroid. We shook our heads. We snarked about them damn spoiled kids. But at least one of those folks— PaulyU—persevered and finished the game. Here’s the spoilery proof. Hooray! Granted, he stumbled on his way there. …a lot. Apparently these are…

In the popular consciousness, “Tecmo Bowl” usually means the 1989 NES port, if not 1991’s Tecmo Super Bowl. Today, The Onion, satirizing White House sports photo ops, shows off its gamer cred by going back to the game’s original arcade version, which featured only the “Bulldogs” and “Wildcats”—coached by BOB and ASS.

No Big Deal, Dude Just Made Link And Mario Out Of Twist-Ties

Sometimes you just want to make a model of Link from The Legend of Zelda, and the only thing you have on hand are some twist-ties. The rest, as they say, is history. At least, that seems to be the approach of Deviantartist JustJake54, who recently made those TMNT twist-ties we posted, and now has…

Will Xbox One Ruin GameFly? GameFly Won’t Say.

The video game industry has declared war against used games, and one of the biggest casualties might be GameFly, the video game by-mail rental service. With news that Xbox One games will come with one-time-use activation codes that lock them to your Xbox Live account, it’s become clear that Microsoft’s next console will limit the…

Imagine If—Bear With Me—We Didn’t Always Binge On Games and Shows

The new season of Arrested Development is out on Netflix—all fifteen episodes of it. You’re not “supposed” to, but you could watch the entire season right away if you wanted. I’m guessing at least some of you did just that. Binge-watching something on Netflix isn’t uncommon. If a show hooks you well enough, and you…

This 20-Minute Supercut Of Cinematic Video Game References Is A Saga

Hollywood sure does love a good video game reference, as evidenced by this remarkably thorough supercut of cinematic video game references and arcade appearances edited by Travis Greenwood and Brett Roberts for Slacktory I cannot even begin to imagine the research that went into this. That must’ve been fun. They even managed to get The…

Kingdom Rush: Frontiers, the sequel to my favorite iOS game, is coming out on June 6. Cannot wait.

Well Of Course This Neon Cyberpunk Hacking Game Is Called Wetware

Welcome to Wetware, an upcoming 80s-tinged cyberpunk strategy game from Reality Council that puts you in charge of a “megacorporate network” and tasks you with, well, taking over the internet. From the description on the Reality Council website: Hire elite hackers to attack other networks, steal information, crash their nodes and protect your assets. Get…

New Anita Sarkeesian Video Calls Out Gaming’s ‘Women in Refrigerators’

Feminist Frequency blogger/video host Anita Sarkeesian is back with the second in her “Tropes vs. Women in Games” series, in which she analyzes sexist tropes in video games. The first video in the series looked back at the origins of the “Damsel in Distress” trope, focusing mostly on Nintendo games. The new video puts more…

#PS4NoDRM: The Next-Gen Twitter Campaign That’s Got Sony’s Attention

Gamers are taking to Twitter to fight for their rights as consumers, and the gaming world seems to be paying attention. It started with a rumor. Following confirmation that the Xbox One will have some form of restriction on the way people can trade and borrow their games, GTTV’s Geoff Keighley came out and said…

Sonic’s New Move in His Nintendo-Exclusive Adventure Is…a Wall-Run?

This fall’s Nintendo-only Sonic game, Sonic Lost World, looks like it’ll feature 2D and 3D gameplay, similar to the other recent pretty-good Sonic games. IGN just ran the game’s first trailer, which you can see above. The trailer hypes Sonic’s new moves. I see a wall run, Prince of Persia-style. What jumps out to you?…

Police Blotter: He Smashed, She Smashed

Crime is a constant feature of video games writing. Somewhere, someone is doing something illicit with them—sometimes comically stupid, sometimes tragic. Games and consoles are currency, objects of dispute, sometimes even weapons themselves. Kotaku‘s Police Blotter is here to round up the latest in games crime. He Sends a Laptop to the Hospital, You Send…

The People Behind Video Games Give Their Take on the Violent Media Debate

There tends to be one thing missing from the all-too-easy media narratives that offer causal connections between video games and violent crimes and tragedies: the people who make and/or play games. Lawmakers and concerned non-gamers are usually the focus of a camera’s lens, justifiably so, but developers and fans don’t get that much screen time.…