Midair sure does look familiar. It looks exactly like Tribes. I’m not complaining! Tribes 2 is one of my favorite games ever. Between this (assuming it gets through Greenlight and Kickstarter) and the miraculous return of Tribes Ascend, things are looking up for those of us who love dishing out blue plate specials.

The Hidden Life Of Hitman‘s Most Relatable NPC

If you want immediately murder someone in the newest Hitman episode, you can do that. You can also just stand around listening to this one dude talk on his phone. The new episode sends Agent 47 to the Italian villa of Sapienza, where he gets two new targets and a ton of options for dispatching…

Alienation Is A Great Way To Kill Aliens Together

Between its flashy explosions and deep weapon customization, the PlayStation 4’s latest co-op action role-playing game is transforming me into a ruthless alien killing machine. Want to watch? Released today on the PlayStation 4 from Housemarque, the creators of Super Stardust and Resogun, Alienation is a co-op multiplayer alien murder simulator. One could call it…

Retailer Screwups Trigger Uncharted 4 Panic

Uncharted 4 won’t be out for another two weeks, but retailers across the world have somehow lost track of that, leading to widespread chaos and pandemonium. Also spoilers. Earlier today, the UK-based gaming website Video Gamer spoke to someone who’d walked into a CeX electronics store and bought the game on Monday. He just walked…

Alien Isolation‘s Artificial Intelligence Was Good…Too Good

I stayed perfectly still after they chased me into the air vent. I hadn’t heard anything for several minutes. Surely they’d left by now. Crawling out of my hiding spot, I found myself face to face with one of my pursuers. He hadn’t moved. He started shouting, but he remained locked in place, unable to…

Rocket League‘s New Basketball-Themed Mode Is Goofy Fun

It’s been months since I played Rocket League, a game about cars playing soccer. The game’s newest game mode switches sports, and it’s really fun! My Rocket League addiction was deep for a few months in 2015. Though I was never particularly good, it was the kind of game I could play while waiting for…

Probably The Most Satisfying Thing I’ve Ever Done In A Video Game

Sure, it’s satisfying to beat a tough Dark Souls boss. It’s just as satisfying to roll through a bunch of stuff. If you found the sorcerer Orbeck of Vinheim near the Crystal Sage bonfire in Dark Souls 3, you’ve probably noticed his lovely workshop. So many scrolls, stacked so carefully! It’d be a shame if…

Fallout 4 Console Mods Releasing In The Next Two Months

Here’s your first look at Fallout 4’s in-game modding tools. Soon, everyone will be able to enjoy the wonders of a wasteland full of Thomas The Tank Engines and naked vault dwellers. Hooray. According to Bethesda, console players will be able to enjoy mods on Xbox One in May and PlayStation 4 in June—which is…

The Walking Dead: Michonne Ends With a Terrible, Meaningful Choice

Over the course of three episodes, The Walking Dead: Michonne video game miniseries has homed in on the theme of regret. We live our lives haunted by old ones and try to make choices that won’t create new ones. But no matter what you do, it ultimately tells us, you can’t lock pain out of…

We Ran The Rooftops In The Mirror’s Edge Catalyst Beta

I played a few hours of the Mirror’s Edge Catalyst closed beta over the weekend, and it was a lot of fun! You can watch me jump around like a parkour ninja— as well as smack into a few walls— in the video above. Catalyst brings some changes to the Mirror’s Edge formula. I enjoyed…

Flinthook, a beautiful and fast-paced action game built around a grappling hook, was my favorite game at PAX East last week. It only took a few moments before I was whipping around the room and collecting treasure. There’s no release date or platforms yet, but I’m already anxious.

Looks Like The New Call Of Duty Is Called ‘Infinite Warfare‘

Discovered via Reddit and confirmed via in-house PlayStation 4s, the trending section of the PlayStation Store features a listing for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. There’s no text in the listing beside the name, but it certainly fits the conventions. It’s got warfare in it, and it is Infinity Ward’s turn in Activision’s three-year, three-developer…

The Huntsman: Winter’s Curse Is Quite Nice If You Don’t Mind A Little Cousin Killing

In the beginning of first episode of The Huntsman: Winter’s Curse, a kindly shopkeeper convinces young heroine Elisabeth to take on his cousin as a traveling companion. It seemed like a good idea at the time. Available now on Steam and coming later this year to PlayStation 4, Desert Owl Games’ The Huntsman: Winter’s Curse…

The New Standard In Breakfast Cereal Ranking

Social psychologistErika D. Price put no thought into and indeed does not stand by the cereal ranking system she’s devised. Here at Snacktaku we think she’s onto something, though Smorz needs to be higher on the list. Choice of breakfast cereal is a deeply personal thing of course, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t need…

Blizzard Says They Had To Shut Down World of Warcraft Fan Server Nostalrius

This morning, Blizzard’s executives finally spoke out about their decision to shut down the World of Warcraft fan server Nostalrius, writing that there was “no clear legal path” to both protect their intellectual property and allow an unofficial server to keep running. “Why not just let Nostalrius continue the way it was?” wrote World of…

Sunset Riders

Dominik Mayer is an artist from Germany at Pipedream Media, a studio that has worked with everything from games studios to Adidas to the Bundeswehr You can see more of Dominik’s work at his ArtStation page, while Pipedream’s site is here To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough,…

Star Fox Fan Animation Is A Love Letter To Classic Cartoons

The official Star Fox anime isn’t the only animated short that came out recently. Animator and voice actor Matthew Gafford and his team of enthusiasts spent more than six years establishing their fan project, set in the Star Fox universe, called A Fox in Space. The first, 13-minute long episode is now completed, and it’s…

Dark Souls As A 1996 PlayStation Game

The graphics would be simpler, but the aesthetics, boss tactics and the overall experience would be similarly painful. Or at least that’s what Veselekov and his friends imagined, if Dark Souls III was released back in 1996, after the first PlayStation’s launch. To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

It’s 2016 and Japanese People Are Lining Up for an Arcade Game

Not just any game at that, but the Kantai Collection arcade game. Awesome! Kantai Collection, or KanColle, features anime girls that represent warships. It started out as a free to play game and turned into a phenomena, spawning manga, an anime series, a PS Vita game, and an upcoming animated movie. As Kotaku previously reported…