When Bad Controls are Good

The best comedy is undercut with tragedy. The apocalyptic satire of Dr Strangelove, the claustrophobic awkwardness of The Office, Basil Fawlty wailing impotently on his car with a tree branch in Fawlty Towers. It helps to laugh at our own shortcomings. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK Life is hard, and if we can…

That’s Gotta Hurt

This is a pretty standard finishing move from Shadow Of Mordor

Kojima Is Watching You. Always Watching.

Elvira Trofimova is an artist who has done work for various social gaming companies over the past few years. You can see more of Elvira’s stuff at her personal site and ArtStation page To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you can save them as wallpaper), click…

Yes, Even Duke Nukem Is Art

In this case quite literally, as artist Aram Bartholl explores in his exhibition called Hurt Me Plenty, which uses games like Duke Nukem 3D and Doom as a case study in perspective and immersion. In this clip, Bartholl takes you on a tour of the exhibition (whichis running in Berlin until November 1), explaining the…

The comment is from my Shadow of Mordor review

How Nintendo Convinced The World To Buy A Weird Mario Game

Gail Tilden used to work at Nintendo. She was one of the founding editors of Nintendo Power, so knows better than most people how the company was able to sell one of Mario’s strangest moments – a game that wasn’t even really a Mario game – to the world. In this excerpt from Jon Irwin’s…

The iPad version of the Pokemon Trading Card Game—already out in Canada—now has a U.S. release date of September 30.

Luis Suarez Can’t Bite Any FIFA Players Until October 26

FIFA 15 is out already. And while he’s in the game, notorious Uruguayan strike Luis Suarez has had his availability cut to match the suspension he received in the real world for biting during the World Cup. I never actually tried this, since playing as Barcelona is practically playing the game on auto-pilot, but if…

Okay, So It’s A… Narwhal Jousting Game

Starwhal is a narwhal jousting game. It’s set in an ’80s neon rendition of outer space. What more do you really need to know? Oh yes, and it has OVER 9,000 NARWHAL COSTUME COMBOS. Also it’s pretty fun. I guess that’s important too. For real though, Starwhal is a fun concept—flip-flopping physics-based unicorn fish combat—that’s…

Graham Smith has written a fantastic piece on RPSthat argues the need for the BBC – a public body, not a company – to get involved in making games. “America, of course, embraced commercial television. Britain was different. We had a tradition of broadcasting as a public service.“

31 of the Most Satisfying Feelings In Board Games

Picking up a wild draw four card in Uno. Letting all of the Connect Four pieces drop after a match. Playing a dirty word in Scrabble. Being an ace at Jenga. If you’ve ever played many of the classic games in this video by BuzzFeedVideo, then you know exactly what I’m talking about. But the…

​Look at The Insane Moves You Can Pull Off In This Indie Shooter

Part of the reason I still hold a candle for the multiplayer shooters of the late 90s is their insane mobility. The characters in games like Quake III Arena, Unreal Tournament, and Serious Sam all move like the Flash on the Moon. Reflex is hoping to capture a bit of that. Above is the “movement”…

Years Since the Nintendo 64’s American Release

As a child of the 90s, the Nintendo 64 was the console I remember. It had some of my all-time favorites, ranging from great-but-weird titles like Blast Corps and Pokemon Snap, to works of absolute genius like Paper Mario and Majora’s Mask But now it’s 18 years old today. If my console was a person,…