Why Buy A New 3DS When Your Old One Can Look Like A Cat?

For as long as there have been Nintendo handhelds, there have been humans wanting to put imagesof cute animals on them. These cases for the 3DS continue that trend, but they’re way less creepy. They’ve got little ears! And whiskers! And they’re…well, $20-$30 for a case is pretty steep, but what price cat faces on…

BioShock Figure Is Hilariously Awful

When you look at Booker DeWitt – star of BioShock Infinite – on the cover of the game, you see a rugged man of action who won’t take no guff from nobody. When you look at his face on this new action figure, you see something else I see a man who looks like he…

Players Have Already Found Ways To Cheat In Destiny

When I think mods, I typically also think PC gaming. But people do mod games on consoles, too—and it looks like modders are starting to sink their teeth into Destiny. Right now, it looks like modders haven’t figured out how to do anything particularly game-breaking yet. The main mod I’ve seen floating around is one…

What New Forza Is Doing About Forza 5‘s Disastrous Economy

Forza 5 launched with some nasty microtransactions, made more upsetting by the fact that people already spent $60 to buy it. Players were pissed, and creator Turn 10 spent months re-tuning the otherwise solid racer. What does this mean for open-world spin-off Forza Horizon 2? No microtransactions whatsoever. At first. I spoke with Playground Studios’…

A VR Game About Grabbing Anime Breasts

Virtual reality is an exciting technology that is now finally coming into its own. There are limitless possibilities, (like understanding the prose of James Joyce). But to heck with that — people are just gonna use it to perv out. The video above from NicoNico Douga user Ryuto, is a tech demo for an arduino-controlled…

All four members of The Beatles, created in The Sims 4. D’awwww. The Sim versions of celebrities (Simlebrities?) are gonna be so good this time around aren’t they? via Reddit

The Rise And Fall Of Nintendo… As A Rock Band

Link as a European EDM legend. Wario’s dumb laugh. Mario’s sex tape and drug addiction. Skater Mega Man. Bowser’s tiny puppy. Peach’s pop career. The band going viral. Rolling Shell Magazine. Yoshi gets an island. Yoshi gets an island. This video is perfect. I’m not often prone to straight out gushing, but this video re-imagining…

“…a form of cultural necrophilia.”

I’m hesitant to even bring this up because I find the “are games art?” debate useless at best, but Eric Zimmerman makes a good case for how it’s a more damaging fixation than a purely tiresome and annoying one. “Obsession with the question ‘are games art?’ is a form of cultural necrophilia,” he argues, suggesting…

Games in The Final Fantasy Series Earlier today we learnedthat Square Enix will release a Final Fantasy-branded mobile typing game. Square has released a lot of these kinds of spin-offs over the years and they include everything from action RPGs like Crystal Chronicles to the more strategic Final Fantasy Tactics… but how many Final Fantasy…

One Diablo III Feature That Gets The Game Back To Its Roots

Every Diablo fan remembers the first time they encountered The Butcher. Hearing the demon growl as he strode out of a room littered with bloody corpses gave us a terrifying glimpse at the hellish things to come in all our journeys: At least, that’s The Butcher from the original Diablo, which first came out for…

‘Xenosaga HD Collection’ Is Actually A Thing That Could Happen

Today in Things I Never Thought Were Actually Possible, Bandai Namco producer Katsuhiro Harada proposed to fans that maybe, just maybe, a Xenosaga HD Collection could happen. That’d mean a whole new generation of gamers could play through the Xenosaga trilogy, which was released for PS2 earlier this decade as a spiritual successor to the…

​Star Wars is Anticlimactic Without Music

Few scenes in film are as triumphant as the end scene from Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. The pageantry! The celebration! The swelling John Williams soundtrack! Well, maybe it isn’t so impressive when you take away that last bit. Auralnauts reimagined what the end of Star Wars sounded like without all that pesky…