Finally, Someone Did A Statistical Analysis of Bob Ross’ Paintings

You want too much information? Well then, here you go. FiveThirtyEight ran all of Bob “Happy Little Trees” Ross‘ paintings through a giant calculator, and what they discovered is… enlightening. Unsurprisingly, 91% of his paintings contain trees, but did you know Ross refused to have any signs of humanity in his work? It’s actually really…

So That’s Who Watches The Watch Dogs

(Tweeted by Justin Kruger ‏with the caption, “Just saw the best image of #PAXEast. A sole Boston Police Officer watching the @watchdogsgame trailer.”)

A Video Game About People Who Pretend To Be Airplanes

Sometimes a headline and a video are really all you need. You can check out Cult of the Wind on Steam Greenlight

New JRPGs For Vita Make Me Unreasonably Happy

Between PS1 Classics and newer games like Persona 4 Golden, the unheralded PlayStation Vita has become an essential beast for JRPG fans and today brings news of more cool Japanese stuff for western gamers. In addition to Freedom Wars, which we talked about earlier, Sony has just announced plans to localize the Soul Sacrifice remake…

A Breakdown of The New Smash Bros. Mode

Based on what we’ve seen of Smash Run, the recently-revealed multiplayer mode in Super Smash Bros. where players traverse dungeon-like levels and collect power-ups, it looks like the 3DS-specific mode could be a blast. The smaller details hidden in the Smash Run footage—which GameXplain break down in the video above—only solidify that notion. Here is…

Indie RPG Channels Old-School Ys

Meet Chasm, an upcoming indie 2D dungeon-crawler inspired by the likes of Ys III: Wanderers From Ys and other old-school RPG-slash-platformers from the 16-bit days. Chasm is out for PC this fall. We played it at PAX East this past weekend. Hands-on video impressions above.

Child of Light continues to look gorgeous as heck. Ubisoft’s new RPG will be out April 30 for PC, PS4, PS3, Xbox 360, Xbox One, and Wii U. New trailer above.

A Closer Look At One Of The Prettiest Dungeon Crawlers Out There

Straight out of PAX East 2014, here’s Below, a serene dungeon crawler from Capy, the company behind Clash of Heroes and Sword & Sworcery. It’s hard to capture just how pretty this game really is, but we did what we could.

​Dark Souls Erotic Fanfiction is Actually Really Funny

Rule 34 at work again: YouTube user Protag has written some pretty funny Dark Souls erotic fiction, then recorded a reading of it for the Internet in a variety of pleasing British accents. It’s called The Legend of the Twin Humanities. It includes the phrase “He was balls deep in sorrowful lamentation,” and also very…

2DS with Pokemon X for $100, 3DS XLs On Sale, 840 EVO 1TB, South Park

Whether you want a 2DS or 3DS XL, today is a good day to get one. The highlight here is the 2DS bundled with Pokemon X for $100, which is an extremely low barrier to entry to get yourself into that portable game ecosystem. Target is also throwing in a $40 gift card with the…

The Ten Plagues, Ranked

1. Slaying of the firstborn 2. Boils 3. Locusts 4. Water turned into blood 5. Diseased livestock 6. Darkness 7. Lice 8. Flies 9. Thunder/hail 10. Frogs Happy Passover, friends Top image via Wiki Commons

Someone Wrote A Book About Street Fighter‘s Greatest Match

It’s been ten years since the greatest comeback in competitive video games happened. In the decade since Daigo Umehara and Justin Wong met in a fateful match of Street Fighter III: Third Strike, EVO Moment 37 has become the stuff of legend. Now there’s a book about it. The myriad low-res videos that capture their…

Voice Of Planet Earth Making A Nature Documentary For The Oculus Rift

David Attenborough, the journalist behind many beloved nature documentaries including the Planet Earth series, is going fully next-gen for one of his upcoming projects. It’s a movie called Conquest of the Skies, and unlike any of Attenborough’s previous work, it’s being made for the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, director John Morris told the website…