Guild Wars, Where Do You Find All These Incredible Artists?

Naomi Baker is a concept artist who works at ArenaNet, the developers of the Guild Wars series. And this stuff is as good as anything else we’ve shared from her colleagues. Prior to her job at ArenaNet, Naomi had worked at places like Activision, Gree and Dark Horse. You can see more of Naomi’s work…

Persona 4 (Probably) Coming To The PlayStation 3

It’s been awesome on PS2 and Vita, so sure, why not make it a hat-trick and let Persona 4 be awesome on the PS3 as well. Perhaps as a stop-gap until the release of Persona 5 (in 2015), the ESRB has a listing for Persona 4 for the PlayStation 3. It could be a PS2…

The Horror Of Spending 33 Hours Trapped On An Airplane

Gizmodo Australia’s Luke Hopewell was on a flight from New York to Hong Kong the other day. It should have been a long, but comfortable trip. Instead, it became something out of a survival story. The flight from hell Having made 99% of the trip just fine, storms over Hong Kong meant the flight couldn’t…

Murder, She Gamed: I just know a lot of you are longstanding Jessica Fletcher fans. I’m equally sure that you all know about the 1993 episode of Murder, She Wrote where the intrepid author entered a virtual reality apparatus not entirely unlike the Oculus Rift and, while solving a murder, wrote her own VR game.…

The Problems With A Video Game Reality Show Contract

Yesterday, the game developers community talked about GAME_JAM, a failed reality TV show about game jams. It fell apart for a variety of reasons, all better explained by the links in this article. This blog describes my part of the story, a minor part as I perceived it from the periphery, and includes some important…

How To Play Goat Simulator’s Secret Mini Games

How can a goat play video games? Listen, I don’t know. It’s better if we don’t dwell on things like that, because the point is, you can play a bunch of mini games in Goat Simulator if you know where to look. Perhaps you’ve come across “Flappy Goat,” while playing Goat Simulator—it’s a Flappy Bird…

​Infamous: Second Son Is Getting Some Cool New Features

PlayStation 4 eye-popper Infamous: Second Son already gives players a bunch of in-game superpowers. Run up buildings, fly through the air, vanish in a puff of smoke… but what about the power to change the rotation of the earth?? That power and several others will be coming to the game (in a fashion) in an…

Homestar Runner Actually Updated Today. Wow.

This is not an April Fool’s prank. Or well: the reason the site updated is because of April Fools, sure, but the point is, I’m not pulling your leg. Homestar Runner has updated for the first time in three years. HOORAY. The update runs with the idea that people have been pestering Homestar Runner about…

Minecraft + Tron = Light Bikes

YouTuber Rob Plays That Game takes a look at a Minecraft minigame that puts you in a Tron-style motorcycle deathmatch. Minecraft Mini-Games Ep 12 [YouTube]

The Princess Zelda Statue I’ve Been Waiting For

First 4 Figures has produced some amazing pieces in its The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess line — the Link on Epona statue is gorgeous, and themassive Ganondorf is the centerpiece of my gaming statue collection — but there’s been something missing, until now. Finally, we have Princess Zelda. So wise and regal and just…

What’s Really Fun About Dark Souls II

It’s not just that it’s “difficult.” It’s not that it beats you down, over and over again, sometimes pushing you to the brink of frustration and frustration’s cousin: rage quitting. Dark Souls II is enjoyable because you can overcome that. Because you can be better—tougher, wiser—than the challenges it throws your way. Imagine that: tougher…