Super Smash Bros. Gets A New Old Challenger: King Dedede

King Dedede, who is as bad as baddies get in the Kirby universe, is no stranger to the Smash Bros. series, having been in Brawl. He’s back now in the upcoming Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and 3DS, only this time he’s getting his ass kicked by the Wii Fit Trainer. OK, so he’s…

The Man Who Helped Change The Look Of Halo

It’s not often that video game artists make the headlines, but Kenneth Scott made a few this week when he left his post as art director at 343 studios. That’s kind of a big deal for fans because he was in charge of shaping the series’ visual identity. It’s far from terrible news – his…

Hey, A New Skating Game! And It Looks Neat!

Twice in the past 15 years, the skating genre has exploded, then imploded just as quickly as developers struggled to do anything new with it. So it’s exciting to see OlliOlli, a skating game that’s nothing like Tony Hawk or EA’s Skate. Instead, it’s got more in common with something like Canabalt; you’re controlling a…

How EA, League of Legends & Battle.net Were Brought Down By Attacks

Last week, a group calling themselves DERP launched DDoS attacks on the servers of a number of the world’s biggest games (and games companies). It seemed like an awfully big list of victims for such a simple and ancient form of attack, but as Ars Technica explain, there was a bit more to it than…

​Why Female Characters’ Boobs Are So Huge

“Because, Boobs,” a short cartoon from artist Nate Ziller, is mostly just for laughs, but it also makes an emphatic point. Why do female characters tend to have such huge breasts? Because a bunch of dudes in a boardroom decided they should. [Via Laughing Squid]

A Version of Grand Theft Auto Just For Kids

Grand Theft Auto isn’t exactly the most family friendly franchise around, what with all the illegal activities and mature content. But with a few adjustments, even kids can safely enjoy GTA’s crime-world. Really! All ya gotta do is make the entire thing more of an educational experience that asks kids to use their judgement and…

​Seven Minutes Of Sterling Archer’s Best One-Liners

“Karate? The Dane Cook of martial arts?” I am… awfully psyched that Archer is coming back for a new season. Maybe not as psyched as Mike, but still, pretty psyched. This outstanding supercut of Sterling Archer one-liners, courtesy of Uproxx video, has got me even more psyched. “Fuck you, Switzerland.” [via Previously.tv]

Gone Home sure does provoke some good criticism. This time, the critic in question is noted interactive fiction designer (and Versu co-creator) Emily Short, who has written a lengthy, thoughtful essay about how Gone Home overly relied on backstory—as opposed to active story—and as a result fell short of its potential.

Game Of Thrones Season 4 Starts In April

Those thinking the next season of Game of Thrones would be starting around March have a bit longer to wait; HBO just announced that the fourth series will be kicking off on Sunday April 6 at 9pm. Things will be picking up after Robb Stark’s wedding. For those who aren’t up to speed with either…

Metal Gear Rising‘s PC Version Won’t Work Offline [UPDATE: Fixed]

Well, this sucks. After nearly a year, the 2013 action game Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance has come to PC, but it arrived with a dark passenger: It apparently won’t work without an internet connection. The single-player Revengeance is digitally available on Steam, but readers have written in to alert us that the game won’t start…

What a Nice Debate About Violence. Wait, What is Luigi Doing There?

You have to hand it to the BBC. It’s always exciting to see an adult, nuanced debate about responsible parenting. Wait, what is Luigi doing there in the background? Today on BBC World News, in the midst of an otherwise rational discussion about toy guns and media violence, someone decided to confusingly photoshop guns over…

​Video Game Cocktail Party Becomes Glitch Nightmare

I think we’ve all been there: You’re hanging out at a cocktail party when a man standing next to you is shot by a sniper. Then, everyone starts levitating and twisting inside out, floating in circles and regurgitating their own limbs like hellish ouroboros. …oh, just me? Well. Maybe I should stop playing Spy Party…

By 2014 Standards, Ghostbusters Caused $23 Million Worth of Damage

Ghostbusting isn’t cheap, y’know. That’s according to the calculations by CinemaSins—they take movies like Ghostbusters and tally up the monetary value of the damage featured in the movie. Naturally, though, the damages would be different in the year the movie was made, so the $23 million number is what you’d get after adding inflation. It’s…

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Watch Us Play Aerena. No, I Don’t Know Why It’s Spelled That Way

Aerena is one of those games that leaves you with a lot of questions. Why is this platform floating in the middle of the sky? Why are these people fighting? Why is it spelled like that? Luckily, we have a video that answers none of those questions. It’s a free-to-play turn-based game where you send…

They Made A RoboCop Game Out Of Deer Hunter, And It’s Not Bad

You’re not fooling anyone, Glu Mobile. The official RoboCop game you put together for the new movie is obviously a slightly more action-oriented take on the oddly-popular Deer Hunter 2014. Not a bad choice. Rather than following the plot of the movie, the RoboCop mobile game pits our cybernetic law enforcer against an extensive training…

​Nintendo Buys Patents of Company That Lost Wii Fit Lawsuit

The company that sued Nintendo three years ago has just had their then-disputed patents snatched up by the House of Mario. In 2010, IA Labs sued Nintendo, saying that the Wii Fit exercise peripheral infringed on their patents. That suit got dismissed and IA was ordered to pay Nintendo’s court defense costs. They apparently couldn’t…