That Time The Original Ghostbusters Reunited For A Video Game
A third Ghostbusters movie arrives in theaters this week, after decades of trying to revive the comedy sci-fi series.…
That Time A Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Game Was Literally Unbeatable
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on the NES was infamous for being super hard. For many, the game unbeatable. On the PC,…
That Time Bill Gates Starred In A DOOM Promo Video
Yes, that’s Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates pretending to walk around in a level from DOOM and firing a shotgun at a…
Remembering Naughty Dog's First Game
These days, people think of Naughty Dog as the company behind the Uncharted series, but it didn’t start that way. The…
That Time Sony Started Making Big Games Available Digitally On Day One
It’s now standard practice to release a game at retail and digitally at the same time, but that wasn’t the case in…
That Time Ridge Racer Got Its Own Super Weird Controller
There have been some weird controllers made for video games over the years. Namco’s NeGcon was one of the strangest,…
That Time A Publisher Turned A Teenage Fantasy Into Their Entire Marketing Campaign
There were good reasons for the Fear Effect games to catch your eye during the PlayStation era, including the stylish…
That Time Sega Killed The Dreamcast
Some people have always lived in a world where Sonic the Hedgehog shows up on PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo…
That Time George Romero Almost Directed A Resident Evil Movie
It would have been cool if the father of modern zombies ended up adapting the biggest zombie franchise in video games,…
That Time The Postal Service Sued The Developers of Postal
If people remember 1997's overhead shooter Postal for anything, it’s the controversies that always seemed to surrounded…
That Time Burnout's Developers Made A First Person Shooter
In retrospect, it made complete sense. Too bad it never happened again!
That Time A Zelda Trailer Supposedly Made Grown Men Cry
Few game reveals are more anticipated a brand-new Legend of Zelda game, but nothing touches the intense reaction…
That Time Xbox 360's Uno Game Was Flooded With Dick Pics
Uno was one of Xbox Live Arcade’s best games in the early years, a fact that’s been somewhat forgotten because all…
That Time A 'Gritty' Tomb Raider Reboot Almost Sank The Franchise
Tomb Raider has been in good hands for the last decade or so, thanks to the steady hand of Crystal Dynamics. Before…
That Time Ubisoft Made a Spanking Party Game For The Wii
We Dare was more famous for its commercial than its gameplay, largely because the backlash to the trailer was so strong…
That Time Rockstar Made A Table Tennis Game
When the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 arrived, people expected open world experts Rockstar Games to come blaring out of…
That Time Team Fortress 2 And Borderlands Changed Art Styles Mid-Development
Video games change a lot between announcement and release, but most of that happens under the hood. What the game looks…
That Time Final Fantasy VII Ended Without Explaining Anything
When Final Fantasy VII arrived in 1997, it was unlike anything I’d ever played before. Late nights, lots of grinding,…
That Time Kojima Deceived Everyone About Metal Gear Solid 2's Main Character
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty was one of the most anticipated games ever. 1998’s Metal Gear Solid blew everyone…
That Time Someone Else Was Making Fallout 3
The open world Fallout 3 that Bethesda Game Studios shipped in 2008 was not the original idea for a third Fallout game.…