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Being An Immortal Dungeon Lord Ain’t Easy

Steve Lichman is a pretty funny comic about a skeletal dungeon lord. Who has problems. The first volume of the comic is pretty much done, but there’s a Kickstarter for a fancy hardcover version here. Looks cool! The comic is a joint effort by Dan Warren and Dave Rapoza, whose art we’ve featured previously on…

HD Remakes Of Old Pixel Games Look Like Hard Work

Whether you love or hate the idea of HD remakes of classic titles, it’s fascinating reading up on just how much work—and deliberation—there is involved in scrapping a game’s entire visual canvas and starting over. When a company remakes a 3D game, it’s not that dramatic! We usually see an increase in the number of…

Reminder: The Inside Of Your PS3 Is (Probably) Disgusting

You know how when you look at your consoles, you sometimes see some dust caked around the vents? That’s just the crap you can see on the outside With a PS3 that sounded “like a jet engine”, blowmeawayyouniverse opened their console for the first time since 2007 and found, well…a good reason it sounded like…

The Relentless Champions Of Classic Fallout 

For years, No Mutants Allowed, a news site and message board, hung in a happy obscurity. It’s the largest Fallout fansite on the internet and was founded back in the late ‘90s under the shadow of the first two games in the franchise. It’s difficult to remember now, but the late 90s’ Fallout 1 and…

The Ten Commandments Of Video Game Menus

A good video game menu is like a good roadie: It stays out of the way. But still, far too many menus waste far too much of our time. People want to play games, not mess around in menus! We’ve gone up to the top of Video Game Mountain in search of answers, and have…

Behold, The Terrible Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 5

When the first video we see of a game on launch day is a two minute montage of glitches captured within the first hour of gameplay, something’s not right. Perhaps “somethings” is the better term to use there. The problems with the first new entry in the once-premiere skateboarding franchise in years began back in…

The Medic Has A Ridiculous Drop-Ship Power In Heroes Of The Storm

Lt. Morales, a character inspired by the famously sultry StarCraft Terran unit The Medic, is the next up for release in Blizzard’s MOBA Heroes of the Storm. She looks like a strong and adept healing-friendly support. But what I’m really excited about is her ult. “Ult” is MOBA-speak for “super powerful game-changing ability.” They’re the…

Annihilator Gives a Glimpse Inside the Hopes and Fears of People Who Create Universes

The best thing about Annihilator is the subtextual revelation that legendary comics writer Grant Morrison worries if his work is any good. Grant Morrison’s one of the most revered, acclaimed comics writers alive. He’s done defining runs on many of the biggest superhero franchises around like Superman, Batman and X-Men. He’s also turned out genius-level…

How To Sort Through The Crap And Find Good Mario Maker Courses

Believe it or not, Super Mario Maker has a ton of great courses floating around. Here is the system I used to find these elusive levels. First, I’m going to assume you already hit up our list of “20 courses you should play”—there is a lot of good stuff there that you can check out.…

John Cena Would Be Crazy OP As A League Of Legends Champion

He can go invisible, has a shield that automatically regenerates, and a toggle-able passive that doesn’t need three stacks to proc? Rito pls. The YouTube comic geniuses at Crazy Boris Productions cooked up this spoof of the “Champion Spotlight” videos that Riot always puts out prior to the release of a new champion in League…

Disney Infinity‘s Version Of The Original Star Wars Trilogy Is Way Different

The second Star Wars adventure set for Disney Infinity 3.0 begins with Luke, Leia, Han, Chewie and the droid flying escape pods to Tatooine for their first meeting with Obi-Wan Kenobi. Wait a minute… It’s a kids game, I know, but the Star Wars fan inside me can’t help but go a little nuts over…

Davey Wreden, co-creator of The Stanley Parable, has announced his new game, The Beginner’s Guide. While we don’t know much about The Beginner’s Guide yet, chances are it’s pretty weird. We won’t have to wait long to play it, either, as game’s website says it’s launching on October 1 for PC and Mac. Contact the…

In Defense of SOMA‘s Horrifying Villain

Some players are rooting for the bad guy as humanity’s last hope, but why? Warning: There some SOMA spoilers ahead. There are lots of reasons things have gone so bad for SOMA’s underwater station, PATHOS-2, but the AI overseeing its operation, WAU, hasn’t helped. But in the eyes of some players, WAU is the one…

The PS4’s next system update, which will add YouTube streaming among other features, goes live tomorrow. Here’s hoping it fixes that bug where you can’t access the PS Store without rebooting!

Jotun Has One of the Craziest Boss Battles I’ve Played in a Long Time

Yesterday I played one of Jotun’s boss battles over and over for 6, 7, 8 hours. I died dozens (hundreds?) of times. I should hate it, right? Nope, I loved every agonizing second of it. Jotun is an action-adventure/exploration game where players control Thora, a warrior woman trying to ascend to Valhalla after she’s died…

Video Game Kickstarter Disappears With Over $30,000

It’s the ultimate Kickstarter horror story: You help fund a project. They succeed. They stop sending out updates. Their website expires. And nearly two years later, it’s become clear that they’ve disappeared with your money. In December of 2013, gamers paid over $30,000 to fund a Kickstarter for a game called Mansion Lord. A month…

A Guide To Playing League Of Legends And Its Ilk Without Losing It

The first time I played League of Legends against other people, I had no idea what I was doing. I don’t remember what champion I played, but I do remember how my team reacted: “Fuckin’ noob. Kill yourself.” After that I didn’t feel like playing it again, so I went and spent time with other…

The Best (And Worst) Advice Video Games Can Give

We’re so used to the idea of games prompting us and helping us out that the concept of some 1s and 0s giving us advice just seems…weirdly natural. The Twitter feed Video Game Advisor (via Super Punch) is here to remind us how absurd that is, cataloguing a constant stream of those times video games…

The Friggin First Five Minutes Of Guns, Gore And Cannoli 

If you’re a horde of undead looking to devour the living, maybe don’t do it in a 1920s city run by the Mafia. Watch on Youtube Released for the PC back in April, theXbox One last week and the PlayStation 4 when it feels like it, Guns, Gore and Cannoli is a game about what…

Elves March Into Battle In Huge Dungeons & Dragons LEGO Fan-Build

There’s no question LEGO builder Ivan Angeli is into Dungeons & Dragons and its Forgotten Realms setting. His gigantic, awesome D&D diorama is the proof. Remember Baldur’s Gate II’s final chapter? It took place in the elven city of Suldanessellar, and this part of The Forgotten Realms is what Ivan Angeli rebuilt. And just like…