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Celebrate Fifty Years Of Yuji Naka With Five Minutes Of Sonic

One of the key creators of the Sonic the Hedgehog series, programmer extraordinaire and former long-term head of Sonic Team, Yuji Naka turns 50 on September 17. One minute for each ten years seems fair. While right now Yuji Naka is preparing for the North American release of his Rodea the Sky Soldier on Wii…

Amazing Mario Maker Level Roasts Overly Dramatic Games

We like to play the hero in video games, vowing to always do whatever it takes to save the day. But sometimes, getting the happy ending just isn’t possible. Even in Mario games. Or at least, this is what a lot of hokey games would like us to believe. You’ve gotta check out this hilarious…

The Captain America Comic Book That Got Frozen in Time

Issue #1 of Captain America: White was supposed to come out seven years ago. It’s out today. Back in 2008, Captain America: White was the next hotly-anticipated project from writer Jeph Loeb and artist Tim Sale, who’d become a fan-favorite team on the strength of their moody Batman projects. Loeb and Sale went on to…

Crappy Levels Are Not Ruining Super Mario Maker

Hardcore Mario fans are exasperated right now—it’s really difficult to find good Mario Maker levels. Want to play gimmick levels, auto run levels, slight variations on 1-1, and hilariously difficult levels with poor game design? You can find those anywhere in the brand-new Wii U game. It’s flooded with them. I’ve seen blame cast on…

Podcast: D.C.’s Wary Embrace of Video Games

Although the trauma of congressional hearings in the 1990s and early 2000s over video games published by studios as diverse as Nintendo and Rockstar remains fresh to many game designers, the perception of games and their players is slowly changing in the nation’s capital. On the most recent episode of my podcast, Shall We Play…

The BBC’s Grand Theft Auto Movie Was Bad

I had high hopes for the BBC’s Grand Theft Auto docudrama, The Gamechangers, which aired last night (and is now available on iPlayer to UK viewers). Here was the BBC spending what looks like quite a lot of money on a film about video games, and getting people who really knew about the games industry…

Final Fantasy Adventure Gets Yet Another Remake

Final Fantasy Adventure, which came out in 1991 for the Game Boy and was actually not a Final Fantasy game but instead the predecessor to Secret of Mana, got a remake in 2003 for the Game Boy Advance called Sword of Mana, which isn’t a strict remake but in fact overhauls just about everything from…

Fallout 4’s SPECIAL Cartoons Are Excellent

I could watch an entire show in this style—it’s so good! Last week, we learned a little bit more about what the S in SPECIAL stands for in Fallout 4. This week, we’re learning more about Perception. For Fallout fans, much of this information will be old hat, but it’s still worth watching. The animations…

Metal Gear Solid V Fan’s Comic Ending Is Better Than The Real Thing

Metal Gear Solid V is an excellent video game with a terrible ending. You may have heard this before Fortunately, we’ve got fan artists! Illustrator Cody Shaw, who runs all sorts of video game art on his Tumblr, drew this wonderful comic that ties a nice, satisfying bow on The Phantom Pain. It’s got GIANT…

Five Video Games That Put My Children Right To Sleep

For some parents all it takes is a cuddle or a short story to send their little darlings into dreamland. Not me. I have to play video games to get the kids to go down. Poor me. Welcome to the second installment of BRB, Kids Are Screaming. It’s been three months since my last confession,…

Madden NFL 16’s Best Mode Almost Turns Football Into Hearthstone

Ten years ago, I wrote one of the most wrongheaded articles of my career. In a review of 2005’s Blitz: The League for Slate, I predicted that Madden NFL’s then-new monopoly on the National Football League’s license for video game football would restore variety to the virtual gridiron. Surely the single-minded pursuit of NFL realism…

The Newest Arkham Knight Comic Makes Some Shrewd Tweaks To Batman Lore

Despite being the titular bad guy in the newest Batman video game, the Arkham Knight was underdeveloped as a major villain. It’s a good thing that a new comic series is convincingly demonstrating how someone very close to the Dark Knight wound up wanting to kill him. Spoilers follow for the plot of Batman: Arkham…

Telltale’s episodic Minecraft series will kick off on October 13, the company announced today. Based on the company’s previous releases, new episodes should roll out out every few months or so.

Destiny: The Taken King Kicks Ass So Far

When Destiny first launched, it was a half-baked, punishing game with the barest hint of a story, delivered through crummy dialogue and repetitive missions that tasked you with shooting endless waves of enemies. One year later, everything’s changed. I’ve spent much of the past 24 hours powering through Destiny’s big Year Two expansion, The Taken…

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off Retold With Earthbound Characters

Using tilesets and the characters from Earthbound, CineFix made a short clip about John Hughes’ classic from the 80s. So everything looks like Earthbound and the Mother series but it’s no longer about kids travelling around the world. It’s about the harsh reality of high school and the weirdest-looking Ferrari of all time. Gotta love…

Very creative Star Wars LEGO fan-build by Burglarhobbit. It’s a behind the scenes set of The Force Awakens with a green screen, a cockpit, a dressing room and even a hidden Salacious B. Crumb To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

When Metal Gear Solid V Meets Yandere Simulator

Today in Unusual Crossovers, we see the protagonist from schoolgirl/murder sim Yandere Simulator moonlight as MGSV’s Quiet. NOTE: Some of this fanart might be considered NSFW. It’s Quiet, after all. It all came from a fanart contest organised by Yandere Sim’s developer, announced two days after MGSV’s release. Those who wished to partake had to…

The 3DS follow-up game to Sonic Boom has been delayed by Sega Originally slated for this year, Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice is now looking at a 2016 release instead. The team apparently needs the extra time to apply a little more polish to the game for a “a stronger, more enjoyable experience.”

Deus Ex’s Director Has Changed His Mind About VR

Warren Spector – one of the main creative minds behind Deus Ex, and more recently programme director of the Denius-Sams Gaming Academy at the University of Texas in Austin – was, like many of us, not enormously convinced about VR. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK In an interview given early this year, he…

Look At This Fire Emblem Action Figure

Behold Lucina, resplendent and thoroughly badass in action figure form. This Figma, first shown in 2013, then originally due out earlier this year but delayed for months, is finally out. Mine arrived yesterday, and hoo boy, it’s been worth the wait. She comes with two different head options, two face options, a Marth mask, multiple…