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19 Years Later, Super Mario 64 Player Finds New Way To Use Goombas 

When most of us see a goomba, our instinct is to try to squash it, get rid of it. Turns out, though, that goombas can be way more useful than that. Last year, I profiled Scott Buchanan, an intense Super Mario 64 player who manages to beat levels without ever jumping at all. This month,…

I’m Bailing on The Witcher 2

Quitting, I was raised to believe, is a moral failing. You should stay on the Little League team through the end of the summer, even if you’re not having any fun. You should stick it out as an altar server at church until the end of the eighth grade, whether you like it or not.…

Darth Vader and The Other Big Moment from This Week’s Star Wars Comics

Yesterday’s Star Wars comic dropped a big bombshell, introducing a character that changes everything we know about the galaxy’s most notorious smuggler. But, along with the newest issue of Darth Vader, it showed the exact moment when the Dark Lord of the Sith learned who Obi-Wan Kenobi’s last padawan was. Yeah, the one he’s related…

The Bard’s Tale IV is looking pretty impressive. inXile, they of Wasteland 2 and Torment: Tides of Numenera, just put out a trailer for their next classic role-playing revival. Bard’s Tale IV is currently on Kickstarter, where it’s already raked in over $900,000.

Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls arrives on September 1 for PS Vita. The third-person action game is set between the two main games. Here’s a new trailer: You can reach the author of this post at [email protected] or on Twitter at @patrickklepek

Popular Fallout 4 Rumor Sure Seems Like BS

Fallout 4 is finally official, but the fake rumors won’t stop popping up. As Ron Perlman might say: Bullshit. Bullshit never changes. Over the past couple of years, we’ve been inundated with rumors about the next Fallout game, most of them blatantly fake, including a massive ARG back in 2013 that fooled a whole lot…

Disney and Kabam are teaming up for Star Wars: Uprising, a Diablo-inspired mobile game that’ll have a beta in the “coming weeks” for certain territories. It’s set after Return of the Jedi but prior to The Force Awakens, and the full game arrives this fall. You can reach the author of this post at [email protected]…

Extreme Lag Turns Dark Souls 2 Fight Into Invisible Nightmare

We’re used to lag in multiplayer games. It happens, even in Dark Souls 2. But it’s not often when a player lags so hard they become an invisible ninja for most of the fight. Two players were engaging in jolly cooperation when an invader named AC joined their game. This happens all the time in…

The Final Fantasy XV Demo Will Get A Patch Next Week

On Tuesday, June 9, Square Enix will release a patch for the demo of Final Fantasy XV. A patch. For a demo. Video games! This might be unprecedented—I can’t think of a single other demo that has been majorly patched—but nothing about Final Fantasy XV has been orthodox in any way. You can see the…

The Uncharted Collection Is Coming To PS4 on October 9

Update 10:05 am: Here’s the official trailer and blog post confirming the PS4 release of Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection. The anthology of remastered PS3 games will feature versions of the single-player campaigns optimized for 1080p resolution and 60 FPS framerate and will include access to the Uncharted 4 multiplayer beta. [Original story follows.] It…

The Next Marvel Universe Will Have a New Spider-Man and a New Hulk

After Secret Wars is done, the Marvel Universe is going to look very different. Someone else is going to be the Strongest One There Is. Another wall-crawler will be using the name Spider-Man. Oh, and Wolverine—a Wolverine, anyway—is coming back, too. In reports hitting today via Mashable and USA Today, Marvel Comics has announced that…

Post-Apocalyptic LEGO Landscape Is Full Of Cool Details

Just in time for Fallout 4, Swedish LEGO builders from Swebrick created a huge post-apocalyptic diorama that could easily be a scene from the game or from another similar franchise. Here are some highlights photographed by Jonas Wide and Christer Nyberg. Impressive scale and details with all the characteristics—a gladiator pit, bandits, highway ruins, an…

Assetto Corsa, a very serious PC driving game, is coming to the Xbox One and PS4 in 2016.

How Not To Introduce A Video Game

So my yesterday went something like this. “Oh, hey, Dirty Bomb is in open beta! Nobody is talking about this game, but the people who made Brink are behind it, and the art looks cool, so what the hell, I’ll give it a shot”. Thirty seconds later I’d quit to desktop. Why? The first time…

Worth it, though.

Gordon Freeman Comes To GTA V

And he’s brought his gravity gun with him. The gravity gun is neat and all, but it’s the first-person crowbar stuff that feels more Half-Life. Especially when you’re getting some back on those soldiers for abseiling into Black Mesa and shooting the place up. You can get the Gordon Freeman skin here

Trolled Kickstarter Gets Paid Second Time Around

Not every shitty Kickstarter story has to have a sad ending. Dimension Driver, the game that was so cruelly cheated of its funding by a troll a few weeks back, has hit its goal second time around. Asking for the same amount as their first campaign—€30,000—the team has at time of writing made €32,000, and…

The Best Thing About LEGO’s Take on Minecraft

I’ve spent a couple of hours in Lego Worlds this week, and I am absolutely loving it. The main reason? There are a ton of things and creatures lying around, all of which you can ride with the press of a button. I’m not much for building things. Embarrassingly, I was one of those weird…

UPDATE: It works now. If you bought The Witcher 3 digitally on Xbox One, there’s a chance you can’t play the game right now. There’s a licensing issue—error “0x87de2726”—that’s preventing the game from booting up, but Microsoft is aware of the problem and working on it. It’s apparently a licensing issue. There’s no timetable for…

A Huge Marvel Universe Mystery Gets Revealed in Secret Wars #3

A question debated by geeks for decades gets answered in this week’s issue of Secret Wars. Spoilers ahead. (One more time: spoilers follow! Hover over the top left of each image and click on the magnifying glass icon to expand it.) At the heart of the Secret Wars miniseries lies an unexpected conundrum: just who…