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I Need A Little More Romance In My Adult Dating Puzzle RPG

SuccessfullyKickstarted back in November 2013, HuniePop is one part puzzle role-playing game, one part dating sim with a dash of hentai on the side. Is it strange that the element I’m most excited by is the puzzles? First things first, HuniePop is an adult game in which the objective is for your male or female…

Attack On Titan Comes To…MapleStory

This is not a joke. There’ll be “themed content”that lets you “Hone your skills with familiar faces” and “compete in thrilling mini-games”. MapleStory players, there’s more info here. (thanks Sean!)

Children of Morta—aka the most GIF-able game ever—is now on Kickstarter. If you need a refresher, it’s a story-driven hack ‘n slash with roguelike elements (read: lots of dying, but you learn a little something about yourself in the process). It looks gorgeous, not to mention pretty interesting. Check it out

Beautiful Portraits Of Nerd Stars Look Too Good To Be Paintings

While they might look like photos, these are actually digital portraits, all done by Euclase, one of the best fan artists on the planet. Her work is absolutely phenomenal. The lighting, the texture she manages to capture on everyone’s clothes, the warmth of their skin…truly impressive stuff. You can see more of Euclase’s work at…

The Funniest Guns In Saints Row: Gat Out Of Hell

I didn’t exactly loveSaints Row: Gat Out Of Hell, but it definitely had some great moments. One in particular earns you a weapon that’s among the silliest in the entire series—and that’s saying something. Hell hath no fury like a spoiler hater scorned. So, you know, spoiler warning. One of the best aspects of Saints…

​Are You Still Playing GTA Online?

If you own GTA V, you’ve probably spent a fair bit of time playing it… in single-player, anyway. But are you playing GTA Online? Rockstar’s multiplayer version of Los Santos is a weird and wooly place, and requires a pretty steep time commitment, at least at first. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t fun to…

Key Changes Make The Newest Version Of Resident Evil A Better Game

It’s been nearly 20 years since Capcom released Resident Evil, but the company is still tweaking one of its best games. Thanks to some key control and graphical chances, today’s re-release makes Resident Evil an even better and more enjoyable game than it’s ever been. This latest version of Resident Evil is welcomed tweaking to…

The Wind Waker Ganondorf Statue Is One Magnificent Bastard

As teased over the weekend, First 4 Figures is now accepting previews for the first in its The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker statue line, and what better way to start a new line than with the final boss? First 4 Figures can’t stop making amazing Ganondorf statues. Their Twilight Princess Ganondorfwas a glorious…

Skyrim Vs Fallout Battle Ends Gruesomely

People love pondering who’d win impossible fights. Superman vs Goku, Godzilla vs a Pacific Rim robot, my dad vs your dad. Finally, though, here’s one we can actually watch: Fallout 3‘s main character vs Skyrim‘s Dovahkiin. Andrewmfilms put together this impressively choreographed, reference-packed battle between Bethesda’s two biggest stars. In it, both combatants pull out…

An Extreme Way To Fix Mario Kart 8’s Dumb Battle Mode: Play It IRL

The overall crappiness of Mario Kart 8‘s battle mode is well established. And since Nintendo hasn’t unveiled any concrete plans to make it better with some extra stellar DLC goodness, it looks like what we’re stuck with what we’ve got. Or wait—what’s that over there on the internets? RC cars to the rescue! This video…

We Debate Why Marvel Doesn’t Make Better Video Games

Marvel has been having a hell of a run lately, spinning its comics empire into successful, critically acclaimed movies and TV shows. So it’s all the more disappointing that most Marvel video games don’t measure up. Several of our staffers have a lot more comics knowledge than I do, so I thought I’d ask everyone…

One Man’s Quest To Get Good Enough At Hearthstone To Work At Blizzard

Getting a shot at working on Hearthstone isn’t easy. To work on Hearthstone, you have to be pretty freakin’ good at Hearthstone You also have to have other qualifications to apply for a job at Blizzard, sure: But for Schaard, the requirement that would go on to take the most work was attaining a “legendary”…

The old-school business sim game Theme Hospital is currently free on Origin, EA just announced. Go get it—stat!

Five Of The Biggest Character Nerfs In League Of Legends History

League of Legends has changed so much, and so quickly, over the years that it’s easy to lose sense of the game’s rich history. Thankfully, there are always plenty of fans online to remind us that there was one a time when, say, Urgot wasn’t the butt of quite so many cruel jokes. Poor Urgot.…

And The Best Actor In The New Advanced Warfare DLC Trailer Goes To…

That John Malkovich might take any acting role put in front of him, but he takes them hard. The rest of the cast of next week’s first installment of Advanced Warfare‘s Exo Zombies co-op mode seem cardboard in comparison. Sleepy Bill Paxton, much older than I remember her Rose Mcgowan and The Walking Dead guy…

Smash Tourney Organizer Steps Down Amid Sexual Harassment Allegations

Influential Smash Bros. tournament organizer Johnathan “Alex Strife” Lugo will no longer be involved with this year’s Apex 2015 tournament following a string of allegations involving sexual harassment and other wrongdoing, an Apex representative said today. Apex, a major Smash tournament that has been an annual event for six years now, made a big splash…

Everything Ridiculous About Pokémon, In Four Minutes

Despite Pokémon’s immense popularity, plenty about the series is absolutely silly, or doesn’t make much sense. If you’re a veteran player, you’re already familiar with some of the qualms that TheBlueOwlPlays brings up in this video. They include: How the only industry you can work in is Pokémon related, because EVERYthing in the Pokémon universe…

Resident Evil HD Launch Sale, Fresh Humble Bundle, and More Deals

It’s time play Resident Evil again, again. It stacks up nicely next to the original (obviously), and you can grab it for $15 today. [Resident Evil HD Remaster, $15 with code SAVE23-PEROFF-MOSANT] And now for something completely different, Humble has launched a card games bundle. Well, video game card games, in any event. You know…