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Steam’s Client Now Lets You Hide Games, Also Looks Better

The beta version of Valve’s desktop client for Steam just got a surprisingly useful and welcome update. The first thing you’ll notice is a slight visual overhaul, with buttons updated and colours shifted to give them more pop. More importantly, though, especially for heavy users (and those whose pile of shame nags constantly at their…

​Who Sonic Is, According To Sega

Character guides. They’re full of need-to-know information about famous characters whose faces might wind upon merchandise. Yesterday, we got a peek at a Nintendo guide that told us Yoshi’s real name. Today, some pages for a Sonic character guide have surfaced, letting us know that, among other things, Sega’s blue mascot hates going slow. Shocker.…

Stealth-horror influenced by Thief and System Shock? Okay, yes, please. This is the pitch video for Solarix, an in-development PC game from KISS Ltd. The developers are in the final hours of a surprisingly modest Kickstarter campaign, which they say they’ll use to add animations, record professional actors, and re-work some of the sound design.

Now that’s what I call retro gaming. One inventive soul hooked up new (and new-ish) games like Watch Dogs and Grand Theft Auto V to a TV set from the 1970’s, and the results look surprisingly cool. This gives the hipster in me so many ideas… imgur via Reddit

A Survival Game Where You Can’t Actually Die

Luke already wrote a bit about Eidolon, the zombie-less, crafting-free survival game, but I figured I’d give it a try as well. The game is massive and mysterious, a ringing, pristine silence after a disaster. It really is incredible to explore, even if not a lot happens sometimes. Watch my video and see for yourself.…

​Happy Anniversary to One of 2013’s Best Games

Do you remember the moment when you learned how to play video games? When the joystick or the gamepad stop being a foreign object and started feeling like a part of your body? Maybe you do; maybe you don’t. Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons is a game that puts you back in touch with…

Everyone Should Play A Dungeon Crawler With A DDR Pad

Crypt of the Necrodancer — the rhythm roguelike that lets you control the game with a dance pad — is out for PC and Mac on Steam early access, and while I’ve been really digging it in its early state, I wanted to see what other people think. In particular, the average person that hasn’t…

Be A Spacefaring Thief In The New Game By The Maker Of Gunpoint

Tom Francis, the designer of Gunpoint, just released a demonstration video of his new game, Heat Signature. In the game, which is a work in progress but already looks great, you choose to play as a thief or assassin, and then travel through space looking for targets to board and people to kill or rob.…

​Up Close With The New, Improved Oculus Rift

Over the last couple of weeks, Oculus has started sending out the new version of their much-vaunted Rift virtual reality headset. If you’re curious what the next step in home VR immersion looks like, well, good news. It’s here, and it’s pretty cool. The new headset, called the DevKit 2 or DK2 for short, is…

Mass Effect Visionary Leaves BioWare

Casey Hudson, project director on games like Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and the whole friggin’ Mass Effect series, has left BioWare. Most recently he was heading up a new series for the role-playing powerhouse. Damn. Hudson explained his decision in a farewell post on BioWare’s blog: “After what already feels like a…

Very Clever, Xbox One Marketing

This Xbox One-focused comic from Microsoft is both fitting for the summer and certainly makes a hell of a lot more sense than previous ads That’s definitely how I’d interpret her command, too, random gamer child. To contact the author of this post, write to [email protected] or find her on Twitter at @tinaamini

​”Snake? SNAAAKE?!”

A few-years-old cartoon about other Metal Gear Solid characters leaving messages in Solid Snake’s voicemail, done for PSM Magazine by Empowered artistAdam Warren [via Brian Michael Bendis’ Tumblr]

Twitch Already Planning Big Changes To Controversial New Rules

Yesterday video game streaming service Twitch announced new systems that had its legion of streamers steaming. The elimination of an easy “save forever” function on videos came first, but people really got riled when Twitch trotted out a YouTube-style audio monitoring tool. Kinda good news: both are in for big changes. Responding to an avalanche…

Titanfall Makes No Sense

Just a guess here: nobody plays Titanfall to experience realism. I mean, it’s a game where you hop into giant mechs to shoot people. Still, it’s kind of funny to break down the many ways in which the game doesn’t make any sense. Cracked lists at least six reasons why Titanfall’s logic is faulty in…

YouTuber: Twitch Streamers Should Have Seen Music Crackdown Coming

Gamers have been up in arms ever since Twitch began to enforce harsher restrictions against users playing copyrighted music in their videos. Hovering around the edges of this chorus of unpleasantly surprised voices, meanwhile, are all the YouTube broadcasters who are still reeling from the crackdown they all experienced back in December 2013. Popular video…

Worlds Collide

Hey, that’s a pretty cool ex-pro wrestler and a YouTuber that I like. I never expected to see them hanging out together. DDP, who has been promoting his yoga routine and trying to make people’s lives better, visited Boogie for good reasons. The full interview below explains what was up. Very cool.

Battlefield 4 For PC Is Free Until August 14

Starting today, PC gamers will be able to play Battlefield 4 for a week free of charge—provided you have an internet connection and an Origin account. EA just announced a new trial period for its popular online multiplayer-friendly shooter as the latest installment in its newly-minted Origin Game Time program. EA said that the offer…

The Super Mario 64 Coin That Took 18 Years To Collect

In 2002, someone on GameFaqs discovered something curious: there was a coin in Super Mario 64 on a course called Tiny-Huge Island. Not just any coin, though. This coin was different from all the other 191 coins on the level, because unlike the other coins, you couldn’t actually collect it. The coin on Tiny-Huge island…

When You Should Consider Preordering Games

There’s a time and place for everything, including taking the divisive, frequently anti-consumer culture of gaming preorders and making it work in your favor. Back in 2013, Kirk Hamilton wrote a great post about Bioshock Infinite’s manipulative preorder scheme . A few weeks later I came on board and rebooted Kotaku Deals (then called Moneysaver),…