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Strider’s 25-Year History In Just Five Minutes

In 1989, marking the start of the blue-clad ninja’s two-and-a-half decade career, the first Strider game was released in arcades throughout Japan and North America. From then on, it was a road filled with cameos, curious localization decisions, and slashed-up baddies. To celebrate the upcoming reboot of the platformer series, Capcom lovingly crafted a short…

16-bit gaming lives: Here’s the latest trailer for Chasm, the Diablolike Metroidlike Castlevanialike Zeldalike retro-ish indie platformer for PC. It shows off the Catacombs level and is basically thirty seconds of pure awesome. Go watch it. And maybe check out the new website for more info.

I Was Wrong About Handheld Gaming

I was wrong about handheld video games. Very wrong indeed. There’s a hilarious scene in Malcolm in the Middle. One morning Bryan Cranston’s character Hal discovers his youngest son has been carrying a handbag to school each day. Instead of getting all weird, macho and defensive, he empathises. He understands why his young son might…

More Videos Need To Be Like Akira And Video Games

This is the video for In The Middle Of The Nite, by DJ and producer RipTide. It’s a catchy track, in that 80s flashback kinda way, but we’re here for the clip. A collaboration between illustrator Stefan Glerum and animation studio Crooked Line, it’s taking inspiration from Akira, video games and even a touch of…

Toys Are Dying, And It’s All Video Games’ Fault

That’s the gist of a great piece in The New Yorker, which looks at falling profits at both Mattel and Hasbro and knows exactly where to point the finger. Rather than angling this as some kind of terrible omen, however, writer Ted Trautman takes the sensible approach, outlining just why kids are leaving dolls and…

Official Game Of Thrones Action Figures…Could Have Been Worse

It’s taken years, but we’ve finally got a range of bonafide Game of Thrones action figures. And while they’re not the world’s greatest figures, given the size of the license they also could have been much worse. They’re $20, have decent detail, and the likeness on some of the faces – the Hound and Tyrion…

Descent Is Now On Steam. Go, Go, Go.

In 1995, a video game was released that was unlike anything else that had ever come before it. And really, anything released since. That game was Descent, which took the vehicle and controls of a space shooter/flight sim and dropped them into the level design of a first-person shooter. But where most first-person shooters only…

Titanfall Beta Signups Are Live

If you want to try and get into the beta for Respawn’s multiplayer shooter Titanfall, you’re going to need to go here, type some stuff, pick a platform (PC or XB1) and hope for the best.

Underground Farm Is Ready For Apocalyptic Salads

There’s a company in London that, deep underground in old abandoned tunnels, is growing fresh food. Imagine Metro 2033, then, only with fresh lettuce. Fast Company saythat the company, Zero Carbon Food, has 2.5 acres of space 100 feet underneath the Underground’s Northern Line, where they grow pea shoots, rocket, broccoli, mustard leaf and basil.…

Ever wonder why the people wearing those awesome cosplay outfits do it in the first place? Or how they put their get-ups together? A new documentary series called Cosplay Boom wants to tell the stories of the people who dress up as beloved characters and make fan gatherings so much fun. If the filmmakers hit…

Last of Us Creators’ Approach To DLC Sounds Great, But Risky

DLC is still such a new thing in gaming that it’s hard to say if anyone has gotten it exactly right. Maybe BioWare? Maybe Rockstar? Maybe Bethesda? The people at Naughty Dog are taking a crack at it this week with the release of some single-player DLC for The Last of Us. They took their…

Now Here’s A Titanfall-Themed Xbox One That I’d Buy

Sleek, classy, and minimalist: it’s hard for me not to like this Titanfall-themed Xbox One. If nothing else, it’s definitely better than the mock-up that was floating around in a rumor dump recently. Here are a few more shots—you can expand the picture, if you’d like: Nice, right? The Xbox above belongs to Reddit user…

Tests Are Even Worse When Dolphins Won’t Let You Cheat Off Of Them

In school I hated exams, tests, pop quizzes, they were all horrible and will forever haunt my dreams. But I’ve never had a dream quite like this Classroom Aquatic is a stealth trivia game…with dolphins. Knowing the answers may be handy but why bother when you could just peak over your dolphin friend’s shoulder and…

Playstation Vita Borderlands 2 Bundle Pre-Orders Are Live

The new Playstation Vita is lighter, slimmer, and has a better battery, and this bundle includes the excellent Borderlands 2, complete with cross-save functionality with the PS3 version. $200 gets you the console, the game, and an 8GB memory card, and you can pre-order now with price-match guarantee. No charge until it ships. [Amazon] This…

NBA Live 14‘s Latest Patch is Talkin’ About Practice

As promised, NBA Live 14 pumped out a very large patch today to address the many shortcomings, omissions or problems the title showed at launch. Straight away it includes something that should make the game a lot more understandable: A simple practice mode. “Shootaround” is the first thing you’ll see when you download the patch,…

​Former Jeopardy! Champ Says Arthur Chu Is Playing the Right Way

With 74 straight wins and millions of dollars in winnings, Ken Jennings has dominated Jeopardy! like nobody else. And he says that the current champ Arthur Chu—who’s been the subject of a lot of scorn lately—has been using a time-tested strategy that’s worked for people in the past. Jennings’s record-breaking run made him probably the…

You Did It, Internet. Goat Simulator Is A Real Thing That You Can Buy.

Goat Simulator wasn’t meant to be a game played by the public—it was just the product of a game jam where the devs were playing around with programming stuff. But when the internet saw footage of the game, almost everyone agreed: we need to have a game that lets us mess everything up as a…

Nas could be making his way to your Xbox soon—Deadline reports that the rapper is working on a 30-minute TV series with Xbox Entertainment Studios. It’ll be called Street Dreams, and set in New York during the 1990s.

EA: Battlefield 4 Is ‘An Exceedingly Successful Product’

Two of EA’s biggest games had rough launches last year, and although SimCity seems to be in a stable place right now, the Battlefield 4 issues (and patches) continue—to the point where EA won’t work on downloadable content for their shooter until everything is fixed Question is, how are they going to handle these sort…

Start looking for those Half-Life 3 clues that aren’t there, folks. Valve has put up videos for all the presentations that happened at their no-press-allowed Steam Dev Days conference. Be sure to check out Michael Abrash and Palmer Luckey‘s talks about VR and the various Steam Machine talks, too.