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Cats Live Like Humans and Dinosaurs Make Great Pets in This Week’s Nintendo Download

You like to live on the edge of urban animal husbandry. No domesticated felines or canines for you. It’s all ferrets, dingoes and boa constrictors in your often-raided abode. But even those species of barely tame fauna aren’t enough. You want to laugh in extinction’s face. You need… dinosaurs. One of the weirder games in…

By Evan Narcisse Published January 10, 2013

Six Things More Online Shooters Should Do

I play lots of online shooters—from esoteric indie ones like Waiting For Horus to popular ones like like Call of Duty. This means I have (possibly crackpot) ideas on how online shooters could improve. While it’s important that different franchises retain what makes them special, there are some things that I think nearly every shooter…

By Patricia Hernandez Published January 10, 2013

The Most Terrifying Skiing Video Game Ever Arrives on iOS

SkiFree is a simple little skiiing game that was first released in 1991 as part of the Microsoft Windows Entertainment Pack. I got a copy free with a ten-pack of Verbatim 3.5″ floppy disks. It was all good fun until the abominable snowmen started showing up. The primitive pixel monsters in SkiFree were a complete…

By Mike Fahey Published January 10, 2013

The Board Game Inspired By Video Games

There are plenty of video games based on board games. And board games based on video game properties. But a board game genuinely inspired by video games? Please, Rivet Wars, continue. Perhaps unsurprisingly, given this pitch, the game is the brainchild of Ted Terranova, a former developer at Big Huge Games (Rise of Nations) who…

By Luke Plunkett Published January 10, 2013

An Important Reminder about Tetsuya Nomura: The Man Has Mad Skills

Tetsuya Nomura wears various hats at Japanese game maker Square Enix. He designs games, he produces them, he directs them—he also designs characters! His artwork is perhaps the most influential of the Final Fantasy series. But it’s sometimes easy to forget his pure artistic talent, and sometimes easier to get lost in his resume, whether…

By Brian Ashcraft Published January 10, 2013

There’s An Official Xbox 360 Car Being Sold In Mexico

Because… somebody wills it, Volkswagen’s Mexican branch will soon be selling a limited edition Beetle based on the Xbox 360. With branded stripes down the side and a colour range that (mostly) matches that of Xbox 360 consoles, it’s certainly a thing Strangely, there’s no Xbox 360 integration in the car (sorry, this isn’t Pimp…

By Luke Plunkett Published January 10, 2013

Grand Theft… Mario Kart

Malaysian artist Amirul Hafiz looks to Grand Theft Auto V for inspiration in this Mario piece. He’s got the colours almost perfect GRAND THEFT MARIO KART [DeviantArt, via it 8-bit]

By Luke Plunkett Published January 10, 2013

The 13 Movies That Inspired Vice City’s Perfect 1980s

Rockstar’s 2002 classic Vice City remains so popular today as much for its bottling of mid-80s culture and excess as it does the actual game The game’s soundtrack rightly gets a lot of credit for this, as does the colour palette, but have you ever wondered which movies served as the inspiration for the neon-infused…

By Luke Plunkett Published January 10, 2013

Monopoly Thinks It’s A Comic Book, Wants To Kill A Game Piece

Hasbro, perhaps after a sharp blow to the head, have decided a good way to get people interested in Monopoly again is to launch a campaign where one of the game’s iconic pieces is killed off. Not only are they messing with a tradition that didn’t need to be messed with, they’re handling it in…

By Luke Plunkett Published January 10, 2013

A Real Photo That Makes Manhattan Look Like SimCity

Photographer Sergey Semonov is responsible for the above image that makes the heart of New York City look like a spline that’s just been reticulated. It’s not technically a single photo; instead, it’s a composite of a number of photos taken during a helicopter ride. Sergey presents it as a stunning interactive panorama on his…

By Luke Plunkett Published January 9, 2013

German Scientists Have Built A Real, Functional Laser Turret

You say the words “laser turret”, and you think strategy games. Maybe shooters. They’re as clichéd a defensive tool that science fiction stories can get, but now, thanks to German scientists, they’re real. While ground-to-laser technology has existed for a while now, this pair of weapons is really something else, boasting a twin-barrel casing that…

By Luke Plunkett Published January 9, 2013

You Haven’t Seen Rapture Until You’ve Seen It Recreated With Blocks

Kevin, Jake and Stewie of website Hungercraft are to thank for this incredible recreation of BioShock’s Rapture in Minecraft, captured perfectly not just in block form, but in a fantastic trailer as well. If you’re over Minecraft recreations, imagine it’s LEGO BioShock. That’ll get you there. The map recreating the underwater metropolis will be released…

By Luke Plunkett Published January 9, 2013

Damn It Feels Good To Be A Gangster

“Gangster.” The word has so many connotations in today’s media-saturated, Hollywood-influenced world. It’s hard to believe there ever was such a thing as a non-archetypal gangster. This great new video essay from Press Play by Nelson Carvajal and Matt Zoller Seitz explores the various identities of the Hollywood gangster over the years. What’s your favorite…