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Let’s Appreciate This Fine Video Game Hair

Johan Lithvall is a character artist at Starbreeze who specialises in hair. Which sounds crazy, until you take a moment to appreciate just how much hair a modern video game character has, and how good it looks blowing in the breeze. Lithvall got to work with Guerrilla on Horizon Zero Dawn, which means he’s one…

The Secret Ending That Helped Redeem Tactics Ogre: The Knights of Lodis

Not many games get a stinger this good, so it’s a shame so few people remember it. Ask someone about their favorite turn-based tactical role-playing game and they’ll probably start talking about Final Fantasy Tactics or Fire Emblem. Maybe even Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together. But what about the Ogre series spin-off Knights of…

Diego Maradona And Konami Are Now Best Friends

What a difference a couple of months makes. In March, football legend Diego Maradonawanted to sue Konami for including a digital version of himself in PES 2017 without his permission. Now, in May, he’s signed on to become an ambassador for the series. El Eco reportsthat the agreement comes after an out-of-court settlement, in which…

Trippy Fan Game Transforms Donkey Kong Country Into Vaporwave 

This jenky ode to a dead music genre lets you collect bananas while trampling through a glitched-out Jungle Hijinxs as a slowed-down, reverb-infested remix of the DKC soundtrack plays in the background. Any questions? DonkeyKong.exe resulted from a very small game jam taking place in Gothenburg, Sweden. The group, Indie Games Gothenburg, decide to work…

Ark: Survival Evolved Gets Sharks With Frickin’ Laser Beams After Latest Patch

Ark: Survival Evolved mutates again with its new v257 patch released on Friday. Among other things, it adds lasers to sharks. About time honestly. The patch also introduces new creatures, including giant bees, something called a Liopleurodon Magicus, and “hell pigs,” as well as a cloning chamber and of course the mysterious Tek cave dungeon…

There’s Finally Another Dancing Skeleton Theme On The PS4

The Playstation Store has tons of themes for you to choose from and one of the newest includes a reggae skeleton shaking his bones and dreads to some chill Jamaican beats. The theme comes from Mass Creation, but it’s not the outfit’s first time. They released one last December that featured not one but THREE…

Overwatch Team Wastes Four Ultimates Trying To Take Down Roadhog

Pro tip: don’t engage your ultimate unless you’re sure you’ll actually get to use it. It seems like the best Rodhog players are always playing for the other team, and I’m sure that’s how the Soldier 76, Genji, and McCree felt when they and their fellow Roadhog got absolutely destroyed in Massev’s recent Play of…

Player Spends A Decade Polishing Epic Theme Park In Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 

The game came out in 2002, but up until yesterday, I-am-Prime was still working on fine-tuning an isometric amusement park that was years in the making. As Prime mentioned in a Reddit post, the park contains 34 roller coasters, 255 attractions and shops, and nearly 8000 guests. To-date, the park’s monorail has been ridden by…

For Twitch Streamer Who Got Swatted On A Plane, Notoriety Is A Double-Edged Sword

Since the end of last week, news reports have been circulating about Paul “Ice Poseidon” Denino, a streamer who got swatted while on an airplane and subsequently got banned from Twitch. In his eyes, he was booted unjustly, chewed up and spat out by Twitch’s new “IRL” section. However, this isn’t Denino’s first brush with…

Hacker Makes the ‘Nintendo PlayStation’ Fully Operational

An original prototype of Sony’s PlayStation, dating back to the company’s short-lived partnership with Nintendo, has now been completely restored to life by popular console modder Ben Heckendorn. Created in the early 1990s, this machine is little more than a Super Nintendo Entertainment System with a CD-ROM drive. It would have represented Sony’s entry into…

Prey’s Mouse And Keyboard Controls Are Really Good

Most big video games these days seem designed to work best with a controller. PC mouse and keyboard controls are often an afterthought. Prey is the unusual, welcome exception. Since Prey is also on consoles, I assumed it’d work fine with a controller. I figured it’d have a four-way hotbar tied to the D-Pad, combat…

Rapidly Deflating Pikachu Rushed To Safety By Small Horde Of Suited Men

Tragedy struck in mid-dance number during the Pokemon World Festivalin Incheon, South Korea earlier this week, as the lead Pikachu sprung a leak during “You Can’t Stop The Beat.” Fortunately an elite squad of suited men was standing by. The incident occurs at the 1:00 mark in the video below, posted by YouTube user Green…

Here’s a quick look at Ever Oasis, an upcoming 3DS game (June 23) that feels a whole lot like Fantasy Life. You run your own village and do lots of side-quests in a cute world with basic action-RPG combat. Seems fun!

Three Hours With Prey

One of the first things you should know about Prey is that it’s really tough. If you’re anything like me, you may find yourself stuck in an area called the Trauma Center, dying over and over again because all you’ve got is a wrench and you have no idea how to get past that dumbass…

The Long Dark Pisses Off Players With Unsatisfying Teaser

This week, The Long Dark developer Hinterland learned a tough lesson: If you’re going to put a weeks-long countdown clock on your game’s homepage, it should be counting down to something amazing—not another countdown. A little over 20 days ago, wilderness survival sim The Long Dark started a mysterious countdown on its home page. For…

My Final Fantasy Keyboard Has Quina Instead Of A Q

Along with giving folks a comfortable means of typing for hours on end, a decorated mechanical keyboard can also reflect the passions of the user. Since no existing keysets adequately reflected my love of Final Fantasy, I made my own. A nice set of keycaps can completely change the look and feel of a mechanical…

Why Mario Kart Is So Fun

Mario Kart has been around for 25 years and the fun has never let up. How has the beloved racing manage to stay so exciting over the years? We take a look in this critical video. Transcript: There’s something inherently exciting about a Mario Kart race. The breakneck speed leads to frantic chases towards the…

You can now dress Kat from Gravity Rush 2 up like 2B from Nier: Automata. Visor and no-visor variants of 2B’s fashionable outfit are available as a free download from the PlayStation Store. Unfortunately, no corresponding outfit to make Raven look like 9S.

Blizzard Reveals Overwatch Loot Box Odds In China

Overwatch loot boxes feel like goddamn Christmas to open. Then a bunch of garbage spills out, and you feel like a jackass. Some people suspect that they’re rigged. Blizzard, however, insists they’re not, and they’ve finally released official loot box odds to back that up. At least, for China. As part of a new law…

The 3DS’ Pikmin Sidescroller Seems Fine, Unclear Why It Isn’t Also For Switch

At an event in a New York City hotel meeting room engineered by Nintendo to hype the July launch of the New 2DSXL, we played one of the new games also coming out that month: Hey! Pikmin. And we were left wondering, hey, why not also have these games run on Nintendo’s portable Switch? Hey!…