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Why In The World People Love Carmen Sandiego

Yesterday, Netflix officially announced a Carmen Sandiego animated series. The trench-coated international thief first leapt to life in 1985 and has been stealing our hearts ever since. Here’s why she’s still awesome to this day. Carmen Sandiego started her thieving career as the criminal mastermind in Brøderbund Software’s Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?…

It will not surprise you to hear that Nintendo is making a mini-SNES, according to Eurogamer’s anonymous sources. More to come whenever Nintendo officially announces it.

Thank Goodness They’re Still Making FMV Games In 2017

Polygons, sprites, they’re good and all, but Late Shift has real people* punching other real people in the face. Welcome to the wonderful world of Full Motion Video. I just love FMV games, they’re often silly, goofy, daft fun, especially when they’re attempting to be completely serious. Back in the mid 90s it was just…

Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator Is An Amazing Time-Waster

Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator is taking YouTube and Steam by storm, and it’s not hard to see why. It’s a bare bones sim, still in early access, where you can creates massive armies, arrange them on a map, and the watch the chaos unfold. Wanna see what it’s like when 1,000 chickens overtake a Roman…

Looks Like Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Gets Rid Of Controversial ‘Fire-Hopping’ Technique

There might be another good reason to pick up Mario Kart 8 Deluxe—no more obnoxious post-boost hopping. According to a video from GameXplain, the contentious “fire-hopping” technique apparently didn’t make the trip from Wii U to Switch. Discovered way back in the summer of 2014, “fire-hopping” is a trick that helps maintain speed coming out…

Blizzard Says They Haven’t Found Anything Wrong With Overwatch Healers’ Skill Ratings

Healing in Overwatch isn’t always appreciated—usually just a “Thanks, I’m glad someone is doing it.” Now, players are complaining that it’s not only unappreciated, but it’s also under-rewarded. Recently, healers werereportedly seeingfewer skill rating gains than their more damage-dealing allies. Yesterday, Blizzard responded to the controversy by noting that they haven’t found a “broad systemic…

Mario Kart 8 Switch Makes Battle Mode So Much Better

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe launches for the Nintendo Switch next week, fixing one of the biggest missteps made by the original Wii U release. The new Battle Mode is so good. Rather than give players special arenas custom built for Battle Mode’s competitive mini-games as in previous iterations of the series, Mario Kart 8 on…

One Man’s Quest To Bring Old Anime To Life

Actor Kwon Hyuk-soo is on a mission. For the past few months, the Saturday Night Live Korea star has been recreating sequences from iconic anime. The shows he’s bringing to life date from the 1990s or early 2000s. Sometimes Kwon has help, but most of the time, he does all the characters himself. Cardcaptor Sakura…

Here’s A Cool Metroid Figure

This is not the first Figma representation of Metroid’s Samus. It is merely the latest, this time based on her appearance in Metroid Prime 3 It’ll be out later this year, and includes interchangeable hands/cannons along with a small morph ball version of Samus (it doesn’t transform or anything, it just sits there).

‘Shaolin Shuffle’ Is Infinity Ward’s Best Call of Duty Zombies Map Yet

Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare’s second map pack, released today, brings us a game mode filled with the sights and sounds of 1970’s New York City, kung fu superpowers, and the undead. For developer Infinity Ward, which has struggled with Zombie mode in the past, it’s a new beginning. “Shaolin Shuffle,” released today on PlayStation…

We Rate Dogs’ Mobile Game Is H*ckin’ Bad

It’s a bad game, Brent. We Rate Dogs, the most wholesome and best thing on Twitter, is an account that rates pictures of dogs. And because all dogs are good dogs, every dog gets a good rating. Shame the same can’t be said about the account’s mobile adventure. Good Dogs! is an official mobile game…

You Can Now Get StarCraft For Free

In preparation for the upcoming remastered version of StarCraft: Brood War, which is scheduled for this summer, Blizzard has made the original versions of StarCraft and its expansion free. Totally free. On both PC and Mac. There’s no catch. You can get the game here

Last weekend I recorded this cover of my favorite song from Undertale. It was a fun process that gave me a new appreciation for people who make videos like this. Hope you like it! If I ever make another one, I promise it’ll have better lighting.

Blizzard Gives Overwatch Car Wheels, Ruins Game Forever

Overwatch just broke one of its big design rules: Every car is a flying car. And in response, fans are deeming the game “unplayable.” In a 2015 interviewwith the L.A. Times, Overwatch game director Jeff Kaplan explained that the rule came out of Titan, Blizzard’s never-released MMORPG project. Titan’s dev team had hard-banned flying cars.…

Flinthook Is A Tough But Fair Game About A Space Pirate

There are several bosses in Flinthook, a 2D platforming roguelike (roguelike-like? A game with roguelike elements? ANYWAY) by Tribute Games that is out today for computers and consoles. Seven hours in I haven’t beaten the first boss, but I’m having a great time anyway. You play as the eponymous tiny masked pirate, boarding a series…

Pop Star YouTuber Captures The Hell That Is Being Online

One YouTube pop star has created a catalogue of every single YouTube video possible, and now you never have to go online again. That Poppy is a project created by director Titanic Sinclair. That Poppy is a pop star and a YouTuber with a channel deliberately unlike other singers of her genre. Instead of saccharine,…

Telltale’s Guardians Of The Galaxy Series Starts Strong

I feel like I’ve just spent two hours poring over the first issue of a Guardians of the Galaxy limited series while listening to classic rock. It’s a good feeling. After sharpening its comic book storytelling technique with The Walking Dead, Fables and Batman, Telltale Games sets its sights on Marvel’s motley crew of spacefaring…

Skyrim and Fallout Fans Are Making Killer Mods On PS4 Despite Limitations

On PC, mods are the lifeblood of games like Skyrim and Fallout. Console owners eventually got mods too, but it’s not the same: the PS4 version of the game is severely limited by small file sizes and the inability to use external file assets. The joy of watching Thomas the Tank Engine careen across the…

Snacking Near Your Keyboard: A Guide To What (Not) To Do

The other day, our intrepid snack and gaming hardware reporter Mike Fahey picked up KFC for lunch. He brought it home and returned to his office, where, at the most recent count, he keeps 11 mechanical keyboards. Collecting them is his new hobby. And he’s taking it very seriously. He refused to eat anything anywhere…

The Disney Afternoon Collection’s Rewind Button Makes A Big Difference

Capcom’s Disney Afternoon Collection drops this week on Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC, bundling together six classic NES games based shows from the heyday of Disney television animation. They’re just like you remember them, only now you can rewind. Watch us play. We streamed brief plays of all six games in the collection over…