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How Batman Has Changed Over 70 Years

There’s been a different look and feel for the Dark Knight just about every time he’s been the subject of a new TV series or movie. Come bask in the many flavors of darkness. When Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice comes out this week, it’ll be the latest in a string of Bat-adaptations that…

Blizzard Channels Pixar In The First Overwatch Short

Back in November I said I was more excited about the upcoming Overwatch animated shorts than the actual online shooter. Now that the eight-minute short teased at Blizzcon is here, I stand by that statement. This is wonderful. Valve did some amazing things with its Team Fortress 2 character movies, but this is on a…

Nintendo Deletes Every Stage By Prominent Mario Maker Speedrunner

Nintendo has a real problem on its hands with Mario Maker. Left and right, creators are seeing their levels removed from the online servers without an explanation. David “GrandPOObear” Hunt, a speedrunner who makes a living streaming games, is the latest victim. All of his levels have vanished. (We last featured Hunt after he pulled…

Mod Lets You Play As Dogmeat, The True Hero of Fallout 4

Who’s a good boy? WHO’S A GOOD BOY? I’m…the good boy….? Forget the boring humans of Fallout 4. Thanks to the Be The Dog mod (via VG247), you can now take to the wasteland as man’s best friend. Obviously, Fallout 4 was never meant to be played this way, which means the mod gets weird…

Shitty Voltron Turns Four Players Into a Shitty Defender of the Universe

This weekend, a video game made me realize how hard it must be to be part of the Voltron team. I played a game called Shitty Voltron on Saturday. Created by Portland, Ore.-based game developers Jack Meade, Oliver Smith and Terence Lee for the Tinderbox arcade cabinet, the multiplayer game tasks four people with controlling…

Microsoft announced today that Assassin’s Creed, Dark Void, and GRID 2 are now backwards compatible on Xbox One. The company seems to be adding more games at a decent clip, but I’m still waiting on Red Dead Redemption…

19 Years Later, Man Pays Diablo Dev For A Game He Pirated As A Teen

Turns out, it’s never too late to do the right thing. Last week in San Francisco, the Game Developers Conference held a postmortem for Diablo, the classic PC game released in 1996. Headlined by David Brevik, a co-founder of Blizzard North, the presentation gave a fantastic behind-the-scene look at how the action role-playing game came…

Big New Division Patch Will Eliminate Farming Exploit, Improve Dark Zone Rewards

Over the weekend, you could’ve been forgiven for confusing The Division with Stardew Valley. Because both games were about farming! Get it? Heyo! Rimshot! Tip your waiter! A lot of us may have spent some time getting familiar with the Bullet King, but after the server maintenance on the 22nd, it’ll be time to say…

NightCry, the crowdfunded spiritual successor to Clock Tower, arrives for PC owners on March 29. The trailers haven’t been very encouraging, but I’m hoping for the best.

Most Survival Games Have Problems That S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Solved Long Ago

Bulletstorm and The Vanishing of Ethan Carter lead Adrian Chmielarz recently confessed that he liked the idea of survival games more than any survival games he actually played. I feel similarly, but his remark got me thinking about why that might be. I’m always in the mood for a great survival game, so why do…

Blade & Soul’s First Expansion Arrives Just Two Months After Launch

It’s really hard to find a stopping point to review Blade & Soul when new content keeps coming out. Today Ncsoft announced the first expansion pack for its massively multiplayer martial arts role-playing game is launching in two days. Sheesh. I guess with Blade & Soul having been active in Asia since 2012 means Ncsoft…

Super Metroid: Zero Mission And Other Neat SNES Repro Carts

On Saturday, while driving on Long Island with a few hours to kill, I stumbled upon a video game store in Stony Brook called The Revolution. I don’t hang around game stores much—when you spend most of your waking hours playing and writing about video games, the stores aren’t quite as appealing—but something about this…

Syfy’s Face Off Does World Of Warcraft This Week

On Wednesday’s episode of Face Off a group of special effect artists attempt to do something World of Warcraft cosplayers have been nailing for over a decade. To be fair, cosplayers have plenty of time how to work out things like troll skin tones and hair styles, while the challengers on Syfy’s competitive effects makeup…

The Legend of Zelda As Renaissance Art

Interesting concept with an awesome execution. Artist Ástor Alexander made some Zelda fan-art, inspired by 17th century art, and put some of the series’ characters in the role of Renaissance figures. That’s Ganon, Zant and Midna in the top pic, posing as strangers who lived hundreds of years ago. And below is Link with his…

Diablo III Player Reaches Level 70 In 33 Seconds

Boosting a character got a lot easier in Diablo III since the introduction of Paragon levels and Seasons, and it always was quick playing as a level 1 character in an otherwise max level party of four. Still, reaching the non-Paragon level cap in 33 seconds is still pretty impressive. It’s not necessarily the best…

VR Headsets Are (Mostly) Comfortable With Glasses

There’s been a whoooole lot of VR at GDC last week. Every third developer session was about making things for Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and/or PlayStation VR. Of the many major questions about these headsets’ comfort and viability, the one I kept hearing is: can I really wear this thing over normal glasses? This post…

Gametrailers Staff Return With New Site

In February,the long-running video game site Gametrailers was shut down. A month later, the staff have regrouped and launched a new team called Easy Allies They’ve hit the ground running, with a Twitch site, YouTube page, Twitterand—most importantly for their continued operation—a Patreon account Things will start out slowly, with plans for a weekly podcast…

Modded Deer Is Running Buck Wild In GTA V

Welcome to San Andreas Streaming Deer Cam, where viewers can watch a very special deer wander the wilds (and streets) of Los Santos. Frolicking along the sidewalk, stopping traffic, getting shot up by the cops, he does it all. The deer is actually running on a slightly modified version of GTA V, which replaces the…

Hollywood Is A Greatest Hits Album, Played On Nostalgia Piano

If it’s worth remembering, it’s worth remembering on Nostalgia Piano. At least, that’s what Hollywood’s current glut of trailers for reboots, sequels, and franchises are telling us. This story originally appeared on Gizmodo Australia. Trailer music goes through fads and styles. It’s rare to find a truly original trailer—within Hollywood, at least, probably the last…

(Maybe) Your First Look At Pokémon Go

John Hanke, CEO of Pokémon Go developers Niantic, gave a talk at SXSW Gaming over the weekend on the future of AR (Augmented Reality) games. Shortly afterwards, this video showed up. Of course, with no official video of the talk available (or a transcript), we can’t be 100% sure that this is something actually shown…