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Dark Souls Fan Editing Full-Length Movies Telling Each Game’s Confusing Story
It’s tough enough to follow what’s happening in Dark Souls that Bandai Namco ran a contest asking people to help explain it. But if you’re looking for something in-depth, MoonlightButterfly on YouTube has you covered. I sorta know what happened in Demon’s Souls, Dark Souls, Dark Souls II, and Bloodborne, even if the story isn’t…
By Patrick Klepek Published March 17, 2016 -
Damn, People Who Sell DayZ Cheats Make A Lot of Money
Services that sell game-breaking cheats are no secret; many multiplayer games, from Counter-Strike to GTA V, have their share of dishonest players. And, as it turns out, the people providing these cheats are rolling in the dough. As reported by PCGamesN, DayZ developer Eugen Harton had a GDC presentation yesterday that touched on Bohemia Interactive’s…
By Patricia Hernandez Published March 17, 2016 -
The Games That Inspired The Year’s Best Game Developers
We asked one question to the winning game developers at last night’s Game Developers Choice and Independent Games Festival awards: “What is the one game that inspired you to go into the creation of video games?” Here’s what they said: Keep Talking And Nobody Explodes (Steel Crate Games), IGF Winner for Excellence In Design “StarCraft.…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 17, 2016 -
Angered Game Developer Sues Critic Jim Sterling For $10 Million
If game critic and video-maker Jim Sterling has a nemesis, it’s game developer Digital Homicide. That name might not sound familiar, as they’re a small studio that has released a couple of games on Steam. But they may soon enter notoriety after this month’s unprecedented actions. On March 16, Digital Homicide formally filed a lawsuit…
By Patrick Klepek Published March 17, 2016 -
How I Felt After An Entire Day Of VR
On Monday I ran an endurance gauntlet of VR demos: 10 games, 30 minutes each, one after the other. This article originally appeared on Kotaku UK. It was a showcase of all the Oculus Rift’s launch games, many of which I really liked. But it also brought up a question I’ve had for a while…
Keza MacDonald Published March 17, 2016 -
One-Punch Man‘s Hard Training Scene Recreated Shot-By-Shot
Airy Fidelity and his friends remade one of the most memorable scenes of One-Punch Man in real life: Saitama’s motivational speech about his strict workout methods. 100 push ups, 100 sit ups, 100 squats every day! And in this case, some clever usage of budget props, too. To contact the author of this post, write…
By Gergo Vas Published March 17, 2016 -
It’s Friggin’ Hard to Beat Undertale’s Final Boss in Minecraft
Hey, have you finished Undertale? If you haven’t, there’s massive spoilers within. But if you have, get ready for an extremely cool Minecraft build: a playable version of Undertale’s final boss fight. Created by redditor TheAfroOfDoom and submitted to r/undertale, the project is basically Undertale’s Photoshop Flowey fight, complete with (most of) the original visuals,…
By András Neltz Published March 17, 2016 -
A Quick Tour of Miitomo, Nintendo’s First Mobile App
Three years ago, the very idea of Nintendo creating an experience solely targeted at smartphone users seemed like an outlier, bizarro-world possibility. Today, Nintendo released Miitomo in Japan for iOS and Android devices. Here’s what it looks like. Miitomo’s debut is only limited to Japanese storefronts right now, meaning that you’ll need a Japanese iTunes…
By Evan Narcisse Published March 17, 2016 -
A Beautiful, Animated Tribute To Satoru Iwata
There are lots of awards and drinks and congratulations going on at the Game Developers Choice Awards tonight, but proceedings were stopped dead in their tracks for a few minutes during a most touching tribute tolate Nintendo President Satoru Iwata It was made by Raber Umphenour,Shawne Benson and Braid artist David Hellman, with some help…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 17, 2016 -
Razer’s Notebook-Boosting Graphics Card Box Arrives In April
Revealeda couple months back at CES 2016, Razer’s Core is a plug and play way to add an external graphics card to the company’s line of skinny notebooks. Now it has a $499 price tag, and April release date and both major GPU makers’ blessing. Similar to products like Alienware’s Graphics Amplifier, the Core houses…
By Mike Fahey Published March 16, 2016 -
Everything We Just Learned About Zero Escape 3: Zero Time Dilemma
Today in San Francisco, director Kotaro Uchikoshi and the rest of the team behind Zero Escape 3: Zero Time Dilemma revealed a bunch of new details for the upcoming adventure game. Which is crazy-exciting news for those of us who have played and fallen in love with 999 and Zero Escape: Virtue’s Last Reward Kirk…
By Jason Schreier Published March 16, 2016 -
At Least Marco Rubio Is Good At Tecmo Bowl (And Talking Shit)
While Marco Rubio was a consistent loser on the 2016 campaign trail, he can hold his head high remembering that there are two things on this Earth that he’s apparently very good at: Tecmo Bowl and talking trash A profile on Salon, focusing on Rubio’s time as a football player at Tarkio College, reveals that…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 16, 2016 -
Hey, game developers! We’d love to meet more of you at GDC. Kirk Hamilton and I are carving out a couple of hours this Thursday (3pm-5pm PT) to meet anyone who wants to swing by at the show. Location: Near the big windows on the second floor of Moscone West. We’ll have a sign.
By Stephen Totilo Published March 16, 2016 -
Successful Kickstarter Ends In Payment Disaster [Update]
A Place for the Unwilling is an adventure game that passed its Kickstarter funding goal earlier today. The celebration was short-lived, however; what followed has been nothing short of a disaster. As soon as the clock ticked over ending the game’s Kickstarter, and the system began to process people’s credit card payments, something went horribly…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 16, 2016 -
A Video Game About Changing What Happens In Shakespeare’s Hamlet
Elsinore is a game where you play as Ophelia from Shakespeare’s Hamlet. She’s stuck in a time loop, ala Groundhog Day or Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask. Her goal? To prevent Hamlet, a Shakespearean tragedy so tragic that it borders on ludicrous, from ending tragically. I took a look at the game while at GDC…
By Nathan Grayson Published March 16, 2016 -
Your VR Apathy Is Entirely Understandable
First impression in a room full of people playing virtual reality games: these people look goofy, and the games they’re playing look dull. Then you put on the headset. With the headset on, wow, some of them are so impressive! This is how it is with VR, and let’s not pretend otherwise. These games do…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 16, 2016
