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What The Heck Is DC Comics Doing to Scooby-Doo?
Shaggy looks like he lives in Bushwick now and works at an artisanal clam chowder pop-up. Zoinks, Scoob! Corporate synergy is afoot. Warner Bros. owns both DC Comics and Hanna-Barbera; for years, the former company has published comfortingly, familiar comics based on the latter’s baby-boomer cartoon properties. Now, as announced today in an Entertainment Weekly…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 28, 2016 -
Star Wars: Episode VII‘s Niima Outpost, In LEGO Form
That’s a huge Star Wars diorama! But a giant Millennium Falcon like this deserves an extended diorama. In this case, the extension is the junkyard settlement Niima Outpost on Jakku, a quite important location in Episode VII It’s an Incredibly cool display, made by Wookiewarrior. Here’s a closeup of the market area, with the ruthless…
By Gergo Vas Published January 28, 2016 -
Fan Makes Cool Paper Versions of Classic Game Scenes
The very first stage of the original NES Castlevania, the spooky Ghost House from Super Mario World, our first battle with Bowser in Super Mario Bros. Scenes we probably all remember and encountered one way or another, from the NES days, that Mark Green resurrected with brilliant dioramas. His pieces are basically 3D papercraft versions…
By Gergo Vas Published January 28, 2016 -
Flying Wild Hog’s Hard Reset, a rather good, PC-exclusive cyberpunk FPS from 2011, is coming to Xbox One and PS4 “soon.” Titled Hard Reset Redux, this new release, which’ll also be on PC, will come with “an upgraded visual engine and rebalanced gameplay, along with new enemies and weaponry.” Trailer’s above.
By András Neltz Published January 28, 2016 -
Fantasy Scene #1, by photographer Danny Passarella (whose work we’ve covered previously). You can get it here
By Luke Plunkett Published January 27, 2016 -
AI Learns To Beat Master Of Ancient Chinese Board Game
Go is a board game from China that’s over 2000 years old. It’s complex as hell: there are more possible positions in the game than there are atoms in the universe. So news that a Google AI has beaten a human master at the game is fascinating/terrifying. AI has been beating humans at chess for…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 27, 2016 -
Lupe Fiasco Wants To Fight Daigo At EVO
Hold onto your potatoes. Earlier today, a fan asked Lupe about EVO: Next thing you know Mad Catz is on the scent: And just like that, Lupe was in, Note this hasn’t been confirmed; Twitch and Mad Catz (who sponsor Daigo) are merely working on it. Though really, who’s going to say no to this…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 27, 2016 -
Sony Tried To Trademark ‘Let’s Play,’ Got Smacked Down
Last year, Sony quietly tried to trademark the term “Let’s Play”, which they want to use for marketing, but which everyone else associates with videos of people playing games on the internet. Thankfully, the USPTO is having none of it. A law firm involved in disputing Sony’s application filed a letter of protest a couple…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 27, 2016 -
Rise Of The Tomb Raider Can Really Push Your PC (But It’s Worth It)
Sometimes you just want to play a really pretty PC game, and in walks the PC port of Rise of the Tomb Raider. I already played through the enjoyably acronymed “ROTTR” on Xbox One last fall, and at the time was struck by how gorgeous the game could be. It stands to reason that it’d…
By Kirk Hamilton Published January 27, 2016 -
Here’s What Happened After A DayZ Player Gave Complete Strangers A Loaded Gun
DayZ social experiments continue to delight and amaze me. The set-up for this one is straightforward. Cyborg Lizard decided to gift other players a new gun, no strings attached. What would these armed players do in response? Would they be kind? Or would they stab Cyborg Lizard in the back? I know what you’re thinking.…
By Patricia Hernandez Published January 27, 2016 -
Player Beats Notorious Mario Maker Creator’s Latest Gauntlet With Impressive Cape Trick
PangaeaPanga is a brutal Mario Maker creator; it can take weeks for people to figure out how to beat his stages. PangaeaPanga spent than 20 hours making Cape Escape, which he uploaded on January 17. Less than two weeks later, Grand POOBear cracked it. Cape Escape is built upon a particular trick with shells in…
By Patrick Klepek Published January 27, 2016 -
Hand of Fate, Gears of War 2 Headline Xbox’s Games With Gold For February
Not long after Sony announced what’s coming next month, Microsoft has followed suit, with four games that’ll come out across Xbox One and Xbox 360. Remember, as with PlayStation Plus, these games aren’t actually “free.” They require an active subscription to Xbox Live Gold to download and access them. With Xbox One, though two of…
By Patrick Klepek Published January 27, 2016 -
How Not To Play Diablo III
You might think that there’s no “wrong” way to play a game like Diablo III. This is incorrect. Somehow, I figured out how to pull it off. Last weekend, while trapped in my apartment during Snowpocalypse 2016, Kirk and I marathoned the PS4 version of Blizzard’s latest hack-n-slash adventure game, which I had been meaning…
By Jason Schreier Published January 27, 2016 -
Gotham City’s Newest Joker Is an 18-Year-Old Kid
The newest Clown Prince of Crime in Batman’s hometown isn’t insane. He didn’t fall into a vat of chemicals. Honestly, he’s just kind of a dick. That’s what’s most scary about him. For the better part of the last year, Gotham City’s been recovering from a near-extinction-level attack by the Joker. The climax of that…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 27, 2016 -
Colorblind And Hearing-Impaired Players Won’t Be Able To Do All The Puzzles In The Witness
A small number of puzzles in The Witness will be difficult or impossible for some color-blind and hearing-impaired players to solve, though those puzzles are optional and the game can be completed without them. The puzzles in question comprise just a fraction of the many challenges in The Witness, which came out yesterday for PS4…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 27, 2016 -
Helldivers, Nom Nom Galaxy Headline February’s PS Plus Lineup
Another month, another batch of games for PlayStation Plus. Remember, while these games are constantly promoted as “free,” they actually require a PlayStation Plus subscription to download and access. Here’s everything that’ll be live on the service next week. PlayStation 4 Helldivers: Democracy Strikes Back Nom Nom Galaxy PlayStation 3 Helldivers: Democracy Strikes Back Grid…
By Patrick Klepek Published January 27, 2016 -
EA Is Changing Their E3 Plans Big-Time
Electronic Arts is essentially skipping E3 this year, pulling out of the trade show in favor of their own events in Los Angeles and London that will be open to the public. Rather than hosting an E3 press conference and putting up a big flashy booth for trade show attendees, the publisher will hold an…
By Jason Schreier Published January 27, 2016
