If you play games long enough, you start to notice a lot of similarities. “Hey, these games sure have a lot of chest-high walls.” “Wow, there sure are lots of games with zombies.” And so on. One thing you’ll also begin to notice is how many video game characters share …
Read More »Scary games for people who hate scary games
Freaked out but not frustrated Horror games often require a certain kind of fortitude, whether you have to wade through disgustingly rendered entrails, tiptoe around unknowable beasts, or watch characters die in truly gruesome ways. Seeing those things take place in a movie is one thing, but actually experiencing a …
Read More »Six years of Noby Noby Boy end with a wistful letter from 2009
Noby Noby Boy players have been united in a quest to help Girl connect all the planets in the Solar System since February 19, 2009. Each Boy fed his stretchy progress across multiple planets into the one intraplanetary Girl, but all that’s over now. Girl reached the end of her …
Read More »Classic PlayStation franchises that deserve a comeback
An earlier version of this article was posted on this website in 2012. If only… There’s a good chance that many of you reading this have yet to turn 20 years old. And you know what that means? You’re younger than PlayStation. As of December 3rd, 2014 (hey, that’s today!), …
Read More »Hello Kitty X Street Fighter is the cutest crossover ever
Capcom’s Street Fighter series has crossed over with just about every franchise out there, from Spider-Man to SNK, but the brawlers have never looked all that adorable during the team-ups. That’s not a problem for Hello Kitty X Street Fighter, a line of toys that recast Kitty and her friends …
Read More »Broken Sword 5: Building adventure from community, craftsmanship, and goats
Rewind a few months to late August. It’s Gamescom. The second full day of the show, to be precise. The previous day spent covering the opening press conferences, beginning at stupid o’ clock in the morning in a different country entirely, has rather taken its toll. As has the first …
Read More »Play Wii Fit U for free in November
If you already have a balance board and a Wii U, Nintendo would like to give you a free month of Wii Fit U. The trial program starting Nov. 1 will introduce users to the new and improved fitness game via an eShop download. If you decide to stick with …
Read More »Zelda: A Link Between Worlds and Super Mario 3D World coming Nov. 22
Both The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds and Super Mario 3D World will release on Nov. 22, Nintendo announced today. The two hotly anticipated franchise titles for 3DS and Wii U respectively joined a suddenly-populated holiday release calendar from Nintendo. Nintendo will further overwhelm Nov. 22 with the …
Read More »Beyond: Two Souls has co-op you can control with a DualShock or tablet
Heavy Rain was a 100 percent single-player game, but many didn’t play it alone. With that in mind, Quantic Dream founder David Cage decided to give spectators of his patently cinematic games something more to do than shout frantic instructions in Beyond: Two Souls, IGN reports. A second player will …
Read More »Nintendo: Wii U Zelda and 3D Mario are coming, were considered when designing the console
As good as some of the Wii U (opens in new tab)’s launch line-up has been, there are two notable absences. Two very large elephants in the room, one holding a plunger, the other dressed in elfin garb. But fear not. Nintendo hasn’t forgotten about 3D Mario and Zelda. Speaking …
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