Last year Harebrained Schemes started a Kickstarter to raise funds to bring Shadowrun back from the FPS hell that Microsoft took it to. They were able to raise a little over 1.8 million dollars to bring this classic pen and paper game to life as an isometric third person role playing game that turns into [...]
The less explanation I give about this (especially if you’ve never heard of Marble Hornets or Slenderman), the more effective it is.
The guys from RiffTrax/MST3K (Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbett) teamed up with Joystiq to lend their hilarious commentary to some great clips from some of the biggest names in video games. The result? Pure awesomeness.
Raise your hand if you were a SNES fanboy. You too? My childhood was carved out by some of the best platforming and RPG games that only Nintendo could produce. While Genesis may have done some things that Nintendo didn’t (I refuse to type Nintendon’t…oh damn), the SNES was one killer piece of hardware and [...]
“Women want me! Men, want to be like me! Assholes!”
Tony Hawk’s soundtrack was a revelation at the time it came out. While it was not the first video game to have licensed music, it was arguably the video game with the best use of licensed music. Not only did they feature punk legends like Dead Kennedys and The Vandals, but they introduced kids all [...]
I’m one of the few people that just didn’t care for Skyrim or Oblivion. As fucked as it is, they gave me too much freedom to do what I wanted and because of that I ended up doing nothing but wandering around aimlessly. Sure it was a pretty game and massively huge but I just [...]
Balki Bartokomous is here to guide you through a ridiculous and literal translation of the Perfect Strangers theme song and it’s fucking great. Let Balki help you achieve your dreams and you will learn that nothing will be able to stop you.
OMG. DID YOU SEE WHAT THEY DID WITH THAT NEW GAMEPLAY FEATURE? FPS’S WILL NEVER BE THE SAME. CANNOT WAIT TO RAMPAGE AND PRESTIGE 7 TIMES OVER.
Game designer, Johan Peitz, created this deconstruction of Super Mario Brothers for his entry to the 23rd Ludum Dare 48 hour game development challenge. He attempted to re-create every level from the original Super Mario Brothers game, but on a single screen. The result? A surprisingly fun, almost puzzle-like, version of Super Mario Brothers. [...]