Mai added to Dead or Alive 5 Roster
As if Dead or Alive 5: Last Round’s cheesecake count wasn’t high enough, Team Ninja announced an addition to the roster that might break their jiggle physics engine for all eternity. Announced this weekend during the 2016 Dead or Alive Festival in Japan, Mai Shiranui will be added to the roster of the latest entry in the series, one month after her inclusion as part of the Women Fighters Team in T...[Read More]
Police Say Armed Robbers Targeted Pokemon GO Players
As if playing Pokemon GO wasn’t dangerous enough, police in O’Fallon, Missouri have more dire news. According to a Facebook post on the O’Fallon Missouri Police Department’s page, armed robbers seem to be targeting Pokemon GO players. This is their statement: “This morning at approximately 2 AM we responded to the report of an armed robbery near the intersection of Highway K and Feise Road. ...[Read More]
Retro Review: Sinistar (Arcade)
I may have spent my gaming time at home playing the Atari 2600 when I was younger, but I truly cut my gaming teeth in the arcade. My first arcade game was Gun Fight, an ancient, two-player versus, Western-themed gun fighting game. This was back around 1976. I became hooked on arcades at that very moment, and that addiction has lasted for a very large part of my life. Even today, I will go to a ra...[Read More]
Pokemon GO aka Digital Meth
Video games shouldn’t make people this crazy. This is the sort of behavior normally associated with drugs. Here’s a sample of headlines that have popped up since Nintendo released Pokemon GO, their mobile rendition of catching cute pocket monsters in real life: Can’t get Pokémon Go in your country yet? Here’s how to download it now It’s a thing: Pokémon Go invades Seattle Pokémon...[Read More]
Red Dead Redemption Finally Hitting Xbox One via Backwards Compatibility
After lots of requests and a false start, it’s finally going to happen. Red Dead Redemption, the acclaimed 2010 western from Rockstar, will be available on July 8th via the Xbox One backwards compatibility program. If you own a copy of the game for the Xbox 360 – be it the standard version, Undead Nightmare, or the Game of the Year Edition – you will be able to play it on the Xbox One. For those w...[Read More]
Xbox Adding Wheelchair Option, Improved Visuals to Avatars
Microsoft’s avatar system is getting an update soon. One of the features being added with the update is one that’s pretty cool, and one that surprisingly hasn’t been asked for before. It started with a comment made on Twitter by Seamus Blackley, co-creator of Xbox, about how hard it would be technically to add wheelchairs to avatars. Xbox engineering lead Mike Ybarra revealed images showing male a...[Read More]
Rockstar’s The Warriors Available on PS4
Rockstar Games’ 2005 The Warriors has made it onto the PlayStation Store for the PlayStation4. The game, a take on the 1979 cult film, was originally released for the original Xbox and PlayStation 2 in 2005. It was released for the PlayStation 3 in 2013 via PSN as well. This is not a remaster, however. It is the original game, upscaled to 1080p and supporting trophies. The Warriors features beat-e...[Read More]
Mario 3 Speedrunner Races Stephen Colbert Cooking a Hot Pocket
As a fan of both the Games Done Quick speedrunning charity events and Stephen Colbert, I just couldn’t pass up a chance to see this! (For the record, I prefer The Colbert Report over The Late Show, but he still has some magic bits in his new format.) Mitch Fowler, aka Mitchflowerpower, appeared on The Late Show as a way to promote Summer Games Done Quick, a charity event currently running and last...[Read More]
Blizzard Sues Maker of Overwatch Cheat Tool for Copyright Infringement
Blizzard Entertainment, developer of the runaway hit Overwatch, is not one to shy away from protecting its copyrights or going after anyone who attempts to allow cheating in its games. In a lawsuit filed at a federal court in California, Blizzard is doing both. They are accusing German company Bossland, the maker of the Overwatch cheat tool “Watchover Tyrant”, of copyright infringement and unfair ...[Read More]
CSGO Lotto Investigation Reveals Massive Conflict of Interest
The proliferation of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (GS:GO) lottery sites – where skins are traded for real-world cash – has resulted in many investigations looking into the sites and whether they can be considered online gambling. One such investigation has revealed more than just the possibility of gambling: two prominent YouTubers that have promoted one particular CS:GO lottery are, in fact, ...[Read More]
Diablo II Turns 16: Revisiting a Game I Love
Diablo II was released on June 29, 2000, meaning the game just recently hit its Sweet Sixteen. For some, this moment is a cute little touchstone that recognizes a game that they played for a while before they moved on to other games. For others, like me, it’s a reminder that a game they revere and still play is almost old enough to vote. I may not obsess over it as much as I used to, but I will s...[Read More]
Retro Review: Herc’s Adventures (PS1)
Back in its heyday, LucasArts was a premier video game developer and publisher. In addition to great Star Wars titles like Rebel Assault and Star Wars: Dark Forces, George Lucas’s video game studio made and released some non-Star Wars gaming classics like Maniac Mansion, LOOM, and Full Throttle. Although the majority of LucasArts games were confined to the PC, many titles were either ported to con...[Read More]