Meet “Just a Walk in the Park”. It’s a theme park built in an open source version of Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 with mostly one attraction: a maze. A maze so large, so hellish, that it took a single NPC 263 in-game years just to get to the exit. Read more… Powered by WPeMatico

Clown TV, a Korean Nintendo Switch owner, wanted to customise his new console. So he skinned it in a home-made SNES (well, Super Famicom) theme that looks incredible. Read more… Powered by WPeMatico

It was the most destructive conflict in human history, and one that directly shaped entire generations of both creators and consumers, so it’s little surprise that for the longest time the Second World War was maybe the most popular setting in video games. Read more… Powered by WPeMatico

NBA Playgrounds’ trailer—indeed, its entire existence—is a throwback to arcade sports games like NBA Jam and NBA Street. The kind of experiences where you don’t even need to be a fan of the sport in question to be able to jump on, learn a few moves and have a good time. Read more… Powered by […]

Rakuen, a game we’ve been tracking for a while now, is finally out on PC. You play a sick kid in a hospital who can travel to a fantasy world, helping his other sick friends along the way. Read more… Powered by WPeMatico

Wrestling fans might be used to hearing Justin Roberts introduce names like John Cena, Daniel Bryan or The Undertaker. But for the finale of the Video Game Championship Wrestling series, Roberts himself took to the mic to announce the entrance of rejected Street Fighter concept Zubaz and the dark lord of Hyrule… Read more… Powered […]

Early in the development of Mass Effect Andromeda, the team’s artists spent a week doing nothing but coming up with cool ideas. One of them that didn’t make it into the final game, but which was at least explored in this art, is having Mass Effect kids running around. Read more… Powered by WPeMatico

Look, I know that sounds unbearable, but this is very good. Read more… Powered by WPeMatico

Monoprice, purveyor of better products at exponentially cheaper prices, outdid themselves with this Stereo Hybrid Tube Amp. Read more… Powered by WPeMatico

Back in 2013, I had some very unkind things to say about the DualShock 3’s design. Those points still stand—this is a bad controller for playing video games—but in the years since I’ve grown to appreciate one thing about the DS3: it can take one hell of a beating. Read more… Powered by WPeMatico