Getting Famous In The Sims 4: A Short Story

When I moved to Del Sol Valley, I was so sure that it was going to be my ticket to fame. Instead, I’m in round after round of auditions for bit parts and commercial spots. Meanwhile, my two weird, nerdy roommates are streaming themselves to superstardom. “Skyler,” you might ask me, “how can you get…

Pokémon Let’s Go Helped Me Connect With My Son

“Dad, can we play Pokémon together?” my seven-year-old son Seamus asked as I wandered about Kanto in Pokémon Let’s Go! Eevee. It was the first time he’d asked to play a video game with me. It led to the first time we played a video game together. Seamus and his twin brother, Archer, love video…

Nintendo’s Reggie Fils-Aime On Hopes For An N64 Classic, Switch Online, And Sakurai’s Smash Roster Tweets

The president of Nintendo of America, Reggie Fils-Aime, was in New York this week to sell his company’s big holiday line-up. But there was plenty more to talk about, too. A good portion of our conversation involved Fils-Aime’s pitch for the newest Switch and 3DS games. You can read about that in the first part…

A Young Man’s Ego Doomed A Much-Hyped Jurassic Park Game

Do you remember what you were like at age 25? It was only four years ago for me, and I already think I was pretty much the worst back then. Seamus Blackley also doesn’t have a stellar opinion of the man he used to be at 25. At the time, he was executive producer on…

Everyone Could Use A Little McCree

Good Smile Company’s big-headed McCree figure is every bit the roguish cowboy fans know and love, even if his high noon is a lot lower than normal.  Joining the Nendoroid Overwatch figure rosternext July, this version of McCree packs a whole lot of swagger into a small package. Don’t let the smile fool you, he’s also…

The PS Vita Version Of Vanillaware’s Latest Game Canceled

In 2015, Vanillaware announced 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita. That was then. Now, it’s 2018, and the game’s Vita version has been canceled. Set in a world filled with school kids and mecha, 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim looks to be another visually stunning game from Dragon’s Crown and Odin Sphere…

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Imagining The Star Of A Western Assassin’s Creed

Gislaine Avila is a character designer and illustrator from Brazil, who has some ideas about what a Western (the genre, not the hemisphere) Assassin’s Creed might look like. Below you’ll find a range of images depicting Delilah Graham, star of Assassin’s Creed: Gold Rush, a game that doesn’t exist, but which in my over the…

Fortnite’s NFL Skins Are Killing NFL Players

Fortnite’s new NFL skins haven’t justinspired people to pile shit on the NFL and former players, they’re also giving pause to current stars running into digital versions of themselves, like Chiefs rookie phenom Patrick Mahomes. You should feel scared, Patrick. That player has your soul now. Mahomes’ teammate, receiver Ty Hill, is claiming the kill:…

Matt Leone’s excellent oral history of Final Fantasy VII has been turned into a book by Read Only Memories, with some extra content and gorgeous art added to the original interviews. I just got a copy and it’s great.

Fallout 76: My First Day Out Of The Vault

Fallout 76 is out today, three years after the last game in the series, Fallout 4. Unlike its predecessor it’s not a single-player open world role-playing game, but an online multiplayer one. It also went through a lengthy beta period, with players’ progress from those sessions carrying over into official release today. As a result,…

How Princess Peach’s Story Draws On 2000 Years Of Women In Peril

Nintendo’s Princess Peach is the quintessential damsel in distress. She’s such a damsel cliché that she’s more important as a plot device than as an actual character. Whether you know her as Peach or Toadstool, her name doesn’t matter so much as the “Princess” preceding it. Mario’s leading lady is such a damsel cliché that…

The Latest Sims Expansion Lets You Get Famous (By Streaming, Of Course)

When Electronic Arts producer David Miotke showed me the new Sims 4 expansion Get Famous last week, he wanted to make sure I saw a new animation they’d created for it: the money phone. “Every Soundcloud rapper has to talk on the money phone in their first video,” he said. He directed a rich Sim…

Thunderlord Is Back In Destiny, And It Owns

This week, Destiny 2 got a big machine gun that chews through aliens while summoning lightning from the sky. It’s easy to get, and it rules. The gun in question is called “Thunderlord,” and is the latest in a long line of exotic gear from the first Destiny to make its way over to Destiny…