What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for reorganizing my kitchen because I spent too long looking at stuff on the Container Store website and now I feel like I could be a better person if my flour was in a see-through storage container instead of a torn bag. The weekend is also for getting overwhelmed by that task…

Just Cause 4 Is A Series Of Chaotic Science Experiments

I’m standing on a bridge connecting two small mountains, staring at the tree-laden canyon and small river below. I turn around and walk towards the road, trying to find my bearings and get a handle on the controls. Seconds later, a car plows into me. The screen turns to red and then grey, but I’m…

Ask Dr. NerdLove: My Girlfriend Wants To Open Up Our Relationship

Hello all you frightening skin machines, and welcome to Ask Dr. NerdLove, the dating advice column that helps heroes navigate the complicated webs of love. This week, it’s all about sex — the sex we want to have, the sex we think we shouldn’t have and the things we do anyway. Can a monogamous man…

The Antagonist In Life Is Strange 2 Is Racism

The first season of Life Is Strange leaned on melodrama to give some stakes to its story of a time-traveling queer girl and a potentially destructive tornado. This season’s first episode also leans into schlock, but this time, the story is about racism in America. Sometimes, that melodrama made me groan. When it works, though,…

Mario Odyssey‘s Goomba-Stacking Limit Has Been Found

How many Goombas can be stacked atop one another in Super Mario Odyssey? Playing normally the answer is 30, but video game developer and dissector Skelux has managed a stack of 200. A very unstable stack of 200. They may be magical mushroom creatures, but Goombas are still subject to the laws of physics. His…

How The ‘NPC’ Meme Tries To Dehumanize ‘SJWs’

From time to time, and especially if you’re a fan of science fiction, you may have had the thought that nobody around you is actually real. That sentiment has taken root in anti-progressive parts of the internet as a dehumanizing meme, and it borrows some familiar gaming terminology. About a month ago, a meme along…

My First Tattoo Lets Me Remember My Love For Skies Of Arcadia

My favorite video game of all time is Skies of Arcadia, a Japanese RPG released for the ill-fated Sega Dreamcast in 2000. The Dreamcast was an amazing console, with bright and colorful games that left a major impact on me. So, when the time came for me to finally get my first tattoo, I took…

Shadow of the Tomb Raider’s first downloadable add-on, a $5 adventure that focuses on a new tomb that can be played solo or co-op, will be out on November 13. That’s an unexplained delay, given that the game’s season pass had promised seven monthly add-on tombs starting in October.

New Glitch Upends SpongeBob Game’s Speedrunning Community 

SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom is a forgettable 3D platformer from the early 2000s that’s nevertheless gained a small cult following in recent years thanks to a dedicated speedrunning community. Now, a glitch discovered just a few days ago that allows players to infinitely farm one of the game’s collectibles threatens all that. The…

How Romance Works in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey not only gives players the option to play as Alexios or Kassandra, but also, the option to romance certain characters throughout your travels. We dove in to these new dialogue options, which are highlighted with little hearts next to them, to show you how they work. We’ve already compared how scenes play…

Dragon Ball Makes For Good Touchdown Celebrations

Darren Fells and David Njoku of the Celevand Browns recently did a Dragon Ball Fusion inspired touchdown celebration. They are not alone. Here’s how that celebration compares to the original Fells and Njoku have been planning this for months A day later, indoor pro team Green Bay Blizzard did their own Fusion celebration Dragon Ball…

Welcome To New Venice

Lukasz Nowicki is a Polish concept artist at Platige, a studio that has worked on games like Total War: Warhammer, Frostpunk, Dishonored and Halo 5 The art you’re seeing here, though, is all from Retro Synthesis, a cyberpunk adventure game currently up on Kickstarter You can see more of Lukasz’s work at his ArtStation page