Overlord is a Magnificent Power Fantasy

You’ve heard the story before: guy gets stuck inside fantasy world. Guy tries to get back to real world. But why even try to go back when you’re a skeletal badass with fanatical loyal minions at your command? This past season had a lot of strong series. Among our favorites was the fantasy series, Overlord,…

If You’re Visiting Japan, Check Out This Pokémon Gym

In Pokémon, the Gym is where you can go to train your Pocket Monsters. In Japan, the Pokémon Expo Gym is where you can shop and interact with Pokémon. Opening this November in Osaka, Pokémon Expo Gym is similar to Pokémon Center stores in that it offers a whole host of things to buy. One…

The Steam Stream Plays Murder, A Gorgeous Cyberpunk Adventure [Update: Finished]

Murder is a cyberpunk adventure with a great look and an interesting concept. Watch me play it right now. After a few months of hiatus (I moved, I didn’t have reliable Internet for a while, it was A Whole Thing), The Steam Stream is back! Today I’m gonna play Murder—probably all the way through, because…

Nintendo just showed off these five new 3DS skins due for release (in Japan at least) in November. The Animal Crossing and Super Mario Maker ones are particularly yespleasey.

An Arcade Racer For The 21st Century

Arcade racing games were the shit in the 1990s. From Virtua Racer through to Daytona, a revolution in visuals and cabinet design made them the star attractions of arcades the world over. Until, that is, they got stale. Once everyone had got used to big vibrating cabinets and textured polygons, and developers like Sega and…

Destiny Was On Tonight’s Episode Of Jeopardy

Who is Nolan North? No, that’s not it… (top image by @dmbryan14) Anyway, nicely done, Dennis. Easiest $800 you’ll ever make. Especially sincethe question could have been a lot harder

Fan Creates Sequel To Undertale… In A Wrestling Game

Some games have fans. Undertale, the RPG in which you don’t have to hurt anyone, has a bonafide fandom. They make some weird, wonderful stuff. Case in point: Alfredo Dizon, prolific re-creator of other video games in WWE video games, made an entire Undertale saga in WWE 2K14. This isn’t just, like, “Oh hey, I…

The Taken King’s Art, Like Destiny’s, Is Killer

Yes, there’s a Destiny concept art mega-post, but this new Taken King stuff is so good I think it deserved its own feature. It’s by Ryan DeMita (via concept art world), and Destiny players will recognise some of it from the expansion’s cinematics, others as concepts for the Taken, the amazing black & white sketches…

Steam’s Latest Hit Is Basically Firefly: The Video Game

Spaceships? Weird characters? Endless amounts of cheesy cowboy music? Alright, Rebel Galaxy, let’s do this. Rebel Galaxy is Steam’s latest surprise top seller, and its start screen might be the most bluntly apt summation of a game I’ve encountered all year: “COWBOY MUSIC. SPACESHIPS. LASERS. FUCK YOU, YOU’RE GOING TO PLAY NOW BECAUSE THERE IS…

Destiny Players, Did You Buy Any Emotes?

A week ago, Bungie made it possible for Destiny players to buy in-game emotes for their character. The emotes are the first cosmetic microtransactions to be added to the game. I’m curious how successful the whole thing has been so far. I put together a couple of polls. I’m very interested to see the numbers…

Fantastic Metal Gear Solid V Cosplay Has A Real Diamond Dog

Look, I’m not trying to take anything away from Maul Cosplay and Maja Felicitas’ incredible work as Snake and Quiet respectively, but having actual live wolves in the shoot steals the show. We never actually find out what breed of hound the game’s D-Dog is, but when grown up he looks pretty wolfish, so these…

For whatever reason, I’ve made it a habit to play Super Mario Maker stages designed to troll me. The latest? Hypercube by Polygon’s Griffin McElroy, which you can “play” for yourself at B2A3-0000-00AB-C911 or watch me scream here. Contact the author at [email protected]

Dr. Doom Is Very Different Now

At the end of the last version of the Marvel Universe, Dr. Doom became something like a hero. He snatched enough power from near-omnipotent beings to stop the end of the multiverse and saved portions of various multiple realities. Now that things are back to normal, he’s evil again. Or is he? Two weeks ago,…

Bask In The Wonderful Badness Of A Cheap Coast Guard Game

Feeling seasick? Don’t worry, Finn Asdair and the brave men and women of generic country’s Coast Guard are here to help. This bold new $19.99 simulation adventure on Steam is bold, new, $19.99 and on Steam. For more than that, watch me play. Launched this week on that digital distribution platform I mentioned previously, Coast…

Gaming Kickstarter Backers Getting Their Rewards, Thanks To Unexpected Savior

When Woolfe: The Red Hood Diaries raised $72,139 on Kickstarter, its creators hoped to kick off an episodic, sinister take on Red Riding Hood. But when the game was released, it bombed, and the developers filed for bankruptcy and cancelled some of the backer rewards. Then, out of nowhere, things changed. “It’s done, there is…