Teacher Warns Parents: Anime Leads to Bad Grades

Chinese students, like students across the world, have summer break: a time when they’re free to pursue non-scholarly activities. Unfortunately for a group of students, their interest in anime and comics have been hindered by an overzealous teacher. Sina Games reports that earlier this week, a text message went viral on China’s twitter-like Weibo. The…

Square Enix in Trouble with SNK and the Cops

Police are investigating Square Enix for allegedly using copyrighted SNK characters in the manga High Score Girl. Square Enix, which publishes the manga, says it didn’t receive requests from SNK to halt publication and SNK says it never gave Square Enix permission to use its characters in the manga. According to Sankei News, characters from…

Survival Games Are Moving Beyond “Zombies & Crafting”

Survival games are normally bleak affairs. Tense, unforgiving simulations of desperation and death. So why is it that playing Eidolon, a survival game, feels so…peaceful? I’m someone who is in love with the idea of a survival game, but rarely with their execution. The prospect of eking out a living from nothingness still sounds original…

One Of The Best PC Games Of All Time Is Now Free

Origin’s “On The House” deal, which randomly gives away free PC games, is doing a very good thing today, because it’s giving away Wing Commander III. One of the greats OK, so it was never that great a game, and especially won’t be now, but you don’t enjoy Wing Commander III for the flight. You…

Misleading Steam Racing Game Now Offering Refunds

Last week I reported on a Steam racing game, Colin McRae Rally, that seemed to be a remake of a classic from the ’90s. Instead it turned out to be a port of a mobile game from last year. Fans were pissed, feeling misled. Now publisher Codemasters is offering refunds. Now, it’s important to note…

Existentially troubling puzzle game The Swapper is out today on PS3, PS4 and PS Vita. It’s really cool and super worth playing. But hey, you don’t have to take it from me: Check out Mike Fahey’s review of the PC version.

Mario Vs Pokemon Live-Action Short Is Kinda Disturbing

I don’t even know what I just watched. I think… I think I liked it? It’s, um… huh. So I know for sure that this is a movie. Ostensibly it takes place in an old-school Game Boy and is about a Pokemon trainer attempting to battle and capture Mario. For reasons. He’s got some kind…

​Well Of Course Broforce Is Getting An Official Expendables Tie-In

Let’s be honest: Broforce was basically already an unofficial Expendables video game, so it’s not a huge shock to hear that they’re making it official. It is, however, a reason for there to be more (free!) Broforce, which is always a good thing. Titled The Expendabros, the promotional tie-in is a collaboration between the people…

Modders Add A Zombie Apocalypse To GTA Online

Who knows, maybe Rockstar will add zombie DLC to GTA Online—but modders aren’t waiting around for it to drop. Instead, they’re going ahead and just adding zombies into the game themselves. While there are a few floating around on the web, this particular zombie outbreak mod comes from Chr0m3xMoDz. It’s not the most elaborate, fleshed-out…