Ganker
  • All
  • Retro
  • Science
  • WTF
  • Interviews
  • Forums
  • Write for us
  • All
  • Retro
  • Science
  • WTF
  • Interviews
  • Forums
  • Write for us
Featured, Slider

The Legend of Zelda was an explicitly Christian game—until Nintendo of America desecrated it

Before The Legend of Zelda became known for its somewhat complicated lore and disconnected story lines, the popular Nintendo series had real-world religious influences with Link originally written as a…

read more
November 30, 2020
Featured, Slider

The heartbreaking story of how one man spent $16k on Final Fantasy and nearly lost his family

Everyone knows that Square Enix’s favorite activity is milking Final Fantasy. And fair enough, the fans love it too — for the most part. Personally I find the ‘extended universe’…

read more
December 14, 2017
Featured, Slider

The spooky, gory, and gorgeous worlds of DOOM

DOOM is a game that does its best to encourage you to charge through its levels at full-speed, guns blazing, and it looks terrific in motion. And yet DOOM’s photo mode…

read more
November 12, 2018
  • yiik-header

    Embattled YIIK dev says only 4chan understands his game Are we all snowflakes now?

    Andrew Allanson, the creator of YIIK: A Postmodern RPG, alleges on The Dick Show podcast that a far left campaign against his game is spreading pirated copies and attempting to get Nintendo to issue a cease and desist for the game’s homage to the late Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata. The campaign is also spreading accusations of transphobia because the game contains the question, “What name did your parents give you?” and a “That’s our word” joke uttered by the main character after someone uses the word ‘ginger’ is also deeply problematic. The controversies being stoked by the genderbending activists has resulted in other developers deleting positive remarks made about the…

    read more

    You May Also Like

    You’ll never be able to afford these top gaming battlestations MOM! BATHROOM!

    May 5, 2020

    Under the thumb: the evolution of buttons How the buttons we press daily were formed over many decades.

    November 29, 2020

    The spooky, gory, and gorgeous worlds of DOOM Sometimes, it pays to shoot pictures instead of demons.

    November 12, 2018
  • xbox-one-s-all-digital

    Microsoft does away with discs with the Xbox One S All-Digital Edition Nothing but games as a service on the horizon.

    Optical media is on its way out, and video game consoles are leading the way. Specifically, Microsoft’s new Xbox One S All-Digital Edition will be the first real gaming console without any sort of disc media whatsoever. Got a hard copy of Halo 5? You won’t be able to run it on here. Instead, owners of the new console will have to buy into the long-dreaded “games as a service” effort that both publishers and console manufacturers have been trying to push on gamers for about a decade since everyone figured out that DLCs and microtransactions sell way better than single-purchase games. Microsoft first tried to go down the online-only…

    read more

    You May Also Like

    What’s so scary about the 90s? The best horror games look to the nineties not as a rough draft to be improved upon, but something terrifying in and of itself.

    February 12, 2019
    h1z1-angrupug-chinese-cheater-trolled

    “Taiwan #1!” AngryPug hilariously trolls Chinese H1Z1 cheater "Japan number two, China number four!"

    July 6, 2015

    How 007: Everything or Nothing left other third-person games shaken and stirred "Everybody knows who he is and — like him or not — everyone has an idea of what he should be. Your Bond and my Bond — not the same Bond."

    April 20, 2018
  • trans-activism-super-smash-bros

    Nintendo cracks down on political Super Smash Bros Ultimate stages, including LGBT and mockery of 9/11 “We want people to smile and have fun when they play our games.”

    Nintendo has started issuing bans to players for promoting transgender activism in their hit fighting game, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. The game’s most recent update added the ability for players to design their own custom stages to do battle in, and the feature was immediately seized upon by the denizens of Tumblr and the ResetEra forums who used it as a medium to promote transgenderism by designing stages resembling the transgender flag, usually accompanied by the words “TRANS RIGHTS.” Players who submitted and shared these levels were handed 9-hour suspensions. Similar bans were issued to players who posted designs featuring sexualized imagery, the Nazi flag, and caricatures of the World…

    read more

    You May Also Like

    Arming the citizens of GTA V leads to absolute chaos Modders have patched in the 'Crazy Peds' cheat from San Andreas.

    May 6, 2015

    Media calls for VR safe spaces Everyone will finally be safe in places where nothing can hurt you to begin with.

    May 3, 2016

    How great puzzle games deconstruct our world The Witness, Gorogoa and Baba Is You reflect the societies they come from.

    November 29, 2020
  • laura-kate-dale

    Kotaku is getting raked over Laura Kate Dale’s “retarded” fake news piece And now everybody is throwing everybody else under the bus.

    Kotaku editor Laura Kate Dale is up to old tricks again, this time with a fake news and conspiracy theory double whammy about a Super Smash Bros song using the word “retarded.” The claim was made in an article titled “Super Smash Bros Ultimate’s Persona 5 DLC includes a disability slur” which states: “Part of the DLC pack’s addition includes a number of Persona music tracks, which can be listened to in full outside of battle. However, one of these tracks caught our attention for all the wrong reasons. In the track ‘Wake Up, Get Up, Get Out There’, if you skip to around 1:48 into the track, you’ll reach…

    read more

    You May Also Like

    25 years later, how Super Metroid came to define a genre It drastically reimagined how people would think about action games, and still shows up on “best game of all time” lists to this day.

    March 16, 2019

    The craziest things people ever did to persuade parents to buy video games Kids can be very creative when they want something.

    October 6, 2016
    red-dawn-redemption-2-female-npcs-feminism

    Youtuber banned after hilarious murder—of female video game character Viral RDR2 video of feminist pixels being fed to alligator pixels was too much for YouTube in latest fiasco.

    November 8, 2018
  • jedi-fallen-order

    Could Jedi Fallen Order revive Star Wars video games? Star Wars — as a video game franchise — has been long dead thanks to EA Games’ mishandling.

    From mobile cash grabs to lackluster multiplayer games that feel more like reskins of Battlefield than games with their own character, Star Wars as a video game franchise struggles to attain the relevance it once had. Gone is Knights of the Old Republic, one of the best role-playing games of all time, and arguably BioWare’s greatest production. Old school gamers will even recall X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter, which paved the way for masterpieces like Descent FreeSpace 2 and Freelancer. And who could forget the Jedi Knight games, which brought lightsaber duels to the PC? Needless to say, Star Wars has had its greats, but the only games we’ve had since…

    read more

    You May Also Like

    Before Old Kratos, there was PSP Kratos How Ready at Dawn humanized Kratos a decade before the recent God of War did.

    July 17, 2018

    J. B. Harold: the 20-million-selling game series you’ve never heard of With their labyrinthine plots and adult themes, the J.B. Harold games drummed up huge sales in Japan. But despite their success, they never made it to Europe.

    August 30, 2016

    The games that dare to sail the dark seas The humbling grandeur of the ocean: a place eternally unknowable, and indifferent to the fortunes of the seafarers it both sustains and destroys.

    June 23, 2017
  • eve-online

    Eve Online developer under fire for banning real-world politician "Spaceships have never been seriouser business."

    Eve Online studio CCP Games has come under fire for banning real-world GOP politician Brian Schoeneman. The veteran politician and Eve Online player ran for a seat in Eve Online’s in-game representative council and won, but was removed and banned from the game after CCP Games said it received evidence showing that the Schoeneman, who went by the name Brisc Rubal in-game, had breached a non-disclosure agreement with the studio. Schoeneman denies the allegation. The massively multiplayer game has been the subject of many a write-up about its in-game politics and its unique gameplay, which encourages players to devote hundreds of hours every year to building a virtual community. The…

    read more

    You May Also Like

    It’s time to admit that Ocarina of Time sucks Ocarina of Time is responsible for many awful trends that, like a bad cold, games have been unable to shake. Here's the case against Ocarina of Time.

    July 3, 2011

    The lost Call of Duty mode worth saving from extinction 50,000 people used to play here. Now it's a ghost town.

    March 2, 2018

    Gaming’s most persistent myths and urban legends, debunked From blowing in cartridges to Lara Croft nude cheats and the secret Windows95 devil program. I’m sure you believe in at least one of these falsehoods.

    October 6, 2017
  • notre-dame

    Ubisoft pledges €500,000 to rebuild Notre Dame Also grab a free copy of Assassin’s Creed: Unity.

    The France-based game publisher Ubisoft, best known for its Far Cry and Assassin’s Creed video games, has pledged to donate €500,000 ($564,000 USD) to help rebuild the Notre Dame Cathedral. The almost 1,000-year-old cathedral was severely damaged in a fire earlier this week that consumed its main spire, the entirety of its roof, and much of its wooden interior. The studio, which faithfully recreated the historic site in Assassin’s Creed: Unity, is also offering the game for free on Ubisoft’s Uplay until April 25th to gamers on the PC to honor the iconic Parisian landmark. “We want to give everyone the chance to experience the majesty and beauty of Notre…

    read more

    You May Also Like

    Gaming’s most persistent myths and urban legends, debunked From blowing in cartridges to Lara Croft nude cheats and the secret Windows95 devil program. I’m sure you believe in at least one of these falsehoods.

    October 6, 2017

    The making of Firewatch The story behind one of 2016's most unusual, human and thought-provoking games.

    August 12, 2016

    The best JRPG you’ve never heard of The SNES was the home to a lot of classic Japanese RPGs, but this one is in danger of being lost to time.

    October 9, 2015
  • apple-arcade

    Apple is spending ~$500 million on Arcade exclusives Massive bid for market share also includes special perks for game devs to keep their titles off rival platforms.

    Apple is on the ball with its effort to expand its influence in the gaming industry with the introduction of its upcoming Arcade service, and it’s said to be spending “hundreds of millions” of dollars – up to about $500 million in total – to secure exclusive games for the subscription-based platform. Financial Times quoted sources (paywalled link) stating that the tech giant is already spending “several” million dollars for each game it picks up, and is offering game developers special perks if they agree to keep their titles off Google’s rival platform, even console subscriptions like the Xbox Game Pass and PlayStation Plus. For its part, Apple has declined…

    read more

    You May Also Like

    Seditionis Tower Defense

    Seditionis: Tower Defense reinvents while making love to the classics Seditionis harkens back to classic tower defense games while adding gripping new features—and we can't stop playing.

    December 17, 2020

    Nintendo needs to wake up and realize it’s a video game company The biggest problem Nintendo has is understanding that the internet exists, and there are many useful things on it that could help it out.

    April 7, 2015

    Gaming’s most persistent myths and urban legends, debunked From blowing in cartridges to Lara Croft nude cheats and the secret Windows95 devil program. I’m sure you believe in at least one of these falsehoods.

    October 6, 2017
  • playstation-wallpaper

    Sony reveals next-gen PlayStation 5, confirms backwards compatibility, raytracing and 8K 2020 at the earliest.

    Fans of Sony’s leading games console, the PlayStation 4, have long awaited a successor to the popular platform that’s delivered everything from Uncharted 4 and The Last of Us to last year’s smash hits, Spider-Man and God of War. They will soon be getting their wish as Sony made a surprise info dump revealing their “next-generation plans” for the gaming world, which fans are unofficially referring to as the PS5. In an exclusive interview with PlayStation’s lead architect Mark Cerny, Wired got the first word of Sony’s plans to take their gaming endeavors to the next generation. The bad news is that it won’t be out this year, but the…

    read more

    You May Also Like

    The 11 hardest survival simulators Casuals, stay away. These are the survival games that make staying alive difficult.

    May 26, 2019

    They really did that?! Little known games from big developers Before Naughty Dog made Uncharted, it made the wacky comedy game Keef the Thief.

    December 3, 2020

    Four reasons you’re wrong about Pokémon Red and Blue The original Pokémon games aren’t particularly interesting or special, they were just the first.

    November 15, 2016
  • warski-dream-team-purple-dragon-alex-arrested

    Youtuber arrested after brandishing gun, threatening to kill pedestrians during IRL stream The trashy drama never stops with Andy Warski & co.

    Andy Warski is once again in trouble after a YouTube livestream shows the Canadian streamer and his “Dream Team” cohosts earning money from starting trouble and drawing a firearm on a group of Clearwater, Florida pedestrians. The confrontation started when Warski streamed himself and two cohosts – “Alex” and “Failure” – playing offensive text-to-speech at people in downtown Clearwater. As is the norm in IRL streaming, Warski’s phone loudly reads out messages and even audio clips from anyone sending in donations, and the more outrageous and dangerous the host allows it to get, the more the entertained viewers donate. In the case of alt-right adjacent Warski, most of the donated…

    read more

    You May Also Like

    qiao-biluo

    Paypigs revolt after glitch reveals “cute goddess”‘ real face — and age "Her Royal Highness" Qiao Biluo's false online representation tricked Chinese men out of oodles of cash, and now they're trying to charge it back.

    July 31, 2019

    10 great adventure games everyone must try From the games we grew up with to the best modern examples of this wonderful genre.

    March 17, 2015

    Rise of the oversensitive gamer Easily offensive? Or easily offended?

    February 13, 2013
123456789101112131415161718

Recent features

  • Why Final Fantasy 7 is (still) unstoppable
  • A history of griefing: gamers who ruin your day for kicks
  • Seditionis Tower DefenseSeditionis: Tower Defense reinvents while making love to the classics
  • The ultimate history of fighting games
  • The weirdest fighting games of all time
  • The 11 craziest video game feats ever captured on video

From the archive

  • Four reasons you’re wrong about Pokémon Red and Blue
  • The best JRPG you’ve never heard of
  • The secret to the success of the greatest MMO of them all
  • Sony makes the worst exclusives, according to science
  • 11 franchises that need to rip off Pokemon Go

Recent Forum Threads

  • ITT muscular female video game characters
  • How come JRPGs never have any role playing elements?
  • Post signs of a shitty game.
  • Thoughts on Fallout: Van Buren? Would it have been a good game?
  • What are some other games like Kenshi?
  • Isn’t Elite Dangerous just Star Citizen, but more optimized and polished?
  • What’s the correct way to play retro games?
  • Which MMORPG has the best dungeons?
  • Playing games on arcade cabinets
  • >game has dogs >you can’t pet them

Ganker | LULZ | FEMoid | Wauf! | Retro gaming twitter | Want to write for us?