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15 completely awesome old school video game commercials Blast to the past.
Since the dawn of video games there have been video game commercials. These ads were singed to the outside of our tender little brains and put a rage in our bellies that caused a relentless verbal assault on our parents. We wanted these games. These commercials are as classic as the video games they are advertising. Let’s go back to a simpler time. Mike Tyson’s Punch Out Before his giant face tattoo and his hunger for human ear meat, Mike Tyson was one of the best boxers to ever walk the earth. This prompted Nintendo to give this insane bastard a direct window right into the minds of the youth.…
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5 pixel art games you need to play right now Who doesn't love breezing through a colorful, simplified world that resembles something from their childhood?
Metroid Prime like you’ve never seen it before An extract from the new issue of Heterotopias.
A conspiracy of silence: How NDAs are harming the games industry Non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) have long been a fact of doing business in video games - but their enforcement can have wide-ranging, negative effects.
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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…
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South Koreans outraged over “africanized” Korean queen in Civilization VI Makers of the popular Civilization series of video games have angered the Cree Nation and South Koreans over the depiction of both civilizations and their leaders in an upcoming expansion.
IRL streamer catches guy blatantly hacking CS:GO at Dreamhack "Are you cheating?" "Yep."
How to convert your girlfriend to gaming: a guide How to get your better half hooked...
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15 underrated N64 games the world forgot about Celebrating the weirder side of the N64.
The N64 recently celebrated its 20th birthday in North America. We had to wait until March 1997 before it came out in Europe (remember the days when we’d have to wait actual years for games?), but that’s 20 years since the last of the cartridge home consoles first appeared on western shores; 20 years since platformers exploded into the 3D realm with Super Mario 64; 20 years since we played the latest games with virtually no loading times; 20 years since we first prodded at that curious ‘analog stick’ thing in the middle of that dinosaur-claw controller, like apes at the monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey. But enough of…
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What to make of Star Citizen Star Citizen’s most vociferous detractors claim that it’s all a scam; its defenders maintain that everything is totally fine. The truth, as is so often the case, is not so simple.
These photographs make video game worlds look real The Continuous City is a book that looks at virtual environments through a different lens.
Why you pay what you pay for video games We can often feel short-changed when it comes to buying video games, especially in the UK. So what exactly determines what you pay?
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Pokemon GO disables tracking and fans are furious Instead of fixing a bug, they decided to amputate the feature entirely. Thanks…
The latest update of Pokemon GO completely removed its feature tracking relative locations of Pokemon, while neutering third party apps that aided users with exact locations. This was called a “fix” to a bug that would mistakenly show three footsteps for every Pokemon regardless of their location. But by fixing the feature they actually meant amputation, which left Pokemon GO players stumbling in the dark. The update along with Niantic’s poor communication has enraged fans of the game. Third party apps like Pokevision mapped out exact locations of Pokemon, allowing players to find the good ones without having to tediously walk in circles. The new update effectively made it impossible for these apps…
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5 reasons ‘Pokemon GO’ MUST BE STOPPED From promoting dog fighting to bringing down capitalism, Pokemon GO needs to be stopped.
Pokemon GO is a game enjoyed by millions, an exercise motivator more effective than Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! campaign, and a way to alleviate depression. But all that doesn’t matter as the game is HIGHLY problematic and therefore must be banned and burned in large pyres at your nearest town square. The moral panic surrounding the game is entirely justified, and we at Heat Street are calling for the imprisonment of all these Pokemon heathens. Here are five reasons why: 1. Pokemon GO promotes dog fighting Anita Sarkeesian’s one-time boyfriend, and everyone’s cultural sage, Jonathan McIntosh took to Twitter to shed some light on the evils of Pokemon GO. A game about collecting and fighting cute little monsters…
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Magic: The Gathering has a pedophile problem no one wants to acknowledge Magic: The Gathering is mired in a controversy surrounding allegations that some of its high-level tournament “judges” are pedophiles who were not given background checks by Wizards of the Coast, allowing them to mingle with children who play the game.
The game journo echo chamber: suppressing dissent and vilifying gamers Apart from a few comments sections, gamers are often defenseless to the torrent of accusations against them by ivory tower weirdos.
Ubisoft security fail: up to 58 million email addresses and passwords stolen No credit card details, however.
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Kotaku: Pokemon GO is a ‘death sentence’ for black men Because of course it is.
As we reported earlier this week, someone will probably die playing Pokemon GO, at least eventually. The game has you running around the scary outside world, looking like a dork with your phone in your hand while not completely aware of your surroundings. But leave it to the top minds at Kotaku to determine the exact nature of said death to fit into their narrative. “Pokémon Go Could Be A Death Sentence For A Black Man” breaks down the chances like some kind of macabre gambler. When my brain started combining the complexity of being Black in America with the real world proposal of wandering and exploration that is designed into the gamplay of Pokémon…
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EA Games under fire for ‘blacklisting’ critical Anthem reviewers Explosive allegations by Australian video game reviewer shines a light on open games industry secrets.
Obsidian doesn’t want Outer Worlds to be a ‘politically-charged game’ The freshmaker.
If you aren’t into mobile gaming you are missing out A device you keep in your pocket will never beat a PC in terms of computing power, but drop the memes for a second and consider these eight points.
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Why making Link female is utterly pointless The 30yo video game character, who has been a man for all those years, will still be a man in the next Legend of Zelda. Who’s the sexist who made that decision?
There’s a lot of buzz about E3 in the press. Not so much about the wide variety of amazing looking games at the massive video-game conference, or trite press conferences or even Hideo Kojima’s fantastically bizarre game reveal—but about why Link isn’t a woman. Yes, the 30-year-old video-game character, who has been a man for all 30 of those years, for some crazy reason will still be a man in the next Legend of Zelda. Who’s the sexist who made that decision? Well, apparently Nintendo just doesn’t want to change, and why should they? They’ve got a good thing going for 30 years, and the series already has a bad-ass female character in Zelda, the…
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Whatever happened to fun? Very rarely will someone say "This is my favorite game, because it's the game I had the most fun with." Why can't we simply have fun anymore?
World of Warcraft fans create 8-bit Molten Core game Playable in glorious 192i resolution and with a “revolutionary" AI that reacts to your every 8-directional move.
Hysterical mob targets Pewds after Ben Shapiro guests Meme Review The more ambitious crossover event than Avengers: Infinity War earns wide acclaim — and deranged diatribes.
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