Video Games

I think the proper way to start this would be to settle on the difference between scary and unsettling. First of all, the two can, and often do, co-exist. I tend to think the main…

Sebastian von Buchwald is an interesting guy. He has an enormous series of digital art pieces that depict an enraged Mario fighting pretty much everyone from every video game ever made. And things tend to…

News broke today that Nintendo missed nearly all of their sales expectations for the year, and suffered an operating loss in the process. While the 3DS is doing alright, the Wii U is struggling desperately,…

Video game soundtracks have come a long way since the Atari days. Back then, beeps and boops were all you had. Some games made do with these limitations and excelled, but others produced auditory abominations…

Knowing Nintendo, they’d probably make a Pokemon version of Animal Crossing for the Wii U long before they’d make anything resembling a REAL Pokemon game, but the concept is pretty adorable nonetheless. It comes from…

by Adam Esquenazi Douglas Nitwit blubber oddment tweak, Unrealtors! Today we’ll be returning to that overseas school of witchcraft and wizardry, Hogwarts, and seeing into which house your favorite pop culture icons would be sorted….

I think one of the things that bothers me about journalism is just how uniform it is sometimes. What I am referring to are end of the year, best-of lists, and I know I have…

While I have no idea who made these, I’m pretty sure it wasn’t Activision, and this is some sort of art project that imagines what it might be like if classic video game characters got…

A few months ago, I wrote a column called “Help Me Get Back Into Video Games After A Decade Off“.  It was an instant hit, and among the accolades and awards and people throwing flowers…