Video Games

(click to enlarge) It’s the small details that make Portal’s 1 and 2 such great games. Well, it’s also the amazing portal shooting guns, the evil robots and so on, but you know, the small…

Two fantastic franchises combine in this rather cool series from artist Lantha Noid. In it, Legend of Zelda characters get a decidedly Prince of Persia makeover, and it makes me wonder what such a title might…

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxTtbHmCNiQ Every want to see over 450 crossbow kills set to “Cotton Eye Joe”? Well, you’re about to. That’s the premise for this rather hilarious music video which uses the “thump” of the crossbow impact…

This is definitely the biggest callback I’ve ever done in a “Journal” series of reviews, but one I felt necessary with the recent “relaunch” of Diablo 3 with patch 1.04. When we last left off,…

I’m torn on Blizzard’s new 1.0.4 patch for Diablo 3. On one hand it’s full of changes that the game really needed; better legendary items, more useful skills, and more end-game level progression. On the…

It’s been a long, long summer waiting for worthwhile games to come out. The end of the console generation means fewer and fewer interesting titles as developers look ahead, and what good games there are…

Compiled via reddit, this is a really cool list of a bunch of famed video game characters and the facial models that inspired them. Sure, many heroes and villains are created from scratch, but with…

httpv://youtu.be/EWFkDrKvBRU When you think of Borderlands, you think of “stylish graphics,” with its cartoony, cell-shaded art style, but you don’t necessarily think of “good graphics” the way you might for Crysis or Skyrim. But turns…