The newest trailer for Lego DC Super-Villains has arrived, which will star a custom-created supervillain of the player’s choice alongside DC’s deep catalog of bodacious bad guys.Read more… Continue Reading at https://kotaku.com
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Amusing ourselves to death: 12 theme parks where the danger is real
Summer is close to its halfway point, which if you’re responsible in any way for a school-aged child, means you’ve probably spent at least one hot, sticky afternoon waiting in interminable lines and wincing at the price of Dippin’ Dots already this year. (The goths, meanwhile, have been banished from Disneyland and…Read more… Continue Reading […]
Forza Horizon 4 Trailer Recreated Shot-For-Shot In Grand Theft Auto 5 By Genius
I was positively flabbergasted when I watched YouTube uploader RavenwestR1's mashup of Forza Horizon 4 and Grand Theft Auto 5. The level of attention to detail required to manipulate one game to produce an essentially identical video is astounding. They had to have been working overtime to produce a video so faithful…Read more… Continue Reading […]
Battle as steak or foie gras in Food Fantasy, a fantastical restaurant-themed RPG
Take a dose of a restaurant simulation game—I’m thinking Rollercoaster Tycoon, but with menus and staff and diners—and mix in some role-playing combat-style action, then sprinkle liberally with “luxurious voice-overs.” There, now you have the coming-soon mobile game Food Fantasy. Read more… Continue Reading at http://kotaku.com
The NES Classic Returns Today But I’m More Excited About This Wireless Controller
When the NES Classic Edition was first released, we deemed the $40 8Bitdo NES30 as the best wireless controller alternative for the tiny console. But now that Nintendo is selling the NES Classic once again starting today, I’m more excited for 8Bitdo’s new gamepad that’s an even better wireless alternative with a…Read more… Continue Reading […]
The Fastest Way to Level Up In Pokémon GO
With the recent announcement of Pokémon Let’s Go for the Nintendo Switch and its ability to interact with Pokémon GO, players are returning to the mobile game en masse. If you’re trying to get back into the game, here’s a trick for leveling up fast and catching up to those who never quit.Read more… Continue […]
Forza Horizon 4’s Apparent Car List Leaked Early
The fourth installment of Microsoft’s gravity-optional driving game, Forza Horizon 4, will soon be upon us. One of the game’s big draws is the sheer amount of cars you get to choose from. And it looks like there are over 450 this time around.Read more… Continue Reading at http://jalopnik.com
GameStop Explains How and Why It’s Going to Start Selling Comic Books
A few weeks ago, America’s largest video game retail chain announced that it’s going to enter the comic book business. It was a move that took many by surprise. Now, we’ve got an interview with a GameStop executive who explains the thinking behind the decision.Read more… Continue Reading at http://kotaku.com
Minecraft Is Coming to Adventure Time for a Very Blocky Episode
Adventure Time already came to Mojang’s survival game/block building phenom Minecraft last year, and now the animated series is returning the favor with a special episode that sees Finn and friends having fun in a much more angular version of the Land of Ooo than they’re used to.Read more… Continue Reading at http://kotaku.com
How Ex-F1 Driver Scott Speed Shook Online Racing To Its Core
It all seemed like a joke at first: Former Formula One driver, former NASCAR driver, former rallycross champion Scott Speed got suspended from iRacing at the start of this year for trying to intentionally wreck another player in the racing simulator. But there was more to this story, and we went to iRacing…Read more… Continue […]
Discover How Much Money You’ve Spent on Steam With This Tool
Ever wonder how much money you’ve blown on Steam games over the years? You might not want to really know, but you’re probably curious. And now thanks to Valve’s “External Funds Used” tracker, you can finally get a sense of the long-term damage Steam has done to your financial health. Just click on that link,…Read […]
I’m Patrick Moberg, Creator of Dots and Two Dots, and This Is How I Work
Patrick Moberg has wasted hours of your life, or of the life of someone next to you in a waiting room. His studio Dots created the beautiful and addictive mobile game Dots (the thinking person’s Candy Crush), and its sequels Two Dots and Dots & Co, all of which are on millions of phones. We […]
Cyberpunk 2077 Looks Like The Raddest ’80s Supercar Future We Never Got
The official Cyberpunk 2077 trailer dropped at E3 earlier this month and in it, we got a glimpse of one of the raddest supercars we’ve seen in a video game in recent memory. If this is the automotive aesthetic I can expect for the game, then I’m on board.Read more… Continue Reading at http://jalopnik.com
Leisure Suit Larry once almost brought down a global banking system
If you’re a gamer of a certain age, the name “Leisure Suit Larry” probably still strikes you as scandalous. Before sex became more or less commonplace in gaming blockbusters, the idea that there was a game out there built around the pursuit of sex was a blush-worthy one. As MEL Magazine puts it in a […]
Leisure Suit Larry once almost brought down a global banking system
If you’re a gamer of a certain age, the name “Leisure Suit Larry” probably still strikes you as scandalous. Before sex became more or less commonplace in gaming blockbusters, the idea that there was a game out there built around the pursuit of sex was a blush-worthy one. As MEL Magazine puts it in a […]
Win Mario Kart With the 15 Best Character/Kart/Tire Combinations
One night at my church youth group, I thought I played the best game of Mario Kart in my life. Somehow the controller perfectly interpreted my moves better than it usually did—I wasn’t crashing or going the wrong way at all! At the end, I realized I had actually been watching my opponent’s screen, and […]
Dammit The Halo 6: Infinite Trailer Has The Hateful Warthog Again
E3 2018 is in full swing right now, and yesterday Microsoft showed a trailer for the next Halo game: Halo Infinite. As all game trailers go, it looks real slick, but I couldn’t help but notice from the trailer that the Warthog is still around? I find this concerning.Read more… Continue Reading at http://jalopnik.com
Forza Horizon 4 Is Here And It’s Taking You To Great Britain
Announced for an October 2nd release, Microsoft dropped this Forza Horizon 4 official trailer during the E3 conference today. Where previous titles have been based in the US, southern Europe, and Australian outback-style open world locales, the fourth installment is promised to reflect a uniquely United Kingdom look.…Read more… Continue Reading at http://jalopnik.com
Instead of Buying Bitcoin, Play This Bitcoin Trading Game
I’ve lost over $300,000 worth of bitcoin so far. Now’s the bit where I’m supposed to tell you it’s all fake, and I only lost it in the cryptocurrency trading simulation game Bitcoin Flip. But no, I actually bought $400 worth of bitcoin back when it was cheap, then left it in the hands of […]
A PSA to Black Mirror’s Charlie Brooker: Everyone Tortures Their Sims
Black Mirror is a show about the horrors of the internet and modern technology, so you’d think that creator Charlie Brooker would be particularly attuned to the toxic behavior people exhibit through their little black screens. During a panel at a recent event, Brooker explained one of the inspirations behind the dark…Read more… Continue Reading […]