You’re beating up bad guys, jumping around platforms, and generally doing video game-y stuff when you slam headfirst into an A-or-B (or C if the developer is feeling generous) type situation. You’re probably not entirely happy with any of the options, but since your character is the only proactive person …
Read More »11 healing items that would definitely kill you in real life
If you’re a guest in someone else’s home, don’t go through all their drawers looking for money. If you see a turtle, don’t stomp on it. If you need to escape from a bunch of armed dudes, don’t leave a nudie mag on the ground and expect them to hunker …
Read More »8 games that got real-life places wrong
Doing research for video games is not an easy job, especially when it comes to creating the game’s setting out of a real-life place. In movies and TV shows, showing slivers of New York streets (almost certainly shot in L.A. or Vancouver) will suffice. Games, however, require entire worlds to …
Read More »12 dead characters that deserve new life
It’s like Babe Ruth’s ghost told that kid in The Sandlot: heroes live forever, legends never die, and no video game character can disappear forever. Okay, okay. That’s not the exact quote but the maxim holds true. Great characters, like legends, never truly fade away. They stick in our hearts …
Read More »GR+ Live: Peer into the long delayed Final Fantasy 15
Final Fantasy 15 has a release date. It’s a game, a real video game, that is going to come out in the real world. Hard to believe it’s happening after ten exhausting years in development. Square-Enix released a brand new demo of its white whale of a role-playing game and …
Read More »GR+ Live: Choose an early look at Pokken Tournament
How has it taken this long for Pokken Tournament to exist? Pokemon trainers have been pitting their Pikachus against their Bulbasaurs for 20 years. While we’ve been allowed to select their actions in menus, rock out in action RPGs, or take pictures of the little beasts, we’ve somehow never been …
Read More »GR+ Live: Cooking! Brutality! The making of Overcooked
Where are all the cooking games? Cooking Mama’s fine sure, but what about the weirdness? What about games like Burger Time where you have to build towers of meat and murder fried eggs before they murder you? Thank heavens for Ghost Town Games. Overcooked, their new multiplayer bout of madness …
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Kupopo! It’s okay everyone, you can stop holding your breath: after Square-Enix’s impromptu vote on whether Moogles should appear in Final Fantasy 15, the fans answered back with a resounding YASS!! And good thing, too. It only feels right, since those marshmallow bears with cherries on top have been around …
Read More »I Got Next: Come talk to Jason Vorhees himself as we play Friday the 13th
Slasher movies took a weird, delightful turn in the 1980s. While Michael Myers silently scared the crap out of everyone in the ’70s, his successor Jason Vorhees evolved into something else entirely. Scary? Certainly, but also hilarious. Friday the 13th was the only series where the audience actively waited to …
Read More »I Got Next: Sonics creator returns on Wii U
Yuji Naka hasn’t made us a game in quite a long time now. The co-creator of Sonic the Hedgehog had an interesting run on Nintendo Wii with the delightfully difficult Ivy the Kiwi and Let’s Tap, the only game with an amazing theme song whose box doubled as a controller, …
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