Like most of Overwatch’s Lunar New Year skins, Mei’s outfits for the Year of the Rooster are great. They caused a slight stir earlier today, though, when people who had previously believed (and loved) Mei for being a little thicker than your average video game woman noticed she was now looking a bit slimmer.
Nintendo’s first arcade video games were, to be honest, pretty terrible. Way more interesting were the machines that came before those, starting with 1973’s Laser Clay Shooting System, an elaborate entertainment offering that nearly sunk the company (but also led to one of its most famous video games).
You no longer have an excuse not to play a Yakuza game.Read more…
The Xbox One is getting an update soon, and one of the more interesting changes is the addition of a “copilot” mode, which will let two controllers be assigned to one player. This is great news for disabled and young gamers especially, who can use the feature to assign controls or have someone help them out.
Marco Plouffe is a veteran games artist who has done work for companies like Bioware, Capcom, Eidos and Blur.Read more…
Track: Grim Business | Artist: Iron Reagan | Album: Crossover MinistryRead more…
There were a lot of frustrations to be had in old Sierra adventure games, but one of the worst was the way the games always made you traverse treacherous stairs, with one wrong keypress killing you instantly. So, yeah, here’s a game just about that.
The Pedestrian’s pitch begins: “What’s it like inside the world of public restroom signs?”
On July 15, 1983, the Famicom was released in Japan. The console, later rebranded in the West as the Nintendo Entertainment System, would go on to change video games forever. Did you know, though, that the Famicom wasn’t the only gaming system released on that day? It was joined on shelves by the SG-1000, the very…
Overwatch will be running a thing for Chinese New Year, starting January 25. There will be skins.Read more…