Top 10 Video Game Snipers

I sit and watch you from miles away. I work in wind resistance, recoil, and humidity. I guage your rate of movement to figure out where you will be next. I think five steps ahead of you, and as soon as you hear the crack of my rifle, you are already dead. That is what […]

6 Reasons Nerd Culture Needs To Take a Good, Long Look at Itself

From Gamergate to the toxicity of our game heroes, Topless Robot has some interesting thoughts on why nerd culture may need to step back and take a good, long look at itself if it intends to evolve as a movement. The last half year has not been the brightest hour for nerds and nerd culture. […]



‘Ori and the Blind Forest’ Game Trailer Astounds [Video]

Some games transport us to magical lands using a breathtaking art style and creating a living, breathing world that feels real to us. Ori and the Blind Forest has that feeling. Almost looks like a Studio Ghibli film, which is about as high a compliment as one can shower on a game. Definitely a game […]

Top Ten Games You Must Play Twice

Some games you play and when you are done with them, you are done with them. And some games you play and layers of story reveal themselves over time and you realize that you NEED to play the game another time to properly process everything you just saw and did. Here are the top ten […]

If ‘Metroid’ Were a Free-Game by Current Publisher Standards [Comic]

Looking at this makes me laugh and makes me very all at once, because of just how accurate it is. Thank goodness we will always have N.E.S Metroid. Nothing can take that away from us. Because if Metroid came out now and was free-to-play, you know we would be paying real cash for missiles and […]

‘Absolutely Rose Street’, A 1994 Infomercial for the Sega 32X Add-On for the Sega Genesis Video Game Console

Infomercials from the 90’s were really odd. A commercial that bought up enough screen time that it is essentially disguised as a one-off show used to shill that product. The following ‘Absolute Rose Street’ was there to help push the Sega 32X peripheral to Genesis owners is just that. Weird. But also very nostalgic in […]

7 Times Tekken Weirdo Heihachi Was Just the Weirdest

Tekken was a colorful and wacky fight game. Between fighting bouts with Bruce Lee’s look-a-likes you would sometimes have to fight a tree or a panda bear. For real. But of all the characters who SHOULD’VE been weird, Heihachi was definitely one of the weirdest. Seriously, though, any guy who ties family members he is […]

Why I’m Glad I Waited Fifteen Years to Play Majora’s Mask

The Legend of Zelda series has always been an institution for gamers. Many of us grew up playing the series and have seriously found memories of almost every game from the series. Yes, even Wind Waker. And while most of us can say we’ve played most of the classic Zelda games, we need to remember […]