Stop Skeletons From Fighting on the Zeebo
Spoiler: Zeebo doesn’t mean anything. Nobody knows what it means but it’s provocative—it gets the people going.
Category: Gaming
Studio Logic has remade areas from Chrono Cross in Unreal Engine 5
Unreal indeed!
The Electric Gaming Bed from Baühutte
Sleep well, game better.
Digital Trends ranks the best Fire Emblem games
Which are the best and worst Fire Emblem games of the last few decades?
A Handheld History explores the pocket-sized devices that changed the gaming industry
An ode to handheld gaming.
Zot the Avenger: the OG streamer
Before Twitch streams, there was this kid.
Video games as forms of narrative storytelling
‘Any understanding of video games that does not include the novel… will necessarily be incomplete.’
Ken Johnson: the Black inventor behind Phase 10, Mattel’s second-best-selling card game
40 years of one of the most popular card games in the world.
Did you know the sounds in Space Invaders were an accident?
Pew pew pew!
Arby’s Meaty Moments in the Capcom Pro Tour 2021 Season Final
You heard ’em: Arby’s have the meats that pay the… beats? I dunno, this is weird.
Mortal Kombat poster print
MORTAL KOMBAAAAAT!
The dark patterns of game design
Beware of the ways gaming companies keep you playing.
Pixelated Heroes tells the story of NHL ’94 and its unprecedented fan following
The iconic ice hockey game got a documentary back in 2019.
Dicebreaker’s top 10 Marvel board games
Thanos may be dead but his presence in board games certainly isn’t.
Brenda Romero asks if video games are art
(tl;dr: yes) Award-winning game designer Brenda Romero did a TED Talk in 2016, exploring the various ways that games are a form of art and arguably the greatest art form of all. She should know, having worked on a variety of titles including Wizardry 8 and Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes.
Bring back translucent consoles!
The coolest blues and greens you ever did see on gaming plastic.
Communist Czechoslovakian games
Step behind the Velvet curtain and play old Communist games from the late 80s.
Non-stop arcade games, live streaming 24/7 on YouTube
The itch to watch arcade games at 3am can now be scratched.
The weirdest places to play Google Stadia
But can you play DOOM on Google Stadia anywhere?
Pre-order The Art of Battletoads, set for June 2022 release
‘Drop into vibrant illustrations of the game’s heroes, villains, and environments that evoke nineties cartoon nostalgia!’
