Insert another credit, because it’s time for your weekly video game news and you’ve just hit the Game Overview screen. The most amazingly adorable Mega Man ever. See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor. Sweet Brothers Art Ever wanted to see some great renditions of the Mario Bros.? Well, BAM! SNES! It’s kind of old news, but here’s a neat way to use an old SNES to connect to a PC and play your carts on an emulator. ...
Insert another credit, because it’s time for your weekly video game news and you’ve just hit the Game Overview screen. With every Final Fantasy game there exists great (and not so great) teams of heroes bent on saving the world from some sort of evil force. While we could take a look at those heroes, let’s instead take a look at the evils that motivate these heroes to do what they do. ...
I tell ya, it’s been a good long while since I’ve had to write a post that’s not really about baseball and it’s got me rather at a loss of what to do. Instead of focusing on one topic today, instead let’s look at a variety of things going on that I care about: Peter Molyneux has got a problem. You see, he’s one of the movers and shakers in video game design and his ideas have more or less shaped the industry as a whole. For example, while you can argue that Ultima or Fallout did it first, Peter and his boys at Lionhead popularized the whole good vs. evil aesthetic that so pervades the medium right now with his landmark title Black & White. You can’t really argue that his game made it cool for the visual look of a character to change dynamically with alignment that Bioware eventually used in their epics Knights of the Old Republic and Mass Effect. ...