video games

I've been thinking a lot about video games lately, and how I'm better at getting around imaginary worlds like Super Mario World or CastleVania: Symphony of the Night than I am with streets in my own hometown. As Tom Scioli put it once, there are these characters and ideas that we spend so much of our life with, but never really think about in those terms. Or at least, I didn't. Mikaël Aguirre, an

IT'S FINALLY COMING!  The game that virtually no one is looking forward to, yet can't stop talking about!  Ever dreamed of being a goat?  How about owning one?  Driving one?  Or bouncing one on a trampoline?  Then you'll LOVE Goat Simulator.

When are Playstation 4 and Xbox One coming out?  Very, very soon: November 15 is the official release date for both consoles.  Which one are you going to get? Playstation 4 will be $399, but does not include the Playstation camera. Xbox One will be $499, and DOES include the Xbox Kinect...

Sometimes you feel like really taking your time with a video game, digging around, finding treasure, leveling up to maximum capacity. Other times you just want to run like hell. These are those times, and if you've ever played any of these games, and you suffer from untreated anxiety, you might not want to watch these videos. Speed runs can get a bit intense.

This video from Fox Sports would have us believe that Mike Tyson has never played the classic Nintendo game that shares his name. Actually, considering all the trouble Iron Mike got into during the '80s, that's probably accurate.

This is Kanye West. He's going on a Kanye Quest!!! AAAH! Kanye Quest 3030 is a new RPG you should definitely be playing if you like to play old school 2D RPGs.

The Russian block-matching puzzle game Tetris took the world by storm in the late 1980s when it was released on Nintendo's NES and Gameboy platforms. And we think we've found one of the best players around.

Good ol' Black Thought. Not only is he an amazingly talented member of The Roots and Jimmy Fallon's house band, but he's also willing to admit on national television that he's a "game freak." And then willing to do rap to the theme from Super Mario Brothers.

Yesterday, Sony revealed their new gaming system the PS4. Considering how up in arms everybody was over the XBox One, it's no surprise that people were more than willing to hop onboard the PS4 bandwagon. When they announced that the console would cost $100 less than XBox, it was basically all over. Here's how people were reacting.

Legend has it that 30 years ago Atari buried a massive cache of video game cartridges in a landfill in New Mexico. Specifically, they buried tons and tons of copies of the failed 'E.T.' video game, an Atari non-classic that nearly sunk the gaming industry. Now a film crew has been given six months to search the massive 100 acre landfill to find the motherlode of lost games and confirm that the sto

Microsoft unveiled their new gaming console yesterday, and people were not impressed. Actually, they were pretty complain-y and grumpy about it. They don't like the name (Xbox One). They don't like all the features. They don't like any of it. (Particularly how the Microsoft folks pretty much just talked about TV the whole time.) They genuinely dislike it so much that they took the time to make mem

Ugh. We need to get new hobbies. This guy makes awesome stop-motion animations on whiteboards, and our hobby is to watch them. Oh well, at least it's highly enjoyable. This particular video is based on the video game Street Fighter, clearly...