video games
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Microsoft’s Ugly Holiday Sweater Is a Hideous Ode to Minesweeper, and I Need It
I’m glad I didn’t buy anything on Black Friday this year — not because it means I can finally afford Apple’s mythical microfiber cloth, but because Microsoft just dropped a new ugly holiday sweater and I’m on the brink of spending $US75 ($106) on it.
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Pokémon Brilliant Diamond And Shining Pearl Duplication Glitches Are Out Of Control
Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl has been a glitch-fest so far. While some of the bugs have been annoying or just plain weird, others, like duplication glitches, have effectively broken the game. First, players found a way to clone one Pokémon at a time. Then they found a way to duplicate entire teams. Now,…
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The Mass Effect TV Show Shouldn’t Star Commander Shepard
After years of wondering when, not if, Mass Effect would ever make the leap from video games to film or TV, it would seem we’re at last on that precipice: Amazon has eyes on bringing BioWare’s sci-fi shooter/Garrus Vakarian dating simulator to streaming. But the question should be less if the Mass Effect series should…
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Rats (Sort Of) Played Doom Via VR
I guess it was inevitable that once humanity got Doom running on everything, including cash registers, Twitter, and unreleased consoles, that we would have to seek out a new formidable challenge. Now that we’ve nearly done it all, it’s not about how you play Doom, but who you get to play Doom. First up, apparently,…