Video Games

Apology time: During December’s snowpocalypse I completely failed to mention the sublimely awesome Metal Gear Solid downloadable content pack for LittleBigPlanet. Luckily the developers at Media Molecule just dropped a handful of clever LBP/MGS mashup artwork created within the DLC pack to further promote their game (and presumably make my telling you this in January […]

Is there anything Australians can’t do? Yes, they’re all descended from rapists and warlocks, but over the last few centuries they’ve produced both Paul Hogan and Yahoo Serious — a feat only matched by Norway, for a short period in 1982. Paul Robertson, one such downunderner, has consistently put America’s finest neo-retro, pixel-based, action short […]

Japanese kids look like tiny bundles of polite joy, but like our own tow-headed American bastard spawn, given the opportunity they’d eat you and everyone you love. The only way to soothe the savage beast, as this Japanese commerical for Patapon 2 demonstrates, is to drum their little asses right into a herd of sheep. […]

Do you know what happens in the game industry on December 30 of every year? Absolutely nothing. How am I supposed to feed my family of 7 on the meager scraps The Merc throws my way if I can’t find content to offer the most attractive readers in Portland? Wm.™ Steven Humphrey lives in a […]

There’s a new movie based on the Street Fighter line of videogames headed to theaters in February with nary a Van Damme or Raul Julia in sight. Hyde Park Entertainment, the people who cajoled Capcom into handing over the rights after the last movie on the subject was widely ridiculed as worse than cancer, released […]

It’s time to face facts: Lars Ulrich’s “Kill The Internet” platform didn’t go over so well with Metallica’s key demographic of teenage social outcasts. You could almost hear the IRC channels and AOL chatrooms spring to life in a chorus of “LOLs” and “ROFLMFAOs” the moment Lars went on record against Napster. In an effort […]

Look, I never ask you for anything. Ok, I borrowed your car once, and I stole your girlfriend’s belt when I was drunk last weekend, and I was the one who left your gate open that night your dog ran away, but I never ask for anything, right? I need you to go buy Valkyria […]

I’m going to assume you all played Katamari Damacy. Actually, scratch that — I’m going to assume that, like, six of you actually played it, but the rest of you were so inundated by references to the quirky ball-rolling action by those six that you essentially got the gist of the thing anyway. Good! Now […]