In Real Life

Fake Gamer Of The Week: Grandpa Just Saw Aeris Die

Oh, no. Grandpa. That look in your eyes. That clenched grimace. That loose, delicate grip on your controller’s joysticks, as if you aren’t really playing anything at all.


In Real Life

The Dorkly Weekly: The Pokémon Bug Catcher Who Waited

There are Pokémon players that take great pains to make sure they fight every NPC trailer that they cross paths with, but sometimes even the most dedicated fan can overlook the lowly Bug Catcher.


May 14, 2012
In Real Life

I Didn’t Ask For This Deus Ex Handheld Tribute

I’m sorry. Last week’s PhotoShop Phriday contest over on Something Awful has given the world this amazing retro-themed Deus Ex handheld, imagining the 2011 action RPG as an old Tiger electronics game.


In Real Life

Sunday Comics: Simple Maths

Welcome to the week’s best in web comics. You can enlarge each comic by clicking on it. Happy reading!


May 12, 2012
Retro

Because Nothing Says ‘Exciting WWII Aeroplane Action’ Like A Flying Baby

Most everyone has some memory or another of 1943, the top-down aeroplane bullet-hell shooter to which we all lost a good deal of quarters.


Nintendo

Metroid’s Samus Aran Weighs In On Mother Brain’s Ban On Gay Marriage

Remember how it blew your mind when you found out that the character you’d been jumping and shooting with in the first Metroid was a woman? Well, it turns out she was hiding a lot more than long, flowing locks under that Varia Suit armour.


In Real Life

Learn How To Bake, Now With Portals And GLaDOS’ Snark

Baking will never be as fun once you’ve enjoyed the company of (a male version of) GLaDOS to make fun of you doing so.


News

All Your Favorite Video Game Characters Are Saying Terrible Things

All of the best moments in Unnecessary Censorship is brought to you in this Season 1 round-up. We’ve featured a few like it before, but these come from YouTube user WandTCorporation.


May 8, 2012
Nintendo

Nintendo President Satoru Iwata Also Wonders Why The Avengers Need An Archer

“There is always the risk that you will run out of arrows. There is never a risk that The Incredible Hulk will run out of Hulk.” Hawkeye from the Avengers suffers the slings and arrows of outrageous Nintendo president in the latest instalment of Nintendo Gamer‘s lost Iwata Asks files.


May 7, 2012
In Real Life

One Man Getting Hit By A Bus Is Another Man’s Frogger Flash Game

At the University of Texas “every Friday before finals there’s a thing called ‘Foam Sword Friday’,” writes Austin H., a computer sciences major at the university. Students go to the university district’s main drag, cross the street during a red light, and then battle it out with foam swords.