Video games

Skip the Switch and Play This Cardboard Version of Super Mario You Can Build Yourself

Still having a hard time finding a Nintendo Switch? The hunt’s only going to get harder now that the holidays are here, but why add to your pre-Christmas stresses when you can just build your own playable version of Super Mario out of cardboard, and save yourself hundreds of dollars? In addition to cardboard, a…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski Nov 16

The Best Use For Microsoft’s HoloLens Is Playing a Star Trek: TNG Game That Nearly Killed the Crew

When you think about the early days of virtual reality, you either think of the movie The Lawnmower Man, or that episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation where the crew gets addicted to an augmented reality game that almost kills everyone. Which, by the way, you can now play on Microsoft’s HoloLens AR headset.…

io9 Andrew Liszewski Nov 13

The Cancelled Justice League Mortal Could’ve Had A Video Game Tie-In Written by Dwayne McDuffie

When George Miller’s planned 2009 Justice League film was canned by Warner Bros, it went down as one of the biggest missed opportunities in superheroic media. And now we know more about the game that could’ve gone along with it. This isn’t the first time we’ve heard about this particular tie-in—some cancelled builds and design…

Games Julie Muncy Nov 12

The New Spider-Man Game’s Peter Parker Looks… Off

Next year, Sony and Marvel’s Spider-Man video game wants to dazzle us all with shiny graphics, a wild new websuit design, and at long last, the promise of “The best Spider-Man video game that isn’t the Spider-Man 2 movie game.” But in its new trailer, it also shows us a very iffy looking Peter Parker.…

io9 James Whitbrook Oct 30

Energy Company Accuses Anti-Pipeline Video Game of Eco-Terrorism

A video game has got an energy industry group riled up and accusing the game’s creators of eco-terrorism. “Thunderbird Strike” is a Windows PC game that allows players to take the form of a thunderbird. The mythological creature, rooted in indigenous culture, flies from the Alberta’s tar sands to the Great Lakes, where environmentalists are…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes Oct 26

Watch This Guy Build a Nintendo Switch Clone That Plays Thousands of Classic Games

Still having a hard time finding a Nintendo Switch in stores? Or maybe you’re tired of waiting for Nintendo’s promised online store full of retro games? Tim Lindquist took things into his own hands and built a Nintendo Switch clone from scratch that can emulate games from over 50 classic systems. https://gizmodo.com/how-to-build-your-own-mini-snes-1790156604 Lindquist spent his…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Oct 20

The New Battlefront II Trailer Connects a Whole Lot of Star Wars Lore

The last Battlefront game that EA put out didn’t have a single-player mode, which bummed out a lot of folks. Battlefront II looks to have a rather beefy one, which will be doing a lot of heavy lifting in terms of showing how the Empire changed after the second Death Star blew up. We already…

io9 Evan Narcisse Oct 19

Middle-Earth: Shadow of War Is the Bleakest Lord of the Rings Fan Fic I’ve Ever Seen

Lord of the Rings—not even in its cinematic, action-heavy form—doesn’t really lend itself to the power fantasy of video games. That’s not stopped people from trying for years, including the latest game, the hack-n’-slash-meets-orc-dating-sim Middle-Earth: Shadow of War. But Shadow of War fails to understand Lord of the Rings in some pretty fundamental ways. As a…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook Oct 18

This High-Priced SNES Clone Plays Every Super Nintendo Game Ever in High-Def

The recently-released Super Nintendo Classic Edition is a fantastic way to replay 21 of your favorite 16-bit SNES games—but what about all the other classics that Nintendo excluded? If you’ve still got a stack of old Super Nintendo carts at home, the Analogue Super Nt should let you enjoy them on the fancy hi-def TV…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Oct 16

Crafty Hack Turns a Mouse, Salad Tongs, and a Bar Stool Into a Video Game Steering Wheel

If you don’t feel like spending $150+ on a steering wheel controller after already dropping $80 on a video game, you can always improvise like YouTuber chobiglass did. Using a pair of salad tongs, a computer mouse, and a spinning bar stool, they hacked together a pretty serviceable steering wheel accessory for the game, Euro…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski Oct 11

Easy Hack Lets You Add More Games to the SNES Classic Edition

Expanding your library of games on the new SNES Classic is not only possible, it’s trivially easy. Though it may not be entirely legal. Not long after the NES Classic Edition came out, a Russian coder named Cluster built a tool called Hakchi to cram more games into the little emulation box. Given that the…

Tech News Avery Ellis Oct 9

Eye Strain Is a Small Price to Pay For Having My Own Tiny Video Game Arcade

The smartphone in your pocket can perfectly emulate any video game from the ‘80s, but not the experience of crowding around a cabinet at an arcade, waiting to try the latest hit game. Fortunately, if you’re a nostalgic gamer striving for the most authentic retro experience, you can now squeeze an actual arcade onto your…

Gaming Andrew Liszewski Oct 5

In the New Batman Video Game, Harley Quinn Is Smarter, Stronger, and More Vicious Than Ever

We finally get to see how Telltale Games re-imagines Harleen Quinzel in episode two of Batman: The Enemy Within. The ultra-popular character is planning plunder on an epic scale with a gang of vicious supervillains. Oh, and the guy who we all know is going to be the Joker is deep in a major crush…

io9 Evan Narcisse Oct 5

The Live-Action Sonic the Hedgehog Movie Is Speeding Up Once Again

Last year, Sega announced it was working on a live-action Sonic the Hedgehog movie with Sony Pictures. Not surprisingly, the project didn’t immediately work and Sony recently put it in turnaround. Now Paramount Pictures is picking up the blue speedster and running with him. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Fast and Furious producer Neal H.…

Movies Germain Lussier Oct 2

War Machine Gets a Crazy Samurai Makeover, And More of the Best Toys of the Week

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s regular round up of all the wonderful toys we’ve been pining after lately. This week: Sphero’s latest little robot toy, Thor: Ragnarok’s new look for Thor gets an awesome figure, and we have thoughts about the butt of DC Comics’ Dick Grayson. Let’s get to it! Manga Realization Koutestu…

io9 James Whitbrook Sep 29

I’ll Take This Miniature Commodore 64 Over a Tiny SNES Any Day

Unlike many of my friends, my first video game console wasn’t the original NES. It was a Commodore 64, which my parents bought as our first home computer. It could do a few useful things, but the C64 was always first and foremost a gaming system in our house. So while I find the SNES…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Sep 29

Star Wars: Battlefront II Story Scene Details the Emperor’s Final Plan to Crush the Rebellion

EA’s upcoming video game happens during the time between Episodes VI and VII of the Star Wars movies. A new snippet of Battlefront II’s story mode shows the start of Emperor Palpatine’s posthumous scorched-earth scheme to leave the galaxy in ruins after his death. The order being given in the clip above is called Operation…

io9 Evan Narcisse Sep 29

Video Game Characters Are Getting Too Freakishly Real for Me

It’s easier to mindlessly blast away a room full of video game baddies when they look at you with dead eyes and zombie-like facial expressions. It’s a completely different challenge when they appear to be expressing actual emotions and pain, made all the more believable with this new advanced facial animation tool for the Unreal…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski Sep 29

These Are the 25 Games the Game Boy Classic Edition Should Include

It’s widely assumed that the next Classic Edition of retro hardware from Nintendo will be a tiny version of the N64. But I disagree. With four controllers, 3D games, and complications over bringing Goldeneye 007 back, a retro version of the N64 would make for some expensive nostalgia, particularly when the Game Boy would be…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Sep 28

Harley Quinn Puts the Joker in His Place in New Batman: The Enemy Within Clip

“Stay out of this, puddin’. Grown-ups are talking.” Looks like a different clown-faced criminal is the alpha in the Telltale video game version of the Batman mythos. Good news first: you can see the first glimpse of Batman: The Enemy Within’s re-imagined Harleen Quinzel in action in the teaser above. The bad news is that,…

io9 Evan Narcisse Sep 25

Skip the Switch and Play This Cardboard Version of Super Mario You Can Build Yourself

The Best Use For Microsoft’s HoloLens Is Playing a Star Trek: TNG Game That Nearly Killed the Crew

The Cancelled Justice League Mortal Could’ve Had A Video Game Tie-In Written by Dwayne McDuffie

The New Spider-Man Game’s Peter Parker Looks… Off

Energy Company Accuses Anti-Pipeline Video Game of Eco-Terrorism

Watch This Guy Build a Nintendo Switch Clone That Plays Thousands of Classic Games

The New Battlefront II Trailer Connects a Whole Lot of Star Wars Lore

Middle-Earth: Shadow of War Is the Bleakest Lord of the Rings Fan Fic I’ve Ever Seen

This High-Priced SNES Clone Plays Every Super Nintendo Game Ever in High-Def

Crafty Hack Turns a Mouse, Salad Tongs, and a Bar Stool Into a Video Game Steering Wheel

Easy Hack Lets You Add More Games to the SNES Classic Edition

Eye Strain Is a Small Price to Pay For Having My Own Tiny Video Game Arcade

In the New Batman Video Game, Harley Quinn Is Smarter, Stronger, and More Vicious Than Ever

The Live-Action Sonic the Hedgehog Movie Is Speeding Up Once Again

War Machine Gets a Crazy Samurai Makeover, And More of the Best Toys of the Week

I’ll Take This Miniature Commodore 64 Over a Tiny SNES Any Day

Star Wars: Battlefront II Story Scene Details the Emperor’s Final Plan to Crush the Rebellion

Video Game Characters Are Getting Too Freakishly Real for Me

These Are the 25 Games the Game Boy Classic Edition Should Include

Harley Quinn Puts the Joker in His Place in New Batman: The Enemy Within Clip

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