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Hey! Watch! John Marston vs Revolver Ocelot Short Film

Fan-made crossover videos featuring video games sounds like a risky endeavor, mainly because franchise fans can be jerks. The idea of finding the right crossover, treating it well enough to keep both sides happy, and making it entertaining to the uniformed fills me with enough anxiety to never consider the proposition. In Brett Driver’s latest short film, he pit two of the best six-shootin men of all of gaming against one another in John Marston and Revolver Ocelot. First of [...]

The Horrible Gamer #004: The Release

My gaming brain was definitely focused on my childhood in the past week, mainly because Nintendo isn’t exactly instilling confidence in fans like me heading into E3 (nice try in shutting me up by distracting me with Super Metroid by the way). I’m not sure if it was out of spite that I randomly went back and downloaded all of the Sega Genesis Classics packs, but two unexpected benefits came out of that choice. 1) I was forced to realize [...]

Hey! Look! How to Pick the Perfect Video Game Infographic

You’ve been waiting all day for this moment, it’s game time, but instead of actually playing a game you are caught in the moment of truth when you cannot pick a game to play. You have the most dire of first world problems, but it is still an issues. Luckily, as with any major life decision, the internet now has a flow chart for that difficult moment. Mike Brunson has taking up the calling and created the effective “How to [...]

The Horrible Gamer #003: The Way Back In

Whenever you jump into a beta or even a launch week for a game, you gain a certain sense of equality with the other gamers that are playing along with you. For that short window, the playing field is leveled and you are all learning about the game at the same time. And then it happens, you take a break, and you fall behind. It can be discouraging if you are trying to catch up to jerks, and usually it [...]

Hey! Buy! Steampunk NES Controller Coffee Table

Being crafty in real life isn’t much of my thing. Hell, I struggle at crafty sidejobs within the games themselves. I don’t know how you start down the path of creating a Steampunk NES Controller Coffee Table, but I’m glad the team at Bohemian Workbench did just that. Even more fascinating is individual pieces used in the coffee table are from recycle materials. The wood used to be a part of a fence, the Start and Select buttons are made [...]

The Horrible Gamer #002: The Next Hundred Hours

I’ve probably played through the introduction to Borderlands 2 at least 6 times now. For some unknown reason, it took me over 120 hours of Borderlands gaming to finally play with 4 people. I’ve had plenty of duos and a few threesomes, but organizing 4 people on the same platform at the same time takes a bit of planning. I’m usually the type of gamer who likes to be a part of the zeitgeist of a game’s launch week, so [...]

Hey! Play! Drop by Notch’s Ceiling

Notch may be hitting his head against the wall with trying to make 0x10c fun to play, but apparently he’s at least bashing his head to some sort of beat. At least that’s where I’m guessing his random rhythmic typing game, Drop, came from. The goal is simple, letters fly at the screen in step with the beat of the music while the background image twists into mezmerizing shapes. If a letter makes it off the screen, you lose. Repeat. [...]

The Horrible Gamer #001: The Real Heist

I (along with countless others) had been looking forward to Monaco for years. Case and point – the Horrible Night crew actually scheduled and followed through with a 4 player co-op session during launch week. That level of timezone coordination is unheard of for us outside of a charity marathon. The results were not what I expected except in that we had an absolute blast. Everything I had heard about Monaco’s excellent co-op gameplay may have even undersold it. I should [...]

Hey! Play! Rytlock’s Critter Rampage – Guild Wars 2′s Retro Platformer is No Joke

So if you have a game and make a related April Fool’s Day joke for that game, how far do you have to go with that content before it stops being a joke? Honestly, I saw the article for the Super Adventure Box content for Guild Wars 2 on April Fool’s Day and thought it was pretty creative/funny. “Haha, wouldn’t that be something to all of a sudden stumble into retro themed area in an MMO like Guild Wars 2?” It [...]

Trialsopoly is Shorthand Monopoly Made In Trials Track Editor

YouTube channel Custom Trials HD Tracks posted a video of a track created by user Jarr3tt88 that has to be seen to be believed. Essentially what the track boils down to is a simple version of the game Monopoly (the rules are explained in the video notes). The most impressive aspect of the video is not necessarily the final product as it is the process and dedication it took to get there. The “coding” aspect of the track is illustrated in the beginning [...]