It’s no secret Japan has long been trying to destroy us westerners with its unstoppable culture for decades. Whether it's replacing our wives with waifus or cramming our circulatory systems with their nutrient void, sodium-packed inst...

[Getting Weird with Wes is a series meant to highlight all the bizarre shit floating around out there in the gaming universe. I hate normal things. Join me in celebrating the strange.] What do goats, hungry babies, and leveling up purs...

E3 is nearly upon us again and a lot has changed since 2018, but one thing remains the same: the internet’s unquenching thirst for Nintendo Directs. I revel in this season of speculation and anticipation, so much that last year I...

“We’re going to break through that fleet!” Fox says as he and his wingmates assault a vastly overwhelming enemy armada. Maybe it’s one of the less memorable quotes from Star Fox 64, but it’s a moment that captu...

[Getting Weird with Wes is a series meant to highlight all the bizarre shit floating around out there in the gaming universe. I hate normal things. Join me in celebrating the strange.] Ask any woman (or man) who's ever seen me naked an...

A Hat in Time is one of my favorite games of last year. Its gameplay mechanics revel in absurdity and its writing contrasts cute-as-heck appearances with unapologetic cynicism to great comedic effect. I've said before I felt like devel...

Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn is nearly six years old at this point. Let that sink in for a moment. Director/producer Naoki "Yoshi P" Yoshida has been at this for a while, shipping two expansions for the massive project while touri...

When the first Borderlands came out, I didn’t call dibs on anybody because I didn’t play the game. When Borderlands 2 released, I didn’t call dibs on anybody because I also didn’t play that game. When Borderlands: Th...

[Getting Weird with Wes is a series meant to highlight all the bizarre shit floating around out there in the gaming universe. I hate normal things. Join me in celebrating the strange.] I think it's fair to say that the hardcore Destruc...

You've seen the best, now see the rest. Everyone else is welcome to their hero choices, I've never known a siren to bring good news and the only decent robot ever is Paulie's sexy-talking droid from Rocky IV. When it comes to Gearbox' upcom...

Back when The Pre-Sequel was coming out, I called dibs on Athena, and I don't regret that one bit. Maybe I'm drawn to badass women in these games, and maybe that explains why this time around, I've got dibs on Amara. But that only explains ...

Remember dibs? Well it's back, in Borderlands 3 form! Forget Amara, Moze, and Zane: I got dibs on FL4K.

[Getting Weird with Wes is a series meant to highlight all the bizarre shit floating around out there in the gaming universe. I hate normal things. Join me in celebrating the strange.] Not to get too serious on y'all right now, but I'm...

In an economy lush with information and scarce in disposable income, I often grow attached to games by observing them rather than playing them. We have access to online videos, walkthroughs, wikis, blogs, fan fiction, and so many more sourc...

[Getting Weird with Wes is a series meant to highlight all the bizarre shit floating around out there in the gaming universe. I hate normal things. Join me in celebrating the strange.] You know how service dogs have specialized trainin...

[In the aftermath of yesterday's awful fire at the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, there are reports that the modeling from Assassin's Creed Unity might be used to help rebuild it. We interviewed Ubisoft's Caroline Miousse back in 2014 ...

Most career-based games set out to either emulate a job to a T or build upon their most interesting tasks. For instance, American Truck Simulator sets out to simulate a delivery truck driver's experience as accurately as possible. Game Dev ...

You could’ve warned me all you wanted, but finding myself sitting here, playing Twisted Metal III, was an inevitability after I decided I wanted to re-experience the series. As I fought a monster-truck-driving grandma outside Santa&rs...

[Getting Weird with Wes is a series meant to highlight all the bizarre shit floating around out there in the gaming universe. I hate normal things. Join me in celebrating the strange.] It's not hard to find weird games. In fact, almost...

[Getting Weird with Wes is a series meant to highlight all the bizarre shit floating around out there in the gaming universe. I hate normal things. Join me in celebrating the strange.] I'm not ignorant of the fact that one person's wei...

My favorite kind of April Fools’ joke is where developers create mock-ups for products so ridiculous they’ll probably never exist. It's even better when they actually release that product and it ends up being great! In the video...

[Getting Weird with Wes is a series meant to highlight all the bizarre shit floating around out there in the gaming universe. I hate normal things. Join me in celebrating the strange.] If you've read anything I've ever written or said on th...

Bertil Hörberg is probably the only Swedish name I know. I can't pronounce it to save my life, but it's a name that's been at the forefront of my mind when it comes to the games industry. Hörberg, if you are unaware, is the creato...

It wasn’t a surprise that Google announced Stadia, its game streaming platform. Rumors had been swirling for a while that the internet giant was jumping into the console war. Those rumors were enough to bring in the biggest names in t...

I've been waiting for this moment for a long time. In fact, I think it was over five years ago that I first started ranting about it. By granting the Zelda license to Brace Yourself Games, Nintendo has signaled to the world that they are wi...