Without further comment, I present Darren's wardrobe choices for every day of E3 in chronological order:

Luigi's Mansion games are not really known for being scary. Sure, they may have a few jump scares scattered throughout their haunted halls, but Resident Evil they ain't. If anything, the series is what you'd get if you could "play...

Keanu Reeves: you are John Wick. You're also the best thing about E3 this year. It's been a tepid E3 so far. I'm not saying that, you are, readers. Let's Pokemon go to the polls! Microsoft is "winning" so far by a wide margin, wit...

One of the very best moments of yesterday's E3 opening was the sudden surprise appearance of John Wick actor Keanu Reeves, who took to the stage during Microsoft's press conference to talk about CD Projekt Red's awesome-looking Cyberpunk 20...

Sometimes, Final Fantasy XIV's in-game cosmetic (glamour/transmog) system really blows me away. There are millions of costume combinations at this point, and myriad Final Fantasy and Square Enix references at large. If you wanted to try to ...

Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn truly was a miracle. Born out of the ashes of the troubled 2010 1.0 edition, Square Enix basically embarked upon an apology tour and remade the game from the ground-up: even killing the previous blunde...

People often disparagingly ask me why I play MMOs. After I reply that they're cathartic for certain people, I usually wax poetic on all of the unique human moments that only the MMO genre can facilitate. Reddit user unstablereality had...

Folks are still doing amazingly silly things in Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and this hapless event from Riyazura proves it. After all, over 40% of our readers who took our Breath of the Wild poll still play it regularly, and 34% go...

Nintendo has said outright that they do not plan on announcing a new Switch model at E3 this year. That includes a potential Switch lite (which is just portable, that would assuredly kill off the 3DS entirely) or a Switch Pro (a Switch with...

We're in an age of choices. It's hard to think back to when there were just a few giants battling it out (Sega and Nintendo, or Sony and Nintendo), but there are so many platforms and controller options now (like VR) that it can get overwhe...

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild was released on March 3, 2017, and I can still remember nearly every video I've seen of it. The first one I ever witnessed was a bear running through the woods on fire, wrecking a forest, and from the...

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...

I'm at MomoCon this weekend in Atlanta Georgia for the purposes of judging the Indie Gaming Showcase this year (which they provided travel for), and happened to come across an amazing booth that I just had to share. Titled "Hero Wares and S...

Japan is overflowing with mascots. I wasn't even prepared when I visited, as every activity and location, from warnings about creepy airport shadow denizens who steal your stuff to anti-littering campaigns, have creatures. Prefectures (dist...

Tremors rules. Did you know (cue the voice) that we almost got a Tremors TV show with Kevin Bacon returning to his iconic role? Well it's dead now, you can watch the leaked trailer and imagine what might have been. The Tremors cre...

Super Mario 64's "so long...[x] Bowser!" is one of the most hotly contested video game lines to date. If you somehow haven't played this classic before, the gist is that during the several big boss battles with Bowser, Mario utters somethin...

The Great Serpent quickly became a mascot of Sekiro when it was introduced in a very early trailer, and its legacy lives on well after launch. As usual the cheeky PC modding community managed to replace the slinking baddie with a chara...

Ever hear someone name-drop an old video game and then immediately feel an irresistible impulse to stop what you're doing, seek it out, and see how well it holds up? Hey, me too. What a coincidence! Yesterday, in light of Frontier's upcomin...

Crypts! What do they have to do with video games? I'm not entirely sure! To the list!

I've said this before, but the "Steamed Hams" sketch was always one of my wife and I's favorite Simpsons moments before the memes began. The deadpan like "yeeeees," is a big go-to for us, as are many great lines like "an unforgettable lunch...

"Man hate-buys Rosalina & Luma amiibo in bulk so fans can't have them." That wonderful headline from our own Brett Makedonski is burned into my brain. I had enough trouble picking up amiibo in 2015, and knowing that someone loathed the ...

Before Sekiro ignited the whole "difficult games" conversation again (which is an easy one to answer: everyone is correct and creators simultaneously reserve the right to make something the way they want to make it), there were challen...

Shenmue does such a fantastic job of selling menial tasks to its audience. While a lot of games try to delight us with various lawn mowing minigames and the like; there's something about taking over a carnival stand and asking people if the...

Regardless of how you feel about Halo in 2019 (for some, the magic is gone), it's very clear that the folks over at 343 Industries are still very much in it to win it. Following a recent bid to give the folks at 343 as much pizza as possibl...

Zelda and Studio Ghibli seem to naturally go together. It's why you get so many crossovers on the subject, including this fantastic Totoro and Link mashup from artist Wahoo. The iconic "waiting in the rain" scene is probably the p...