No, Goku will probably not be appearing in Super Smash Bros. as a guest character. Before everyone immediately sighs and says "why would he be?!" hear me out. For months fans and even Funimation have gotten in on the Super Smash Bros. "what...

While many parents were content with labeling Pokemon as a fad, my mom was a true believer. She didn't play the game but we watched the show together, and would smile at all of the cute animals in various stuffed animal forms. Of course we ...

I don't normally wear watches unless I'm in a situation where I can't readily look at my cell phone at work (which hasn't been the case in ages), but I'd be tempted to rock this at the next gaming convention or meetup. Reddit user RethosLiv...

Fortnite is one of the hottest games on the market at the moment, and we're starting to reach the point where it's hitting peak pop culture. The below video from Master0fHyrule is perhaps the best example of this, as they've put Super Smash...

Did you know that it's possible to run automatically? If you're blown away by this revelation, don't worry, I was too. This is a mechanic that the...

Every summer Aomori City (in the very northeastern tip of Japan) holds several festivals with parades, and video game-themed floats manage to sneak in. This year Square Enix represented Final Fantasy XIV with an unmistakably Final Fantasy f...

Zelda is home to all sorts of fan-made oddities. Given that it's undergone so many changes since its inception in 1986, I've pretty much seen it all. Granular merch like replica rupees of different denominations and even obscure items ...

I love discovering gaming setups. As an amateur collector witnessing how others curate their own collections is a rush, and "rush" definitely describes the feeling I got after looking at this Destiny setup from jagger393939 Noting that...

Alan Padziński is a certified badass. Although it's easy for games to emulate sword-fighting skills Padziński  actually lives them on a daily basis as a certified medieval weapons specialist  He also looks cool slicing f...

My small Game Boy museum is one of my favorite aspects of my gaming collection. At any point I can pull out a piece of hardware and relive a classic game from any handheld generation -- and depending on the Game Boy I choose, different colo...

When I was in Japan one of my favorite pastimes was to visit pachinko parlors and pachislot venues and just take in the sights and sounds (travel tip: they have the best bathrooms). They're fascinating places, not just in terms of the ...

Arc System Works, along with Inti Creates, is low key one of my favorite developers in the industry right now. It's hard to believe it's been 30 years (a fact they even address in their 30th celebration festivities by noting that they've "s...

Last week an entertaining event happened in Fortnite and it had nothing to do with the development team. Streamer MrMuselk kicked off a rescue mission to help save a player named Chappadoodle, who was stuck in a gulch in the new desert biom...

As an '80s kid cracking open a full-color manual with a new game was pretty much the best. I didn't care if it was the sequel to a game that I knew from back to front or if the booklet was just a few pages, it was an awesome extra little fe...

Bahamut is a beast. I mean he's usually a beastly dragon figure sure, but as a raw icon he's often synonymous with summons in the Final Fantasy series. I bet most of you who immediately saw this picture without context will probably recogni...

I don't have many dreams left that haven't been fulfilled. I have a beautiful wife and a daughter. My two bucket-list items as a child were to go to Japan and E3, both of which have been checked off because of this job. Oh, and this job cou...

[Update: There's more! Satori Mountain and Korok Forest have been added to the collection.] Described as "the first" of a series on Hyrule National Parks from artist vegancabbage, this sleek rendition of Hebra Mountains from Zelda: Bre...

It's easy enough for an Ideas Man to say "Hey, let's make a seven-foot-eight Nightmare from Soulcalibur using cardboard and Arby's boxes. That'll get people to smash the like button!" But how does one actually go about building such a thing...

Every so often you come across a work of art that makes you smile from ear to ear, and that's just what this Link sculpture did. It's not just because it looks wonderful and suits the theme of Wind Waker perfectly (sand, it gets everywhere,...

The face paint really gave it away. Maybe it's all those moments I spent basking in the glory of Fierce Deity Link, but I instantly recognized this cosplay from Reddit user Enoughrose as the iconic Majora's Mask persona. The story behind th...

Love it or hate it, Settlers of Catan helped shatter the cross-generation barriers of tabletop. Instead of fighting over whether or not to play Scythe or Monopoly, I've witnessed many families settle for Catan and have a blas...

Sega went out on a limb and whipped up an amusing what-if scenario: what if fans could buy a toaster that "burns Sonic's face onto your piece of toast"? Would they? The answer is a resounding "yes." The company wanted a thousand pre-orders ...

I wouldn't say I have more "respect" for Arby's since the airing of the TV show Baskets, but I have a little more appreciation for them in the sense that seem to be okay with being a punching bag after all the years of Simpsons strife. The ...

Player created tools rock. I remember spending countless hours crafting RPGs in Starcraft's use map settings editor, and most of you can recall that several big games, DOTA included, were born from a mod of an existing game. Fortnite&n...

Fireworks are a ripoff. The best-looking ones cost at least $50, and they're over seconds after they begin. Sure, in those precious few seconds, the sky is ablaze with a wall of brightly colored fireballs. Afterward, the only thing burning ...

Insert "do you feel old yet" reference here: amiibo launched in November of 2014, and many, many store exclusives and stocking issues later, it's become a global phenomenon. Maybe it's not nearly as popular of a trend as it was during the g...