Compare the Royal Raceway track originally from Mario Kart 64 pitted against the Mario Kart 8 recreation.

Transistor, a sci-fi game from the creators of Bastion, released today on PC and PS4. In the game you play as a singer named Red who takes possession of the titular sword that was going to be used to kill her. Combining action-RPG gameplay with strategy elements, the game has generally been well received by […]

Watch extended gameplay footage from Supergiant’s strategic futuristic follow-up to Bastian featuring the Giant Bomb crew.

After 26 years of waiting, Wasteland fans will finally get their hands on the sequel, Wasteland 2, in late August, developer InXile Entertainment announced today. Back in 2012, InXile hoped to raise $900,000 through Kickstarter in order to develop a sequel to classic RPG Wasteland. The project became one of the highest-funded the crowdfunding site […]

Tom poured his sweat and tears into getting three gold stars in every cup in Mario Kart. Was his reward worth the effort?

The original PlayStation Vita is a remarkable gaming handheld. It’s powerful, with an amazing 5-inch OLED display, and features a wide range of inputs, including two analog sticks and a pair of touchscreens. As great as it is, Sony thinks it could be better, and it’s beginning to rapidly phase out the original Vita in […]

Microsoft reaffirm their dedication to Kinect, the NRDC is bothered by how much power the PS4 and Xbox One use, and what’s on the way for Xbox?

Atari might be a fraction of what it was 30 years ago, but its new CEO has aspirations for an expansion back into the hardware business–although he doesn’t plan to do so with a new game console. “It’s more than a software brand… it’s a hardware brand,” Frederic Chesnais said of Atari in an interview […]

A number of online listings for Xbox One and PlayStation 4 versions of The Walking Dead: Game of the Year Edition have been discovered online recently. The latest comes from Amazon UK and, like the others, points to a July release for the next-gen versions of the game. The game’s page on Amazon, as reported […]

Last night’s episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver on HBO featured a brief segment focused on Nintendo’s recent apology for not allowing same-sex relationships in the recently released 3DS game, Tomodachi Life. In the segment, Mario receives a phone call with the news that Nintendo wants to create more inclusive experiences in the […]