Failed Attempts To Make Video Game Mascots As Iconic As Mario
The road to fame is littered with the corpses of wannabe video game mascots who failed to gain Mario's level of traction.
Read MoreThe road to fame is littered with the corpses of wannabe video game mascots who failed to gain Mario's level of traction.
Read MoreThe most tedious, stressful, and unnecessary things in video games are the escort missions, where you bring a helpless, drooling moron from Point A to Point B.
Read MoreWhat video games should Hollywood never make into movies? The easy answer is "none of them," but some REALLY shouldn't.
Read MoreWhen you drop $60 on a game, how long should it take to get to the end? Some are so short they simply aren't worth your cash, no matter how great they may be.
Read MoreThe networks have revealed the new shows debuting this fall, and boy do many of them look like total stinkers. On every level, these series have already failed.
Read MoreAs video games evolved into advanced storytelling devices, anything became possible and game endings got weirder, twistier, and morally grayer all the time.
Read MoreNo video game character is fully dressed without a totally badass suit of high-tech, destructive armor.
Read MoreA secret code can give brand-new life to an old video game, or make an impossible game winnable. These are some of the coolest codes from the history of gaming.
Read MoreMuch like actors much shorter than they look on-screen, the food you see in movies often isn't as impressive, or as hard to make, as you might believe.
Read MoreFor every fat Italian plumber and unrealistically fast hedgehog, there are a hundred video game characters that never spawned the proper franchise they deserve.
Read MoreThese TV shows should have been canceled long ago. But instead, the worst of the worst just stick around forever.
Read MoreIn many cases, great video games are forgotten simply because they appeared exclusively on deeply unpopular consoles.
Read MoreWe've learned to accept a certain amount of video game logic and adapt, but just about every part of video gaming is inherently incorrect.
Read MoreWe've no excuse for the shameful and embarrassing fact that we still watch the same shows today that we did as children, other than they're bona fide classics.
Read MoreSometimes, video game features are truly revolutionary, but often they end up being at best, gimmicks, or at worst, wasted potential.
Read MoreIt's really hard to come up with a good idea for a game show. Not that folks haven't been trying (and failing miserably) for decades.
Read MoreThere are plenty of awesome, fun games that you play for the challenge and experience, not for their stories.
Read MoreEveryone who's ever played a video game has had a run-in with the dreaded "licensed movie game." Movie-based games are pretty hit-or-miss … but mostly miss.
Read MoreComic fanboy Nicolas Cage should theoretically be an obvious choice for any superhero film. But no studio should ever let Cage near a superhero script again.
Read MoreThe fourth quarter of 2016 holds a lot of lofty video game promises across multiple systems and genres, but what should you be looking forward to the most?
Read MoreComics have mostly stopped embracing ridiculous sidekicks, but history has brought us some glowing examples of absolutely pointless and ridiculous tagalongs.
Read MorePokemon Go got us thinking: which other hit TV shows would make for great augmented reality games?
Read MoreNetflix has a seemingly endless list of terrific original programs, but they also put out tons of shows that aren't as good. In fact, they're flat-out terrible.
Read MoreNo Man's Sky seems to be struggling to keep up with everything players have demanded of it.
Read MoreWhile Hollywood royalty usually has their collective acts together, there are times when they hit the live talk TV circuit, and everything goes totally wrong.
Read MoreThe Dude Perfect guys come up with such ridiculous, difficult, insane shots, it's almost impossible to fathom they could be real.
Read MoreSome video games are so weird and awesome that real-life can't possibly compare, and that's when life decides to imitate art.
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