The East LA level in Tony Hawk's American Sk8land has an elaborate secret involving an invisible rail that clips you through geometry to an out-of-bounds section of the map, revealing a message telling you to hide in the bushes in the Beverly Hills map. When you do so, the game plays a fart noise.

1: I'm probably not playing video games to the degree that I am without Sonic the Hedgehog 2. Magnificent, foundational game. 2: "Judy Toyota" is maybe my favorite 80s/90s-era developer pseudonym.

This is what it sounds like when you play the new Skate with the fake AI narrator on.

Here's a look at the Most Nominated Games at #TheGameAwards MLB Slugfeast is the most nominated game in TGA history with 12 nominations.

Three solo Spigot Jerkcities in a row is the starkest recession indicator yet.

Bill Clinton's hog should be preserved and deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress.

Black Ops 7's campaign isn't great so far, but it's at least given Treyarch and Raven a very good excuse to get Michael Rooker to say some really stupid shit:

tetsuya mizuguchi truly, earnestly believes, with his whole heart and whole mind, that generic vocal trance from 2003 has the power to awaken humanity's shared consciousness and guide us to universal peace. The strength of his conviction is so powerful that it might actually cause this to be true

The guy that always seemed like a starfucking egotist is a starfucking egotist????????????????

We have been blessed with high resolution Robbit.

i feel like we used to behead people over a lot less

Found a clip I saved from my Call of Duty: United Offensive playthrough and lost my shit all over again:

I have come around HARD on Halo in the past five years but sometimes I feel like I'm crazy with how much people talk up CE in particular. Forget the Library, that whole second half of the campaign is just the first half backwards because the game was rushed to hell, and it is not great.

I you use an ad blocker (I hope you do), consider checking out AdNauseum, same functionality as ublock and it feeds advertisers garbage data, obfuscating their analytics. The more useless their data becomes, the less incentive they have to collect the data. adnauseam.io

I was going to joke "F-Zero" and then made myself upset because that'd probably be the most fun thing they could turn into a movie just put the Wachowskis on it and you'll at least get like three fucking sick gifs out of it

he's right, but still

Super Mega Baseball 5 needs to have this kind of commentary, holy shit

Donkey Kong Country hack where when you fall off the level the music stops like when you snap your neck in Tomb Raider, and all you hear is the shameful 1-UP balloon popping

im glad the government posting halo memes is revealing that half the people reporting on it are fine with it

Hidden messages outside of the boundaries of Jazz Jackrabbit levels. What could they mean???????

#41: Did you know that John Cazale, supporting cast member in The Conversation, had roles in only five feature films, but every single one was nominated for Best Picture? He's phenomenal in Dog Day Afternoon. backloggd.com/u/PistonHyun...

One of the most underappreciated aesthetics in all of games marketing is "Williams and GT promoting how violent Mortal Kombat and Doom were without getting complaints by doing Skull Shit"

I've seen the "this is like Sonic on Nintendo for the first time" comparison like five different times with Halo but I feel like a key detail there is that Sonic was on Nintendo like six months after Sonic Adventure 2 as opposed to a decade after the series stopped being a huge deal.

RIP to the source of one of the hardest laughs I've ever had watching retro gaming YouTube "conveniently"

If you thought Call of Duty was getting desperate because they're doing a free weekend and announcing the removal of skill based matchmaking the same week Battlefield 6 comes out, you're wrong. They're desperate because they brought the MP-40 back.

it's the hope that gets you.

My Ko-fi is very much a do-or-die thing right now, and I really won't be able to continue writing if the subs aren't there to support it. To be clear, this isn't about getting paid my "worth" or w/e, this is "If this can't feed me then I need to find a job that will". Sorry but I'm that desperate.

Kimimi is great, and her work is one of the things that really inspired me to take my own writing further. Check out some of the hundreds of posts on her site, and support her if you can. kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com

"They're delisting all of the Rock Band DLC" and "Game Pass is now 30 dollars a month" is really fucked up news to drop on the same day.

(Cheech Marin in Dusk Till Dawn voice) PUSSY PUSSY PUSSY

Here's some shots I took of Madness Returns to give you an idea of just how damn good it looks. If it didn't take up so much time, I'd play it again on PC just to see it at 4K with high-resolution textures.

D'ohtse

I was thinking that I've been playing too many EA games lately *before* this happened.

Well, that's one way to direct people to this really well-done review of Skate I saw earlier this week, I guess: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhVN...

One of the saving graces of Yakuza 3 is how great its unique characters are, so recasting FUCKING ALL OF THEM is a really strange move.

DID YOU KNOW? Doom 64's difficulties are named after the chronological history of Microsoft in the video game industry:

Thought that entered my mind as I continue to play 30XX despite not enjoying it: roguelites exploded in popularity in the early 2010s not because of the quality of the games that came out around that time but because they're A+ depression games and non-depressed people stopped existing around then.

It's so fucking grimy.

"FILKING AND SILKING" https://bonequest.com/9683

holy fuck virtua tennis is so good

#35: I've been testing the new Skate for over two years. Now that it's finally launched (in Early Access), here's how I feel about it so far. backloggd.com/u/PistonHyun...

Happy 40th birthday Super Mario Bros.

I bought Super Metroid on the Wii U for thirty cents.

Yoshi and the Mysterious Book sounds like a name you'd see on a fake E3 list.

Started Alice: Madness Returns, and this was the very first loading screen tooltip.

If you read my reviews, how do you feel about how long they've gotten lately? I originally liked Backloggery because of the challenge of keeping to a succinct 500 characters, but I've been feeling pretty good about what I've done so far this year.

My headcanon is that the Raven Software logo is the Rogue Entertainment logo's pet and he hangs out on his shoulder.

I'd sooner trust someone who's never played Nintendo stuff than someone who's ONLY played Nintendo stuff.