Sure, you could say that video games get more beautiful every year. Graphics technology gets better, game developers get more adept, and as a result, games get more beautiful. All the same, 2014 felt like a special year for video game beauty.
Nekopara tells the tale of Kashou Minaduki, a young baker descended from a long line of Japanese confection makers who sets out on his own to open a patisserie. Of course, a couple of catgirls show up, as catgirls are wont to do, and hijinks ensue. Naturally.
The visual novel is slated to debut on Steam today at 6pm PST with a cool $10 asking price.
Nekopara Vol. 1 [Steam]
The bad news: we haven't seen a Metroid game in almost five years, and that's not looking to change any time soon. The good news: Xeodrifter, which came out earlier this month for PC and 3DS, is a fine enough substitute. Well, it's an OK substitute. A decent enough substitute. It's margarine, basically. It's I Can't Believe It's Not Metroid.
Whether you have an Xbox One or a PlayStation 4, if you want to play online with friends, you'll need to cough up money for Xbox Live Gold or PlayStation Plus. You may even pick it up just for free games every month. Still, there are some other perks to that membership you may not know about. Let's look at them.
Just a quick heads-up, the Wii U GameCube controller adapter is in stock at GameStop online for $109.97, which means that you'll have to buy the Smash Bros. bundle to get it. It includes the Wii U edition of the game, as well as a GameCube controller and the adapter itself.
To price it all out, the game is $60, the adapter is $20 (but sold out everywhere), and the controller is $30 -- so you're not saving anything, but if you're desperate for that adapter you could always sell off the other bits yourself.
Wii U GameCube Adapter [GameStop]
Under normal circumstances, sex in The Sims 4 is rather tame. You don't really get to see anything, and instead of 'sex,' the game calls it 'wohoo.' But players are finding their own ways of making the game saucier—and the results are hilarious.
A great story has lots of layers, and a rich backstory. When you only see part of the picture, you might reach a snap judgment about what's going on — but then you see events from years ago, that make you rethink everything. Here are 10 flashbacks that turn your understanding of a story upside-down.
2014 is almost over, and we're ringing in the final Highlight Reel of the year with some great clips from all over. We have anti-gravity Sportsfriends plays, a snowball-fueled GTA V heist and a Battlefield clip that would make Michael Bay proud.
Not gonna lie: watching this compilation video of amazing Captain Falcon plays made my pulse quicken. It's just so hype!
I won't lie; I was tempted to just post Lady Gaga lyrics as I hum the tune and then call it a day. That would do a disservice to the game Paparazzi , which was featured in the Indiecade showcase at E3 2014. We missed it then, but it is looking like a unique competitive multiplayer title.
One player takes on the role of the celebrity and the other plays as the paparazzi. The celebrity has to maintain his dignity by sprinting around, hiding in crowds, and otherwise avoiding the gaze of the photographer. Meanwhile, the paparazzi player has to search for the celebrity, be quick to track, and go for the ultimate limousine-exiting crotch shot.
Paparazzi is headed to PlayStation 4 and Wii U in February 2015.
