While many of you were tucking into turkey on Christmas Day, someone was cooking up something called Gamer Ramen, and we’re not sure how we feel about it. There’s a certain image that is conjured in the minds of many people when they hear the word gamer. Even gamers themselves likely envision someone sat at […]
Remember When Konami Made Video Games?
Konami is a Japanese entertainment conglomerate that has found monumental success in the gaming industry. This is the company that has brought us wildly popular series, including Metal Gear, Silent Hill, and Castlevania. Ever since their humble beginnings as arcade developers, Konami has been gaining momentum like a runaway train. This past year, however, Konami has […]
Someone Made Gollum In Red Dead Redemption 2
You know what’s more surprising here? That nobody thought to do this sooner. I mean, Red Dead Redemption 2 is just full of downright ugly and ornery characters milling about their virtual cowboy lives. That one of them didn’t randomly generate with the face of Gollum is just astounding on its own. We have Reddit […]
Someone Made An Interactive Video That Explores All Of The Real-Life Historical Figures Assassin’s Creed Is Based On
A Reddit user named SmilgaNir has created an interactive viz using Tableau and Photoshop that lets you explore the real-life historical figures that are loosely adapted in the Assassin’s Creed games. The interface features a map highlighting the parts of the world where games in the series have taken place. Clicking on the figure standing […]
Quarantine Has Made Video Games About More Than Escapism
Video games are an escapist medium. That’s what everyone always says. And it’s true! They allow us to be whoever or whatever we want, no matter the realm of possibility. Wizards, monsters, survivors in the post-apocalypse, anthropomorphic marsupials named Crash – we can be anything. We can escape our day-to-day routines and problems, and we […]
What Made the Biggest Football Stars So Great?
Professional footballers very rarely come from wealthy families, rather the opposite. Most footballers come from working households and households that have very little in the way of finances. Because of this, footballers are often very humble, down-to-earth people, who possess compassion that is not found in most of the world’s richest and most elite. It […]
How Magical Drop II Made Me Less Of A Quitter
The year was 2003, and I was around ten years old. I was alone in the YMCA daycare center in Winder – a historic Georgia town with NASCAR shops, a bunch of fast food joints, and not much else. It was hard for me to get along with other kids at the time, so I […]
Someone made a video game lock pick museum that you can play
In Clive Thompson’s excellent book, Coders, he describes the earliest wave of computer programmers as paragons of radical openness. “When MIT authorities locked cabinets with equipment they needed to fix the computer, they studied lock picking and liberated the equipment,” Thompson wrote. “The white-shirted, buzz-cut IBM types who had kept computers locked behind doors enraged […]
These game writers made history by going on strike — and winning
Twenty-one writers who were contractors that create scripts for the mobile app Lovestruck: Choose Your Romance went on strike on July 15 — a move nearly unheard of in the video game industry. Calling themselves Voltage Organized Workers, the group demanded better pay and workplace transparency, but the company that owns the app, Voltage Entertainment, […]
How The Oculus Quest Made Me A VR Believer During A Global Pandemic
After months of searching for a regularly-priced Oculus Quest, I was finally able to purchase one recently. The Oculus Quest tutorial wowed me, Beat Saber convinced me of VR gaming’s unrivaled fun, and then Half-Life: Alyx made me a true believer. [UploadVR regularly commissions freelance writers to review products, write stories, and contribute op-ed pieces […]