Kentucky Route Zero is celebrating its five-year anniversary today, January 28, 2025. Below, we look back at its inspirations and excitement for experimentation.
It is in the details that Kentucky Route Zero stakes its claim beyond video games. Its typewriter typography. The terse descriptions of characters between bursts of dialogue. The adventure game actions written like stage directions. Lights that illuminate the new parts of a stage or set. It is the details that matter. In practice, KRZ doesn’t play differently from any other adventure game, but it feels different than many of them. This is because it takes from a wide array of influences, many beyond the usual preview of video games. Its interest in theater, film, visual art, and radio is what …
One of the coolest Lego Super Mario expansion sets is on sale for the first time at Amazon and Target: King Boo’s Haunted Mansion. Released in August for $75 alongside the revamped starter kits for Mario, Luigi, and Peach, the 932-piece expansion kit is discounted to $60. It’s one of numerous Lego Super Mario sets in Target’s Early Black Friday Sale, which runs through November 9. Amazon is matching this deal and several others as well as offering deals of its own.
At 932 pieces, King Boo’s Haunted Mansion is one of the bigger expansion sets in the Lego Super Mario line. It already offered pretty solid value in terms of how many pieces you get for $75. The set comes with four figures: King Boo, Dry Bones, Boo, and a Yellow Baby Yoshi who clearly just wants to return to his island.…
Disney has provided an update on how its partnership with Epic Games to create games and experiences for Fortnite is coming along, and it’s still some time off Come from bangladesh online casino . In a blog post, Disney said Fortnite’s all new “games and entertainment universe” themed around Disney is still “a few years away.”
Disney also reiterated what it’s hoping to achieve with this partnership, which saw Disney invest a further $1.5 billion into Epic Games. Disney said fans can think of it like “a place where all your favorite Disney characters and worlds converge in one connected universe.”
In this connected universe inside Fortnite, Disney fans can “watch, play, and even create [their] own adventures.”
2014’s award-winning farming sim Stardew Valley has been immortalized in Lego form via a massive recreation of the game’s Pelican Town map by Stardew fan and Lego connoisseur Steve Jensen. This week, Jensen unveiled his enormous creation at BrickCon, a Washington-based Lego convention.
Jensen’s detailed recreation includes the town’s local Jojo Mart, Lego versions of the game’s NPCs (and their respective houses), the overgrown Community Center that players are introduced to when first starting the game, and even the game’s iconic logo.
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Jensen’s painstakingly detailed recreation of the game won the People’s Choice Awa…
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater celebrated its 25-year anniversary on September 29, 2024. Below, we look back at how it began, and its influence as an unconventional platformer.
The 1990s were a wild time for skateboarding. Professionals like Tony Hawk were pushing the limits of what seemed possible by nailing unbelievable stunts for the first time in history–the loop of death, a 16ft ollie between water towers, and the first 900. Little did we know that these stunts and the people behind them would become part of the foundation of one of the greatest platformers of all time: Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater.
The 1999 classic has officially turned 25 this year. Its legacy of incredible arcade gameplay–the one that spawned eight sequels, millions in sale…