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Finish Him: Remembering Fighting Games’ Fatalities Arms Race
We look back at the Mortal Kombat wannabes with two games industry veterans from the blood-soaked early 1990s.
Nobody Played 'Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze,' But I Loved It Anyway
It wasn't Donkey Kong's fault that everyone wanted a new Metroid, but it doomed this absurdly good platformer.
The Exhausting Ten-Year Journey to Release 'Owlboy'
No one at D-Pad expected to spend the better part of a decade on a single game, but life, death, and delays got in the way.
The First 'Dark Souls III' DLC Is Dark Souls at Its Worst: Boring
Three sequels and several pieces of downloadable content later, perhaps Dark Souls has simply run out of steam.
This Guy Spent 342 Hours Speedrunning a Card-Based JRPG
Julien Jaffrès's hobby is beating 'Baten Kaitos,' a cult classic card-based JRPG for the GameCube, as fast as he can. His fastest time is just under two weeks.
We Introduce Our Newest Hire and Talk Game Writing Challenges on Waypoint's New Podcast
The Waypoint crew continues to grow, as managing editor Danielle Riendeau joins Patrick Klepek and Austin Walker to kick off another week in video games.
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How 'Doom 2' Helped Me Understand Technology
A trip to the computer store in search of financial software with my dad became a surprising way to learn about how computers work.
Here’s What You Need to Know About the New Nintendo Switch
Nintendo's much-speculated-about next console has had its official reveal – so we can all stop making shit up, now.
‘Eternal Champions’ Is the Game That Quenched a Teenage Thirst for Gore
It was more messily slapstick than outright offensive, but Sega's fighter took a look at Mortal Kombat's fatalities and said: we can do better.
Why VICE Gaming Is Now Waypoint
Waypoint Editor-in-Chief Austin Walker explains how 2012's 'Dragon's Dogma' helped to inspire the name of VICE's new gaming site.
Why It’s So Hard to Make a Video Game
For most of their lifespan, video games look like grey boxes and compromises.
I Went Riding with the Reaper Lords, Grand Theft Auto’s Biggest Motorcycle Club
And on the way I learned some lessons in respect, humility and brotherhood. Because for these players, this is more than just a game.
