Video games can be great place to escape the drudgery of the real world. No need to think about tax rates, paying utility bills or contractor rates when you're in a Halo multiplayer match. But the dirtiest competition in the real world—jockeying for elected office—might be landing up on an Xbox near you, if Microsoft…
Go ahead and guess how this trailer for the PS4/PS3/WiiU/XboxOne/Xbox360/PC/Vita/3DS Spring 2014 game is going to play out. You'll probably guess wrong. Well-played Lego marketing people.
While Ubisoft's charming platform role-playing game Child of Light is skipping Nintendo's last-gen console, the spirit of the Wii lives on inside it's utterly charming co-op gameplay.
Guacamelee! is coming to the Wii U, PS4, Xbox One and Xbox 360 as Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition. This version includes all previous DLC for the game and adds some new levels and boss battles. No word yet on a release date, other than "coming soon."
Titanfall will get both free and paid downloadable content, and the latter will be available through a season pass subscription, Respawn Entertainment's co-founder said yesterday in an interview with GameSpot.
Someone already made a Star Fox for the Xbox One. Someone made a Flappy Bird. Someone recreated the first area of the first Fable. And, yes, a whole bunch of people have re-made Super Mario Bros. 1-1.
The March firmware update for the Xbox One will do a lot more than improve party chat in advance of the launch of the system's big multiplayer March 11 game Titanfall. It'll also tweak a bunch of other things on the console.
South Park: The Stick of Truth is full of hilarious surprises, but there's one that really stood out to me: Canada, the most delightful section in the game.
I wish I could spend this entire review talking about how South Park: The Stick of Truth is one of the funniest games I've ever played.
Project Spark goes into beta today and a select group of folks can start using their Xbox Ones to make games. The creation suite has already been in beta on PC for Windows 8.1 users, letting do things like recreate Minecraft inside Project Spark. If you're already in the Windows beta, you'll also get access on XB1. You …
Peggle 2 launches on Xbox 360 on May 7, Popcap said this morning. This version of the game will add a multiplayer Duel Mode.
Last week, we saw what the history of video games looks like through Western commercials
"We don't have any information on the Xbox One hardware," BlazBlue producer Toshimichi Mori told Siliconera. "I'm curious if Xbox One will even come out in Japan. I've been asking people about it and not one person has given me a definitive answer."
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There's been speculation for more than two decades that the hero of the iconic Wolfenstein first-person shooter games—B.J. Blazkowicz, the guy who you use to machine gun hordes of Nazis—was Jewish. But the game's creators have long been coy about the character's origins. Not so much anymore.
This week we're going down to South Park to have ourselves a time. Other releases include the next episode of The Walking Dead: Season Two and hot damn, some simulation farmin', hell yeah.
Ryse: Son of Rome introduces five new maps, two gladiator character skins, one new mode of play and with the Mars' Chosen Pack. It's $8.99, or free for those who bought the game's season pass for DLC.
Good news for gaming headset owners: The Xbox One March update will bring with it support for optical Dolby audio output, meaning that your Astro/Turtle Beach/other gaming headset will finally get a full surround signal. Polygon's tested an Astro headset and they say it works great.
Here's a list of some of the indie developers participating in Microsoft's ID@Xbox program to make games for Xbox One. Bonus points if you recognize them all.
Trials is coming back with all the gut-sucking drops and teeth-gritting ascents you remember from the dirt-bike racer's first two editions, this time adding ATVs, midair tricks and a slew of new environments to Trials Fusion, coming April 16.
