You're heading to the store to get an Xbox One right now, and need to know which games to get. (Land the plane, first, of course.) Or you're at work or in school, daydreaming about what you want to play next. Or maybe you're suiting up for a battle in the console war, cinching on your armor and trying to remember which …
Dust off your copy of Terraria, console gamers, 'cause the massive 1.2 update for the game's Vita, PS3 and Xbox 360 versions lands today. The change notes for the free patch are here; it's quite the read. This brings the console versions in line with Terraria's PC version, which got the same update last October.
Before Titanfall was Titanfall, the mech-heavy shooter went through years of development hell. Crippled by a complicated lawsuit back in 2010, the folks behind the newly-formed studio Respawn Entertainment worried for a long time that they might never actually make a game.
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Trials Fusion is out now, and it apparently has a collection of hidden minigames, including a first-person maze, and Trials versions of Marble Madness, Angry Birds, and... Tennis. Here's how to find 5 of them.
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The final piece of DLC for Borderlands 2 is now out—the base game was released over one and a half years ago, on September 18, 2012. Even ignoring the extra costumes, BL2 managed to amass quite the hefty amount of DLC packs during that time. I'm interested to see if the new game will get a similar treatment.
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Wait, what? A few things. Why does this exist and why didn't this already exist? Regardless of the answers to these pressing questions, Call of Duty: Ghosts now officially has the best announcer in all of first-person shooters.
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Activision is planning to unveil the next big installment in its wildly popular (and lucrative) toy-video game combo Skylanders next week at an event in New York City. In preparation, the series publisher sent out some invitations that show chief antagonist and evil portal master Kaos being his lovable dastardly self.
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Despite the amount of annoyance that console fanboys have caused me over the years as a person writing about video games on the Internet, despite the endless comments threads they have derailed with their arguments, I still have a small reserve of affection for these people. There's a passion inherent in fanboyism…
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Warning: Today's Saturday stream may contain material that spoil the events of a fantasy book published in 1937.
Update: And we're done! Thanks as always to everyone who showed up to chat. Here's the archive, preserved forever in the halls of some legendary dwarf thing.], [http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--pkuoyjyv--/c_fill,g_center,h_358,w_636/wnauowzrre6dctyjnhgf.jpg, (small)], [http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--v-ecOOHI--/c_fill,g_center,h_180,w_320/wnauowzrre6dctyjnhgf.jpg, (medium)], [http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--QwomtGeU--/c_fill,g_center,h_77,w_137/wnauowzrre6dctyjnhgf.jpg, (large)])
Have you played Road Rash? You'll enjoy the next 45 seconds. Above is footage from the alpha of Road Redemption, an open-world motorcycle combat racer and spiritual successor to the Road Rash series, which had its last entry in '99. The game lands on PC in August, with Wii U and Xbox 360 versions to follow later.
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It's always good to see Bruce Wayne kick some ass out of costume. Some of that playboy crimefightin' is on display in this new look at the Cold, Cold Heart DLC that due to hit Batman: Arkham Origins this month. There's also a look at the new Batsuit players will use in the Mr. Freeze-focused add-on. Cold, Cold Heart…
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If you've ever just looked up at the sky while playing a Borderlands game you might've noticed the big H-shaped, Hyperion-owned moonbase suspended ominously in space above the planet Pandora. Well, in the next big Borderlands game, coming out this fall, you'll be going to that moon.
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By using your own custom-built Titanfall Eject Button. It's not just one of those big red buttons you can buy everywhere, but one that was created and programmed for one purpose only: To help you leave your Titan in the coolest way possible.
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Have you noticed all the small-scale sci-fi strategy games these days? No complaints here, given how good the spaceship-survival game FTL is and how well the minimalist space-station-building Rymdkapsel turned out. There's Double Fine's Spacebase DF9, too. Next? Habitat, a game about making space stations from space…
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I'll admit it: I assumed that the Xbox 360 version of Titanfall would be hot garbage, especially once we found out that Respawn—the studio behind the PC and Xbox One versions—hadn't actually made it.
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Sure looks like the Avengers are finally coming to Disney Infinity. This new teaser features Steve Rogers' iconic shield ricocheting through the environs of Disney's collectible toy game. People have been wondering when Marvel characters would be showing up in Disney Infinity and this clip seems to hint that some news…
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Man, alternate reality Nazis play soccer much differently than we do here.
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"It feels like an unnecessary add-on... I'm sure they're going to release an Xbox One without Kinect. It would be unthinkable that they wouldn't." Game designer and programmer Peter Molyneux, in an Edge interview with multiple industry personalities about the Xbox One's future.
Remember the Xbox One reveal? There was a lot of talk about TV, wasn't there? Now Microsoft's new console is out and all that TV-centric chatter has died down. But there's a lot of work happening to produce and deliver original shows directly to Xbox users. Microsoft clearly wants Xbox Live to become the next Netflix.
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If you've always wanted to have more automatons in your DOTA experience, then I may have just the thing for you. AirMech Arena is a fast-paced free-to-play MOBA that puts you control of giant killer mechs that can transform into vehicles like a military jet or helicopter. And it's coming out for the Xbox 360 this…
