In the “objective video game review” sense, Alpha Protocol is pretty much the worst. It’s super irritating to play,…
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At E3, Bioware announced a new expansion for Star Wars: The Old Republic, dubbed Knights of the Fallen Empire. At…
Zero Escape Volume 3 was announced today at the Aksys Games Panel at Anime Expo in LA. They’re aiming for a summer…
I don’t particularly care about the Shenmue III Kickstarter because I don’t fund other people’s creative endeavors…
The PlayStation Network is down. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before, but it’s a holiday in the US and most online-related PlayStation functions are, well, not functioning. The PSN status page details the mess. It only mentions PS3 and PS4 not working but my Vita also can’t get online. Read more
While reading Nathan Grayson’s assertion that Batman: Arkham Knight should have borrowed Shadow of Mordor’s…
Destiny has been accused of many things, but “having personality” is probably not one of them. It came out of the…
EuroRPG developer Piranha Bytes announced its new game, to be published by Nordic Games, in utterly unremarkable…
Batman: Arkham Knight’s first post-release DLC, which will see you play as Batgirl, will drop on July 14 for season pass holders and July 21 if you would rather buy it separately. The announcement via European press release listing a price of £5.79, so it’ll probably be around $7-8 stateside. Read more
No, today is not actually Independence Day (that’s tomorrow), but it is the US federal holiday marking the occasion.…
Today, May 25, is Star Wars Day—not the weird pun nonsense earlier this month that people love to call “Star Wars…
If you know where to look, you can buy anything on Etsy. And, yes, “anything” apparently sometimes includes Poke…
Bloodborne has been patched to allow co-op with friends regardless of level with password matching. That’s according to DualShockers’ English translation of the Japanese patch notes. The patch is about 300mb, positively svelte for an update to a current-gen game. Read more
If you write about games professionally for a while, and get suckered into writing game reviews freelance, a couple…
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