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“PC on very high setting is REALLY stunning if you ask me… Trailer wasn’t a good [graphics reference].” On Twitter, Watch Dogs’ creative director answers comments related to the game getting “uglier” with the latest trailer, noting that the earlier E3 2012 footage came from the PC version. (1, 2, via Eurogamer)

Battlefield: Pirates, Essentially

Although Battlefield: Pirates actually does kinda exist in the form of mods for Battlefield 1942 and Battlefield 2, this game, BlackWake, will probably surpass either of those. Provided it’s finished. What we’re looking at is a multiplayer team-based shooter for PC, centered around naval battles. Here’s a video describing the game’s features; basically, it’ll be…

“Some say that space sims are niche. I’m not so sure.” Chris Roberts, veteran game designer, comments on the news of his game, Star Citizen, reaching the $40 million crowdfunding milestone and its website receiving 10,000 new registered users.

Don’t Move is supposedly a game about “ludonarrative dissonance and player investment manipulation.” What it actually looks like is a twisted social experiment of some sort. But in any case, it’s on Greenlight. And if it gets on Steam, it will cost a dollar, apparently. Hmmm.

Tetsuya Nomura Picks The Three Best Lightning Fanart

Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy character designer Tetsuya Nomura recently judged a fanart contest at deviantART, which featured the Final Fantasy XIII series’ recurring protagonist and costume aficionado, Lightning. After looking through literally thousands of submissions, he picked three. Here they are. The press release announcing the winners also had comments from Nomura for each…

“If you’re asking me to throw a rock in the PS4 vs. Xbox One resolution war, I won’t. The game is not finished and talking about resolutions [and framerates] is, I think, pointless.” Michał Krzemiński of CD Projekt RED, to gamesTM’s questionabout resolution differences between the console versions of The Witcher 3

Pre-Alpha Games Shouldn’t Look This Good

Yet here is Project CARS, looking as good as it does. And it looks very good. Gorgeous even. This new trailer, courtesy of ExpressionOfNothing, shows off the still heavily in-development racing game (currently situated at pre-alpha build #678) in glorious 1440p. From the Sky Trailer [ExpressionOfNothing@YouTube, thanks Sebastian!] Questions? Comments? Contact the author of this…

For $400, You Too Can Enjoy Doom Guy Curbstomping Demons on Your Desk

Not as cuddly as his plush counterpart, but undeniably badass. Gaming Heads is putting up a new diorama for pre-order, consisting of Doom’s space marine doing his thing in a style reminiscent of the first Doom game’s box cover. The 12.5 by 17 inch hand-painted statue comes with a light-up base, so it can also…

We knew that JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle was coming to the West, but we didn’t have exact dates. Now we do. Bandai-Namco’s fighter hits PS3 in Europe and Australia first, on April 25, with the US release following four days later, on April 29.

“It does feel like a double standard, a little bit. We weren’t willing to change the content… as long as we could make a joke out of the fact that they made us cut this, that was fine.” South Park co-creator Matt Stone, in an interview with The Guardian, on the censoring of South Park:…

Assasins Creed FIVE: Great LOL Sounds Like an Amazing Game

“Connor goes to revolutionary France, but doesn’t take part in the revolution, just wanders the countryside + eats cheese and wine.” Not much needs to be said here. This is a parody of leaks, Assassin’s Creed, and, well, the game industry as a whole. A redditor named koobaxion came up with it, and it’s brilliant.…

Hideo Kojima on Why Solid Snake Is Called Solid Snake

Metal Gear’s creator took to Twitter to talk about the conceptual origins behind the name of series protagonist Solid Snake. Over eight tweets. It… makes sense if you think about it, really. Have a look: Did you get that? Solid for battle-hardened, Snake for stealthy. Only a snake can beat a snake, so Solid Snake’s…

Kerbal Space Program to Introduce NASA-Backed Asteroid-Wrangling DLC

Yes, soon you’ll be able to do in Kerbal Space Program whatNASA wants to do in real life. Of course, in this case, it won’t take decades of careful research. And it will probably involve a lot more explosions. KSP developer Squad and NASA are collaborating on a mission-slash-content pack called Asteroid Redirect Mission, named…

GTA IV Modder Creates Gaming’s Most Gorgeous Clouds

Skybox of dreams This is, of course, the work of the very talented person behind the iCEnhancer graphics mod for GTA IV, who posted new footage of some really darn purty HD clouds on his YouTube channel after several months of inactivity. Take a look: gta4_clouds_test [Hayssam Keilany@YouTube, via DSOGaming] Questions? Comments? Contact the author…

It’s Like Portal, But Instead of a Portal Gun, You Get Time Travel

Stop me if any of this sounds familiar. Awakening from a cryo-tube, you make your way across an abandoned testing facility, following the commands of a character you cannot directly interact with, using a piece of ultramodern technology in increasingly creative ways to overcome obstacles. Yeah. The conceptual level is pretty much where the similarities…

A Fan Film That Pretty Much Could’ve Been an Actual Matrix Scene

In fact, if there was another Matrix movie in the works, it would probably look a lot like this. Matrix Online: The Movie? Might work. Probably not. In any case, Trickster was created by director Felix Joleanes after he came up with a 3D Sentinel (the squid robot) model in his free time. A friend…

“Cumulative PS4 sales have now surpassed six million units worldwide,” SCEA Marketing VP John Koller writes in an official blog post. The PlayStation 4 launched in Japan on February 22, with 370,000 systems being sold in just over a week, according to Sony.

Blonde Twins Play Harry Potter Music on Harps, Frolic in a Forest

How about some mellow? Let’s do mellow. Here we have a lovely performance of “Hedwig’s Theme” from the Harry Potter soundtrack, presented by Harp Twins Camille and Kennerly Kitt. And if you’re in the mood for even more mellow, check out the twins’ other videos below: Blonde Twins Playing A Metallica Cover On Harps While…

“We can capitalize the most on our strengths through a hardware-software integrated platform business, and therefore this type of dedicated video game platform will remain our core focus.” Nintendo president Satoru Iwata, in a letter to shareholders and investors about the company’s future

A Very Lonely Cross Between Pokémon and Harvest Moon

This is Toby’s Island, a PC RPG where you try to survive by farming, crafting, raising monsters and building a settlement all by yourself on a dangerous, untamed island. The game is heavily inspired by RPGs of the nineties, and it shows: there’s some rather good-looking sprite art to be found. The plot, which deals…