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Before Finally Playing Wind Waker HD, Why Not Enjoy One More Trailer?

As you know, the graphically (and otherwise) upgraded version of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker arrives in brick and mortar stores around the US early next month. Good thing there’s also a digital download version which comes out today. So while your Wii U happily chips away at the download in the background,…

As we wait for Trails in the Sky’s new chapter to drop, Japan is getting ready for a new Legend of Heroes RPG of its own. Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Flash chronologically takes place before Trails in the Sky, during the oft-referenced Great War. It is set to hit the PS3 and Vita…

A New, Free-To-Play Soulcalibur Is On The Way

It’s called Soulcalibur Lost Swords, and it will be a PlayStation 3 exclusive. The newest entry to the Soulcalibur fighting game series, apart from being free-to-play, will feature a new “item discovery and forging” system for its weapons, along with elemental-based (fire, wind etc.) fighting mechanics. Lost Swords will be a single-player game with a…

I Still Can’t Tell What’s Going on in Capcom’s Next-Gen Online Game

Does the protagonist hear voices, or is that just the trailer being weird? Why are they speaking German and Spanish? And what’s with the boxes at the end? Deep Down, you’re scarily hard to decipher Though you do look ridiculously beautiful. Unfortunately, still no word on when exactly Capcom’s fine-looking PS4 game will arrive. When…

Have A Few Seconds’ Worth Of Final Fantasy XV

Yeah, just a few seconds. But it’s still Final Fantasy XV! The Tokyo Game Show brings us a “new” (there’s lots of re-used footage) three-minute trailer for the upcoming PS4/XBO title Final Fantasy XV, wherein the hero faces Leviathan and smashes an armored soldier into a police car What a rascal!

Rain Was Enough Of A Tearjerker Already… And Now There’s A Song

Seriously, was the piano not enough? Here it is, in any case: PS3 exclusive touchy-feely platform-adventure Rain’s new story trailer, courtesy of the Tokyo Game Show. Stock up on tissues if you’re planning to get this game (it gets here on the first of October.)

Mega Man’s Spiritual Successor Will Be On Home Consoles

Mighty No. 9’s Kickstarter campaign managed to reach its 2.2 million stretch goal, which means the game will receive ports for Xbox 360, PS3, and Wii U in addition to the original PC version. There’s 14 days left of the 30-day campaign. As of yet unreached stretch goals include both offline and on-line (co-op) challenge…

Getting Close and Personal With The Hard-Working People of Your Town

Upcoming medieval-esque city builder Banished will have a “follow mode.” Here’s a video of what it looks like. Basically, follow mode allows you to get rid of the user interface and zoom in on and follow the day-to-day activities of one of your colonists, whether they’re working, getting something to eat, heading home, or, say,…

2010’s Raunchiest Strategy RPG Is Returning Soon on PC

Three years ago, a rather… naughty Japanese-made console SRPG turned quite a few heads when it arrived in North America. Now, Record of Agarest War is back and headed for the PC. The port, named Agarest: Generations of War after the European version, will be released on the third of October and can be pre-ordered…

Apparently Rabbits Are Ridiculously Good At Spear-Throwing

And spear-stabbing. And martial arts too, of course. Wolfire Games is here with another installment of their calmly-narrated humanoid animal violence-themed videos, showcasing the absolutely phenomenal combat system behind Overgrowth, their upcoming PC third-person brawler. If you’d like to play around with Overgrowth’s alpha yourself, you can do so by pre-ordering the game here. $30…

Rise of the Triad Thanks Players For The Feedback With Five Free Maps

And a kick-ass trailer, too. Of course. Above’s a two-minute video description of the 1.1 patch for retro-styled FPS Rise of the Triad, which contains five free multiplayer maps in addition to “hundreds” of fixes and tweaks, some of which were suggested by the community. If you’ve been holding off on checking the game out…

Looks Like We’re Getting A Sweet New Documentary About Retro Gaming

Above is the five-minute official trailer for Man vs Snake, which tells the story of Tim McVey, the first person ever to reach more than one billion points in an arcade game—on a single quarter, of course. The film’s creators launched a Kickstarter campaign last month which, fortunately, managed to reach its goal, meaning that…

The Story of How Grand Theft Auto Almost Didn’t Happen

Early, discarded concepts and unplayable builds line the arduous history of the first top-down GTA game. This video, from The Guardian, invites us to take a break from waiting for GTA V, grab a cup of tea, and listen to the story of how this legendary series got started. Have a look at the clip…

It’s Almost Like Baldur’s Gate and Wizardry Had A Turn-Based Baby

Spanish indie group Numantian Games is crowdfunding an old-school 2D isometric RPG (with first-person, turn-based battles)—it’s called Lords of Xulima, and it’s well on its way to release. It just needs a little bit of polishing first. Yep, this campaign’s one of those “our game is just about ready but we’d like money for some…

Huge Swords, Dozens of Monsters and One Awful Haircut

This here is the first teaser trailer for Bound by Flame, the new game by Spiders, the studio responsible for the sci-fi RPG Mars: War Logs. As you can see, this one’s a more fantasy-oriented RPG. In fact, “Fantasy Mars: War Logs without the ‘Mars’ part” seems to be pretty much correct, with the official…

Man, The Street’s Blocked By A Huge Jedi vs. Sith Battle Again

Looks like I’ll have to go around. Damn, I’m gonna be late for work. This new live-action trailer for Star Wars MMO The Old Republic, in which we witness an urban large-scale battle between the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire, is a great watch regardless of whether you’re a fan of the game or…

Kickstarter’s Next Big Gaming Hardware Bags Over $400K In A Day

There’s a campaign currently running on Kickstarter to fund a new kind of motion controller. The people behind the campaign asked for a meager $250,000. Instead, they got more than four hundred thousand—and that was just day one The hardware in question, called the STEM system, could be described as a combination of the Kinect…

And Now, Here’s Princess Peach Kicking Some Major Ass

Nintendo released a new batch of screenshots for next year’s Super Smash Bros., featuring Mario’s damsel in distress, Peach—except here, she’s the one opening a can of whoopass on everyone. Including Mario, of course. There are two screenshots for the 3DS version: And eight more for the Wii U version: And she did all that…

Heroes of Loot Is The Most Retro Game You’ll See Today

Pixel art? Check. Chiptunes? Check. Apparent hellish difficulty? Check. Heroes of Loot has all the markings of the definitive retro roguelike. I can even see myself throwing my keyboard across the room. If you liked the trailer, know that there’s a free PC demo you can try here. And if you enjoyed that, you can…

Can Bowser Resist The Charms Of A Beautiful Woman? Nah.

To keep heroes out, all he wanted was to install a steel door with a deadbolt—but unfortunately, deep down, even King Koopa is just a man with a weakness. At least that’s the case in this video, in which stagefivetv give their own account of how Mario’s arch-nemesis came to be the owner of his…