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Six Reviews Agree That The Best Part of Deadpool Is… Well, Deadpool

What the reviews can’t agree on, however, is how good the rest of the game is. High Moon Studios’ third-person action game, you see, has its fair share of problems. Deadpool is marred by overly conventional design—mostly level design, which can get boring at times—and technical issues, such as a wonky camera, oddly-behaving AI and…

Watch Dogs and Our Reality Have A Lot More In Common Than You Think

Ubisoft, hard at work creating the next big modern-day sandbox, Watch Dogs, launched a website that shows us exactly how different their universe is compared to ours. Not too different, it turns out. Basically, the website lets you look at data—tweets, facebook likes, emails, Instagram posts, Flickr photos, you name it—constantly being shared and traded,…

Professor Layton’s Son Investigates the Criminal Underworld on iOS

Level-5 announced that the iOS iteration of the popular Professor Layton series of puzzle games, Layton Brothers Mystery Room, is now available in the US and Europe following last year’s Japanese release. The game follows the son of series protagonist Professor Layton. He and his partner, Detective Lucy Baker, form a part of Scotland Yard…

Leisure Suit Larry: Reloaded, the modern remake of the original Leisure Suit Larry adventure game from 1987, is now available from creator Replay Games’ website, with the Steam, Android and iOS versions coming later today. The game secured $650,000 in fundinglast Spring on Kickstarter.

Codemasters’ Classic Colin McRae Rally Goes Mobile

So this is what they were talking about yesterday. Codemasters’ original rally sports simulator is now on iOS, looking as dapper as ever. The “re-imagined” iOS version is based on the second game in the series from 2001, Colin McRae Rally 2.0, and it sports overhauled graphics and optional tilt controls while including the cars,…

Ubisoft Wants Your Face on a Painting. No, Really.

Ubisoft’s latest promotion for Assassin’s Creed IV might sound silly at first, but it’s actually kinda neat. Basically, you can become part of the Assassin’s Creed universe’s history by putting your face on a huge oil painting of “an epic naval battle.” You head to the website, pick any of the 137 characters depicted on…

Drag-on Dragoon 3 or, as we know it, Drakengard 3, hits the PS3 in Japan on October 31. It’ll be available in two editions: standard, and tenth anniversary box. The latter will include a bunch of goodies, including a DLC key, a novel, a remix CD, and artbooks pertaining to each of the four (including…

These Critics Can’t Quite Decide Whether to Love or Hate Game & Wario

Some thought it disappointingly shallow where others had an unusual, but ultimately enjoyable experience. Nintendo’s latest Wario-themed Wii U-exclusive assortment of quirky and highly imaginative minigames, Game & Wario, is unquestionably divisive. The minigames themselves got a lot of complaints, and were said to be a mixed bag concerning quality and depth, but Game &…

This image, accompanied by the hashtag #IfInDoubt, popped up on thetwitter feed of Codemasters, whom you might know as the developers of racing game series Dirt and Grid. Mysterious! What do you folks think it means?

This Black Ops II Vengeance DLC Trailer Has A Little Bit of Everything

Ray guns, zombies, tropical islands, live-action cameos. Plus a banshee. Activision put out another sneak peek at the latest add-on to their newest Call of Duty, the Vengeance pack, which hits Xbox Live next Tuesday, and the PC and PS3 a bit later.

A Level Pack to Prove that Duke Nukem 3D’s Still Got It

The creators of Metropolitan Mayhem, an urban-themed level pack for Duke Nukem 3D, uploaded a brand-spanking new trailer for their mod, which came out in… March 2012. Odd timing. Still, there’s “an hour’s worth of oldskool entertainment” to be had, so if you’ve got Duke 3D and like the way this looks, dig in! New…

Six Critics Say Company of Heroes 2 Is More of the Same, Only Better

It took seven years for Company of Heroes 2, the sequel to Relic’s massively popular World War II-themed PC-exclusive strategy game, to hit the shelves. But was it worth the wait? Six reviews say yes. Even though CoH2 has its problems—a clunky interface, a problematic and at times suicidal AI, and a clichéd story—it builds…

Develop reports that Microsoft is investing $700 million in a new Iowan data center. The data center will power both Microsoft’s online Office 365 suite and the Xbox One’s online Cloud features. According to Microsoft’s Christian Belady, the expansion “supports the growing demand for Microsoft’s cloud services.”

Sadly, Jak’s Plastic Counterpart Is As Quiet as the Real Thing

Collectible figures purveyor Gaming Heads announced a deal with Sony Computer Entertainment to produce a line of statues themed around their crossover fighting game, PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale. Who’s up first? That would be Jak and Daxter. The silent protagonist of Naughty Dog’s classic platformer series, Jak, along with his chatty, human-turned-ottsel friend, Daxter, will…

Dark, Somber iOS Platformer Jumps to PC With a Fresh Coat of Paint

We already showed you Nihilumbra once before. Now, Beautifun Games’ Limbo– and Portal 2-esque platformer is coming to PC (specifically, Steam) bearing gifts. The PC version boasts quite a few improvements, which you can see in action in the video above. In addition to a graphical update, the game’s getting a remastered soundtrack, controls and…

Call of Duty: Ghosts Appears on TV, Gives us “Press X To Bark”

Tonight’s featured demo on Late Night’s Video Games Week was a few minutes’ worth of the new Call of Duty’s canine companion demonstrating his abilities of sneaking, silent killing, and… barking. The demo, which takes place in the rather devastated-looking outskirts of San Diego, has the dog, Riley, take down several guards—in fact, the actual…

The Creators of Shenmue and Heavy Rain Have a Chat About Storytelling

Yu Suzuki and David Cage walk into a room. This isn’t the setup of a joke, but rather what ends up being a thoughtful session of comparing notes over the methods of storytelling in Shenmue, Indigo Prophecy and the upcoming Beyond: Two Souls. Take a look—the relevant bit starts 22 minutes in. David Cage Talks…

The Solution to the Wii U’s Third-Party Drought? More Nintendo Games.

The Wii U isn’t doing all that well when it comes to third-party support. Many games skipped the console early this year, the latest Rayman got delayed, and the new Call of Duty isn’t guaranteed to be on there, either. Now, Nintendo says they need to strengthen their own Wii U lineup to turn this…

Gaming With Your Mom Can Be Awkward, But It’s Mostly Just Hilarious

Here’s the result of Jimmy Fallon’s last week call to arms, urging gamers around America to film themselves as they play video games with their moms. Was the one-week campaign worth it? Oh yes. Definitely.

Time to See Those $40,000 Superhero Suits In Action

It’s summer, and that means the live-action Gatchaman movie is right around the corner. To celebrate, Toho published two trailers. They’re suitably epic Not only do we get to know the members of the Science Ninja Team, we also finally see what thoseincredibly expensive superhero costumes look like in motion. Not very bird-like, but sleek,…