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The Halo 5 beta promises a whole damn lot. Getting to test out the evolution of Spartan multiplayer is a real good reason to buy four games you may already own

Microsoft just officially announced The Master Chief Collection, which collects four blockbuster Halo games in one package.

The New Fable Features Co-Op and Lets You Play as the Villain

You’re not going it alone in the next release in the Xbox first-party RPG franchise. You’ll have friends questing along with you. Unless you’re the bad guy, in which case you’ll have enemies. Fable Legends got its turn on the Xbox stage today, with a video that showcased multiplayer battles and a feature that lets…

Sunset Overdrive Comes Out October 28

Insomniac Games’ Xbox One exclusive hits this fall. If you needed another reason to love Sunset Overdrive, here’s one: it just made a joke about 90% of the other shooters on the gaming landscape. A promo clip at the beginning of Sunset Overdrive‘s spotlight at the Xbox press conference featured a soldier huddled beind a…

​Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Barely Looks Like It Happens on Earth

Hoverbikes. Super-jumps. Lots of neon. The next installment in Activision’s blockbuster FPS series is the most future-y one yet. Get ready for a lot of fancy screens and overlays! If not for the presence of recognizable stuff like lamps and doors with knobs, you’d think this game was happening on a far-off planet. It’s not.…

​Hit iPhone Game Threes Coming to Xbox One Soon

Threes may be most famous for having a near-ubiquitous clone. But the popular puzzle game is coming to Xbox One, a platform where it won’t get copied so easily. The news of a an XB1 version of Threes came during the Xbox press conference pre-show, as Xbox Live guru Larry Hyrb interviewed Threes co-creator Asher…

Leaked Videos Show What Destiny Looks Like on the PS4 [UPDATE: Gone]

Only a select group of people have been able to get in on the alpha test for Bungie’s next big game. One of those folks streamed Destiny off his PS4 last night. Spotted on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6eV_L…NeoGAF, the two videos show off about 15 minutes of playtime in the sci-fi shooter coming from the makers of Halo.…

​The Next Disney Infinity Lets You Make Your Own Marvel Video Game

Used to be that fans who loved superheroes made their own hand-drawn comic books at home, starring the Hulk, Spider-Man or Batman in stories that never passed through an editor’s office. In 2014, those fans might just be making their own miniature Marvel Comics video games. Making Toy Box levels is going to be different…

Microsoft Sure Wants Folks to Find Ryse‘s Five-Month-Old Easter Eggs

Are you still playing Ryse, the Xbox One launch game where you play as a gladiator in ancient Rome? Notice any bizarre unexplained happenings in the background, like nude dancing ladies? That might just be one of Ryse‘s weird easter eggs. Nine surprises have been embedded in the Crytek-developed combat drama. So far, Microsoft says…

“Victory and defeat are just lies told out of two sides of the same mouth. This is the Blue Shell of collapse, the Blue Shell of financial crisis, the Blue Shell of the New Gilded Age.” That’s game designer/academic Ian Bogost on the most hated and feared pick-up in the Mario Kart series. His essay…

X-Men: Days of Future Past‘s Sentinels Could’ve Looked Very Different

The giant, mutant-killing robots in the latest X-Men movie didn’t look exactly like they do in Marvel Comics’ popular superhero series. They were still recognizable as Sentinels, though. Alternate designs would’ve had them look almost like human beings. A post up at Slashfilm reveals that both the Sentinels from the past and future eras of…

30 Seconds of Quantum Break Gameplay Is All You Get, For Now

Been waiting to hear more about the Xbox One exclusive action drama Quantum Break? Well, here’s something new. It’s not much but it is something. Sam Lake, creative director at Remedy Entertainment, talks up the next game from the makers of Max Payne and Alan Wake in the clip above. Lake explains how the TV…

That leaked Battlefield: Hardline video is six months old and was for an internal company meeting, says EA exec Steve Papoutsis. The man in charge of Visceral Games also says that Hardline will be coming out this fall. More to come at E3.

​Video Game Artwork That’s Just Happy to See You

When is a gun not just a gun? When it lives between a character’s legs and not in a holster, as seen in artwork from more than just a few video games. There’s a growing collection of not-so-subtle imagery over at Phallic Videogamery that shows how some video game artwork over the decades has fashioned…

State of Decay‘s New DLC Is Out This Week

Let’s see if combat boots and camouflage make surviving a zombie apocalypse any easier. Already previewed back in April, State of Decay‘s Lifeline expansion hits on May 30th, bringing with it a new location, character and objectives. It’ll cost $6.99.

Leaked Battlefield: Hardline Trailer Shows Multiplayer, Single-Player

Well, the existence of a new cops-vs-robbers Battlefield game got leaked yesterday. Today, an in-depth trailer showing gameplay, plot and multiplayer details for Battlefield: Hardline has surfaced. EA later confirmed the existence of Hardline by unveiling an official website late yesterday but this trailer—first spotted on NeoGAF —looks like it runs down many of the…

​Watch People Get Freaked Out by The Evil Within

This is what survival horror is supposed to do: scare the heck out of you. It’s not just Kotaku‘s Tina Amini who got profoundly disturbed by The Evil Within. Bethesda put a bunch of non-industry folks in front of the upcoming Shinji Mikami game and recorded their reactions to the gory proceedings. Their jumps and…

Report: Next Battlefield Game Is Cops Versus Robbers

The next entry in EA’s premiere shooter franchise—coming for last- and current-gen platforms—will reportedly be called Battlefield: Hardline. The 2014 release will put players in the middle of armed conflict where it will be cops and criminals fighting each other. Eurogamer rounds up various bits of information about Hardline, which have popped up on EA…

​At This Rate, He Should Just Play Soccer

Could a PlayStation Move wand even survive the landing after such bodacious move? Reading rumors about what a major video game company’s latest patent application could mean reminded me that Context-Free Patent Art exists. Well, existed. In the time since I last checked on it, the Tumblr filled with crazy drawings from intellectual property filings…

​Three Minutes Of New Gameplay From The Order: 1886

Sony just streamed a short preview of their upcoming steampunk shooter on Twitch. It sure looks impressive. In the clip above, you’ll get a sense of how some of the game’s weapons and environments look, as well as a taste of an early gunfight. The Order: 1866 is scheduled to hit PS4 later this year.