Jade Raymond, best known for helping produce Assassin’s Creed and a number of other major Ubisoft games like Splinter Cell and Watch Dogs, has left the publisher after ten years, Ubisoft announced today Ubisoft’s Alexandre Parizeau will take her old role as head of Ubisoft Toronto, which Raymond founded and has managed since 2009. “I’ve…
Above, for your viewing convenience: a solid 50 minutes of Final Fantasy XV director Hajime Tabata talking about Final Fantasy Type-0 HD, Final Fantasy Agito, and of course, the fifteenth main entry in Square’s ubiquitous RPG series. Though this presentation happened last month during the Tokyo Game Show, this is the first time Square has…
The next Halo game will launch with a massive day-one update, Microsoft announced today—you’ll have to download 20 GB worth of “features and multiplayer content” to complete the Halo: Master Chief Collection, which is out November 11 for Xbox One. That day-one update comes on top of what Microsoft says is a Blu-ray disc packed…
For every new Smash Bros. game, there is a new leak. Just a few months after a leaker at Nintendo revealed the full rosterfor Super Smash Bros. 3DS, today we’ve got Amazon leaking new features in the Wii U version of Nintendo’s colorful fighting game. Super Smash Bros. Wii U, which will be out on…
Remember when your best friend told you he or she had an uncle who worked for Nintendo, and that’s why he/she knew all about how Mario would be in the new Zelda game? Well, someone’s made a game about him. “The uncle who works for Nintendo,” a text-based horror game by programmer Michael Lutz and…
It’s been six weeks since the Gamergate campaign first started. Now, for the first time, thousands of people are uniting under a single banner to call for it to stop. Since last night, the #StopGamerGate2014 hashtag has been trending in the United States on Twitter, accumulating thousands of tweets and attracting attention from high-profile game…
UPDATE (9:13pm): Anita Sarkeesian has cancelled her speech at Utah State University following a terror threat from an anonymous student, according to the school’s Twitter account. Sarkeesian confirmed in a series of tweets this evening: UPDATE 2 (10/16): Yesterday, Utah State University put out a statement saying they believed the letter was not a credible…
We’re just over a month away from the new Dragon Age, and EA’s got a new trailer to celebrate. After the mediocre DA2, it’ll be interesting to see whether this game can stand up to BioWare’s other greats. And between this and Persona Q, November should be a good month for RPG fans.
Minecraft modder Killerx20 has finally released his giant re-creation of Final Fantasy VII‘s Midgar, which he’s been building (with help) sinceearly 2012 You can download the map, which includes everything from FFVII’s Sector 7 to the SOLDIER office in Crisis Core, right here. It’s huge. 1290×1290 blocks, Killerx20 says. “As a lot are probably wondering,”…
If you’re one of those Final Fantasy fans who believed the series peaked with VII and that things have all been downhill since then, THIS IS FOR YOU. Freelance animator Mark Jenkins re-imagined Final Fantasy XV as a PS1 game, and the results, chronicled on his Tumblr, are just wonderful. I mean, just picture going…
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: the latest Big New Video Game is having serious server issues, and people who spent $60 can’t access everything they paid for. No, I’m not talking about Diablo III, SimCity, NBA 2K15, or Battlefield 4. This time it’s Sony’s new racer for PlayStation 4, DriveClub, which has…
1080p. Ten-eighty-pee. If you have been paying any attention to video game news over the past year or two, you’ve probably seen the term pop up quite a bit, in everything from technical breakdowns to E3 press conferences. It’s Today’s Big Buzzword. 1080p, which is shorthand for 1920×1080, is commonly referred to as Full HD.…
Sony just announced something called PlayStation Experience, a two-day community event that will be held for the first time in Las Vegas this December. “Attendees will sit in on in-depth panels, meet the industry’s best developers, score hands-on gameplay with tons of upcoming PlayStation games… [and] get an exclusive first look at what’s coming next…
In July, professional meltdown artist Lindsay Lohan filed a lawsuit against Grand Theft Auto V developer Rockstar Games and publisher Take-Two Interactive for using her likeness in their open-world crime game. At first, the lawsuit revolved around a minor character in the latest GTA, Lacey Jonas, an anorexic actress who asks your protagonists to help…
Minecraft comes to Vita on PSN this Tuesday, Sony just announced. It’ll cost $20, but there are all sorts of cross-play/cross-buy features, as outlined on the PlayStation Blog. Wonder how Sony’s execs feel about giving all that money to Microsoft?
Hope you’ve got a big hard drive! Final Fantasy XIII, which came out today on Steam, will take up a whopping 60 GB of disk space—probably because of all of those cut-scenes. Check it out: It’s locked at 720p, too, so you might want to wait for someone to conjure up an HD patchbefore you…
OBJECTION! Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy comes to the 3DS eShop on December 9. It’ll be $30. Unless it’s a technical disaster or something—and we’ll keep an eye out for that—it’ll probably be worth your time. The first three Phoenix Wright games are killer.
One morning late last year, not long after Guillaume, a developer at Ubisoft Montreal, had finished working on his newest game, he was told he’d be moving offices. This was not particularly unusual for Ubisoft Montreal, a company that employs close to 3,000 people and works on upwards of ten new video games at a…
Holy crap. Somehow, two people have figured out how to beat Destiny‘s Vault of Glass—a raid mission that is excruciatingly difficult even with a team of six—thanks to sharp coordination and some liberal usage of the Sunsinger Warlock’s self-resurrection ability. Don’t watch this video if you don’t want to be spoiled on the raid. If…
Here’s Xeodrifter, a new game from the Nintendo-friendly indie studio Renegade Kid, who are perhaps best known for the DS shooter Moon and the platformer Mutant Mudds. This one looks pretty special. Like a modern, independent take on Super Metroid. Killer chiptunes, too. Xeodrifter will be out for 3DS at some point in the near…
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