To prepare for next month’s Dragon Age: Inquisition (out November 18 for PC/PS3/PS4/XB1/360), EA’s giving out the first game in BioWare’s fantasy RPG series for the price of absolutely nothing. Right now. You’ll need an Origin account to download a free copy of Dragon Age: Origins, but hey, it’s a great game, and it’s totally…
Today we’ve got another batch of stories from people who have been affected by the never-ending cycle of layoffs that hovers menacingly over the video game industry. For months nowwe’ve been covering the way game publishers and development studios treat their employees in an attempt to spotlight the painful and unstable environment behind many of…
Look, let’s be straight: if you’ve played Earthbound, it is impossible to watch this video and not tear up a little bit. Just try. I dare you. Animator Sagan Yee has been working on this short film—POLLYANNA—on and off since 2010, and she describes it as “a simple re-tellingof the major events in the game.”…
(Read our Smash Bros. 3DS review here.) 49. Dark Pit 48. Jigglypuff 47. Dr. Mario 46. Lucina 45. Falco 44. Ike 43. Olimar 42. Mii Fighters 41. Shulk 40. Peach 39. Luigi 38. Yoshi 37. Lucario 36. Zelda 35. Marth 34. Mr. Game & Watch 33. Sheik 32. Mario 31. Wario 30. Donkey Kong 29.…
Super Smash Bros. Wii U will come out November 21 in North America, Nintendo announced today. It’ll launch alongside a wave of Nintendo’s amiibo toy figures. This follows the release of the portable version, Smash 3DS, which came out last Friday. The Wii U version will be $60 retail, or $100 as part of a…
Video game publisher Ubisoft is taking a whole lot of fire today after one of their developers implied that the company intentionally limited one version of the upcoming Assassin’s Creed Unity in order to maintain graphical parity with the other. It started with a quote from Ubisoft Montreal producer Vincent Pontbriand, speaking to the website…
Box art grammar flubs are the best kind of grammar flubs. And while the back of Driveclub doesn’t quite compare to Capcpom‘s Resident Evil Revelaitons, this one is pretty great too. See the line on top there? “Race in hundreds of online & offline players”? That does not make sense. You cannot race inside of…
Four years ago, a turn-based RPG called Pier Solar made headlines thanks to an unusual gimmick: it was developed and released exclusively for the Sega Genesis, a system that had been obsolete for two decades. Since the game couldn’t be played on any other console, and most people have thrown away or shelved their old…
Super Smash Bros., a new piece of fanfiction for the Nintendo 3DS, is a game about anticipation. It’s a game about position. It’s a game about mustering up the brain juice to figure out what your opponent is going to do next, then developing the lightning-fast reflexes needed to nail the best possible response. It’s…
Two years ago, Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata made some lofty promises about his company’s approach to what was then a new venture for them: downloadable content. Nintendo, he promised, would get it right. “One thing Nintendo has determined as a company policy, what we are not going to do is create a full game and…
In just one month, Final Fantasy XV has somehow transformed from assumed vaporware to a genuine game that feels like it’s actually going to come out. After a year and a half of radio silence, today it seems like there’s FFXV news every week. Last night in Japan, FFXV director Hajime Tabata and crew broadcasted…
Destiny’s baffling Engram system is finally fixed. Patch 1.0.2, which just went live, makes it so Legendary Engrams will now only give you Legendary Items.It also adds more rewards to strikes and daily/weekly missions in Bungie’s MMO-shooter. Full patch notes here
Hat connoisseur and vampire songwriter Pharrell Williams, best known for his smash hit “Happy,” is also a giant anime fan. Earlier this year he collaborated with the virtual pop singerHatsune Miku. And today he released this video: Produced by Japanese artist Takashi Murakami, the video, which juxtaposes half-naked anime girls with lines like “Imma hold…
There’s the Traveler, and you’re supposed to be fighting the Darkness, and also there’s something named Rasputin that speaks Russian and, uh, look, let’s just shoot things okay? Critical reactions to Bungie’s slick new MMO-shooter have varied drastically, but there’s one thing we can all agree upon: the story is a mess. Comedy group Mega64…
Bye bye, Loot Cave. Bungie has finally cracked down on the now-iconic exploit that players were using to get loads and loads of loot in the multiplayer shooter Destiny, which Bungie released earlier this month for PS4, PS3, Xbox One, and Xbox 360. A patch that went live this afternoon officially nerfed the cave and…
Here’s the big warning screen you’ll see if you flip through the Online portion of the manual for Super Smash Bros. 3DS, which comes out next Friday in the United States (and is out already in Japan). It’s… strict. As you can see, you’ll be penalized on the Nintendo Network for disconnecting from games, idling,…
Technically, Blizzard never announced their long-in-development MMORPG Titan. It was always one of those big open secrets. And now, seven years later, the game is cancelled, Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime tells Polygon “I wouldn’t say no to ever doing an MMO again,” Morhaime said to Polygon. “But I can say that right now, that’s not…
A new 3DS RPG by the folks who worked on the SaGa series? Yes, please. This one had better get out of Japan. Meet Legend of Legacy, not to be confused with Beyond the Beyond or Divine Divinity, a newly-announced JRPG by the company behind Unchained Blades that comes out in January. The staff roll…
Here’s a cool new feature in the newest Super Smash Bros. game for 3DS: a map of the globe that shows where everyone’s playing at any given time. As you can see in the shot above, right now most Smash players are based in Japan, though that’ll likely change when the game comes out in…
Valve is changing Steam in a big way, overhauling the front page and adding some brand new features that will drastically change the way we find and buy PC games on the ubiquitous digital store. The revision—which Valve is calling the Steam Discovery Update and which goes live today—will implement a number of big changes…
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