Earlier this week, Sony announced that the upcoming PS4 racing game DriveClub would have a very terrible upgrade plan: PlayStation Plus members would be able to get a demo of the game for free, then upgrade for $50—$10 cheaper than retail—but the whole game would disappear as soon as their PS Plus membership expired. Unsurprisingly,…
Some rumors are very, very fake. Others turn out to be true—and today’s Sunset Overdrive news adds yet more credence to a major Xbox leak from January that predicted a number of still-unannounced titles, including a remake of Halo 2 and a sequel to Forza Horizon In January, a user named “ntkrnl” on the message…
Epic Games is making a new Unreal Tournament game, they announced today on their livestream. It’ll be developed in collaboration with fans, and it’ll be free. That’s not free-to-play, Epic promises. Free. No microtransactions here—Epic’s cut will come from the community marketplace, where fans can sell what they make in the new Unreal Tournament, and…
Are we (finally) getting a new Unreal Tournament game? We’ll find out at 2pm Eastern, when the folks at Epic Games promise they’ll be talking about “the future of Unreal Tournament.” They’re also gonna talk some more about Unreal Engine 4 and virtual reality in general. The whole thing will be streamed live on Twitch—watch…
The League of Legends All-Star tournament runs from Thursday, May 8 to Sunday, May 11, and you can watch it all right here. This tournament for Riot’s mega-popular multiplayer game brings the best League of Legend players from across the world to Paris for five-on-five arena battling. You can watch the livestream here: Full schedule,…
If you’re a PS4 or Xbox One owner waiting to play The Elder Scrolls Online on your console, you’re gonna have to wait a few months longer. Bethesda’s just announced a delay of “about six months” for the PS4 and Xbox One versions of the game, which were originally slated for a June release. Here’s…
Earlier this week, we helped publicize a fan-made petition that set out to get gay marriage support in the upcoming Nintendo game Tomodachi Life, which allows players to hang out and start relationships in a weird, surreal alternate universe habitated by Mii characters. Nintendo has responded to that petition with a statement to the AP,…
The creators of the PC game Towns have given up on development, choosing to leave the game unfinished for good—even though it’s been on sale for the past 18 months and had sold over 200,000 copies as of last summer The folks behind Towns have no plans to give out refunds to anyone who purchased…
Today in Awesome Video Game Concept Art That Makes Me Wish LucasArts Was Still Alive, here are some shots by artist Andrew Scaife, who visualized the iconic Joss Whedon series Buffy The Vampire Slayer as a point-n-click adventure game. (via Whedonesque)
It takes 41 minutes for Jack Bauer to talk in the newest episode of 24—and for each of those 41 minutes, you can’t help but wonder if he’s still got it. Is this still Jack Bauer? Are we still watching the living incarnation of video-game god-mode? Can this guy really save the world in under…
This just aired for the first time during tonight’s 24. Young Batman. Not bad! Gotham airs this fall on Fox.
A new video game from Nintendo lets you have relationships and marriages… but only with people of the opposite gender. And at least one person wants to help change that. Tomodachi Life, an upcoming 3DS game that’s best described as The Sims meets Animal Crossing with a dash of hallucinogens, revolves around relationships you build…
Oculus and Zenimax are still going at it—this morning, the company behind Oculus Rift released a statement in response to Zenimax’s claims last week that Doom co-creator John Carmack had stolen “technology and know-how” when he left Zenimax for Oculus last year. Though the battle hasn’t gone to court yet, neither side seems willing to…
Today in Crazy, Bizarre, Fascinating Kickstarter Projects, here’s Billionaire Banshee, a game designed to see what kind of weird fantasy creatures your friends will date. It’s developed by Razlo Bailey, a designer who used to work at Harmonix.
(Main playable characters only.) 84. Hope 83. Snow 82. Edward 81. Zell 80. Vanille 79. Wakka 78. Penelo 77. Tidus 76. Aeris 75. Thief 74. Maria 73. Selphie 72. Vaan 71. Red Mage 70. Firion 69. Guy 68. Leon 67. Lulu 66. Gau 65. Lenna 64. Fang 63. Porom 62. Squall 61. Mog 60. Quistis…
This is 20,000 Leagues Above the Clouds, an upcoming indie game that looks like Sid Meier’s Pirates! in the sky, and if you thought of Skies of Arcadia, rest assured you’re not alone. It looks incredible. Check out the teaser trailer: A three-person team of Swedish indie developers is working on 20,000 Leagues, which will…
Game studio Turtle Rock (Left 4 Dead, Evolve) has let go of their community manager following a controversial tweet in which he called disgraced L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling “a victim” who “has the right as an American to be an old bigot in the security of his own home.” Sterling, who has owned the…
Doom co-creator and all-around genius John Carmack left the company he helped found last year, and now the people he used to work for say he took their technology with him. Last summer, Carmack left id Software for the virtual reality company Oculus Rift, which was purchased by Facebook earlier this year for $2 billion.…
On Sunday, The Simpsons will team up with Lego to turn Evergreen Terrace into a world of plastic bricks. Here’s the first trailer. Looks cool! I’m stoked. By the way, before you chime in with comments about how The Simpsons hasn’t been good for a decade—I’ve been watching every Sunday since new episodes were on…
The new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles look stupid. Really, really stupid. We’ve already gotten glimpses of the remade turtles in Michael Bay’s TMNT reboot—in theaters on August 8—but today’s new trailer takes “dumb-looking turtles” to the next level. I mean, come on. Come on. Come on. COME ON. This whole gritty, doofy, straight-out-of-Avatar look is…
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