The Elder Scrolls Online has officially been out for four weeks now, and director Matt Firor has put up a big blog post to celebrate. In the post, Firor promises that he and his team at Zenimax Online Studios are zapping bugs, banning gold bots, and fixing all sorts of stuff in their weekly game…
Let’s take a quick trip into the strange world of video game rumors—and see how easy it is for misinformation to spread across the web. Today, rumors about the next Call of Duty popped up on a website called Bubblews.com. According to the article—posted under the byline “newsoftheday”—the next Call of Duty will be set…
Hearthstone, Blizzard’s new digital card game, isn’t just addictive as hell—it’s surprisingly funny, too. See, the very premise of Hearthstone is that the characters in the world of Warcraft have decided to take a break from murdering one another in order to play some cards. The main game is goofy and all, but you can…
Wow. Lucasfilm just announced the cast of Star Wars Episode VII, and it’s full of surprises. Andy Serkis! Max von Sydow! Via the Star Wars website: Actors John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, Andy Serkis, Domhnall Gleeson, and Max von Sydow will join the original stars of the saga, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher,…
One long delay later, the PS4 racing game Driveclub will be out on October 7, Sony announced today. New trailer above. Driveclub, originally slated as a launch game for the PS4, was delayed last October just before the newest PlayStation came out. “The problem with being ambitious is you have to be prepared to accept…
Nintendo partnered up with the hilarious folks at Mega64 for this E3 prep video, which is silly and amazing. If you don’t have time to watch it all, here’s the Cliffnotes version: A Smash Bros. tournament in Los Angeles during E3. Other Smash Bros. tournaments at Best Buys throughout the country. Live-streaming by the Nintendo…
E.T. wasn’t the only thing excavators found in the Atari landfill this weekend. Though the legend was always that Atari buried millions of copies of that critically-panned game, the historical garbage dump is actually filled with all sorts of Atari games and products. And while digging in Alamogordo, New Mexico over the weekend, a construction…
One of the most infamous urban legends in video games has turned out to be true. Digging in Alamogordo, New Mexico today, excavators discovered cartridges for the critically-panned Atari game E.T., buried in a landfill way back in 1983 after Atari couldn’t figure out what else to do with their unsold copies. For decades, legend…
Every once in a while, someone must stand up and ask the Essential Question Of Our Time: are JRPGs dead? Today it’s PBS, asking in their regular video series—which is usually quite good—the most trite question imaginable: “Are JRPGs making a comeback?” Their thesis is twofold: 1) JRPGs are dead (as host Jamin Warren says:…
Here’s the bad news: South Park: The Stick of Truth is still full of bugs. In fact, yesterday, after patching Obsidian’s latest role-playing game and jumping back in for the first time since early March, I discovered a new one: Cartman’s walking animation stopped working, leading to some hilarious moments as I dragged an inert,…
This new Japanese commercial for Theatrhythm Final Fantasy Curtain Call is absolutely ridiculous. Thirty seconds of creepy horror movie singing followed by another 30 seconds of Final Fantasy nostalgia tripping. I love it. Curtain Call, the sequel to 2012’s Theatrhythm, is a rhythm game where you tap tap tap your 3DS stylus to the beat…
The FBI has charged a 47-year-old man with stealing thousands to use on the online browser game Evony, best known in the gaming community for some rather sleazy advertisement tactics involving gratuitous amounts of cleavage. Defendant David Buchanan, who lives in Molokai, Hawaii, was charged with wire fraud yesterday following a five-month FBI investigation. In…
Right now, American gamers have it good. Our internet providers might do some slimy things, but today we can access all the web has to offer without maxing out our credit cards. If we don’t want that to change, we’re going to have to fight. For years now, the big broadband companies like Verizon and…
Here’s one more look at Child of Light, the Japanese-style role-playing game developed by a small team at Ubisoft Montreal. The game’s out on April 30 for PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, and Wii U. It looks excellent—a testament to what big publishers can do if they give their creative people the freedom…
Meet Andrew Groen. He’s a veteran freelance reporter who’s written for the likes of Wired and Ars Technica, and now he’s got a fascinating new project: writing a book about the increasingly insane history of the multiplayer game Eve Online Eve, which has been around for ten years now, is a persistent online world filled…
In 2008, a man named Robert Pelloni made headlines with an ambitious claim: he’d spent thousands of hours working on an indie role-playing game called Bob’s Game, and he wanted to release it for Nintendo DS. In the months and years to come, Pelloni made headlines for less savory reasons. First he said he would…
Summer Games Done Quick—an annual speedrunning marathon for charity—starts on June 22 this year. You can see the full schedule here, and we’ll keep you guys updated on the marathon closer to then, too.
It’s like GTA V with hacking. And dogs. We’re a month away from release of Watch Dogs, and to celebrate, the folks at Ubisoft have released this new chunk of multiplayer gameplay footage. Check it out above. Watch Dogs is out on May 27 for PC, PS4, PS3, Xbox 360, and Xbox One. Ubisoft says…
The people behind Project Cars—a racing game slated for PS4, Xbox One, PC, and Wii U this November—say this is all real gameplay footage. How. What. Let’s put this in the “I’ll believe it when I see it running on my Wii U” category.
Picross e4 is out for 3DS on May 1! 20×15 puzzles! Totally snagging this one.
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