Did you ever think to yourself, “Hey, Final Fantasy X and X-2 are good and all, but what they really need is another 30-minute cut-scene during the credits?” You’re in luck! According to the Japanese publication Shounen Jump (as translated by Siliconera), the upcoming HD remakes of FFX and FFX-2 (to be released on PS3…
Most video games, during development, enter QA/fine-tuning phases called “alpha” and “beta.” Not Mario & Luigi: Dream Team! Mario and Luigi’s next RPG outing is so big it gets its own buzzword: Gamma. “This time, we divided the entire development phase into the one to create an alpha version, one for a beta version and…
Last week, I wrote about the remarkable short stories of Lost Odyssey, an Xbox 360-exclusive role-playing game that played with prose in some delightful ways. This morning, a reader named Nabil showed me a video project he put together last year. To quote Nabil: “I recorded the entirety of the game and then edited into…
Killer Is Dead, the next stylish action game by Suda51, will be out August 27 in North America, publisher XSEED said today. (August 30 in Europe.)
Forget Mario. Don’t worry about Donkey Kong. There are two Wii U games that will shape the console’s future, and neither stars one of Nintendo’s big mascots. One is designed for hardcore gamers; the other is designed for everyone. One is about superheroes; the other is about partying. One uses the GamePad as an accessory;…
Orlando police arrested competitive gamer Noel Brown Saturday morning, charging him with “domestic violence battery” for allegedly hitting his ex-girlfriend and another competitive gamer after catching them in a hotel room together. Brown, who is ranked worldwide as a top player of the fighting game Marvel vs. Capcom 3, was competing in the Community Effort…
It’s not really clear whether being gay in Rogue Legacy, the roguelike-like in which characters have randomly-generated traits, actually does anything. (Players and reviewers say it doesn’t.) Either way, this GameFAQs screengrab (via Mike Henry) is too good not to share.
Man. It’s hard to watch this trailer and not want to get my hands on Mario & Luigi: Dream Team right now. Well, my hands were actually on Dream Team on Monday, during a meeting at Nintendo’s offices in Manhattan. I played about 30 minutes of the upcoming RPG, which is out for 3DS on…
The fine folks at IGN invited writer/actor Seth Rogen and his partner in crime, Evan Goldberg, to play the opening to The Last of Us. It’s fun to watch. And yes, Seth Rogen games with inverted controls, because of course he does. (Warning: this video contains spoilers for the first 30 minutes of the game.)
Lost Odyssey is unique in a lot of ways. It’s the rare traditional JRPG on high-definition consoles, for one—most role-playing games made in Japan today are more experimental, or designed for less costly handheld platforms. Lost Odyssey is also one of the only Japanese games exclusive to the Xbox 360, which never really took off…
On May 26, two weeks before E3, a man named Pete Dodd started a thread on the message board NeoGAF. Microsoft had just announced their next-gen console, the Xbox One, and with it, customer-unfriendly policies like used game restrictions and a mandatory 24-hour Internet check-in. Meanwhile, Sony was staying quiet about their own possible plans…
Anodyne, the excellent Zelda-like indie that came out on PC earlier this year, is now on iOS
This is Rogue Legacy, an indie roguelike side-scroller in which you slash your way through randomly-generated dungeons to fight monsters and earn treasure. Here’s the big gimmick: if you die, you get to play as your character’s child, and then when you die again, you’ll play as that character’s child, and so forth. Every generation…
The XCOM shooter is looking less like a shooter and more like an XCOM every day. In this new trailer for The Bureau: XCOM Declassified (now that’s a mouthful), you can see some of the game’s third-person, fedora-stuffed, XCOMish tactical combat in action. For more on the game, check out Evan’s hands-on preview
Game designer Hideo Kojima might not actually be actively looking for someone to remake his magnum opus, but at least one developer wants to step up to the plate. Earlier this week, rumors circulated that Kojima and crew were looking for a game studio willing to remake Metal Gear Solid on their fancy new Fox…
…and a Steam release, too. Toki Tori 2, the adorable Wii U platform-puzzler in which you play as a giant bird who solves puzzles by whistling and stomping, is coming to Steam on July 11 as Toki Tori 2+. In honor, the folks behind the game have created this wub-wub-wub trailer, which is totally incongruous…
Todd Hollenshead, president of the embattled studio id Software, has left his position, Bethesda confirmed to us today. Full statement: “After many years with the studio, Todd Hollenshead decided to leave id Software to pursue other personal interests. While Todd was not part of the development teams, he was an integral part of id Software’s…
Steam Trading Cards are now live. Go get’em!
The next indie role-playing game from a studio known for solid indie role-playing games is sci-fi, turn-based, and inspired by some of the all time greats. The next game from Zeboyd Games—best known for indie gems like Cthulhu Saves The World and the last couple of Penny Arcade RPGs—is called Cosmic Star Heroine It’s got…
Before Sid Meier was Sid Meier—the iconic video game designer whose name is stamped on classic titles like Pirates! and Civilization—he was just another computer hacker. In the early 80s, the then-20-something programmer had a job at a company called General Instruments Corporation, where he worked alongside a gruff Air Force pilot-turned-businessman named John “Wild…
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