I’m quite interested in Crimson Shroud, a downloadable 3DS game that was just announced for release on December 13 Mostly because it was designed by Yasumi Matsuno, he of Final Fantasy Tactics and Vagrant Story fame. But also because it sounds kind of awesome. Here’s the official description: LEVEL-5 and Yasumi Matsuno have brought together…
Hey, remember Ouya? You know, that newfangled gaming console that raised almost $8.6 million on Kickstarter a few months ago? No longer content to be imaginary, Ouya has decided to become an actual thing. Its creators say that the new console will be shipping to developers at the end of next month, writing in a…
When I first heard about Pier Solar back in 2010, I thought the people behind it were out of their minds. An exclusive for the Sega Genesis, a console that was discontinued in 1998? What? Are we all still living on the same planet? Then, as the project started to take shape and the role-playing…
Some great morning reading: Simon Parkin on “Who Spilled Hot Coffee” – the story behind San Andreas‘s big sex scandal.
Nintendo’s got up a great Iwata Asks interview with the folks behind Paper Mario: Sticker Star that’s worth a read. Perhaps the most interesting part: Mario creator and legendary designer Shigeru Miyamoto actually convinced them that story isn’t necessary to a Paper Mario game. Which might be why, when compared to the other three Paper…
Hector Martin, he who put together the first open-source driver for Microsoft’s Kinect two years ago, now says he’s cracked open the Wii U. He won’t say what he did to get the details out of Nintendo’s latest console, but he did tweet some juicy (and very, very technical) tidbits about the system: So what…
Check out this week’s Side Mission podcast to hear Jason Schreier talk about JRPGs, Wii U, and high school drama.
Like a lot of people on YouTube, Nick Reineke makes videos about games. And like a lot of people on YouTube, he wants to make money off those videos. But he can’t. Last month, YouTube banned him from AdSense, the advertising service that most YouTubers use to make money. It’s not clear exactly why he…
Ahh, Humble Bundle, the best site in the world for great packages of indie games and- wait, what’s this? Saints Row? Darksiders? I see you, THQ! Just peeking in the bushes there, waiting to ensnare us with your new humble bundle. You’re not an indie developer at all, THQ! What are you even doing. At…
Starting next week you’ll be able to get your hands on this new Vita bundle, which includes the 3G system, the game Unit 13, and one year of Sony’s excellent PlayStation Plus service (which comes with a lot of free games). That’s $300. The catch? This bundle comes with a 4 GB memory card, the…
Let the Star Wars rumor mill continue to churn. A couple of weeks ago, rumors suggested that Disney had tapped Empire Strikes Back writer Lawrence Kasdan and X-Men writer Simon Kinberg to write new Star Wars movies. Disney has said they plan to release a new Star Wars every two to three years. But wait!…
What’s that? A book in Persona 4 Golden called Witch Detective? And it’s about vampires? Ouch. (via TinyCartridge)
Not that I didn’t want it here before. But come on. Professor Layton and Phoenix Wright teaming up to solve puzzles and investigate murder mysteries? I WANT IN. Layton vs. Ace Attorney is out in Japan tomorrow. Still no word on U.S. release.
We’ve known for a couple of weeks now that Barkley, Shut Up And Jam: Gaiden, one of my favorite role-playing games and one of the best indie RPGs out there, is getting a sequel Today, the creators have launched a ridiculous Kickstarter for the upcoming RPG. They want $35,000 to make it a reality. (Some…
On November 30, 1998, a little-known company called BioWare released a strangely-titled game named Baldur’s Gate for personal computers. It was critically and commercially acclaimed, an excellent RPG with a gigantic world, interesting characters, and a ton of little details to discover and enjoy. Fourteen years later, Baldur’s Gate is back. Today marks the release…
Maybe I’m just a sucker for pretty things, but Minecraft re-creations never cease to amaze me. Today’s impressive showing is the eponymous bastion of Bastion, created by Redditor cereal_bawks. Allow your eyes to enjoy:
Monsters! Maps! Flying zeppelins! Dungeon crawling! I’m pretty psyched for this one: the Etrian Odyssey series has always done a good job of satiating those dungeon crawl cravings I get every so often. EOIV is out for 3DS on February 26.
This is the new box art for Fuse, an upcoming shooter developed by Insomniac, the folks behind Ratchet & Clank and Resistance Here’s the full shot: This is what Fuse used to look like, back when it was called Overstrike (before they changed things up): So which do you prefer? Cartoony shades or gritty scowls?…
Turns out people like video games, and buying video games, and buying machines to play video games on. Microsoft sold a whopping 750,000 Xbox 360s in the United States between Sunday, November 18 and Friday, November 23 (Black Friday), according to spokesman Major Nelson. Not too shabby! For comparison, Nintendo sold 400,000 Wii U consoles…
Have you checked out that Vita game? You know—the one that’s a shoddy spinoff of a big-name series? Perhaps Call of Duty: Declassified, which currently has a whopping 32% on Metacritic? Or Uncharted: Golden Abyss, a game that our Kirk Hamilton called “a cut-rate version of the Uncharted games that most people have already played”?…
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