Here’s a new multi-player trailer for Medal of Honor: Warfighter, shown off at EA’s Gamescom press conference today. It’s got a brief look at co-op mode. Warfighter is out October 23 for PC and consoles.
Shown off at Gamescom today during EA’s press conference, this new trailer shows off how global connections in SimCity will work. SimCity is out February 2013 for PC and Mac.
Springfield is going mobile once more. You’ll be able to get your hands on The Simpsions: Tapped Out, which Electronic Arts pulled earlier this year after overwhelming demand, later this week. “Quite honestly, we bit off a bit more than we could chew to start with,” EA’s Peter Moore said on stage at Gamescom while…
Final Fantasy VII, once released on PC in the 90s, then accidentally re-released a few weeks ago, has been re-re-released today. At least in Europe. Update: It’s also out in the U.S. today. Here’s Square Enix’s press release: In celebration of the Final Fantasy franchise’s 25th anniversary, Square Enix is offering Members exclusive access to…
After watching just a single episode of the new webseries Doraleous and Associates I’m already head over heels. Give me more. Hope you’re watching, Comedy Central.
Today Nintendo announced that Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask will be out on 3DS October 28. We also get this wonderful trailer. It makes me mad that I’m not playing Professor Layton right now.
No matter how many times I ask the fine people at Harmonix to put Carly Rae Jepsen’s masterpiece “Call Me Maybe” into Rock Band, they just don’t listen. But hey, the actual setlist for Rock Band Blitz—which Harmonix will release on August 28 for Xbox Live and PlayStation Network—is looking pretty groovy. Here’s the full…
Steam is changing. Soon, every game on Valve’s massive network will have its own “Game Hub” that features user-submitted screenshots, videos, and mods. It will also feature news articles and updates. You can see a preview of the new player-curated content on Steam, where Valve promises to reveal more information in the next few days.…
Sony’s mascot fighting game PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale has been bumped back to November 20
Us lucky Americans could be getting our hands on Guild 01, the next game from Japanese developer Level-5 (Professor Layton, Dragon Quest IX). Guild 01, a compilation of four games for 3DS that includes titles from Sim Tower creator Yoot Saito and Vagrant Story designer Yasumi Matsuno, was released in Japan earlier this year. So…
First it was Mass Effect. Then Gears of War. Now Kinect is ruining marriages everywhere. R.I.P. marriage. (Thanks, Andrew!)
I play a lot of role-playing games. You know this already. You read Random Encounters every week. You understand my fascination with this strange and quirky genre. So hopefully you won’t be too angry when I tell you that my shelves are overflowing with the cartridges of RPGs that I’ve opened, launched, and immediately given…
Ubisoft has delayed the PC version of Assassin’s Creed III to November 20. This delay should not come as a surprise to PC gamers who have followed Ubisoft’s stealth-action series. There have been four Assassin’s Creed games on consoles so far, and every single one has been slow to make it to computers. But today…
The next patch for Diablo III will tweak classes, stat formulas, drop rates, and other significant parts of the action-RPG’s endgame content. Developer Blizzard outlined the patch in a post on their blog today. Here are some of the highlights, courtesy Blizzard: The change we made back in 1.0.3 to remove the bonus monster damage…
Assassin’s Creed III will hit PC for UK on November 23, Ubisoft says. The Wii U version will arrive when the Wii U does.
The Internet exploded today following news that Sony had “abandoned” the trademark for their much-anticipated PlayStation 3 game The Last Guardian (as first reported by PlayStation Lifestyle). And indeed, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has filed a “Notice of Abandonment” to inform Sony that the trademark is reverting to public domain. But despite rampant…
Jason Fader and his team were sitting in a bar, drinking. Commiserating. Earlier that day they’d all been laid off from their jobs at Obsidian Entertainment, where they helped work on games like Fallout: New Vegas and an unannounced project called North Carolina. When North Carolina was axed, Obsidian had no choice but to let…
Zynga’s COO and number 2 man John Schappert has left the embattled company as part of a “high level restructuring.”
Here’s the latest trailer from the Indie Games Uprising, a program designed to promote indie games on the Xbox Live Marketplace. This year it’s running from September 10 to September 20. One game a day. Some of these indies look pretty damn cool. Any of them catch your eye?
This is going to sound like one of those stories in which a friend of a friend heard something from a janitor’s mother-in-law. This isn’t like last year, when we had the story of Modern Warfare 3 dead to rights in May, six months before the game’s release, thanks to some chatty sources. But we’d…
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