Finally! Valve’s Steam summer sale has begun. Current discounts include Portal 2 for $5 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 for $30. There are also some ridiculously cheap company packages, including a Bethesda pack for $50 (featuring Skyrim, Fallout: New Vegas, and more) and a $50 Ubisoft collection that will give you Assassin’s Creed:…
Square Enix released the DLC schedule for lovely rhythm game Theatrhythm Final Fantasy this morning. It features songs from a whole bunch of Final Fantasy games, oddly enough including Final Fantasy Versus XIII, which is Square’s attempt to re-create Duke Nukem Forever Each song costs $1. Here’s the schedule: July 12, 2012 1. “Somnus” (FINAL…
I really enjoyed these comics, published today by the hilarious folks over at Dorkly. No matter how you feel about video game publisher Electronic Arts these days, hopefully you can appreciate the ribbing. Enjoy: Head over to Dorkly for the rest! The Internet’s Guide to Dealing With EA [Dorkly]
Wii action-role-playing game The Last Story will arrive on August 14, XSEED said today on its Twitter account. Developed by Mistwalker in conjunction with Marvelous AQL, The Last Story is the work of Hironobu Sakaguchi, best known as the mustachioed creator of Final Fantasy For more on The Last Story, check out my preview and…
This is Amazon GameCircle, a new service that Amazon hopes will help it compete with Apple’s Game Center. Designed to keep track of leaderboards, achievements, and other various stats, GameCircle is built for Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet. You can sign up for the service right here. Announcing Amazon GameCircle – A New Gaming Experience for…
Mass Effect 3‘s Earth DLC will hit PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3 on July 17, developer BioWare confirmed today. It’s a free multi-player pack that adds new maps, weapons, and characters. Here’s the official info courtesy BioWare: Three New Maps – With the fate of the galaxy at stake, Earth’s military efforts have concentrated…
Here’s a new trailer for the upcoming Assassin’s Creed III Liberation, the Vita version of Ubisoft’s popular action series that will be out October 30. It’s set in 18th-century New Orleans and it’s the first Assassin’s Creed game to star a female protagonist, a stylish assassin named Aveline. Go ahead and watch as she dives…
The upcoming Halo 4 live-action series will cost between $5-10 million to produce, reports the Los Angeles Times today in an excellent new feature about Microsoft’s ambitious new project. Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn, which will preview this Thursday at Comic Con and launch October 5, is a prequel that re-creates the first invasion of…
Developer CD Projekt Red has sold over four million copies of The Witcher and The Witcher 2, it said today in a press release. That’s a combined total for both PC and consoles. Impressive stuff!
Here’s the trailer for The Race for the White House, a new game released today for PC and Mac that simulates the 2012 election. Looks kinda funny, no? While The Race for the White House certainly isn’t the first election game—veteran developers Stardock Entertainment are releasing Political Machine 2012 this year as well, a follow-up…
The next Batman game will be a prequel that centers around Batman’s first encounter with the Joker, according to a new report. According to Variety, the prequel to Rocksteady’s Arkham Asylum and Arkham City will be based on the Silver Age of DC’s comics from the 1950s. Variety says the game will be out in…
I’m excited to check out Rainbow Moon, a strategy-RPG that comes out today for PlayStation 3. Launch trailer is above. Early reviews are looking decent so far Also out today on PS3: the delightful Quantum Conundrum PlayStation Store Update [PlayStation Blog]
Commodities are now available in the Diablo III real-money auction house. In an e-mail to Kotaku (and on their official blog), Blizzard said as part of a patch released today, Diablo III‘s auction house will now let you buy and sell gems, dyes, crafting materials, blacksmithing plans and jeweler designs, and training pages. The patch…
Chell, hero of the puzzle-packed Portal series, doesn’t have a whole lot to say. Like many classic video game protagonists, she’s intentionally silent: a personality-free avatar designed for you to inhabit and control however you’d like. But she can talk, says Portal 2 writer Erik Wolpaw in an excellent interview published today by the Gameological…
Last week, when we showed you those crazy photos from the ongoing project to re-create the world of Game of Thrones in Minecraft, people had a ton of questions. For one, how the hell did they make it look so good? Minecraft‘s textures aren’t really that crisp. There are no shadows like that. I asked…
I want to tell you right now to go play Final Fantasy Tactics for iPhone and/or iPad. I really do. It’s a sublime game with addictive battles and a story as bloody and intricate as any HBO show. And I love being able to play it anywhere, any time. But thanks to Square Enix’s ridiculous…
A new downloadable content pack for Mass Effect 3 will be out on July 17 for Xbox 360, Microsoft said today. Called Mass Effect 3: Earth Multiplayer Expansion, the DLC is totally free according to a blog entry by Microsoft’s Major Nelson This is likely the map- and weapon-packed “Earth” DLC that was leaked by…
Microsoft has launched an application called Kinect PlayFit as a free download for all Xbox Live members, the publisher said today. Kinect PlayFit is a “new fitness dashboard that aggregates and tracks the calories you burn as you play a variety of Kinect games,” Microsoft says. You’ll be able to compare your stats to other…
The Internet is a wonderful tool for finding the answers to important questions. Sometimes they’re questions you desperately need to answer, like “What’s the capital of Cuba?” or “Why did I wake up on the floor this morning?” And sometimes they’re questions you didn’t even know you had, like “What would Game of Thrones look…
Valve is crowdsourcing the approval process for its Steam distribution platform, it said today. With a new service the company is calling Steam Greenlight, slated to launch at the end of August, Valve will allow gamers to vote on which titles will make it to the popular digital network. Instead of going through some sort…
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