A new game set in Wyoming? That’s Firewatch, a nifty-sounding PC game just announced by indie outfit Campo Santo. They say you’ll play as a fire-lookout in the Wyoming wilderness, drawn out of your watchtower by strange events and tethered to humanity only by the voice on the other end of your radio. More info…
Sure, the first half of this Titanfall tips video from Microsoft is mostly just hype, but in the second half, they’ve included a few simple but worthwhile pointers. Some of the ideas are similar to the tips we’ve already shared, but three of them are small new ideas worth keeping in mind. To paraphrase the…
If you haven’t seen the brilliant HBO series Deadwood, well, go watch it. But if you have seen it, then this video is just for you. In honor of the show’s 10th anniversary (side note: ten years!), RogerEbert.com critic Matt Zoller Seitz has made this video essay about the show. It was edited by Steven…
Dark Souls II: Great game, but a bit crusty on consoles. Eurogamer‘s Digital Foundry has got a detailed breakdown of the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of the new (very good) Dark Souls II. It sounds like neither version is without its share of technical issues, though they say the 360 version is the smoother…
999 is coming to iOS, sort of: The cult Nintendo DS game 999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors is coming to iOS in visual novel form on March 17th, according to localizer Aksys Games’ Facebook page. Called 999: The Novel, it’ll be a story-only version of the original game. Despite that, it should still…
It’s the internet age, the age of connectedness. Ask Sony or Microsoft about the defining feature of their next-gen consoles, and they’ll start telling you about “social,” about playing together online, all the time. That’s all well and good, but does every game need online multiplayer? They do not, argues QWOP-maker and NYU teaching professor…
If you want to be the first to hear Skrillex’s newest music, one of the easiest ways is to play some video games. The Grammy-winning DJ’s first full-length record, titled Recess, isn’t available by most conventional means. At the moment it can, however, be streamed through a free smartphone game called Alien Ride, which you…
It seems like more and more big-budget game developers are ditching their cushy studio gigs and striking out on their own to make smaller, often more interesting games. I’m into it. The latest of these is Duelyst, a self-described “tactical turn-based strategy game with ranked competitive play.” Here’s the new trailer, which shows off the…
Aw, man. I’m feeling emotions. We got plenty of new insight into Ellie and her friendship with Riley in The Last of Us: Left Behind. This illustration by Pugletz on Deviantartfills in as a nice coda. It’s heartwarming, it’s beautifully drawn, and it will probably make you feel things. (Spoilers for The Last of Us:…
An Oculus VR game about therapeutic shark-punching: Well, I guess the shark punching is only therapeutic if you need it to be. Here’s a goofy trailer for Shark Punch, a collaboration between Chaotic Moon and game studio Team Chaos. It’s currently only playable at South by Southwest, but maybe one day, we’ll all get to…
Video games let us do all sorts of things we don’t normally do in our everyday lives. A lot of those things revolve around the (un?)holy trinity of guns, cars and drugs. I’ve been replaying Grand Theft Auto V recently, and I just passed the mission where Michael’s son drugs him and steals his car.…
Earlier this week, Dead Nation: Apocalypse Edition arrived on the PS4. It’s a tweaked, graphically enhanced version of the already-good 2010 PS3 game; a relentless, arcade-y zombie shooter made by Housemarque, the same people who made Super Stardust and Resogun. Just like the original, the PS4 version is a fun game, and often a difficult…
Nothing gets a red-blooded American going in the morning like the smell of bacon on a skillet. Unfortunately, actual bacon requires a fair bit of work to get started. What if you could set your alarm clock to wake you up with the simulated smell of bacon? What if, indeed. I initially had a hard…
A Vita game I can’t stop playing: If you’ve got a Vita, check out Surge Deluxe, a highly enjoyable (and addictive) electro-charged tile-matching game from Futurlab. At a certain point it clicks, and you’ll be hooked. Futurlab’s next game will be Velocity 2X for Vita and PS4.
Ah, the killstreak. A single idea that changed the face of multiplayer shooters. All these years later, has its time finally come? Is it time for the world to leave the killstreak behind? The killstreak is a multiplayer game feature popularized by Call of Duty, but these days the concept turns up in other games…
Sounds like the newest Batman game, Arkham Knight, won’t just ship without a last-gen version; it also won’t include multiplayer. However, it will feature longtime Batman voice actor Kevin Conroy, reprising his role as Batman. The latest Game Informer has got all sorts of tidbits of information about the game, which will feature the Scarecrow…
Maybe you’re curious what’s new with Diablo III‘s chunky new 2.0.1 patch? I haven’t been keeping up on the nitty-gritties of what’s changed in the new patch, so I found this video to be helpful to the point where it made me want to play more Diablo III to see how all the new tweaks…
Of all the various and surprising things we’ve seen turn up recently running on Oculus VR, this one might be the one I’d be most likely to play: Metroid Prime, done up in virtual reality. In the video above, frequent Rift-er Chadtronic takes the classic Metroid Prime through its paces in virtual reality. I’d love…
Today, Warner Bros. announced a new Batman game, called Arkham Knight. It’s got some exciting features: An open-world Gotham City! A drivable Batmobile! And equally exciting, it’s only coming out on PC, PS4 and Xbox One. In other words, there won’t be a PS3 or Xbox 360 version of Arkham Knight, nor will the game…
Anyone who saw Back to the Future II came out of the theater wishing they had a hoverboard. One day, we told ourselves. One day hoverboards would become a reality. Is that day today? Well, no. This video may scream “fake viral campaign!” in a dozen different ways, but it’s still awfully fun, from the…
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