There were good reasons for the Fear Effect games to catch your eye during the PlayStation era, including the stylish art and the mature (for the time, anyway!) storytelling. But what most remember is the crass marketing campaign that exaggerated a relationship between the two female leads. The original Fear Effect was released in 2000,…
Including Bloodborne, Dark Souls 3 marks the third Souls game in as many years. Dark Souls 2 was disappointing, so is Dark Souls 3 a return to form? Mostly. Playing From Software’s Souls games used to feel like joining a private club. Now, nearly seven years after Demon’s Souls, the games are played by millions.…
Nintendo has been deleting Mario Maker courses for months without explanation, and the community is tired. The company updated its Mario Maker support page today with new guidelines, but it doesn’t have many answers. “A Course I Uploaded Seems to Have Disappeared. Where Did it Go?” reads the support page, in which the company declares…
When Bandai Namco’s Twitter promised “big” Dark Souls news was coming today, it could have been anything. A Dark Souls movie? Details on the game’s DLC? A remastered Dark Souls? Nope! Turns out it’s a really lame clothing line. Here’s how Bandai Namco set things up yesterday: And here’s what it ended up being: It’s…
Nosgoth, the bizarre Legacy of Kain multiplayer spin-off, is being shut down, Square Enix announced today Even though I’ve been reminded several times now, I’m always surprised to learn Psyonix, the developers behind Rocket League, were working on it. The game will turn off on May 31.
I’ve been on the VR hype train for years. When HTC opened up pre-orders for the Vive, I plunked down my credit card and started waiting. But the Vive’s launch has come and gone, and…I’m still waiting. When is my Vive gonna show up? I don’t really know, and it seems like I’m not alone.…
The PlayStation 4 got a significant firmware upgrade yesterday, and as more people have dug into it, people are finding little tweaks that didn’t show up in the patch notes. Remember the big kerfuffle over Sony removing the ability to stream music through a USB drive? It’s been resolved with this update, according to a…
Capcom has delayed competitive Resident Evil game Umbrella Corps from a May release until June 21, the company announced today I’ve been trying to find a way to care about this game for months, but I just can’t do it.
Starting today, it’s now possible to stream your PlayStation 4 to a PC or Mac. That sounds pretty awesome in theory, but how’s it actually work? I’ve spent the morning playing around with Remote Play to find out. Remote Play is a technology that allows a PS4 to become a hub device that spits a…
Microsoft’s announced Outland and Gunstar Heroes are now available on Xbox One, thanks to backwards compatibility. Most people didn’t play Outland, but that game’s totally bad ass, and you should change that ASAP.
Harmonix’s latest crowdfunding attempt didn’t get anywhere close to fully funded, making it unclear if Rock Band 4 will ever come to the PC. Some crowdfunding projects are able to pull off miraculous come-from-behind rallies in the final days of a campaign, but that wasn’t the case with Rock Band 4 on PC. Harmonix was…
Dark Souls 3 doesn’t come out until April 12, but three weeks before its release, streamers could start sharing their experiences. As I recently observed, that didn’t over so well the series’ passionate fans. Now, Bandai Namco is trying to put the genie back in the bottle. The embargo for Dark Souls 3 asked people…
Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, long rumored to be coming to the PC, has been confirmed for the PC. There’s no release date yet, but if you didn’t play this haunting and moving game on the PS4, keep an eye on it.
If you’re looking for something to read with your Friday coffee (beer?), look no further than Worth Reading, our roundup of the best in games writing. Hey, You Should Read These “Dwarf Fortress’ creator on how he’s 42% towards simulating existence” by Wes Fenlon Dwarf Fortress is, for me, in the same category as EVE…
Axiom Verge is finally coming to Vita on April 19. If you already own the PlayStation 4 version of the Metroid-inspired action game, it’s free.
There are some rad changes coming to Ubisoft’s online shooter very soon. As part of a livestream this afternoon—the archive is right here—the company revealed a bunch of changes coming to The Division’s endgame. First and foremost, there’s incursions, which seem similar to Destiny’s raids. These extremely difficult challenges can be played over and over…
Square Enix says we shouldn’t expect a PC version of Final Fantasy XV anytime soon, according to an interview at Engadget. Once the console version is done, the developers will “take a good, hard look at PC and what we need to do, and consider all [their] options.”
Some people have always lived in a world where Sonic the Hedgehog shows up on PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo platforms, but it wasn’t always that way. In January 2001, the company announced it would stop making its own hardware and go third-party. Yes, that actually happened. This story was originally posted on October 30, 2015.…
Nintendo employee Alison Rapp, who’s been a target of harassment over censorship controversies in recent months, said on Twitter that she has been fired. “Today, the decision was made,” she wrote. “I am no longer a good, safe representative of Nintendo, and my employment has been terminated.” Rapp seemed to lay blame those harassing her,…
Dead Space is backwards compatible on Xbox One, as of today. If you don’t already own a copy of the horror shooter, hold on; the game will be part of the Games With Gold lineup next month.
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