If you want to use an Xbox One controller on your PC without USB, Microsoft announced at GDC today that it’s shipping a wireless adapter later this year.
Unreal Engine 4 is now free for anyone to tinker with, so at the Game Developers Conference today, Epic Games debuted an impressive real-time demo to show it off. Hold onto your kites… The company says this is running in real-time at 30 frames-per-second, a way to demonstrate the worlds developers can dream up and…
In less than 30 seconds, it all came flooding back, as my flak cannon suddenly struck gold. There’s nothing like aiming the secondary fire of Unreal Tournament‘s flak cannon, sending a glob of shrapnel in the direction of your reticle, and watching someone gib into a million pieces. In the waning months of 1999, you…
With Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain, designer Hideo Kojima is embracing PC owners with open arms. The PC version of The Phantom Pain will arrive on September 15, just two weeks after the console launch.
Microsoft just announced a slew of new independent games coming to Xbox One in the months ahead, including Wasteland 2.
This might be the weirdest story I’ve reported on in a while. Capcom announced local co-op for Resident Evil: Revelations 2 on PC before saying it was a mistake. Then, a modder added local co-op to the game in a matter of days. Now, Capcom is officially adding the feature themselves! When Revelations 2 was…
Solid Snake isn’t the only one getting release dates today, as Warner Bros. and Avalanche Studios announced Mad Max will arrive on September 1 for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC. The Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions have apparently been cancelled. You can reach the author of this post at [email protected] or on Twitter…
Ubisoft’s doing some wild stuff on the fringes these days, from experimental climbing with Grow Home to…a medical game called Dig Rush to aid with the treatment of Amblyopia?! The company announced the collaboration between Ubisoft Montreal and Amblyotech today. Dig Rush is meant to help treat what’s commonly referred to as “lazy eye,” which…
Even though I wasn’t impressed with the pilot for Resident Evil: Revelations 2, there was no question I’d be hanging on for the whole ride. While I’m not convinced the story is going anywhere interesting, I’ll give them credit in the second episode: it’s a huge improvement. For starters, if you were distressed at the…
The first episode of Resident Evil: Revelations 2 wasn’t very good. Maybe it’ll get better, maybe not. What I didn’t expect, however, was to be spending so many hours with the game’s RPG-influenced Raid Mode. It’s not usually my thing, but when I have a few minutes to spare, I’ve found myself booting up Raid…
If my most anticipated big-budget video game this year is Bloodborne, my most anticipated indie video game might be Superhot. As part of an alpha version of the time manipulation shooter going out to backers, Killstagram is also a thing now. Admit it: it’s a clever name. The game jam version of Superhot, which is…
When Capcom revealed Resident Evil: Revelations 2 wouldn’t have local co-op on the PC, the intrepid modding community immediately went to work. The result? Local co-op on the PC. In case you haven’t been following this bizarre story from earlier this week, when Capcom put Revelations 2 on Steam, the product page promised the game…
How much thought do you give to your moral choices in video games? Do you wish you could take one back? The Western press spills a lot of ink about Japan’s views on sexuality, but ever wondered what Japan thinks about our views on violence? All this and more, so come on in… Every week…
Gestures are usually a silly way to communicate with other players or celebrate, but in Resident Evil: Revelations 2, dancing can have killer consequences. Literally! Dancing can kill people. What’s up with the health bars? This is Raid Mode, an RPG-influenced part of Revelations 2 where you fight waves of enemies, pick up loot, and…
The final piece of DLC for Hyrule Warriors won’t be available for most people until March 12, but Japan’s already playing the game’s Boss Pack. If you accomplish a specific and special task, the game rewards you with the chance to play as one of Zelda‘s most fiendish villains: the cucoo. YouTuber moccos-tan Isedelica discovered…
As Mortal Kombat escalated during its early years, the series introduced more ways to finish fights. Fatalities were just the beginning. Friendships, animalities, and babalities become part of the equation. Brutalities were in the console ports of Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, but disappeared from the franchise soon after. They’re back and very bloody in Mortal…
The amiibo collection game is fierce. Rumors of gold Mario amiibos circulated for a while, and Nintendo finally confirmed their existence this morning. Pre-orders for the special edition went online at Wal-Mart today, sold out in 15 minutes, and have already spiked in price on eBay. You’ll notice the eBay listing above is for $79.95.…
Capcom has issued a statement apologizing for the PC version of Resident Evil: Revelations 2 not having local co-op, despite the Steam description saying the game would have it. PC Gamer reports the company is offering refunds for Steam owners. You can reach the author of this post at [email protected] or on Twitter at @patrickklepek
At last night’s Itty Bitty Bash, an event to get Chicagoans in the same room to play games, I encountered something very strange. I’ve fought off an alien invasion millions of times, but I’ve never fired my lasers by entering numbers onto a rotary phone dial. This, friends, is Afterglow Afterglow comes from developer Jerry…
Anyone should be proud for finishing Dark Souls II. From Software’s sadistic action games are punishing by any standard. The community around the games, however, keeps upping the ante. What’s one way to make Dark Souls II harder? Beating it in first-person with an Oculus Rift. Twitch streamer Dirtythekid finally pulled this off yesterday on…
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