I should be playing Antichamber right now, but my preview build of the mind-blowing first-person exploration/puzzle game that you can see in the trailer here is… at home. What’s your excuse? Oh, it’s not January 31 yet! That’s your excuse. If you have a PC and access to Steam, you’ll be out of excuses on…
You won’t get many answers to your questions about Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII today, but we will happily supply you with some new GIFs. Enjoy! Here’s that “new,” extended trailer. The game will be out this fall for Xbox 360 and PS3.
Team Fortress 2‘s Heavy, Pyro and Spy will all be playable characters in the PC version of Sega kart-racer Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed. We didn’t like the game all that much, but many readers did, so… this is good news, PC/Valve-loving folks! The game will be out on PC at the end of the…
Here’s a feature for the March 19 Wii U version of last fall’s acclaimed racing game Need for Speed Most Wanted that wasn’t in the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC versions. From an EA press release: …an all new local co-op mode, Co-Driver, one player drives using the Wii Remote controller or Wii U Pro…
For some reason, the official Facebook page for PlayStation in Germany listed Star Wars 1313 as an upcoming game for PS3 today. We’re asking them and LucasArts why, because this is a bit of a surprise and may very well be what we in America call a typo. Star Wars 1313 and its out-of-this-world graphics…
As with just about every other major console that has ever launched, promises and plans for the Wii U’s first few months are thinning into the reality of a system plagued with a lack of early releases. Today, Nintendo announced looming Wii U release dates for a couple of major games for their new console,…
Did top AMD people who now work at Nvidia steal sensitive AMD information? Reps for the graphics chip rivals comment
YouTube user Marflus1 has created this musical gem, which is described as follows: An Arrangement of “Still Alive” from Portal, produced using the Wintersday Bell and Pipe Organ in Guild Wars 2, a little bit of pitch editing in Audacity, and an awful lot of time in Adobe Premiere Pro. Whatever it takes! Marflus1 previously…
Capcom’s downloadable content policy? Not super-great. Capcom’s policy of remembering January exists and actually releasing games in a month that most big game companies ignore? Pretty awesome. Let us look at how they’ve warmed us with games January after January. Mega Man X – January 1994 (SNES) Source: The DreamSlayer93’s longplay of the game. Resident…
Time is tight, our comics guru Evan is out, but these are not good excuses for withholding out weekly comic book recommendations. I’m here, people! I’m here to swoop in and recommend a few comics that might be good. Look, I haven’t read these comics I’m suggesting you browse/read/buy. But I know some stuff about…
This morning brought the news that Ivan Buchta and Martin Pezlar, two developers from the Czech Republic’s Bohemia Interactive (Arma, DayZ), were freed on bail after spending the last 128 days under arrest in Greece for possible—denied—espionage There was much celebration by the developers’ family and friends, but a Bohemia rep says the guys aren’t…
Disney Infinity sounds like it’s going to be the biggest thing Disney has ever done with games, and it’s coming out this June. At a press event in L.A., Disney honchos are just pouring out details that matched pretty well with earlier leaks What is this thing? It’s going to be a massive series of…
Here are the minimum and recommended specs for running BioShock Infinite PC. We can’t say for sure whether you should run the game on PC, as opposed to Xbox 360 or PS3. But, judging by how good the first 4 1/2 hours of the game are, we recommend your run it on something These specs…
If you play the currently-Kickstarting game Wildman as a female character, the game will rename itself “Wildwoman.”
Mr. Gergő Vas is at it again, taking a slick new gaming trailer and boiling it down to several stellar GIFs. His subject today is the newest trailer for next month’s Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance Show us some GIFs, Gergő! Here’s the full trailer. The game will be out on February 19 for the PS3…
Two game developers from Czech Republic-based Bohemia Interactive (Arma III), who were jailed in Greece for the past 218 days, will finally be able to go home, according to Czech media reports translated on a site dedicated to the men’s release. Ivan Buchta and Martin Pezlar had been facing up to 20 years in prison…
Game developer Hideki Kamiya of Platinum Games and recent Bayonetta fame will field just about any question on Twitter, whether he’s well-versed on a topic or not. Something he knows a ton about? Devil May Cry games. Kamiya was the director on the original Devil May Cry back in 2001 and a very good authority…
Back in mid-November, just before the Wii U was released, mega gaming chain GameStop said they had some 500,000 people on a waiting list to get the Wii U. That sounded great. Last week, GameStop told investors that, through November and December, the mega chain sold 320,000 Wii U’s. Readers don’t need us to inform…
The latest big-name-developer Kickstarter comes from Chris Taylor’s Gas Powered Games. They want to make Wildman and they need your money to do it. The video above explains the pitch For those who prefer to read, this is from their press release: Imagine a game where you control a single hero unit—the “Wildman”—in the middle…
Comedian Jay Mohr won’t be hosting the annual video game awards show at the D.I.C.E. Summit in Las Vegas this year. He’s hosted the awards every year since 2006, merrily insulting part of his audience full of gaming industry professionals and snarking about video games for over half a decade. The new host will be…
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