We have no idea what this retro piano/keyboard contraption is, but Kirk found it in our hotel and (of course) immediately gravitated towards it.

Platinum Shows Off Its Fancy New Transformers Game

Leaked this weekend via website and retail listing, Platinum Games’ Transformers: Devastation is officially a real thing, and it looks just prime. A single-player beat-em up featuring five first generation Autobots versus some 30-plus Decepticon enemies, including the game’s massive namesake, Devastation will be coming to Xboxes, PlayStations and PCs later this year. It’s no…

Grand Theft Auto V is not $20 on Steam right now. Despite multiple misleading listings on GTA’s Steam franchise page (they’re for cash card bundles), it’s still at regular price. Suddenly last week’s GTA price shenanigans look less benign. [Update: The issue has been resolved. Valve says it was a “technical error.”] GTA V’s price…

E3 2015: EA Press Conference Liveblog 

Next up on the E3 Monday announcement-palooza lineup is Electronic Arts. Kirk and I will be your hosts for this press conference, lovers of text-based content and those who either can’t watch a livestream of the thing or just don’t want to. “`

Rock Band 4 is coming out on October 6th. It’s got freestyle guitar solos, which let you make your own cool “reeeeer” and “waaaaah” sounds even if you’ve never touched an actual guitar and/or do not have a mouth.

Gears of War 4 Announced For Holiday 2016

We’ve known there was a new Gears of War coming for a while now, and it’s Gears 4. The game is coming “holiday” 2016. On stage, Microsoft called it Gears 4, but in the official press release, it’s Gears of War 4 The short demo featured two characters—one man, one woman—working their way through a…

It’s now official: Gears of War: Ultimate Edition is coming to Xbox One on August 25th. It’ll run at 1080p and 60fps, and there’ll be a one-week public multiplayer beta starting today.

Wait, It’s Pronounced Mo-Yang?

As part of a Minecraft presentation at today’s Xbox event, Mojang brand director Lydia Winters revealed the biggest megaton of all: Mo-jang is pronounced Mo-yang. My world has changed. Contact the author at [email protected]

The Rare Collection Is Now Official

As we told you this morning, Microsoft is releasing a compilation of Rare games for Xbox One. It’s called Rare Replay and it’ll cost you just $30. For 30 games. Not bad! Here’s a list of every game: Atic Atac Banjo-Kazooie Banjo-Kazooie Nuts & Bolts Banjo-Tooie Battletoads Battletoads Arcade Blast Corps Cobra Triangle Conker’s Bad…

DayZ Creator Is Making An Xbox One MMO

Dean Hall, one of the minds behind DayZ, debuted a game called Ion during Microsoft’s E3 presser. It’ll come to Xbox One’s early access program, too. Have a look. From the YouTube description: “ION” is an emergent narrative massively-multiplayer online game in which players will build, live in and inevitably die in huge floating galactic…

We just got a look at Cuphead, a side-scrolling platformer from Studio MDHR. It looks like an old-school Disney cartoon, and I would like to play it. It’s coming to Xbox One and PC in 2016.