So, About That Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward Coverage

Like thousands of other Final Fantasy XIV players I was awake at 5 a.m. Eastern on Friday morning to take my first steps into the game’s first major expansion. Then I realized Heavensward wasn’t quite like other MMO expansions. Most MMO expansions are level-based. If the new content is for players level 50 and above,…

The First Five Minutes Of Shenmue, Finally The Prime Game In A Trilogy

It’s been five days since the Shenmue III Kickstarter campaign was announced and it’s already approaching the $3.5 million mark. What kind of game inspires such rapid fundraising? This one. The original Shenmue was released in North America in 2000 for the Dreamcast, a system that video gamers loved passionately and video game makers largely…

Pizza Hut’s Hot Dog Bites Crust Pizza: The Snacktaku Review

At some point it dawned on Pizza Hut executives that sometimes people don’t want to eat pizza. Affixing foods people might want to eat more than pizza—say, hot dog bites—is not the most elegant solution. After stints in several other countries, the Hot Dog Bites crust pizza from Pizza Hut finally landed on U.S. soil…

The Winners & Losers Of E3 2015

Another year, another E3. Time to hand out some virtual awards. If you read Luke’s excellent (and hilarious) posts from earlier this week—here’s day zero, here’s day one—you already have an idea what we thought of this year’s show. But our excellent production team has put together a slick summary of the E3 that was…

The PlayStation-Activision deal for the next Call of Duty will grant PlayStation owners 30 days of exclusivity to DLC before it comes to other platforms, Sony’s Adam Boyes told us at E3. That’s across the board, including PC, so basically this is the old Xbox CoD deal with Sony swapped in.