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Should I Import That Damn Persona 4 Dancing Game? Update: Nope.
I’ve been driving myself crazy over this game for months. In five days it’s released in Japan for the Vita, a format without region locking. I’ve been starting at Play Asia for an hour. Send help. I used to import a lot of games from Japan back in the day. Most of the games I…
By Mike Fahey Published June 20, 2015 - Uncategorized
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,…
By Mike Fahey Published June 20, 2015 -
UncategorizedThe 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…
By Mike Fahey Published June 20, 2015 - Uncategorized
Man Spends Six Years Crocheting One Super Mario Bros. 3 Map
Norwegian computer programmer and skydiving champion Kjetil Nordin put over 800 hours of work into researching and crocheting this lovely recreation of the map for Super Mario Bros. 3 World 1. Redditor Buttermynutsspent several minutes making it into this equally lovely GIF. Anyone with basic crochet skills and a whole lot of free time can…
By Mike Fahey Published June 20, 2015 -
UncategorizedThe New Hitman’s Creative Director Is Saying All The Right Things
On the last day of E3, I checked out the newly announced Hitman game, which is simply called Hitman. I also spoke with IO Interactive creative director Christian Elverdam, and he had some heartening things to say. Most Hitman fans agree that 2006’s Blood Money was the pinnacle of the series, and that game came…
By Kirk Hamilton Published June 20, 2015 - Uncategorized
The First All-Female Transformers Combiner Team Revealed
“All I want to do/is see six robots turn into/a giant woman.” Hasbro’s Fan Built Combiner poll culminates in the creation of Victorion, the most together combiner team Transformers has ever seen. Revealed yesterday in a USA Today exclusive, Victorion is two race cars, two helicopters, a motorcycle and a rescue truck combined together into…
By Mike Fahey Published June 20, 2015 - Uncategorized
Keeping The Final Fantasy VII Remake And Shenmue III Secret
Adam Boyes, head of third-party developer relations at PlayStation, told me at E3 that he’s known about Square’s Final Fantasy VII remake for a year. It was a fun secret to keep. “Our publishers take us through their slates,” he said, recalling a meeting with Square from earlier last year. “When he said ‘FFVII remake’,…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 19, 2015 -
CultureHow Players Gamed The Steam Summer Sale
It is possible to “beat” the Steam summer sale Monster Game. You’ve just got to be willing to bend the rules. 100,000,000. That’s the level you’re going for in the seemingly endless clicking game. As players discovered when they reached it, that’s the end of the line. At that point, the game goes nuts, and…
By Nathan Grayson Published June 19, 2015 - Uncategorized
Fallout 4 Pip-Boy Editions Are Driving People Nuts
UPDATE 6/23 3:05 PM: The Fallout 4 Pip Boy Edition is back in stock at Gamestop, for all available platforms. Update 2: Walmart also has it for the PS4 and Xbox One. It wasn’t long before the collector’s edition of Fallout 4 was sold out everywhere. It’s incredible. On Sunday, Bethesda announced a special edition…
By Patricia Hernandez Published June 19, 2015 - Uncategorized
My E3 Hype Died Quickly This Year
I was really excited about this year’s E3. At first. It’s the end of E3 day one, and I’m looking back on all the news the press conferences brought us. Fallout 4, Fallout Shelter, Dishonored 2, Doom, Mirror’s Edge Catalyst, Unravel, Tacoma, Hololens, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, The Last Guardian, Horizon, Uncharted 4, Shenmue III,…
By Nathan Grayson Published June 19, 2015 -
ReviewsPizza 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…
By Mike Fahey Published June 19, 2015 -
UncategorizedThe 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…
By Patrick Klepek Published June 19, 2015 - Uncategorized
League And Dota 2 Are Both Becoming A Bit More Like Heroes Of The Storm
Heroes of the Storm has only been out of beta for a few weeks, but it seems like Blizzard’s newly-minted MOBA is already having an impact on Dota 2 and League of Legends—the two reigning kings of this idiosyncratic and enormously popular game genre. Earlier this week, Riot revealed that it’s planning to remove debuffs…
By Yannick LeJacq Published June 19, 2015 -
UncategorizedThe Story Behind Uncharted 4‘s Press Conference Snafu
Sony decided to close out its E3 press conference this year with Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End. After a brief cutscene played, Nathan Drake was supposed to start moving through a crowd…but he just stood still…for a long time. That’s when co-director Bruce Straley started panicking. If you read my E3 demo piece from last…
By Patrick Klepek Published June 19, 2015 - Uncategorized
The Funniest Things That Can Happen In Fallout Shelter
Turns out, things can get pretty silly when you’re stuck inside a vault for most of your life. Who would have thought? Fallout Shelter has been out on Apple devices for almost a week now, and players are sharing all sorts of awesome shenanigans that they encounter or create while playing. We’ve rounded up some…
By Patricia Hernandez Published June 19, 2015 -
UncategorizedE3 2015: A Postmortem
E3 is over and we are all tired and less than human now. Specifically Jason, who is now a Sith Lord apparently. Kirk, Jason and I caught up over breakfast this morning (the eggs were delicious) and talked about the games and our experiences over three days of E3 2015’s showfloor. We answered your questions…
By Tina Amini Published June 19, 2015 -
UncategorizedYou Can’t Play Zelda: Triforce Heroes With Only Two People
You can play the newest Zelda game alongside two other people. You can play it by yourself. But you can’t, according to director Hiromasa Shikata, play Zelda: Triforce Heroes with a party of two. Bad news for anyone who was hoping to plow through the co-op dungeon game—announced for 3DS during Nintendo’s conference on Tuesday—with…
By Jason Schreier Published June 19, 2015 - Uncategorized
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.
By Stephen Totilo Published June 19, 2015 - UncategorizedBy Tina Amini Published June 19, 2015