Basement Is Basically Breaking Bad: The Video Game

Basement, an indie strategy game currently in development, is about a “scientist that has been forced to do not exactly legal stuff underground”. You know where this is going. It’s a strategy and management game all about making, then selling, hard drugs. Starting off in a small basement, you’ve got to manage production, hire employees…

If You Die In This Game, You Can Never Play Again. Ever.

Some games have permadeath, where death causes you to lose a character forever. Upsilon Circuit, however, has perma-permadeath. If you lose, you can never play the game again. The fantasy RPG plops specially selected players onto a single server and divides them into two teams of four. This means only eight players will ever be…

Elite: Dangerous now has “Wings”. As in, you and your buddies can team up and fly through the galaxy, sharing map locations, comms and even bonuses for trading. 14 year-old Luke is like “holy shit, finally”. Contact the author at [email protected]

The Steam Controller Is Actually Decent Now

When Valve unveiled the first prong of their living room invasion, the Steam controller, it was unique, but also hella wonky. Since then, it’s been through multiple revisions and overhauls. The result? Something not quite as good as a mouse-and-keyboard, but close. Back when I first tried the Steam controller, it was all haptic feedback…

Food for thought.

A Hilariously Drawn Out League Of Legends Pentakill

Killing all five members of the opposing team within a few seconds of one another in League of Legends is such an impressive feat that it has its own name: “pentakill.” Like many awesome League plays, it’s also old hat by pro players’ standards. Except for those great moments when it seems like you’re so…

Hey, Atlus Just Announced A Really Rad-Looking RPG

So, OK. On one hand, the boringly-titled Lost Dimension looks like a pretty typical turn-based strategy-role-playing game, with anime graphics and a bit of a Valkyria Chronicles flair to it. On the other hand, well, there’s this, via publisher Atlus (who announced today that they’re publishing Lost Dimension in North America this summer for PS3…

If Team Fortress And League Of Legends Had A Baby, It’d Be Gigantic

Gigantic is a game that’s gotten a lot of praise for its good looks. That’s understandable, given how sharp its visuals have been in every glimpse we’ve gotten. But Motiga’s multiplayer arena game plays well, too. One of the most crowded areas at PAX East last week was the massive booth dedicated to hosting multiplayer…

Yet Another Xbox One Game Isn’t Working Properly [UPDATE]

Ori and the Blind Forest is a very pretty game. It’s a lot of fun, too! Unfortunately, thanks to a few irritating performance issues, some Xbox One players have had trouble soaking up its beautiful scenery and controller-chucking levels of platforming tension since the indie game launched earlier this week. Since Ori and the Blind…

If you’re having trouble downloading anything on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac, you’re not alone, as the App Store and iTunes has been down for several hours. Given Apple earned $4.8 billion from the two storefronts last quarter, you’d imagine it’ll be up real soon. As of this writing, here’s how Apple is reporting the…

Tell Us Your PAX Love Stories

Walk around a PAX convention and you’ll see more than just video games: you’ll see tons of bonding. Cosplayers gather together for pictures, developers visit each other’s booths, and, sometimes, even new love blooms. There are plenty of opportunities—both orchestrated and serendipitous—to meet new friends and new loves. Did you meet any new romantic interests…

Game Freak, developers of the Pokemon games, is teaming up with Sega for a 2D action platformer called—wait for it—Tembo The Badass Elephant It’s coming to PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 this summer, and has already locked up best new game name of 2015. You can reach the author of this post at [email protected]…

With New Mod, Fans Are Making Sure System Shock 2 Never Ends

There are few games with more loyal followings than System Shock 2, Ken Levine’s classic sci-fi horror game. System Shock Infinite, an ambitious fan mod, kicks into gear as the game ends. System Shock Infinite has been in development for a few years now, with regular updates flowing to ModDB. Just a few days ago,…

The First Five Minutes Of Parallax, First-Person Portal Puzzler

Traversing portals to solve puzzles split between two worlds, one black and white, the other white and black? Sounds like a simple enough concept to grasp in five minutes. Toasty Games’ Parallax, launched this week on Steam, is a $10 puzzle game with sharp style and a game mechanic borrowed from the grandparents of the…