Dark Souls II Patch Radically Changes The Game’s Ending

When you reach the end of Dark Souls, the players is presented with a big choice. You help decide the fate of the world. When you reach the end of Dark Souls II, the game simply ends. Not many players were satisfied with this conclusion, and the game’s new patch changes this. We’re gonna need…

Come watch me talk about Suikoden, women’s eSports tournaments, and animal sounds on this week’s Co-Optional podcast, where I guest-starred. Fun times.

Ubisoft’s Surprise Game Is Worth Your Time

The most pleasant surprises from Ubisoft seem to be coming in downloadable forms. Child of Light, Valiant Hearts, Assassin’s Creed: Freedom Cry. We can now add Grow Home to the list, an utterly charming experimental platformer about climbing higher and higher and higher. I’d intended to start Dying Light yesterday. Zombie are kind of my…

Assassin’s Creed Rogue is coming to PC on March 10th, Ubisoft announced today. We really liked the console version, so we’re excited. Woo!

Secret Super Mario Level Found In Dying Light [UPDATE: More Secrets]

The latest Dying Light easter egg that’s been uncovered transports players to a Super Mario-esque stage, only with a lot more zombies inside. YouTuber Arekkz Gaming discovered the secret portal to zombie goomba (zomgoomba? goomzombie?) killing goodness, and was kind enough to show us all where to find it: As he explains in the video,…

Witcher 3 Price Slash, Logitech Gaming Mouse, and More Deals

Newegg is continuing their impressive run of preorder cash discounts with The Witcher 3 today. Preorder The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt ($53) | Newegg | Promo code EMCANAS53 Preorder The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt ($53) | Newegg | Promo code EMCANAS53 The Crew isn’t a perfect racing game by any means, but its sprawling reimagining…

Racing Game Makes You Drive On Three Roads At Once

I have enough trouble getting from start to finish in a racing game, but Drive!Drive!Drive! wants to push everyone a little further. In Drive!Drive!Drive!, racers are not only managing their position on the track in front of them—they’re managing position on several tracks at once. The trailer provides a slightly better understanding of the madness…

How To Make Dying Light More Difficult

Dying Light has only been out for a week, but many players are already itching for bigger and better challenges than those in the base game. Since there isn’t a “hardcore mode” or anything like that yet, the best way to turn up the difficulty dial is imposing your own custom rules. Here are some…

If you frequently use the recording features on Xbox One, the handy website Xbox DVR has added a neat new feature: the ability to create GIFs based on your videos.

Final Fantasy XV Sure Knows How To Do Nostalgia

Look, Square Enix—you can keep your fancy graphics and high-octane magic swordfights or whatever else you’re shoving into the next Final Fantasy. You guys know that all it really takes to reel back your old fanbase is a few bars of Uematsu. I mean, listen to this. LISTEN. This is the newly-released trailer for the…

The system requirements for Mortal Kombat X recently popped up on the game’s Steam page, giving us all a better sense of what it’ll take to render all that spine-ripping in gloriously hyperbolic detail. Thankfully, it won’t take all that much by modern high-end PC gaming standards. Huzzah!

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Knives-on-Nunchucks Martial Artist Clearly Wants Real Life Soul Calibur

I don’t know if Polish martial artist Kacper Borowski plays Soul Calibur—though there is a pic with a caption of Sagat on his Facebook page. But if they make ever make movies about the medieval martial arts fighting franchise, the producers need to give this guy a call. Now, I’m partial to the feats on…

Analyzing the Persona 5 Trailer

You’ve see the trailer. Now, let’s dive in and see if we can parse what it all means, whether that’s going through the obvious hints or deciphering the vague clues. We open up on a cityscape. It could certainly be Tokyo Bay. Maybe it’s somewhere outside the country. We’re taken into what looks like a…

Ten of the Funniest Besiege Builds

Besiege is a game where you construct catapults, trebuchets and other siege engines. But since it’s a physics-based game, the best and funniest creations—weight benches, Metal Gears, doomsday bikes—are far from any medieval construct. As you can see above ManwithNoname not just built a skinny guy lifting weights, but an entire weight bench. Planetaska‘s bikes…