Holy Crap, Yakuza 5 Will Be Out In The West Next Year

Bombshell! Yakuza 5, which many of us thought would never actually make it to Western shores, will come to North America for PS3 next year, Sony just announced. Here’s Sega with more details on the upcoming surprise localization, which is slated for next summer.

Shovel Knight Is Coming To PlayStation… With Kratos

Nice! The excellent action/platformer Shovel Knight is coming to PS4, PS3 and Vita. Also, it looks like a certain God of War will make a cameo appearance. We love Yacht Club Games’ retro-style action platformer for a bunch of reasons, and it’ll be nice to see it available on more systems. Bonus: the video Sony…

Free PlayStation games for you! Need for Speed on Vita, Mirror’s Edge on PS3, and Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare on PS4 will be free from 12pm PT today until 6pm tomorrow, EA just announced

The Forest, that survival horror game that tore up Steam charts earlier this year, is also coming to the PS4, Sony announced today. Here’s the announcement trailer.

Sony just announced Kill Strain, an upcoming free-to-play multiplayer game for PS4. Details were scarce—it’s a top-down game with a 5 vs. 2 vs. 5 team structure, and will be playable on the floor at the PlayStation Experience this weekend.

Watch The PlayStation Experience Live All Weekend Long

Sony’s PlayStation Experience event in Las Vegas kicks off today with the keynote at 1 pm Eastern, with plenty of panels featuring the latest and greatest games all weekend long. Watch it live on Twitch right here. Here’s the schedule Sony’s got laid out for the show: TWITCH LIVESTREAM SCHEDULE Saturday, December 6th — All…

Marvel Heroes‘ Latest Playable Character Is A Mass-Murderer. Yay!

Look kids, it’s Max Eisenhardt, one of the most beloved villains in the Marvel universe. He may be directly responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of people, but he feels really bad about it so we’re giving him a second third fourth fifth chance. Oh, Marvel. Launched this week as a new playable…

This Week In The Business: Warping Reality

QUOTE | “It will be hard to tell the difference between what’s real and what’s virtual around you.” – Noah Falstein, Google’s Chief Game Designer, talking about the future of virtual reality and augmented reality for games Elsewhere in the business of video games this past week … QUOTE | “‘Christ, we’ve only got 10…

Here Are The Winners For The Game Awards

Tonight Las Vegas hosted a celebration called The Game Awards. Hosted by Geoff Keighley, the show premiered a bunch of new game footage for some upcoming games, and naturally, it also gave out awards. Tonight’s winners are: Game of the Year: Dragon Age: Inquisition Best performance: Trey Parker, South Park: The Stick of Truth Best…

Bioware Knows The Real Reason You’re Playing Dragon Age

Here’s a fun clip from tonight’s Video Game Awards, where Bioware make a quick joke about why people really play Bioware games: the sex. If it doesn’t make sense, here’s the context: Varric is a storyteller, and he writes books. One of his series is, well…smut. Trashy romance type stuff. The books are based on…

Check out Human Element, the new game by game studio Robotoki. Here’s the trailer that premiered tonight at The Game Awards—it looks a bit like Borderlands, no?

The New King’s Quest Makes An Impressive Debut

The classic adventure game King’s Quest is coming back courtesy of indie studio The Odd Gentleman. And… it looks lovely. Take a look at this debut trailer. The trailer premiered tonight at The Game Awards right after King’s Quest creators Roberta and Ken Williams were given an “Icon” award. Though the Williamses are not involved…

There’s A New Playable Character Somewhere In This Witcher 3 Trailer

Geralt isn’t the only playable character in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. There’s another one in this video. CD Projekt Red just isn’t saying which one. Reps from the developer teased the new playable character on stage at the Game Awards this evening prior to showing this latest trailer, in which a white-haired woman I…

OK, The Order: 1886 Looks Pretty Damn Cool

I wasn’t really sold on The Order 1886 before. Even after playing the upcoming PS4 shooter during this year’s E3, I left feeling like it was just another Gears of War-style gun-and-cover game. This trailer, though… well, I’m starting to change my mind. I totally want to hijack airships and assassinate nobles in steampunk Victorian…

At The Game Awards tonight in Las Vegas, the guys at Bungie finally figured out what to do with their hands. Good job, guys! (Hey, if they can joke about it, so can we.) And congrats to them on Destiny’s wins for Best Soundtrack and Best Online Experience.

This is the first footage of Before, Facepunch’s very cool-looking take on…caveman strategy?