Haha, You Can Preorder A Nintendo NX

But please, whatever you do, don’t. You don’t even know what it is. (from EB Games Australia)

Assassin’s Creed Has The Worst Scottish Accent I’ve Ever Heard

Braveheart, you have some competition. I’ve been playing my way through Assassin’s Creed Rogue on PC, and for the most part have been loving it! I was stopped dead in my tracks by this performance, though, which is wrong on multiple levels. First, the obvious: that’s terrible. I’ve got Scottish family, friends and an unnatural…

The First Five Sticky Swinging Minutes Of Grapple

You’re a ball of goo jumping, swinging and sliming your way through space. What a coincidence, that’s exactly like the main character in puzzle platformer Grapple! Crafted by afive-person team from the University of Texas at Dallas, Grapple doesn’t need a reason for a ball of goo to be travelling through space sticking to purple…

Want to make some money in Elite: Dangerous? The feisty space-pirates over at Rock, Paper Shotgun have put together a useful guide to Elite‘s many career paths. Give it a read and that Lakon Type-6 will be yours in no time.

We Happy Few: The Basics

What is it? We Happy Few, a first-person survival game where you play as a stranger in the unnaturally happy town of Wellington Wells. Who is making it? Compulsion Games, the folks who made shadow-centric puzzle-platformer Contrast Here’s a trailer… Did we play it? Yes at PAX East 2015. Here’s a video with designer/creator Guillaume…

After nearly a year of fooling itself, The Elder Scrolls Online is now subscription free. Lapsed players can now log into their account, download 17gb worth of MMORPG and pick up where they left off, while new players can purchase a copy for $59.99 with no need to hand over payment details for a monthly…

New Star Wars Book Will Connect Return of the Jedi to The Force Awakens

A long time ago, there was a whole galaxy of Star Wars lore that told stories about the events that followed the destruction of the second Death Star. But the old Expanded Universe is no more. So it’s time to build a new one, starting with a book by Chuck Wendig taking place after the…

Valve Requires New Public Disclosures From All Steam Users

Talking about a game in a Steam review, broadcast, curation, Greenlight upvote, or even forum post? If it’s a compensated promotion of any sort, all Steam users—yourself included—are now required to publicly disclose that info. Gamasutra came across the new Steam Subscriber Agreement wrinkle after a recent update. It covers promotions paid for in cash…

The Man Who Does The Impossible in Super Mario 64

Before the world knew him as Mario, Nintendo’s iconic plumber had a simpler name: Jumpman. That name makes sense, when you think about it: Mario is defined by his ability to jump. But lately, I’ve become fascinated by the people who play—and beat—Super Mario 64 without jumping a single time. Heck, sometimes they don’t even…

Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan X: Bloody Fast, Surprisingly Efficient

About three years ago we got our first look at Nvidia’sKepler architecture that powered the GTX 680, a $500 card packing 3.54 billion transistors and 192GB/s bandwidth. It was the end of the line for the GeForce 600 series, but it wasn’t the end for the Kepler architecture. While we eagerly awaited for next-gen GeForce…

Everything We Know (Not Much) About Nintendo’s New Hardware

Nintendo just surprised everybody with the announcement that its working on some new hardware, codenamed “NX.” Pretty much everything about “NX” besides its codename remains a mystery, however. Lest we devolve into wild and errant speculation, let’s review what Nintendo has said publicly about its new hardware. They ‘Already Have A Clear Idea’ Of What…

Resident Evil: Revelations 2‘s Season Finale Is A Huge Disappointment

If you were hoping the episodic Resident Evil experiment would go out with a bang, I have some bad news. If you were hoping for an unsatisfying conclusion to this island story…well, that’s a weird thing to hope for. Congrats? Everything in Resident Evil: Revelations 2 has been building to reaching the mysterious tower at…

What Made Super Mario 3D World So Great

We all know Super Mario 3D World is super rad. Just how rad is it? YouTuber Mark Brown took a look at the modern classic for his semi-regular “Game Maker’s toolkit” video series, and makes a case for putting 3D World in the time-honored “totally hella rad” category. That might not be the name of…

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