Far Cry 4’s New DLC Forces You to Grind Until You Die For No Good Reason

Far Cry 4‘s post-release stuff kicked off this week with Escape From Durgesh Prison, a new timed challenge mode that’s now available for purchase either individually or as part of the game’s season pass. Sadly, it doesn’t get things off to a great start. The pre-release hype for the Escape from Durgesh Prison—which was released…

I Picked The Perfect Time To Get Back Into Final Fantasy XIV

After spending the better part of 2014 exploring other MMO avenues, in 2015 I’m getting back into Final Fantasy XIV, just in time for the massive two-part pre-expansion patch 2.5, “Before the Fall.” Yesterday Square Enix released a lengthy trailer detailing the new content coming in patch 2.5, an update so large it’s coming in…

The White House Is Now Taking Steps To Fight DDoS Attacks

Last month, attackers took down the PlayStation Network for several days, embarrassing Sony and leaving tons and tons of gamers unable to feed their Destiny addictions for almost a week. This is all thanks to what’s called a Distributed Denial of Service attack, where a person or a group of people send an inflated amount…

Nintendo (Sorta) Explains Why The Smaller New 3DS Is MIA

When Nintendo officially announced the New 3DS XL this morning, fans across North America had one big question: where’s the smaller one? In Japan, where the New 3DS launched last year, there were two versions of the system: regular and XL. The regular one, a smaller model that’s around the same size as the original…

Yeah, I Cheated In A Puzzle Game, Don’t Judge Me

January is a great month for catching up on last year’s games, and I’ve been using the lack of new releases to make my way through Croteam’s fiendish puzzler, The Talos Principle. Everything is not what it seems in The Talos Principle, but if there’s one constant, it’s how difficult the puzzles become as you…

There’s Also a Limited Edition Monster Hunter New 3DS XL

In addition to the Major’s Mask 3DS and a slew of other Nintendo announcements today, there’s also a Gamestop exclusive New Nintendo 3DS XL with Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate pre-installed. [Gamestop] The Majora’s Mask 3DS is already sold out, so we’ll do our best to keep you up to date if/when it comes back in…

Hatsune Miku Charms Western 3DS Owners This May

Drunk on the success of its virtual idol rhythm games on North American and European PlayStation 3 and Vita, Sega prepares to conquer Western 3DS owners in May with Hatsune Miku: Project Mirai DX. The result of a partnership between Sega and Good Smile Company’s Nendoroid line of figures, the Project Mirai series offers all…

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4K Gaming Laptop, New 3DS XL Preorder, and More Deals

Are you sitting down? Here’s a $1000 laptop with a Core i7 processor, NVIDIA GeForce 860M GPU, 256GB SSD, and 16GB of RAM. Pretty great! Oh, and I forgot to mention the 15″ 4K touchscreen. Yep, 4K. Buy this. [ Lenovo Y50 Touch 4K UHD Laptop, $1000] In addition to the Major’s Mask 3DS and…

Pillars of Eternity has been shuffling release dates for a little while, but Obsidian Entertainment sound pretty confident about March 26. The old school RPG raised $3.9 million on Kickstarter back in October 2012, and it was supposed to come out in spring 2014. Then, it was late 2014. Now, it’s March 26. Hopefully!

Watch Patton Oswalt Trash (and Defend) the Watchmen Movie

It was a weird thing when the Watchmen movie came out in 2009. There it was, a cinematic adaptation of one of the most-loved superhero stories of all time and… it was bad. Mostly, according to comedian and uber-nerd Patton Oswalt, because it was too much like the comics it was based on. At an…

Our First Look At Princess Kitana In Mortal Kombat X

Of course Kitana is going to be in Mortal Kombat X. You try telling the adopted daughter of Shao Kahn to stay home and watch Gilmore Girls on Netflix. Kitana, named because one of her parents must have seen a katana somewhere, has been a fixture of the fighting game series since Mortal Kombat II,…

How Amiibo Work In Nintendo’s New Games, And At What Cost

This morning’s Nintendo Direct was chock full ofnew Amiibo toys and Amiibo-enable games. Here’s how the colorful pieces of plastic will work in Nintendo’s upcoming titles, including the one you might have to delete existing Smash Bros. Amiibo data to play. First off we’ve got the toys: a newly-announced third wave of Smash Bros. Amiibo…

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A new Rhythm Heaven game is headed to the Nintendo 3DS this summer in Japan. It will feature in excess of a hundred rhythm games, over thirty of which are new to the series.

Woo, Xenoblade 3DS Is Actually Coming To North America

Good news: the upcoming New 3DS exclusive remake of Xenoblade Chronicles is actually coming to North America this April, Nintendo announced this morning. No petitions necessary!

Code Name: S.T.E.A.M., is coming out for the 3DS on March 13th, Nintendo just announced during its Nintendo Direct stream. It’s a turn-based strategy game that pits Abraham Lincoln against space aliens, because why the fuck not? They also said that it will work with the Fire Emblem Amiibos being made for Smash Bros.

New 3DS XL Coming To America In February, Smaller One MIA

The New 3DS is coming out on February 13, Nintendo just announced. This release date is no surprise given yesterday’s leaks, but now it’s official. It looks like we’re only getting the New 3DS XL—no smaller version. In a video presentation this morning, Nintendo America president Reggie Fils-Aime gave us a walkthrough of all the…