The Honest Destiny Trailer Celebrates “Gaming’s Hottest 7 Out Of 10”

“The storytelling of Halo, the scope of World of Warcraft and the co-operative fun of Borderlands — may eventually get patched in.” Thus begins the brutally Honest Trailer for Destiny, “The video game equivalent of a beautiful mansion full of cheap Ikea furniture.” Okay, easy target, but Smosh Gamescompletely nails Bungie’s latest, especially with one…

Evolve Looks Good, But Is It $750 Statue Good?

Everybody loves 2K Games’ upcoming competitive monster shooter Evolve, but do they love it enough to start paying off a two and a half foot tall, 35 pound polystone statue of the game’s Goliath? As lovely as the Goliath statue from TriForce is, it’s an incredibly hard sell for me. I can see shelling out…

Destiny’s Vault of Glass Has Been Defeated (By Us)

Thanks, team. That was one for the books.

Silent Hills P.T. In Minecraft Is Spooky, Hilarious

Seriously, this is so spot-on. For those not in the know, P.T. is an interactive teaser Konami released to announce that Metal Gear (more like Metal FEAR) creator Hideo Kojima and famed horror director Guillermo del Toro (more like Guillerm-boo del OhNo!) have teamed up to make the next Silent Hill, titled Silent Hills. P.T.,…

Every First-Person Shooter Crammed Into One

Bedlam (not to be confused with that otherBedlam) is a loving tribute to pretty much every first-person shooter since the dawn of time. Or at least, you know, the dawn of video games. It is, functionally speaking, a whole bunch of different styles of first-person shooter, all in one game. There are levels themed after…

Smash Bros. Tells Us ‘Y Cant Metroid Crawl’

Remember PaulyU, the Wii U owner that documented his troubles with Super Metroid on Miiverse? He was the guy that wondered “y cant metroid crawl.” Well, it looks like Pauly got a shout-out in the latest Smash Bros. Here’s Pauly’s famous question: And here’s Smash Bros.‘ answer to that question, as spotted by @Electivirus: Mystery…

The entire 164 track Banjo Kazooie soundtrack is available on Bandcamp. Ex-Rare audio maestro Grant Kirkhope put up the whole thing, which includes everything from level themes to cheerful, five-second victory chimes. You can name your price. Go revel in glorious bird/bear nostalgia and the happiest main theme ever.

There’s A Pretty Good Blade Runner Reference In Alien: Isolation

It’s wild to think that one film director—Ridley Scott—is responsible for two of the most influential sci-fi films of all time. Alien: Isolation, the (pretty good!) new horror game from Creative Assembly, pays direct homage to one of those films, Scott’s 1979 horror classic Alien. What I totally missed while playing it (I can’t believe…

I Want To Play Video Games, Not Grind Through ‘Content’

Earlier this week, Techland announced that its new zombie-killing adventure Dying Light will have “50+ hours of gameplay.” Some might considering this good news. I don’t—at least at face value. Why? Because 50 hours is a long fucking time to spend in any video game, and I don’t trust Techland enough as a developer to…

The man who wrote and directed Call of Duty: Black Ops argues that the U.S. government should put soldiers in schools to protect them. David Anthony—who is now a fellow at political think tank The Atlantic Council—made his remarks during a talk titled “The Future of Unknown Conflict,” where he also described marketing as a…

The PS4’s Newest JRPG Is Straight Outta Sega Genesis, Warts And All

Four years ago, a turn-based RPG called Pier Solar made headlines thanks to an unusual gimmick: it was developed and released exclusively for the Sega Genesis, a system that had been obsolete for two decades. Since the game couldn’t be played on any other console, and most people have thrown away or shelved their old…

A Twin-Stick-Shooter That’s One of the Toughest Games for the iPad

The sometimes-justified rap on mobile games is that they’re too casual, too easy. Too oriented to delivering distraction, instead of challenging design. Inferno 2 is not one of those games. Inferno 2 is the latest release from Radiangames, a one-man indie studio who’s been making agile, small-scale games since the days of Xbox Live Indie…

Lords of the Fallen Collector’s Edition, 24 Complete, PC Parts [Deals]

Lords of the Fallen is just around the corner, but you can still lock up your copy of the Collector’s Edition, no charge until shipping. [Lords of the Fallen CE] If you’ve never gotten around to checking out the Song of Ice and Fire Books, the first one is just 5 bucks today on Kindle.…