You Can Fuse With Your Teammates and More in the Next Tales Game

It was the annual Tales of Festival at the Yokohama Arena in Japan today with Tales of Festival 2014, and Bandai Namco had some interesting announcements for its latest Tales game, Tales of Zestiria –A new rival character The gray-haired, shirtless, pistol-wielding dude, Zabida (ザビーダ) is looking to be one of those reoccurring mid-boss battles…

This Week In The Business: Our Prices Are Insane

QUOTE | “If you want to sell a game for $60, to the player it has to feel like $200…In 2014, $60 for a game is a little insane.” – Creative director Adrian Chmielarz talking about the lessons of Bulletstorm and the problem with prices Elsewhere in the business of video games this past week…

Watch Dogs Uplay and Season Pass Issues Fixed?

It looks like Watch Dogs might be getting past one of its launch woes. A note sent to me on my PS4 in the “important notifications from PlayStation” part of my inbox indicates that problems with the game’s season pass have been fixed. Ubisoft also Tweeted this afternoon that “authentication” issues have been resolved, presumably…

10 Internet Mysteries Nobody Has Solved

The internet, as useful and entertaining as it might be, also has its share of things nobody can explain. Webdriver Torso’s strange YouTube videos are just the latest phenomenon that has caught our imaginations. Alltime10s quickly walks us through a number of curious internet mysteries, from codes nobody can seem to break to Bitcoin. John…

​An Indie Game That Nails The Joy of Swinging

A Story About My Uncle gets a few things very right. Jumping, swinging, not throwing a gun in your face and forcing you to murder aliens. In the video above, I give my impressions of the game, of a game that’s lineage is squarely in the vein of games like Portal and Jumping Flash A…

The big Battlefield news this week was about Hardline, but EA doesn’t want you think that means it’s forgotten about Battlefield 4. Longtime series developer Karl Magnus Troedsson wrote a blog post yesterday assuring fans of the still-struggling online multiplayer shooter that DICE will “continue to improve the BF4 experience” as best it can. “Yes,…

LeVar Burton Wants To Bring Reading Rainbow To Game Consoles

By now you’ve probably seen the extraordinarily successful Kickstarter campaign for Reading Rainbow, the TV show hosted actor LeVar Burton that helps teach kids to love reading books. They’ve already raised $2.8 million for the project, which hopes to bring the show to children everywhere. Naturally, they want to make more money. And one of…

Zenzizenzic is a mouthful of a video game But it’s got to be the prettiest mouthful I’ve ever seen. If you can’t stop looking at these mesmerizing GIFs either, check in on its Kickstarter campaign while you still can. Seriously, just look at these things: This game is going to make my head explode and…

Glenn Beck Thinks Watch Dogs Teaches People How To Hack In Real Life

I doubt anyone expects conservative pundit Glenn Beck to say anything particularly insightful about games, judging by the ignorant comments he’s made about the industry in the past. But listening to him talk about Watch Dogs is kind of funny, since he’s convinced it’ll teach kids how to hack into his iPad. To be fair,…

Man, I Could’ve Sworn I Was Done Killing Nazis

I expected to hate the new Wolfenstein. I wanted to, even. The whole idea of rebooting the Nazi-killing epic for the umpteenth time disturbed me. I don’t remember where I was or what I was doing when I first learned that the Wolfenstein franchise was being brought back to life by a new Dr. Frankenstein—this…

Tips For Playing Mario Kart 8

The latest installment of Nintendo’s popular kart racing franchise is upon us, and the urge to dive right in and start taking home trophies is strong, but first… …here are some general tips to get you started. Race Against The Machine I know, it’s rare that we get a Nintendo game with such a robust…