A Game Where You Decide What Your Companions Say (And How They Say It)

Freedom Wars is the upcoming hunting game for the PS Vita where you play a prisoner working off a million year sentence. In the game, players work together along with android companions called “Accessories.” Apparently these Accessories can talk and I want to hear what they have to say. In Freedom Wars, Accessories act as…

‘Marvel vs. Seinfeld’ and Other Games No One Asked For

Once again, Pete Holmes shows off his favorite fictional games, and while some of them might sound horrible (I don’t even wanna touch something called Middle-Age Mutant Ninja Turtles!), some have potential: My Newman, Soup Nazi, Bob Sacamano (he’d be a secret character I guess) trio would beat anyone with ease. All The Games: Number…

Rust with David Attenborough is a Peaceful Adventure

The last things that come to one’s mind when playing Rust are its relaxing ecosystem and Mother Nature (well, unless you count all those naked characters). And while the game might not have a calm narrator, here’s YouTuber Penal Cast, and a funny, Planet Earth-ish take on the otherwise intense sandbox game. Planet Rust –…

I’m Terrified of Hard Choices, But This Game is About Hard Choices

Whenever I’m given an option in a game, be it choosing what my character says or how he/she acts, I always want to make the “best” choice. So when I’m faced with two equally bad options, I lock up – and right off the bat, it looks like Nippon Ichi Software’s newest game is going…

Hideo Kojima on Why Solid Snake Is Called Solid Snake

Metal Gear’s creator took to Twitter to talk about the conceptual origins behind the name of series protagonist Solid Snake. Over eight tweets. It… makes sense if you think about it, really. Have a look: Did you get that? Solid for battle-hardened, Snake for stealthy. Only a snake can beat a snake, so Solid Snake’s…

Kerbal Space Program to Introduce NASA-Backed Asteroid-Wrangling DLC

Yes, soon you’ll be able to do in Kerbal Space Program whatNASA wants to do in real life. Of course, in this case, it won’t take decades of careful research. And it will probably involve a lot more explosions. KSP developer Squad and NASA are collaborating on a mission-slash-content pack called Asteroid Redirect Mission, named…

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Princess Peach Is Ready To Kick Ass And Take Names

When Alexia Jean Grey cosplays as Princess Peach, she doesn’t go for puffy dresses and a smile. She channels Peach: Warrior Princess. Inspired by Peach’s performances in the Smash Bros. series, the outfit is made almost entirely out of worbla, a thermoplastic from the future. The pics here were taken by Travis Photography; there are…

A Shooter Where You Don’t Shoot, You Program

Glitchspace might look like the Mirror’s Edge expansion, and appear to show you running around holding a gun, but this is a game about puzzles. And programming. You spend the game running around a cyberspace environment, looking for glitches. When you find a puzzle, you don’t just slide a block; the game’s developers have built…

A New DirectX Is Coming

I hope you didn’t get too comfortable with DirectX 11, because DirectX 12 is right around the corner. Microsoft has released a teaser image, showing that more info will be revealed at GDC (on March 20). That gives you just under two weeks to get the fear, paranoia and Windows 8 jokes out of your…

Timesplitters Custom Action Figure

Sergeant Cortezfrom Timesplitters custom action figure.

In Which I Overreact To The Homeworld Remake Box Art

Look, I was happy enough that Gearbox was just going to be re-releasing Homeworld so that modern operating systems (and widescreen monitors) could actually play them properly. But that’s not what they’re doing. No, they’ve gotten carried away. In a good way. Instead of simply putting in some HD textures and optimising the code, Relic’s…

A Vita game I can’t stop playing: If you’ve got a Vita, check out Surge Deluxe, a highly enjoyable (and addictive) electro-charged tile-matching game from Futurlab. At a certain point it clicks, and you’ll be hooked. Futurlab’s next game will be Velocity 2X for Vita and PS4.