Amazon has jumped on the bandwagon and discounted the Xbox One Titanfall bundle by $50. Use code X1AMAZON at checkout. Same discount applies to the “standard” model which is bundled with Forza 5. [Amazon]

It’s Like Zelda, But Your Sword Can Reprogram The Entire Game

These days most people know the basics of the top-down action adventure game. You know, “the Zelda-like.” Character with a sword, walking through dungeons, solving puzzles and fighting monsters, opening chests. Time to introduce a major twist, no? Enter Hack n’ Slash, a new game from Double Fine and one of the most creative and…

A Simple Adventure Game Lets You Convince A Character You’re God

The 4th Wall lives up to its name, since the main character is talking directly to you within a minute. The game doesn’t offer much choice, but the whole thing is only 5 minutes long, and it offers a few chuckles along the way. Check out this video by YouTuber ThingsWePlay, and you can play…

​If Robin Hood Starred In Metal Gear

He robs from the rich and gives to the poor; he also navigates high-tech compounds and dodges robot enemies like Solid Snake. That’s the setup of Volume, the in-development stealth game from Thomas Was Alone-creator Mike Bithell. I caught up with Bithell at GDC earlier this week and he gave me a demo of an…

Pikachu Cake, I Don’t Choose You!

Things don’t always go according to plan when you cook meals—that’s normal. Your end result doesn’t always look like the snazzy pictures on the recipe instructions, or the boxes containing the ingredients. But this monstrosity that someone baked is something else. Normally, Pikachu is supposed to be a cute monster—like in the picture above. Recently,…

BioShock Art With A Glow-In-The-Dark Secret

We already know that there’s a connection between the two iconic locales where the Bioshock and BioShock Infinite happen. Turns out all you need to do to go from Columbia to Rapture is flip the light switch off. The image above comes from artist Mark Englert, whose New Eden print will be premiering at the…

$50 Off The Xbox One Titanfall Bundle, GTAV, Sidewinder X4 [Deals]

Walmart has the Xbox One Titanfall Bundle for $450, and Best Buy has price-matched. That’s a $50 price drop, and an even further cry from the original $500 package that wasn’t bundled with a game. Seeing this kind of discount from a mainstream retailer like Walmart is something worth talking about, and something worth buying…

Hideo Kojima’s Top Five Metal Gear Solid Characters

If you’ve played the Metal Gear Solid franchise, you probably have a few favorite characters. Guess what, Hideo Kojima does too. Some of his picks—like Snake and Otacon—are to be expected. Others, like Raven, Psycho Mantis and The End are a bit more surprising. If you watch this video by IGN, you can hear the…

Watch A Game Evolve 60 Times In 80 Seconds

Please Be Nice is a crazy idea that some Dutch students came up with last week. The idea: make a game that gets changed by the players. Only a week in, they’ve already made over 60 versions, and we’ve got a video of the results. They’re currently working on version 73, although the first 45…

​Tips for Playing Infamous: Second Son

Today’s the day when the latest installment in Sucker Punch’s open-world action/adventure series launches up, up and away into PS4s all over the planet. While it resembles its predecessors a fair bit, Infamous: Second Son does do a few things differently than them. Check out the advice below for ways that you can be a…