​Let the Next-Gen Engine for The Division Blow Your Mind Even More

Quick, think of the burliest video game engines that you’ve seen lately. Frostbite 3. Unreal Engine 4. That Luminous Studio demo Square Enix showed off at E3 2012. Project Cars. Pretty soon, you’re going to have to add Snowdrop to that list. Ubisoft first showed the tech behind its upcoming Tom Clancy game at E3…

Sacred 3 Is Coming August 26. This Is What It Looks Like.

My favorite series of Diablo-clones continues on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC this summer. To celebrate, here’s out first look at Deep Silver’s Sacred 3 in action. The Sacred series has always come across as a bit more fun than Diablo proper, an impression that springs from the fact that it doesn’t have to…

Galactic Strongholds Adds Player Housing To The Old Republic In June

Teased earlier this month, Galactic Strongholds is the next major free expansion pack for Star Wars: The Old Republic, allowing players of the MMORPG to set up swanky digs across the galaxy. Every massively multiplayer online role-playing game needs player housing, if only to keep players from having cybersex in public (sorry, EverQuest players on…

Playstation Plus, Infamous, Metal Gear, Watch Dogs, Titanfall [Deals]

Late in the game yesterday we added a Gamestop coupon that basically grants you 15% off anything (consoles and tablets excluded). It’s a killer deal that we don’t want you to sleep on, so we’re going to outline some suggestions for what to put it toward, and gently nudge you to use it before Gamestop…

​Yup, a Witcher Drawing by Hellboy‘s Creator Makes Perfect Sense

The man responsible for the Right Hand of Doom draws Geralt of Rivia. ‘Tis glorious. It’s a rare thing to see Mike Mignola draw anything other than Hellboy nowadays. So the fact that he’s done an alternate cover for Dark Horse’s Witcher comic is extra special. The series tying into CDProjekt’s popular action/RPG series launches…

PS4 Video Sharing Is Getting Some Big Improvements

The mega-success of Twitch. The popularity of top Let’s Play video creators. Sharing your video game experiences has become an increasingly important part of how folks talk about the stuff they love and hate. So, it was a bit of downer when Sony launched the PS4 with recording and sharing options that presented owners with…

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What an 8-Bit Brawler With Adam Sandler Would Look Like

While the sequel to River City Ransom is still in development, the folks behind the 8-bit Cinema series resurrected the classic NES beat ’em up for a crossover clip with Happy Gilmore, an Adam Sandler movie from 1996. Such a weird combination of classic things. Happy Gilmore – 8 Bit Cinema [CineFix, YouTube] To contact…

It’s Villains Galore in The Newest Amazing Spider-Man 2 Trailer

That is some gorgeous web-swinging, huh? Spider-Man’s arch-nemesis didn’t show up in the first film of the rebooted web-swinging film franchise but someone who looks a whole lot like the Green Goblin appears to be giving Spider-Man hell in this clip. Aside from the Osborns, there’s more scenes with Paul Giamatti in the Rhino mech…

Titanfall For The Xbox 360 Pushed Back Two Weeks

Originally scheduled for release next week, the Xbox 360 version of Respawn Entertainment’s mech shooter has been pushed back to April 8 (April 11 in Europe) to give port developer Bluepoint Games time to make it better. The Titanfall 360 delay news comes from a post on EA.com from EA Studios executive vice president Patrick…