Indie Developers Say Hackers Robbed Them To Buy Three PS4s

A group of game developers in Austria say someone figured out the password to their PayPal account and used it to buy themselves a bunch of new PlayStation 4s. The folks at Broken Rules, perhaps best known for the recent Wii U game Chasing Aurora, are in the middle of a crowdfunding campaign for their…

How To Choose The Best Hard Drive Upgrade For Your PS4

Swapping in a new hard drive into the PS4 is relatively easy—the question is, what sort of hard drive should you swap in? You’ve got SSDs, which are speedy—but also expensive. And then you have hybrid drives to consider, too. This video by Tested runs speed tests between all three drives, from boot up times…

Playstation 4 Games Join Amazon PSN Store Promo, The Wire [Deals]

A few days ago Amazon celebrated the opening of their Playstation Network store by providing customers who purchased select PS3 titles with a bonus $5 PSN credit. Now they’ve made the deal even sweeter by making a selection of Playstation 4 games eligible for that promo, effectively creating deals on new release games like Knack.…

It’s a little early for Zelda 3DS XL bundles, Walmart. Spotted last night by me at the Walmart on Mansell Road in Roswell, Georgia, Nintendo’s gold, Triforce-emblazoned 3DS Xl The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds bundle was available for purchase several days in advance of Friday’s game release. Yet they still don’t have…

Heist Nabs 58 Xbox Ones More Than a Week Before Launch

The PlayStation 4 had two day-one robberies in the same city, but the clear winner in next-generation crime has to be the Xbox One. Fifty-eight of the consoles were stolen—and stolen a week ago—in Memphis, Tenn., where one unlucky customer has just been arrested. WMCT-TV reports that a 31-year-old Memphis man is facing charges of…

Xbox One Has No Built-In Livestream Option At Launch, But It’s Coming

Xbox One gamers will not be able to upload video to Twitch.tv at launch, Microsoft said this morning. The lack of support leaves Xbox One users without the ability to broadcast live gameplay natively from the console. “Our goal is to deliver it during the first part of 2014,” Microsoft said in the news story.…

Welcome To The X-Men, Jubilee. You’re Fired.

Now that Wolverine’s been fired from the X-Men, there’s no real reason to keep his stupid fireworks-making, stuck-in-the-90s, mall-babe-eating-chili-fries sidekick on the payroll. We’ve been waiting for this one, Jubilee. In current Marvel comics continuity, Jubilee has become the mother of a rescued infant, the latest in a long line of attempts to give the…

Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: Who dislikes FPSes? TheUnfathomableTruth does and the explanation—a response to DocSeuss’ Why I Can’t Stand 2D Games—is right here. JJthe Texan takes a hard look at the Wii U, calling it an unwanted console. Harsh, dude. The Mushroom Kingdom’s dangerous flora and fauna get visual…

​You’ll Be Able to Share Xbox One Game Clips Wherever You Want

Seems like this is the generation where game recording becomes a required feature for consoles. Both the PS4 and Xbox One have the capability to save and share gameplay clips but there’s one big difference: users will be able to share Xbox One gameplay clips all over the web, including YouTube. Microsoft’s new game console…

If Disney Princesses Were Final Fantasy Characters …

We’ve seen classic Disney heroines as Street Fighter characters, but they’d make an even more outstanding and complete party as Final Fantasy characters, with all the essential jobs assigned to them. Digital artist Geryes took the most iconic Disney princesses, and reimagined them with belts and zippers, as if it were designed by Tetsuya Nomura…

Kingdom Under Fire II Is Still on the Way. Honest!

RTS-MMO hybrid Kingdom Under Fire II has been in development for a long time. A long, long time. So long, in fact, that some people might be giving up hope—well, don’t. We’ve got some news for you. At South Korea’s G-Star gaming convention, Korean news site inven (via tipster Sang) managed to snag an interview…

The PS4 Isn’t the Only New Console Sony Released Last Week

Last week, Sony released the PlayStation 4 in the Western world, but that wasn’t the only PlayStation console to make its debut in stores. Japanese consumers this past week saw the release of Sony’s new micro-console, the PlayStation Vita TV. The Vita TV is basically a home console version of the Vita. Instead of a…

Oh, It’s Just a Chinese Building Shaped Like a Cell Phone

It’s not everyday you get to see a building that’s shaped like a cell phone. You do today, though. Lucky you! This building is located in the city of Kunming in Yunnan Province, China. The cell phone structure is quick becoming a landmark in Kunming, reports Chinese site CRI. Probably because it calls for lots…

The Nintendo 2DS is being released in South Korea on December 7. So far, it’s only been sold in the West. Wonder what country is next…

Watch Us Strip Vampires for Fun and Profit

Last week, we showed you one side of the PS3/Vita title Akiba’s Trip 2: its faithful reconstruction of otaku mecca Akihabara. Today we’re going to look at the other side of the game. So watch us as we strip vampires, expose them to lethal amounts of sunlight, and then loot their corpses. Akiba’s Trip 2…

“I feel terribly sorry that I have kept my audience waiting for such a long time.” Fumito Ueda, creator of Ico and Shadow of the Colossus, talking to Edge about The Last Guardian and its various delays