Black Flag, Battlefield 4, Arkham Origins, LIVE Gold, Deus Ex [Deals]

What do recent and imminent releases Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, Battlefield 4, and Batman: Arkham Origins have in common? We’ve got deals on all of them. More exciting though is our brand new, all-encompassing, always up to date guide to pre-order discounts. Bookmark once, save forever. Here are some highlights: Arkham Origins [Steam] |…

Gamers More Numb to Pain, Others’ Misery, Say Scientists

I’m not sure what to make of this study, by researchers in Germany and Australia. On a literal level, RPG gamers are better than others at fishing paper clips out of a container of ice-cold water. Scientists think that means they’re desensitized either to pain or, going further, important life events, even. The study, recently…

Ryse is Gonna Beat the Truth Out of You. Or Stab It, Whatever Works.

If Ryse’s main character, Marius Titus, is on a truth-finding mission, as this live-action trailer for the Xbox One game suggests, then he has a rather confrontational approach to conducting an inquiry. No, I think this is more a sword-and-sandals tale of vengeance. Come on, once he confronts Nero (or whoever that is at the…

Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: Rathorial offers high praise to Red Faction Underground as a Last-Gen Hero, noting how it let the player controller the pace of the story. This outgoing generation’s greatest RPG? It’s Mass Effect 2, according to Cimeas. And 999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors gets…

The Walking Dead: Season Two will be revealed tomorrow, if this teaser from Telltale Games’ Twitter is any indication. Looks like Clementine is again the focus of the story. Expect news at 3 p.m. EDT. Telltale had earlier said a new season was due for this fall.

In GTA Online, It’s Never a Good Idea to Get in a stranger’s Car. Weird things happen in the virtual version of Grand Theft Auto Online. So, yes: people may not think twice when it comes to getting into a car that a stranger just drives up and gets out of. Stay safe out there.…

PC game capture and streaming built right in. The latest version of Nvidia’s Geforce Experience launches today, adding ShadowPlay game footage capture and streaming that uses the built-in video encoder on every GTX graphics chip to take the weight off of the CPU. Check out the Batman: Arkham Origins gameplay we capped with it over…

Now Nvidia’s Shield Is A Set-Top PC Game Streaming Machine

Starting today, Nvidia’s Shield Android gaming console adds the ability to stream gameplay from a gaming PC to your television set. It’s incredibly cool. Want to see? The coolest feature of the Nvidia Shield Android gaming handheld was the ability to stream PC gameplay directly to the handheld from any gaming rig equipped with a…

Happy Monday! Well…OK, Monday sucks. But here’s some cool stuff to get your morning started on a slightly-less-sucky footing. Fans Trash Call Of Duty Booth At Games Expo So People Are Cosplaying As Screenshots Now Nintendo, Steal This SNES Paint Scheme And Sell It, Please Street Fighter II Facts That May Blow Your Mind…

In this iOS Game, You Beat Up Hentai Characters

Has it come to this? I guess it has! In iOS game Punishment Punch Girl, your job is to dish out a beating to pervs. Noritaka Funamizu, who designed and co-designed several Street Fighter games, oversaw the development of Punishment Punch Girl. So, this iOS game does have a pedigree. 女子高生に××されちゃうヘンタイが大集合 [Famitsu via Siliconera] To…

Unseen Tetsuya Nomura Sketches From the 1990s

These days Square Enix’s Tetsuya Nomura busies himself with Final Fantasy XV and Kingdom Hearts III. But let’s take a look back in time, before he was the famous game designer he is today. Takashi Aki, who worked as a planner on Final Fantasy V and FFVI, was recently cleaning up and discovered a handful…

The PlayStation 4 has a day-one patch when it goes on sale on November 15 in the West. However, when it launches in Japan next February, the console will come with the patch pre-loaded on the console.

See What An Xbox One Dashboard (Might) Look Like In Action

This video could have been great. It shows the kind of thing a prospective buyer of a brand new console wants to see: menus, commands, switching between programs. The nuts and bolts of your every day experience. It’s a shame, then, that Microsoft decided to take such a “real” premise and make a staged advertisement…

Street Fighter II Facts That May Blow Your Mind…

Street Fighter II was an important video game. It was one of the very first video games I ever fell in love with, and I know I’m not alone. So many of us just have the tiniest details of Street Fighter II embedded in our consciousness. That’s what makes the Twitter feed of Akira Nishitani…