Civilization V‘s Next Expansion—Brave New World—Releases In North America On July 9th

Firaxis today announced at their PAX East panel that the recently announced Civilization V expansion, named Brave New World, will release in North America on July 9th. International gamers can expect to play the expansion on July 12th. Update: Here’s ten minutes of footage from today’s panel—this is everything you need to know about the…

Fuse—the upcoming multiplayer shooter from Insomniac Games—will be coming out on May 28th.

XCOM: Enemy Unknown will get a Mac version on April 25th.

You’ll Soon Be Able To Use XCOM Soldiers In Civilization V [UPDATE: Now with video]

Today Firaxis—the makers of both XCOM: Enemy Unknown and Civilization V—announced that you can research something called the XCOM Project in your game of Civ V What that does is replace what would normally be paratrooper units with actual XCOM soldiers that drop from the Skyranger. Check out what that looks like in the screenshot…

XCOM: Enemy Unknown Is Coming To The iPhone And iPad This Summer [Update: Now With More Info]

Firaxis’ summer is going to be quite busy. They just announced today at their PAX East panel that they’ll be bringing the fantastic strategy game from the PC/consoles over to the iOS platform. They showed off a quick demo of what the game will look like on your palm-friendly device, but we’re told that it’s…

This Is What The First Playable Version Of XCOM: Enemy Unknown Looked Like

Today at Firaxis’ panel at PAX East, the developers showed off the first version of XCOM: Enemy Unknown before it was scrapped for what you played last year. They worked on what you see above for about a year before ditching it.

Now Homeless, the Retro Games Podcast Retronauts Wants Your Kickstarter Money

After the tragic shuttering of 1UP alongside a few other publications last month, the retro games podcast Retronauts found itself without a home. Naturally its hosts, former and slightly-less-recently-former, have turned to Kickstarter to fund its revival. Bob Mackey, Ray Barnholt and Jeremy Parish are asking for $12,000 for equipment and recording space, and in…

If You’re Still Mad About SimCity, At Least You Can Sign This Petition

Their message is clear: What happened with SimCity is not okay. Their demands are simple: Remove the always-online requirement from SimCity and future games. And they are legion. Their change.org petition has almost 75,000 signatures. Who knows if it will have any real-world effects, but at least it’s keeping the dialogue up. That’s what we’re…

Next Mass Effect Will Be Fresh, New and Mostly Made in Montreal

A panel celebrating the recently-concluded Mass Effect trilogy produced scant details and vague teases about the future of the series and its creators at PAX East in Boston today. “We are starting to get ready to develop another Mass Effect game, and it’s going to be a new thing,” series executive producer Casey Hudson said…

Two Thirds of You Played Mass Effect 3 As a Paragon. Mostly as Soldiers.

Most of you who played Mass Effect 3 are just too nice. You were paragons. I was a renegade. Most of you played as a male commander Shepard. I played as a female. But just about all of us cured the genophage. All that and more are detailed in a fascinating batch of Mass Effect…

It looks like the ESRB may have just outed Jak and Daxter HD Collection on PS Vita. [GI]

Dust: An Elysian Tail is Headed to Steam, Possibly as Early as April [UPDATE: Now With More Info]

Dust: An Elysian Tail developers Dean “Noogy” Dodrill and Alex Kain announced during their PAX East panel today that the indie platformer, previously exclusive to Xbox Live Arcade, is on its way to Steam, with a release date possibly as soon as April. The duo also teased Dust 2, though they offered nothing concrete. Dodrill…

This Keeps Getting Better: DuckTales: Remastered Has All the Voice Actors from the Show

As if the news that Capcom is bringing DuckTales back in remastered form wasn’t enough by itself, the publisher revealed on Friday that the entire cast of voice actors from the original show will lend their talent to the new version of the classic platformer. Reads a post by Christian Svensson, Capcom corporate officer and…

Blonde Twins Playing Doctor Who Music On Harps While Teleporting Through A Forest

This performance of the Doctor Who Theme is by Harp Twins Camille and Kennerly, and is a follow-up to their most recent sensation, Blonde Twins Playing Iron Maiden On Harps While Standing In A Ruined Brick Building (h/t Anita)

Canned Food Super Mario Looks Better in 3D

Forgive me for another Super Mario 64 post, but I just had to point out how the career path of Canned Food Super Mario has so closely mirrored that of the real thing. After a couple iterations with minimal graphical improvements, Canned Food Super Mario has finally made the leap to 3D. I think he…

This Week in the Business: ‘I Set Up to be a Negative Profit Enterprise, and I’ve Been Successful.’

What’s happened in the business of video games this past week … QUOTE | “I set up Molleindustria to be a negative profit enterprise and so far I’ve been very successful.”— Paolo Pedercini, creator of anti-NRA game The Best Amendment, talking about how he’s exercising his freedom of speech QUOTE | “10 years from now…

Vin Diesel just wants to be restrained in the latest teaser trailer for the third Chronicles of Riddick movie.

Highlights From PAX East, Including More Super Mario 64 Speed Runs, Are Streaming Live This Weekend

Day one of PAX East is behind us, but don’t fret—there’s still Saturday and Sunday remaining. And even if you’re not in Boston you can watch some of the highlights thanks to Twitch.tv’s two simultaneous streams. In one corner, they’ve got panels, starting with Penny Arcade “Make a Strip” right now. In the other is…

The Moneysaver: 1000 Indie Games On Sale

In a week already bursting with crazy discounts, Steam has announced their Indie Spring Sale, featuring 1000 discounted indie titles. Since indie titles are already typically pretty cheap, we’re talking extremely low barriers to entry here. Given the quality, fun factor, and artistic merit on tap, this is an amazing dollar-to-entertainment ratio. There are also…

15 Minutes of the English Version of Animal Crossing: New Leaf. Let’s Go Swimming!

Tom Nook is no longer the boss of you in the new Animal Crossing: New Leaf, which is coming to the 3DS in North America on June 9. You’re the mayor. You’re in command of this town. Well, somewhat… watch and see. We got a hands-off demo of the new game at PAX East in…