It’s time to opt-in for the impending StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm beta! Blizzard’s got the details

Anonymous Claims PSN Hack Affecting 10 Million Accounts [Update: It’s a Hoax]

Anonymous claims it broke into the PlayStation Network and has a 50 gigabyte database of email accounts and their passwords. Ten million accounts “are at risk,” says the hacker involved. The passwords appear to be encrypted, and many of the accounts published in this document appear to be from northern Europe. This still would be…

Is Valve About To Announce That They’re Making A Movie?

It’s been one hell of a week for Valve rumors, but unlike the silly Half-Life 3 speculation that was floating around yesterday, this one seems plausible. The folks at Lambda Generation have discovered that Valve registered domains for “gamerlifemovie.com” and “gamerlifethemovie.com.” Now this in itself might not be all that interesting—companies register domain names all…

Mass Effect 3‘s ‘Leviathan’ DLC Is Coming August 28

The next piece of single-player DLC for Mass Effect 3 will arrive August 28, BioWare said today It’ll be out for Xbox 360, PC, and PlayStation 3. For more on Leviathan, check out Kirk’s impressions of the upcoming downloadable content.

Dressing Up Like A Slave (Or A Posh Lady) And Whipping Your Enemies In Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation

Last week at Ubisoft, in addition to playing through a big honking naval battle in the full console version of Assassin’s Creed III, I also had a chance to get my hands on its portable Vita counterpart, Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation In the portable game, players take on the role of Aveline de Grandpré, a…

All the Shots Are Impossible in This Teleporting Sci-Fi Basketball Game

Chances are, you’ve played H-O-R-S-E. Maybe the last time you chucked up balls in the make-this-exact same-shot-as-someone-else basketball battle was in high school or a long time ago. But it probably didn’t involve sawblades, teleporters and boost strips. Gasketball takes the playground hoops staple and puts it on iOS devices with a mind-bending sci-fi spin.…

The Makers Of DayZ Want To Put It On Consoles

DayZ on your Xbox? Could happen soon. Dean Hall, project lead on the popular zombie-survival title whose success transformed it from an Arma 2 mod into a full-fledged game, told Joystiq at Gamescom that he wants to bring it to consoles. And he’s meeting with console-makers at the show. “You’re not going to put it…

The Gamescom Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 streaming live multiplayer event has started! Watch it here

Listen To Sleeping Dogs‘ Kung Fu Master Rattle Off Hilarious Insults While You Train

Every time you pick up a statue in the open Hong Kong world of Sleeping Dogs, you can take it to your shifu (or your kung fu master). In exchange for the statue, he’ll teach you a new move to use against your enemies. But he’ll also insult your practice while you do so. Even…

Michael Jordan and the Dream Team Meet the 2012 Gold Medalists in NBA 2K13

When Kobe Bryant hypothesized that the 2012 U.S. Men’s Basketball Team would beat the 1992 squad—the original Dream Team—Michael Jordan just laughed. Charles Barkley said only three players from the current team could have cracked their roster. Video gamers can settle it for themselves this October when both squads, in their United States Olympic uniforms,…

This is Call of Duty‘s New Class Selection In Board Game Form

You can read about how Call of Duty: Black Ops II changes multiplayer class-selection with the introduction of a pick-10 system. It’s all explained right here. Or you can just stare at this board game prototype of the system from the creators of the game. The only thing that would make this better is if…

Wow, The New Achievements For Final Fantasy VII Sure Are Boring

When I heard that the PC re-release of Final Fantasy VII—which came out yesterday—would have achievements, I thought maybe we’d see some cool challenges. Maybe they’d have a sense of humor. Or ask you to do crazy things, like beat the game with no materia or solo Ruby Weapon. But no. These achievements are just…

My Favorite New Skylander is the Most Human. Also, She Throws Narwhals.

Once the sworn protector of the SnowQueen, Chill lost her charge to the Cyclopean forces and has been attempting to atone for her failure ever since. She is a pink-skinned humanoid awash in a world of colorful creatures and towering giants. I identify with her. Her fragility. Her humanity. Her ability to toss horned arctic…

Challenge Your Friends to Kill with Hitman‘s Contracts Mode

Unveiled this week at Gamescom in Germany, Hitman: Absolution‘s Contracts Mode gives players the power to create their own kill scenarios, challenging the world to be the best murder-for-hire technician they can be. It’s Play-Create-Kill! Contracts Mode adds user-generated content to the Hitman franchise, ensuring that players will have plenty to do long after the…

The Last Story Is One Of The Best RPGs I’ve Played In Years

Lost among this week’s barrage of awesome new video games is The Last Story, a role-playing game that’s slipped pretty damn far under gamers’ radars considering it was designed and directed by the man who created Final Fantasy You might be tempted to ignore this one. It’s for Wii. You probably haven’t touched yours in…

Command & Conquer Generals 2 Transformed Into a Triple-A Free-to-Play

Another day, another storied video game franchise going free-to-play. This time, it’s Command & Conquer, with the revered real-time strategy getting an all-new iteration powered by DICE’s Frostbite 2 engine. Well, all new to a point. This is actually the Command & Conquer: Generals 2 that was announced last December as BioWare’s next big project,…

Surely There’s Some Sort of Controversy Lurking in These New Tomb Raider Screens

There is absolutely nothing sexist, misogynistic or otherwise controversial about these Gamescom screens for Tomb Raider, so we’re going to have to make up our own. Oh my god, Lara Croft is helping that hardened killer execute that woman! Doesn’t work? Okay, let’s see if there’s anything else we can use here. Oh my god,…

Half-Life Fans Trolled By Keyboard Company

Mad Catz revealed yesterday the company’s latest, fanciest keyboard to date: the S.T.R.I.K.E. 7. It’s… certainly something, but that’s not why we’re here today. Today, we’re here for shits and giggles. A trailer put out by Mad Catz for the upcoming peripheral shows its weird little app screen with predictable stuff like World of Warcraft…

This Horse Will Push You (and Video Games) to the Limit

Horse mods are nothing new to Grand Theft Auto. Heck, GTA: San Andreas had one. And yes, we already know that GTAIV has a horse mod. But now, let’s push it to the limit. Giddy up!

The Last Guardian Is Still a PS3 Game

Even though Sony recently “abandoned” its Last Guardian trademark, that means nothing. Work on the game, Sony and its creator say, continues. But does it continue to be for the PlayStation 3? When asked if the game was going to be released on the PlayStation 4, Sony’s Shuhei Yoshida insisted that the game is a…