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We were so intrigued by the World War I adventure game Valiant Hearts that we reviewed it twice. Sort of. Luke reviewed it for us last week. Stephen (that’s me!) just reviewed it for The New York Times. Read the latter review here if you didn’t already pick up the paper.

BioWare’s First Gay Male Party Member Debuts In Dragon Age Inquisition

BioWare has been hooking up players with non-player character party members in its games for more than a decade, but there’s not been a strictly male-seeking-male option available until Dragon Age Inquisition‘s Dorian. In a character profile recently posted to the Dragon Age Inquisition website (via Eurogamer), writer David Gaider discussed the sexuality of the…

No Man’s Sky Won’t End When You Reach the Center of the Universe

There’ll be more to do when you get to the nexus of the cosmos in No Man’s Sky. This video on Hello Games’ hotly anticipated sci-fi game tells the story of how No Man’s Sky was born and what the dev studio wants to achieve with their ambitious procedurally generated galaxy.

Artist Flavio Bolla did a pretty neat paint of Kalm and its mini-reactor, which is the first town we visit in Final Fantasy VII, once leaving Midgar. This was the town where nothing really happened besides gearing up and watching Cloud’s extra-long, 30-minute flashback. Final Fantasy VII – Kalm by flaviobolla [DeviantART, via TheCyberWolf] Dayshot…

​A Great Reminder of Why We Need to Keep Classic Games Alive

Almost everything we love about modern video game owes a huge debt to Another World. So, it’s a boon that people playing on the Xbox Ones and PS4s of today can experience what made this proto-indie adventure a classic. Elegant world-building. Storytelling quirks unique to the medium. Beautifully naturalistic animation. Proper use of cinematic influences.…

Assassin’s Creed Unity Is Bringing Back The Series’ Greatest Experiment

Here we go again. Another Assassin’s Creed that I’m excited about. Why this one? Well, oddly enough, because the game seems like a successor to the under-appreciated Assassin’s Creed Revelations. Do you want your Assassin’s Creed to feel like a giant chemistry set again? A big, historical opportunity to tinker with vast crowds and see…

An octopus cooking for you? Must mean that there’s new DLC coming for Octodad: Dadliest Catch Coming later this summer, the Shorts add-on (because, y’know, it’s hot) will be free and features new levels where you’ll need to pretend that an eight-armed underwater creature is a just a normal ol’ human father.

The Biggest Obstacle in Hotaru no Nikki is You

When I first saw the promotional video for Nippon Ichi software’s upcoming game, Hotaru no Nikki, I was instantly captivated by the overall aesthetic. It had the feel of a game like Ico, but with less action. And that’s pretty much what I got. Good – Atmospheric Hotaru no Nikki is atmospheric as hell. The…

Hell Yes, I Want to Destroy Cities as Godzilla

I still haven’t seen the movie, thanks to Japan being one of the last areas to premiere Godzilla in theaters, but I hope it’s even half as awesome as the monster lizard’s latest upcoming game looks. Slated for release this Winter from developer Bandai Namco, in Godzilla players will control the iconic unstoppable destructive force…

Electric Lady: Here’s some spiffy new concept art of Fetch, the star of the PS4’s upcoming Infamous: First Light.

Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes Done Perfectly in Under Four Minutes

This is how Snake would handle things in real life. It’s a 3:54.870 run, to be exact, with an S Rank, so that means Mimalmo didn’t really make any mistakes and managed to finish the game perfectly. He says it’s the world record for an S Rank run, and while there are faster runs out…

Why Mortal Kombat X Is So Gory

If you, like me, were in the front few rows of Sony’s E3 press conference when they showed off Mortal Kombat X on stage, you would also have been deafened by the loud cheers of excited gamers. They were oohing and aahing at decapitations and exposed organs and lost limbs. This isn’t new for a…

I Ship It: Resogun has a new ship editor, and people are making lots of cool things with it—everything from Flappy Bird to Mario. And yes, there are of course penis-shaped ships. Because of course there are.

I Hate The PlayStation iOS App

More than week ago, I got codes for the PlayStation Now beta and the Destiny Alpha. So, I opened up the PlayStation app on my iPhone to redeem them, only to be quickly reminded how bad the app is. It may sound weird but code redemption is the main reason I installed the PlayStation iOS…

Before It Was Revealed, No Man’s Sky Had Some Skeptics

During the first year of No Man’s Sky‘s development, not even half of the Hello Games studio knew what a team of their four developers were working on. I spoke to Sean Murray, managing director and Hello Games founder, in an interview at E3 in Los Angeles two weeks ago when he told me this…

PlayStation Now Prices Are Currently Insane

Sony has added prices to the beta for their PlayStation Now streaming service, and though these are experimental numbers—it’s a beta, after all—the current prices are insane What’s more, as of right now, PS Now beta testers actually have to pay to play games. If I want to test out the service, I have to…

​Ok, Let’s Try and Figure Out What This Fourth Person Game Is

You might’ve seen a look at Pavilion—the PlayStation exclusive calling itself a fourth-person game—a few times before. It’s tough to parse exactly what’s going on in the indie puzzle creation, even with a new trailer. The best new clue comes from a really weird, really obscure Pac-Man game, where the iconic character goes a little…

12 Great Techniques For Dark Souls II‘s Multiplayer

Beating bosses in Dark Souls II can be frustrating if you’re a beginner, and playing against others is no different. Juutas on YouTube has a surprisingly well-edited clip, mostly for beginners, showing and explaining 12 techniques that are often used during PvP invasions. Here’s the full clip. Don’t let the Xbox 360 controller confuse you,…

Velocity 2X Makes My Brain Hurt (in a Good Way)

Did you play Velocity or Velocity Ultra on Vita? You should – right at the end of the PSP’s life and at the beginning of the Vita’s, Brighton-based studio Futurlab came up with a compact but complex arcade space-shooter that was both nostalgic in its aesthetic and inspirations and playfully modern in its mechanics. This…

Metal Gear Solid V Is Full Of Silly Moments

The 30-minute gameplay demo of Metal Gear Solid V Kojima finally showed us in his podcast wasn’t just about hiding behind corners and riding around the desert. If you watched carefully, you could have spotted all the little details and jokes that are so typical to the series. And new ones as well. For example,…