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One Year Later, Did Microsoft Keep Their E3 2013 Promises?

E3 is a-comin’. Next week, great gaming companies will take to the stage to show off all kinds of games and make all kinds of promises, as they did in the past. Like last year, for example. Let’s look at what Microsoft told us at their 2013 briefing. After the somewhat unfocused reveal of the…

The Next Homefront Game Is Set In A Future Philadelphia

Crytek has finally revealed what it’s doing with Homefront, THQ’s last stab at a big-budget shooter: it’s turning it into a free-roaming guerilla warfare FPS. On first impressions, it’s like Homefront meets Far Cry, set in a future Philadelphia dotted with encampments of Korean occupying forces to be photographed with smartphone cameras and disrupted with…

LeVar Burton Wants To Bring Reading Rainbow To Game Consoles

By now you’ve probably seen the extraordinarily successful Kickstarter campaign for Reading Rainbow, the TV show hosted actor LeVar Burton that helps teach kids to love reading books. They’ve already raised $2.8 million for the project, which hopes to bring the show to children everywhere. Naturally, they want to make more money. And one of…

Microsoft Sure Wants Folks to Find Ryse‘s Five-Month-Old Easter Eggs

Are you still playing Ryse, the Xbox One launch game where you play as a gladiator in ancient Rome? Notice any bizarre unexplained happenings in the background, like nude dancing ladies? That might just be one of Ryse‘s weird easter eggs. Nine surprises have been embedded in the Crytek-developed combat drama. So far, Microsoft says…

Ex-PlayStation Chief Jack Tretton To Analyze All Of E3 2014’s Big Shows

Well, this should be interesting. Jack Tretton, the former boss for all of PlayStation’s business in America and the man who led numerous E3 PlayStation press conferences—including last year’s thunderous one—will be spending E3 2014 press conference day talking about Sony’s, EA’s, Ubisoft’s and even Microsoft’s grand stage shows. That news comes from Geoff Keighley,…

Meet The Shadow of Mordor Enemy I Couldn’t Kill

No two players’ experience will be the same in the upcoming Lord of the Rings game, Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor. In a recent preview, I explained how that is and how the Nemesis system fits into that. If you missed it, you can use the Nemesis system to target various warchiefs and have their bodyguards…

Xbox One Review Update: Six Months Later

Last November, Microsoft released the Xbox One. Six months later, the console has gotten a bunch more games and a hefty software upgrade. Microsoft has also decided to sell the Xbox One without the Kinect sensor. Halfway through its first year on planet earth, it’s time to revisit our evaluation of the Xbox One. Last…

State of Decay‘s New DLC Is Out This Week

Let’s see if combat boots and camouflage make surviving a zombie apocalypse any easier. Already previewed back in April, State of Decay‘s Lifeline expansion hits on May 30th, bringing with it a new location, character and objectives. It’ll cost $6.99.

Report: Next Battlefield Game Is Cops Versus Robbers

The next entry in EA’s premiere shooter franchise—coming for last- and current-gen platforms—will reportedly be called Battlefield: Hardline. The 2014 release will put players in the middle of armed conflict where it will be cops and criminals fighting each other. Eurogamer rounds up various bits of information about Hardline, which have popped up on EA…

The Evil Within Made Me Want To Throw Up

At some point, something happened and I stopped liking roller coasters. This was news to me. I used to love them as a kid. I was the first one running back down and around to the back of the line to ride them again. Now my stomach lurches and my neck feels uncomfortable and I’m…

Lego Batman 3 Is Here, And He’s Going Into Space

Here’s your first look at Traveller’s Tales’ third brick-based Batman. The latest in the series builds on the suits of the last installment but takes the action into space, including some very Resogun-like shooting sections – ironically with a less blocky appearance than the original source. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK The sections…

Gears of War Is Still My Favorite Shooter

Francis is the closest thing to a hardcore gamer I have in my life. He’s the kind of guy that bought a DualShock 4 controller on a lunch break before the PlayStation 4 had come out just so he could hold it. Buying the PS4 over the Xbox One was a calculated decision he can…

​World War I Game Is… Pretty

Used to be that we’d get loads of war games based on World War II. Despite being an ugly conflict full of large-scale action and human drama, World War I never got as much consideration from video game creators. Valiant Hearts is going there, and it’s going to look damned pretty in doing so. We…

Minecraft Comes To Xbox One, PS4 and Vita This August

And if you already have a last-gen version of the hit construction adventure game, the new-gen upgrade will cost only $5. For those who don’t own the preceding console ports, the full cost of PS4 and Xbox One Minecraft will be $20. The new-gen versions will support bigger worlds and save transfers but there are…

The Metro Games Are Coming To PS4 And Xbox One

4A Games’ grim post-apocalyptic shooters are finally getting the next-gen treatment they deserve with Metro Redux, series publisher Deep Silver announced today. Redux features re-mastered and updated versions of Metro 2033 and Metro: Last Light and is coming out for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles. They’ll also come to PC for any gamers…

The Xbox Ones That Never Were

Microsoft’s product design process is best described as formidable. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK Over the past few years, during which the Xbox One was being designed and prototyped, the company has made huge investment in “user research” – essentially, giant labs where they can watch people play with and respond to things…

The New LOTR Game Made Me Fight Dirty

Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor is a revenge story. Sauron has returned to Mordor and a mystery wraith with a grudge has resurrected you to kill him. But from everything I played in a recent demo, it seems like the orcs and other creatures of Mordor should want revenge against me. In the roughly one hour…

Evolve will release on October 21 this year for PC, Xbox One and PS4. 2K and Turtle Rock Studios also revealed four new playable hunters, which you can read my impressions of here

Evolve Feels Different Every Time I Play It

I have played roughly six rounds of Evolve and it’s been a different experience every time. By now many of you get the basic premise: Evolve is a cooperative multiplayer first-person shooter. You play either as one of four humans on a team of hunters going up against a fifth player, the monster. Last week…

Consoles Are A Lot Prettier When They’re Made With Wood

The dream of boutique video game consoles has been alive for a while now. But has wood paneling ever looked this good on a PlayStation 4? This Balolo cover certainly puts last year’s attempt to shame. Check out more of Balolo’s work for the PS4 and Xbox One below. If you like what you see,…