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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,…

What No Man’s Sky Is

“What does sci-fi mean to you?” I was asking Sean Murray, the managing director and founder of Hello Games, this question. He’s one of a small team of developers working on the game that had everyone buzzing at E3 this year. “That’s a really good question,” Murray said to me during an interview in a…

Watch the Metal Gear Solid V PS4 Demo Right Here

Have I kept you waiting? Probably not. But Hideo Kojima most certainly has. The Metal Gear Solid creator is showing off the MGSV: The Phantom Pain PlayStation 4 demo in this latest episode of Kojima Station. The thirty minute demo, which is similar to what was shown at E3, can be seen below: Update: The…

How A Seemingly Impossible Game Is Possible

× If there’s one comment louder than all the praise that No Man’s Sky has been getting, it’s got to be something along the lines of, “Wow, how is that even possible?” Questions like that confuse Sean Murray and David Ream, managing director/founder and creative director of No Man’s Sky developer Hello Games, respectively. For…

Watch Dogs Patch Promises Fixes for PlayStation, Xbox, PC Players

Watch Dogs ‘ first major patch is coming soon, says publisher Ubisoft. As soon as next week, players on various platforms will see improvements in the way the hit game looks and plays. Details on the patch appeared the company’s support forums today, listing fixes for players on PlayStation, Xbox and PC platforms. The update…

An Early Access Program For Xbox or PlayStation? Maybe.

As popular as Steam’s Early Access program is for PC games, you’d think one of the big consoles might have a plan of their own to let gamers regularly pay for and play games before they’re finished. They don’t, but from what two top people at Sony and Microsoft told me, they’re at least thinking…

The PS4 Now Supports Pre-Loading

You’ll now be able to download and install many digital PS4 games before they come out—like you can on the PC—thanks to a new pre-loading plan that Sony just announced You won’t be able to play those games until their release dates, of course. But if you know you’re going to buy a game, and…

Xbox Japan’s Tweet From Last Week Seems Pretty Embarrassing

Japan has never been an easy climb for Microsoft’s game console. Xbox Japan never seems to catch a break. And this recent E3 tweet shows exactly why. The tweet from Xbox Japan’s official account reads: “Here is the photo spot for Destiny, the latest FPS made by Bungie of Halo fame.” Less than a week…

Missing PS4 Features Still Coming, Sony Says

Way back in February of 2013, Sony indicated that the PS4 gamers would be able to put their console in sleep mode while playing a game and briskly return to it later. They also said that gamers could enlist a friend to take over a game via the Internet from another PS4. The PS4 currently…