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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…

Have a PS4? Never played classic adventure platformer Another World? You can change that starting next week when Eric Chahi’s beloved 1991 title hits Sony’s latest console

Watch Me Take Down Two Bosses In Destiny

It’s hard to get much done in Destiny as a lowly level eight, but that’s what friends are for. Bungie’s soon-to-be-released next shooter is, after all, all about interacting in a shared world. I spent somewhere under 10 hours playing through Destiny‘s alpha build, exploring Russia, playing a few steps through the main storyline, listening…

Given that they’re bundling it with The Lego Movie Video Game, it’s no big surprise that Sony expects the new PlayStation TV for the young ones. “We think it primarily will appeal to 6-12-year old kids—with families who like to play together in a local co-op way,” Sony VP John Koller told us at E3.…

​GTA V Looks Better On PS4—Or At Least The Trailer Does

Now that the inevitable has happened and versions of Grand Theft Auto V for PS4, PC and Xbox One have been announced, it’s time to discuss what’s on everybody’s minds: how’s the 2014 version going to look? Pretty good if the trailers are any indication. Digital Foundry spliced together footage from last year’s GTA V…

Peter Dinklage’s Destiny Performance Is…Not Great

We were all pretty excited when Bungie announced that their much-hyped multiplayer shooter Destiny would feature beloved actor Peter Dinklage, best known for his show-stealing portrayal of Tyrion Lannister on Game of Thrones, in a large voiceover role. For the past week or so, Bungie has been running an early-look alpha of Destiny, which gave…

How The Alien In Alien: Isolation Works

The best kind of horror game doesn’t need any guns. It doesn’t need to scare you with difficult enemy encounters and shock value. Sometimes, silence is scarier than all of that. That’s a lot of what Alien: Isolation is about. Creeping through dark hallways of a mostly-abandoned space station called Sevostopol, you have to try…

​Destiny Alpha Gets ‘Dangerous’ Extension

The alpha test phase of Bungie’s ambitious new sci-fi shooter was supposed to end last night, somewhere around 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time. It didn’t. That means that, yes, you can still play Destiny right now. That’s a reason to dance, right? In a tweet early Monday morning, the studio that created Halo announced that it…

How You’ll Play Far Cry 4 With Friends Who Don’t Own It

One of the big surprises at this week’s Sony E3 press conference was the announcement that PlayStation console owners would be able to share Far Cry 4 for multiplayer co-op with friends who don’t own the game. How’s it’s going to work? Well, for starters, it sounds like you’re going to need a lot of…

The Moment That Defined E3 For Me

There’s a PlayStation mural outside of E3. It features PS mainstays in boats, a parody of this George Washington painting. I was picking out who was who with a friend. “It’s Infamous guy! It’s Claire from Resident Evil! It’s… a basketball player!” Then a security guard walked up. “I only recognize one of those characters,”…

​Payday 2 Coming to Xbox One, PS4

The super-popular criminal heist game is making its way to Microsoft and Sony’s newest video game consoles. During a livestream session on Twitch showing off the upcoming Big Bank expansion, members of the Overkill developer studio confirmed an earlier tweet that said that the team-based co-op shooter would be going next-gen. No time frame was…

​Five Things BioWare Wants You To Know About The Next Dragon Age

If I had to explain what BioWare’s RPG, Dragon Age, is all about, I’d easily cram it all into one word: relationships. But that’s my personal experience, and I’m not developing Dragon Age: Inquisition, so I couldn’t tell you what the next Dragon Age will be all about. BioWare’s executive producer, Mark Darrah, however, can.…

Sony: Nearly A Third of PS4 Owners Only Had a Wii or Xbox 360 Last Gen

Some 31% of people who have bought a PlayStation 4 had an Xbox 360 or Wii but not a PS3 in the last hardware generation, PlayStation’s American VP of marketing John Koller told me in an interview here at L.A. this week. That’s a decent amount of people making a switch to Team PlayStation and/or…