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Adam Orth Is Turning His Personal Disaster Into A Beautiful Game

Adam Orth, one of last year’s most notorious people on the Internet, was nervous last week as he was showing me his new creation: a beautiful, unusual game that he says was borne from his 2013 travails. “This is how I chose to, in the words of a famous philosopher, ‘deal with it,’” he self-consciously…

Watch Dogs Delayed On Wii U

Following rumors, the Wii U version of Watch Dogs has been delayed, Ubisoft announced during their earnings call today. Watch Dogs will be out for PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, and PC this spring—between April and June, Ubisoft says. The Wii U version will come “at a later date.” A few weeks ago, the…

Payday 2 is the latest freebie for PlayStation Plus subscribers. It hits the Instant Game Collection on PSN tomorrow.

Happy Valentine’s Day Week—here is a beautiful new romantic trailer for Final Fantasy X, a video game about an athlete’s illicit love affair with a woman who’s just trying to save the world. The HD remakes of FFX/FFX-2 are out on PS3 and Vita next month.

The Week in Games: Lightning Strikes

The week’s big new packaged release is Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, with a couple of bundles and re-releases arriving with it on Tuesday. The MMO World of Tanks fully launches on Xbox 360 on Wednesday, and The Last of Us gets its prequel, Left Behind, on Valentine’s Day. Here’s the week in games: Tuesday,…

Join the KKK and S–t Your Pants: South Park‘s Achievements Are Awesome

Achievement reveals have lost some of their appeal here over the years. But then I see the list for South Park: The Stick of Truth and I feel compelled to share it. Here’s the very first one, for 15 Gamerscore. “New Kid on the Block: Join the KKK.” “Fling a turd that you created at…

Skullgirls Returns to PlayStation Network on Tuesday

Skullgirls Encore will arrive on PlayStation Network on Tuesday, returning the indie fighter to consoles a month after original publisher Konami pulled its support and removed the game from Xbox Live and PSN. Anyone who bought the original Skullgirls will get Encore for free, though as a completely new game, none of the downloadable content…

Time to go back to the island, Jack. Ubisoft has sent out a release saying that Far Cry Classic—a remastered version of the open-world shooter already announced for Europe—will be heading to the U.S. The publisher says it’ll sport “graphical enhancements, revamped cut-scenes, and a fresh new user interface” and will be a $9.99 digital…

Not only is The LEGO Movie out in theaters today, The LEGO Movie Video Game is out in stores as well. Can the game of the film be as good as the film of the toys? I don’t know, man. My copy just got here. If all else fails, the game comes with a $7.50…

Wow, Elder Scrolls Online Graphics Comparison is Like Night And Day

Sure, the difference between playing the PC version of a game on minimum and maximum settings is a big one. It’s supposed to be. But the gulf between the less-intensive option for The Elder Scrolls Online and the all-of-the-things alternative looks massive. The side-by-side comparison comes courtesy of IGN, who ran the upcoming MMO with…

Call of Duty: Ghosts‘ Onslaught DLC will release for PS4, PS3 and PC on Feb. 27, a month after it launched for Xbox One and Xbox 360.

Strider‘s reboot will release in North America on Feb. 18 for PS4 and PS3 (via PSN) and on Feb. 19 for PC (Steam), Xbox One and Xbox 360 (Xbox Live), Capcom said today. You may see our impressions of the game here

Drakengard 3 Comes To North America In May. Preorder Now Or Else.

All the dragon-riding and hack-and-slashing a growing action role-playing fan needs arrives with Square Enix’s Drakengard 3 for the PlayStation 3 on May 20. Want to see what comes in the collector’s edition? Maybe you should preorder first. Before we worry about expensive collector’s editions, let’s talk about tiered timed preorders. Doesn’t that sound like…

If Dark Souls Were a 16-Bit Platformer

Artist Dave Rapoza took Dark Souls and reimagined it as a 2D platformer from the 16-bit era, and man I can already see that health bar dropping like a fly. Besides Castlevania, it kind of reminds me of the boss fights of ActRaiser on the SNES. Those were the nineties equivalent to Dark Souls‘ more…

The second, concluding episode of BioShock Infinite’s Burial at Sea expansion arrives on March 25. That’s one more visit to the underwater city of Rapture on PS3, Xbox 360 and PC. New crossbow-tastic screenshot for you above.

Murdered: Soul Suspect will be out in June of 2014, Square Enix just announced. PS4, Xbox One, Xbox 360, PS3, PC. It’s like L.A. Noire with ghosts

Watch as Gundam Wing and Gundam SEED Duke It Out

One of my favorite features in Gundam Extreme VS Full Boost is the ability to watch replays of other players’ matches. Thus you can see some of the best players in action and then better your own play-style. Moreover, it’s a golden opportunity to see some of your dream fights; like say, Gundam Wing vs…

The PS3 Game You Have To Play (But Probably Didn’t)

Could you imagine owning a PS2 and never having played Shadow of the Colossus? Or a GTA: Vice City? Ha ha. That’d be dumb. Well, if you have a PS3—if you’re moving into the PS4 era—without having played Puppeteer, you’ve made a big mistake that you need to fix posthaste. Puppeteer is (mostly) a sidescroller.…

Murdered: Soul Suspect is headed to next-gen—Airtight just confirmed an Xbox One version of their upcoming detective game. It’ll also be on 360, PS3, and PC. No word on PS4 yet (but that’s likely coming, or else Microsoft would be touting the exclusivity).

Tonight, system update 1.60 will be hitting the PS4, bringing with it support for several wireless headsets, including the PULSE, the PULSE Elite, and Sony’s newly announced Gold Wireless Headset, which you can check out via the above trailer.