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Sony sold 4.2 million PlayStation 4s as of Dec. 28, Andrew House, the president of Sony Computer Entertainment, said at CES today. Microsoft announced yesterday it had sold 3 million Xbox Ones in 2013.

Here’s The New Game From The Left 4 Dead Creators

Evolve survived the destruction of THQ one year ago and now the game is ready for a closeup. Game Informer’s cover subject is the co-operative/competitive shooter, which sounds kinda like, yep, something from Left 4 Dead, for which Turtle Rock Studios is best known. The game will release this fall for PC, Xbox One and…

The Biggest Alien in an Alien Game Stalks You in Isolation

The largest alien in an Alien video game is in Alien: Isolation, and it’s the only one you’ll face in the upcoming survival horror game from Creative Assembly. This looks like one of those games that will kill me about eleventy-billion times during the course of finishing it. So, get used to seeing a lot…

Watch Us Play Madoka Magica: The Battle Pentagram

Late last month, Japan got a new Madoka Magica game: Madoka Magica: The Battle Pentagram for the Vita. Half visual novel and half 3D brawler, The Battle Pentagram gives fans of the anime a new original story with the popular cast of magical girls. But how does it look in action? Watch us play in…

First Peek Inside Japan’s Dark Souls Cafe

Last December, From Software announced it was rolling out a Dark Souls themed cafe. Yesterday, it opened in Tokyo. Let’s have a look inside. The Dark Souls Cafe is a collaboration between the game’s developer and Australian-themed eatery OZ Cafe. It’s for a limited time only, serving Dark Souls themed food and drink and plastered…

The Bear Hat Makes This Skyrim Cosplay Flawless

A redguard adventurer in nord carved armor from Skyrim, as described by its maker, fevereon. You can tell how incredibly well-made the whole set is by just looking at the bear helmet. Here are more photos showing off the gauntlets and the bow that are also 100% scretchbuild: The photos were taken during MomoCon, and…

The Week in Games: 2014’s First Cut

Video gaming new releases are still deep in hibernation but there are a couple of notable titles coming this week. Let’s also look ahead through the next couple of months to see what else is on the way. Here’s the—uh, well, it’s a span of time, in games. Tuesday, Jan. 7 Don’t Starve (PS4) Thursday,…

How The Number Of Cosmetics Items In Team Fortress 2 Doubled In 2013

Team Fortress 2 is primarly a hat simulator with FPS elements, and not the other way round. If you ever wondered how frequently new cosmetic items—anything that has no effect on gameplay—were added to the game, we have just the source. -Josh, a curious user on the game’s subreddit, complied a detailed graph of all…

Sony Patent Aims To Add New Challenges To Emulated Classics

Streaming emulated classics to a video game console from the cloud is neat. Adding new challenges not present in those streaming classics? That’s awesome. It’s also the idea behind a recently revealed patent filed by Sony. Originally filed in late June of 2012, just as Sony was purchasing streaming game technology company Gaikai, the “Suspending…

Yakuza‘s Producer May Hate GTA, But He Certainly Respects It

Yakuza series producer Toshihiro Nagoshi has previously stated that he hates Grand Theft Auto. You wouldn’t think so when he was asked which one of last year’s games impressed him the most. Japanese gaming blog 4Gamer recently asked 151 game developers this question: “Of games released in 2013, what title impressed/amazed you the most?” Among…

Activision’s Marvel Games Pull A Digital Disappearing Act

You laughed at Deadpool, X-Men Destiny, Spider-Man: Edge of Time and Activision’s other sloppy Marvel games. Bet you feel bad now that they’ve all been pulled from Steam, Xbox Live and PlayStation Network. Or not. Either way, they’re gone. Nothing lasts forever, especially Activision contracts for Marvel games, as evidenced by 2010’s disappearance of Marvel…

A taste of the new Carmageddon‘s car physics According to Stephen Rushbrook of Stainless Games, the suspension is “entirely physics-driven—you can rip off the tires, the wheels, hub, drive shafts, wishbones independently, and what’s left will still work. Ripped-off parts will spin, hinge and flex as you’d expect”

Over the holidays, the fan group working on translating Valkyria Chronicles 3 into English have finally released their work. If you own a Japanese copy of the game, you can download the patch and read the tutorial on how to apply it on the project’s official blog-slash-homepage here

Japan’s First PS4 Commercial Twists the Knife in a Rather Mean Way

“Look at all these people, having fun with their PS4s,” the ad seems to say “Sure would be nice to get some of that action, huh?” While I’m sure Sony Japan’s intention wasn’t to torture people—even the caption reads “The world will be united with play,” which shows their heart was in the right place—still……

Everything Freezes In Batman: Arkham Origins‘ Story DLC

A giant diamond, some ice crystals, and an invitation to an awards gala at Wayne Manor? Sounds like Batman: Arkham Origins‘ upcoming story DLC is going to be one cool party. Does the Ice Man cometh? The Batman Arkham Twitter account promised a surprise for New Years’ Day, and this looks to have been it.…

If You Combined Battlefield and Forza‘s Outrages, You’d Have NBA 2K14

Earlier this afternoon, 2K Sports’ Ronnie Singh—Ronnie2K on Twitter—gave everyone playing NBA 2K14 a code for a special pre-game player animation as a make-good for the online troubles that paralyzed the game this weekend. Naturally, when I went to enter the code on my PlayStation 4, 2K’s servers were down. It’s another letdown in what…

Yup, This Is Still The World’s Most Attractive Racing Game

At this point, I’m convinced that Project CARS isn’t actually a racing game. It’s a playable art installation that lets you take pretty pictures of cars. And things other than cars. I mean, shit, look at this: It’s grass. From a racing game. I’m looking at grass from the side of the road from a…

Sports Video Games in 2013: A Year in Decline

To a video gamer, the pairing was so natural that I didn’t recognize how unusual it really was. On Oct. 12, ESPN broke up its top two announcing teams to put Brad Nessler and Kirk Herbstreit in the booth for the network’s Texas A&M-Ole Miss nightcap. The two have, virtually anyway, worked millions of games…

A Christmas YouTube Tradition: Tricking Kids With a Fake Console Gift

There’s a Christmas morning video spreading over the Internet the past two days, in which a naughty boy gets the modern lump of coal: an empty box instead of a PlayStation. It looks outrageous. Remember, though, this is on YouTube. And this kind of prank has gone on there for years. The latest one has…

Resogun on the PS4 has been compared (favorably) to Defender, another sidescrolling, save-the-humans shooter. How does an old-school Defender champion feel about the new game? Well, for starters, it doesn’t suffer from any framerate drop when everything explodes …