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Rain has a release date: IGN reports that Sony’s PS3-exclusive downloadable adventure arrives on the first of October in the US, the second in Europe, and the third in Japan Rain will cost $15, and comes with an extra music montage, an avatar pack, and a dynamic theme for those who preorder.

Can’t wait for the next-gen version of Call of Duty: Ghosts? Activision’s got your back. If you buy the game’s PS3 version, you’ll be able to upgrade to the PS4 version as soon as it releases ten days later, at a price of 10$ (or €10, or £10). In the US, Amazon and Gamestop will…

You’ll Pay A Monthly Fee To Play The Elder Scrolls Online

Putting an end to speculation that the massively multiplayer entry in Bethesda’s award-winning role-playing franchise would be free-to-play, Zenimax Online’s Matt Firor has confirmed The Elder Scrolls Online will follow a subscription-based business model. The general manager of Zenimax online confirmed monthly subscriptions for the eagerly-anticipated game during a pre-Gamescom interview with German site Gamestar.…

Not All New Skylanders Split In Half. Some Are Sabertooth Turtles.

More of a sabertooth turtle dinosaur, I suppose. This is Slobber Tooth, and he’s one of the latest non-splitting Skylanders champions, joining the fray when Swap Force hits October 13. The whole Swap Force mechanic is nice and all, but I’m a sucker for a well-designed one piece with a focus on function. I had…

Defiance ‘Castithan Charge Pack’ Adds Playable Creepy White People

Nothing plays on the TV screen quite as well as an alien race whose defining feature is cake makeup and contact lenses. Defiance‘s dorkiest extraterrestrials look much better as playable characters in today’s ‘Castithan Charge Pack’ release. The ‘Castithan Charge Pack’ is a two-pronged bit of downloadable content for the video game portion of trion…

The Fix For Disney Infinity PlayStation 3 Problems Is In

After two days of PlayStation 3 players being unable to play Disney Infinity properly without the game locking up and save game corruption, patch 1.03 has arrived to make things all better, mostly. The previous patch, 1.01, caused the game to lock up shortly after launching, as well as corrupting game saves. A workaround for…

With Xbox One Gaining Momentum, Sony Still Has Confidence

The most remarkable thing about Sony’s Gamescom press conference today wasn’t the big game announcements (Sony still loves indie games) or the PS4 feature demonstrations (the new menu looks like a video game console menu). It was Sony’s overarching, at times infectious confidence. While the event didn’t have the same razzle-dazzle of their PS4 reveal…

You Can Smoke Pot In GTA V, According to Ratings Board

We had a hunch it was going to be possible, and, now, the people who rate video games are letting the cat out of the dimebag. You can smoke pot in GTA V, according to the Entertainment Software Ratings Board. That same group has offered a bunch of other mild spoilers for GTA V, if…

Sony Takes Another Shot at Microsoft’s Xbox One

Looks like Sony’s PlayStation people can’t resist mocking the Xbox One every time they’re in a room with at least several hundred people, judging by today’s presentation at Gamescom—a video game trade fair held in Germany. Not only did Andrew House, president of Sony Computer Entertainment, reveal the PlayStation 4’s release date, he also claimed…

PS4 Release Date Is November 15 In North America

The PlayStation 4 will be out on Friday, November 15 in North America, Sony announced at the end of their GamesCom press conference today in Germany. November 29 for Europe. It’ll retail for $399, 399 euros, and 349 British pounds. This is pretty much the last missing piece to the puzzle—we now know just about…

PS4/Vita Remote Play Sure Sounds Like The Wii U

Here’s a demo of Assassin’s Creed IV running on both PlayStation 4 and Vita, thanks to Sony’s Remote Play feature that they say will allow us to play “almost all” PS4 games on the Vita, through WiFi. Sounds familiar, no? Almost word-for-word how Nintendo has marketed the Wii U.

Ready at launch: Somewhat a blend of World of Tanks and the upcoming World of Warplanes, the PlayStation 4 will see the free-to-play MMO War Thunder featuring 200 models of aircraft and 100 vehicles in ground battles fought by five nations during World War II. A news release said War Thunder will be a launch…

My God, what colorful explosions. Straight from Gamescom, here’s the unveiling of Resogun, the next game from the makers of Super Stardust HD. It’ll be on PS4, and guess what? It features some incredibly colorful explosions. And a lot of other chaotic business that I’m guessing will make more sense while actually playing the game.

Killzone: Shadow Fall showed off its multiplayer features in this trailer from Gamescom 2013. You can get a look at it here—well, the parts where the camera isn’t inexplicably zoomed out on the crowd, anyway.

A Ton Of Indie Games Are Coming To PS4 And Vita

Well then. At their Gamescom press conference, Sony just announced a bootload of indies that will be making their exclusive console debuts on PS4 and/or the PlayStation Vita, including Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number and Rogue Legacy. N++ will be appearing on PS4, while Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, Volume…

This Cool PS4 Game Looks Like Wind Waker Had A Baby With Ico

Part Ico, part Wind Waker, part Journey, and 100% pretty damn awesome-looking, this is Rime, announced today at Sony’s presser in Germany. It’s being developed by the Spanish studio Tequila Works, previously responsible for the horror game Deadlight

This story begins with the end of the world: Here’s the trailer for for Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, a spiritual successor to thechineseroom’s Dear Esther, shown during the PlayStation news conference today at Gamescom. The game will release on PlayStation 4, but no timeframe was given.

Here’s A Weird New Game For PS Vita

This is Murasaki Baby, a newly-announced Vita game that looks absolutely fascinating.

Music festival tycoon: Big Fest, a new game in which players become a virtual music promoter, will be coming to PlayStation Vita, Sony announced. Sony said the game’s soundtrack will feature unsigned real-life bands, giving players a chance to help a new act get discovered.

Good news, Fez fans. Today during their Gamescom press conference, Sony announced that the brilliant indie platformer Fez is coming to Vita. Team that game up with Spelunky, and it looks like my Vita’s gonna gradually transform from a JRPG machine into an indie platformer machine.