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Destiny‘s Beta Characters Aren’t Transferring to the Final Version

Millions of players might have been hoping—assuming, even—that all the work they’d put in leveling up and customizing characters during the Destiny beta would continue on in the final version of the game. Nope. The characters built in this summer’s pre-launch test are being wiped and all players will be starting fresh. News of this…

Want All The Cool Stuff At Launch? Buy More Than One Copy Of The Game.

You might think it’s cool that you can dress Lara Croft and her next game’s three co-stars as if they were actually starring in a Hitman game. You might think it’s cool that you can dress them up as if they were in a Deus Ex game. Well, bad news. On December 9, the day…

The Division’s New York Versus Real New York

THE TREES ARE WRONG CANCEL MY PRE-ORDER. Actually, it’s pretty close all round in this video, as PlayStation Access visit most of the areas shown so far in demos. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK All the major landmarks get a look-in, including the Manhattan and Brooklyn Suspension Bridge, the Empire State Building, Penn…

Very Clever, Xbox One Marketing

This Xbox One-focused comic from Microsoft is both fitting for the summer and certainly makes a hell of a lot more sense than previous ads That’s definitely how I’d interpret her command, too, random gamer child. To contact the author of this post, write to [email protected] or find her on Twitter at @tinaamini

Another Microsoft-Published Xbox One Launch Game Is Coming To PC

Xbox One launch game Ryse is coming to PC this fall, according to the folks behind the game, though not via the game’s original publisher Microsoft. There’s a little bit of a curious pattern developing here with Xbox One launch titles. A third-person action game set in ancient Rome, Ryse was developed by Crytek and…

Aladdin And Princess Jasmine Are Coming To Disney Infinity

Seeing how the movie came out 22 years ago, Aladdin isn’t exactly “a whole new world” at this point. Disney Infinity certainly took its sweet time bringing the nineties-era classic back in video game form, though. Today, Disney finally revealed its plans to bring Aladdin and Princess Jasmine to the Disney Infinity Toybox 2.0. Don’t…

This Is Why You Don’t Give an Axe to Little Red Riding Hood

Red Riding Hood is going to be the protagonist of her very own “cinematic” action platformer called Woolfe – The Red Hood Diaries. This Red Riding Hood is vengeful, angry, and wields an axe. In this case, “cinematic” basically means that the game looks great: It’s like the evil, bloodthirstier twin of Trine, with a…

Leak Shows Off Rogue, This Year’s Last-Gen Assassin’s Creed [UPDATE]

The second forthcoming 2014 Assassin’s Creed game, formerly discussed under the codename Assassin’s Creed Comet, appears to be called Assassin’s Creed: Rogue and feature the return of sailing gameplay and a protagonist with possible Templar loyalties, according to a leaked trailer. UPDATE (11:18am): And Ubisoft has confirmed Rogue this morning through a Game Informer cover…

Resident Evil Is Getting an HD Remaster

And it’s coming to the PlayStation 3, the PS4, the Xbox 360, the Xbox One, and PC in glorious high definition. According to Famitsu, this is an HD remastering of the 2002 remake, with the goal of keeping the game’s sheer terror. Capcom assures that it isn’t making any unnecessary changes to the game that…

Gamescom Call of Duty Multiplayer Reveal To Be Streamed On Xbox Live

Activision allots the first half of of the hype cycle for each year’s Call of Duty to its solo campaign, but when we arrive at Gamescom in just two weeks, the multiplayer half of the super hypeness for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare will begin. And you’ll be able to watch this big event from…

The First Big Video Game Made By Native Alaskans

A few years ago, an Alaskan indigenous community found themselves with money to invest. Like any investment, the money would ideally multiply itself many times over. The Cook Inlet Tribal Council thought about funding funeral homes and getting into real estate. Instead, they decided to pour their money into a video game. Money’s not the…

Check Out The Xbox One’s China Exclusives

So, the Xbox One’s going to launch in China. Big whoop right? From Microsoft’s press briefings, the system will launch in China with a fair amount of Western games, such as NBA 2K14 and Titanfall. But apart from these, the Windows company has got its hands on a few China exclusives as well! Slated for…

So uh, remember the two trailers Gen Kim did for Guild Wars 2? He made a third one. For Destiny And, as usual, it’s very good! The song lends the game a very Borderlandsy feel. Even Bungie liked the video—so much so that they shared it on their Twitter and Facebook. (Thanks Carl, Robert and…

​How Much It Cost to Put An Indie Game on Xbox One

Making games as a solo developer is a hard lifestyle. You can put a lot of hours into making something that goes nowhere. But figuring out what platforms to publish on and how much things will cost is a whole other stress. Here’s how much it cost to put one indie title onto Xbox One.…

The Xbox One Will Be China’s First Major Home Console Since The PS2

Microsoft is going to be able to start selling the Xbox One to the more than one billion people living in China starting on September 23. The company announced launch plans at a press event in Shanghai. Until recently, home consoles have been banned in China, with the PlayStation 2having the honor of being the…

Call Of Duty Bummer: They Opted Not To Have Teleportation Grenades

The new Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, futuristic-looking as it is, will not have teleportation grenades. So it was reported in a VentureBeat profileof CoD:AW studio Sledgehammer Games. Too unrealistic. Here’s VentureBeat talking to Sledgehammer’s Michael Condrey about where they draw the line between CoD-suitable and CoD-nope: Condrey said that the team also had to…

New pre-rendered Assassin’s Creed Unity trailer shows our hero, the assassin Arno, rescuing a woman who seems to be wearing a Templar cross (the same lady we initially thought was an assassin. Whoops!). The game’s designers hinted at the end of this making-of video that Unity will address the schism between Assassins and Templars and…

Welcome to Dark Souls, Harry Potter

Prepare to die. via r/Darksouls2

What We Want Changed After Destiny’s Beta

As betas go you can’t argue with Destiny’s success. I’ve heard more than a few people saying it’s the most they’ve played on their PS4 since launch for example, while it seems to be basically the only thing that happened over the weekend. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK Now we’ve all had a…

Marvel Crams The Guardians Of The Galaxy Into Every Video Game It Can

If the officialGuardians of the Galaxy mobile game not enough for you, worry not — Marvel’s cramming Star-Lord and friends into every gaming orifice available, from Xbox Live avatars to Minecraft skins. Disney Infinity 2.0 We learned of the official Guardians of the Galaxy playset for Disney’s property-spanning creation toy last week. I just wanted…