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23 More Illuminating Hours With Assassin’s Creed IV

When a new year starts, I go back and finish the previous year’s Assassin’s Creed. I spent early 2013 rediscovering AC III. I’ve rung in 2014 by playing 23 more hours of Assassin’s Creed IV. I have some more thoughts about this one… Actually, first, I have a lot of videos to show you! These…

​Tomb Raider On PS4 vs. Xbox One: An In-Depth Look

When I wrote up my own impressions of the next-gen version of Tomb Raider, I hoped I’d soon see Eurogamer‘s Digital Foundry doing their trademark deep-dive into the technical underpinnings of both the Xbox One and PS4 versions of the game. And here we go Today, they’ve published their first look at the next-gen versions,…

Cliff Bleszinski, the creator of Gears of War, has some things to say about the sale of the series to Microsoft. No, he’s not coming back to work on it. Will it ever go to PlayStation, though? “Safe to say that’s not likely to happen.”

Microsoft Snags Gears of War

It looks like Gears of War isn’t going to the PlayStation any time soon. Microsoft said this morning it had bought the series from Epic Games, assuring that the only console Gears will call home will continue to be Xbox. Development of the series will continue at Black Tusk Studios of Vancouver, B.C. Additionally, Rod…

The Week in Games: Raider of a Lost Month

We’re about to climb out of the customary two-month hibernation video games enter every December. An updated Tomb Raider releases for the newest consoles on Tuesday, along with Broken Age for everyone. There’s much more on the horizon. Jan. 28: Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Z (360, PS3, PS Vita) Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition (Xbox…

​Tomb Raider On PS4 Is More ‘Definitive’ Than On Xbox One

And both versions look better than the PC version. For the most part, I really liked last year’s reboot ofTomb Raider. As time has gone on, my feelings about it have only increased, both for the stuff I liked—A main character with a real arc! Nods to my favorite horror movie! A sick bow!—and the…

Kraven Stalks The First Trailer For The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Game

Cunning, resourceful and deadly, spiders are some of nature’s most perfect predators. Movie universe Peter Parker has potential, but he’s going to need help to hone his abilities. Enter Kraven the Hunter, teaching stalking 101 in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 video game. Kraven the Hunter is one of Spider-Man’s most memorable villains, largely thanks to…

Did the Ghast from Minecraft just reach its final form? It sure did. Things couldn’t get creepier in digital artist Burmak‘s fan art, made for a video game artbook. This makes the original, in-game Ghast (and everything else) look like a puppy. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the…

“There is a lot of power in [Xbox One and PS4], and I don’t want to say we’re using them to their capacity, but we’re fairly close to doing so. On [Xbox 360 and PS3] we probably would have had to sacrifice nearly half of our vision.” CD Projekt RED founder Marcin Iwiński, in an…

Those YouTube Promo Plans Are A Lot More Common Than You Might Think

“This happens every day on YouTube.” Boogie, a popular gamer and personality on YouTube, is right. He’s talking about the Xbox One promotional contract that YouTubers were recently offered to sign in exchange for extra cash. But in the world of making YouTube videos, these kind of promos are actually a lot more of a…

Prepare For Dead Rising 3‘s 13 GB Patch With An Hourlong Video

In what has to be one of their more…creative jokes, Mega64 takes on the controversial and whopping 13GB Dead Rising 3 patch. Wanna put that number into perspective? Sit through their video.

The demo for Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII is available for PS3 later today. It released on Xbox Live for Xbox 360 last week. Getting the demo also offers a weapon pack that unlocks when the full game releases Feb. 11.

Sketchy Promo Plan Pays YouTubers For Positive Xbox One Coverage

A new Machinima promotion offers YouTubers cash in exchange for positive coverage of the Xbox One, opening up a whole host of questions about journalistic ethics in the world of YouTube personalities. It started on Saturday, when word leaked on NeoGAF that the video group Machinima had sent out e-mails to their clients offering cash…

13 GB Dead Rising 3 Patch Raises Questions About Gaming’s Future

There’s a 13-gigabyte update live for Dead Rising 3 today, and if you think that seems kind of big, well, that’s because it’s kind of big. This is one of the biggest patches in video game history—our previous definition of “big patch” usually clocked in at 500mb or a gigabyte—and it’s designed to both fix…

The Newest Assassin’s Creed Can Be Tough To Like, But It’s Important

I play all the Assassin’s Creeds and like them quite a lot, but should you play the newest one, Assassin’s Creed Liberation HD? Maybe. Liberation is, in my book, the weakest or second-weakest Assassin’s Creed that you can play on a PC or console. It depends on how you feel about the very first spartan…

The Inevitable Erotic Metal Gear Solid V Figure

We told you not to be surprised! We told you that game designer Hideo Kojima was making MGSV character Quiet all sexy because, um, it’s good for cosplay, or selling figures, or something According to Kojima‘s Twitter, this is the “Play Arts Kai” version of Quiet The figure is still a work-in-progress This doesn’t exactly…

Fable Trilogy, a bundle comprising the three HD editions of the series (Fable 2, Fable 3, and the upcoming HD re-release of the original) will be available on Feb. 4 from the Xbox Live Marketplace.That’s the same day that Fable Anniversary launches for Xbox 360.

The Week in Games: Olli Olli Oxen Free

Not much cooking this week in terms of new releases, outside of Olli Olli on Tuesday for PS Vita. One more week of this and we’ll be done with the usual deep freeze on the release calendar. Jan. 21 Olli Olli (PS Vita) Also in January: Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Z (360, PS3, PS…

This Gentleman is Upset He Was Not Invited to Titanfall‘s Alpha

What happens when you don’t get a beta alpha key for Titanfall? Well, you pack a lipper, grab the camera and go to YouTube to sound your barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. (Audio definitely NSFW. Use headphones.) In the grand tradition of Mr. Bitch-Eat-That-Ho from Street Fighter comes this customer service complaint…

​Here’s How Modders Are Building GTA V Inside of GTA IV

There’s no PC version of Grand Theft Auto V yet. It’s just a dream to the console-shunning gamers who want their turn to rampage through the streets of Los Santos. A team of modders is making that dream a reality. We got a glimpse in images and a short teaser yesterday but the more detailed…