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Four Players Are Co-Op Heroes. The Fifth Is Their Giant Enemy. Fight!
In a lot of mainstream multiplayer video games, we dress up as a soldier and take on opposing teams of other, similar soldiers. What if there were a game about a team of soldiers taking on one GIANT opponent? Maybe a massive beast that breathes fire? That’d be cool. That’d also be an actual thing:…
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 11, 2014 -
He Made Halo‘s Energy Sword, and It Looks Really Awkward to Use
Master Chief makes it look easy, doesn’t he? But, it turns out that wielding the famous bladed Covenant weapon from the Xbox sci-fi FPS isn’t all that graceful. Watch yourself, dude. You ain’t no Spartan! In the latest segment of the Man At Arms webseries, Tony Swatton and crew craft one of a video game…
By Evan Narcisse Published February 10, 2014 -
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…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 10, 2014 -
Culture
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,…
By Owen Good Published February 9, 2014 -
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…
By Owen Good Published February 9, 2014 -
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…
By Evan Narcisse Published February 7, 2014 -
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…
By Evan Narcisse Published February 7, 2014 -
Boy Admits Raping Sister After He Watched Porn on Xbox
A 13-year-old in the U.K. admitted to raping his 8-year-old sister, telling police he had been watching porn on his Xbox 360 when he “decided to try it out.” The gut-wrenching case adds fuel to the controversy there over whether and how access to online pornography should be controlled. While there are no dedicated applications…
By Owen Good Published February 5, 2014 -
The Xbox One’s First 2014 Dashboard Update Adds Some Important Stuff
The Xbox One is about to improve in a couple of small but useful ways. The console’s first dashboard update, zapping into consoles on Tuesday, February 11, will add a controller battery-level indicator and an interface for managing system storage. The battery indicator is self-explanatory. You can see it in the screenshot above (we added…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 5, 2014 -
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).
By Jason Schreier Published February 3, 2014 -
South Park RPG Trailers Show off Mr. Hankey, Ginger Zombie Nazi Plague
Overnight, Ubisoft released three new trailers for South Park: The Stick of Truth. And… that’s all you really need to know, actually. Let’s dig in! First, we have a TV spot. Perfect for increasing hype levels. Oh, and before you check, there are actually no new videos on the website. That reminder is just there…
By András Neltz Published February 3, 2014 -
Culture
The Week in Games: Back in Business with Bravely Default
We now return to our regularly scheduled The Week in Games, now that we have enough titles to properly justify discussing an upcoming week for them. Key releases are Bravely Default on 3DS, the latest episode of The Wolf Among Us, and The LEGO Movie Video Game doing a Full Ginsburg on all eight (8)…
By Owen Good Published February 2, 2014 -
Cops: Man Cut His Way Into a Pawn Shop to Get His Xbox Back
A 19-year-old Nampan (that’s the demonym for Nampa, Idaho) is in the slammer after police there say they caught him cutting through the roof of a pawn shop and making off with an Xbox he had pawned. More concerning, perhaps, was the AR-15 rifle cops say Olin Vickers had in his possession. That thing is…
By Owen Good Published February 1, 2014 -
Xbox One Trolls Trick People Into Using Bing
When you’re in the middle of an online match against other people, the last thing you want is an interruption—but interruptions are exactly the sort of thing Xbox One trolls will try to induce. The secret? The trolls use gamertags that are actually Xbox One voice commands. Last time, we saw folks use “Xbox Sign…
By Patricia Hernandez Published January 31, 2014 -
Soon We’ll Be Able To Buy GoPro Cameras With Our Xboxes
The GoPro line of action cameras generate some amazing footage, but who has time to navigate a search engine to find them? That incredibly inconvenient means of watching first-person bird videos will be a thing of the past later this year, when the GoPro Channel app launches for the Xbox 360 and Xbox One. It’s…
By Mike Fahey Published January 31, 2014 -
Crimes & Punishments Really, Really Wants To Be A Sherlock Game
The latest installment of the video game adventures of everyone’s favorite public domain detective was announced for the PlayStation 4 today, along with a new trailer desperately evoking the BBC’s modern day buddy detective hit. Maybe it’s just me, longing for more Benedict Cumberbatch after the all-too brief third season of the series came and…
By Mike Fahey Published January 31, 2014
