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Xbox One Updates Will Make Important Stuff Easier To Find

While Microsoft generally lies low at CES, Xbox’s Marc Whitten had a little chatwith tech site Engadget, speaking about the kinds of things we can expect in the Xbox One’s first major update. “The feedback we’ve gotten is pretty valid; some of the social stuff is hidden or harder to use than it was on…

Vous etes si belle, Aveline. Assassin’s Creed: Liberation‘s HD facelift looks pretty impressive. The remastered version of the game that debuted as a Vita exclusive will be out next week for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC.

Six Things You Should Know About Alien: Isolation

Alien: Isolation officially made itself known yesterday. If you caught a dated-looking vibe in the game’s visuals, that’s deliberate; Creative Assembly wanted to render the Alien universe as looked in the original 1979 film. You can get a better view of it in this video—but you won’t see any of this on the Wii U.…

Skylanders: Swap Force Finally Gets The Toys Needed To Finish The Game

This morning Toys’R’Us locations across the U.S. start selling Rubble Rouser and Stink Bomb, the two Skylanders toys needed to 100% complete levels in a game released three months ago. What? First, a little background for those who’ve not played Skylanders: Swap Force, the latest entry in Activision’s incredibly lucrative marriage of toys and video…

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…

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…

Last year at this time we got surprise news that MLB 2K was returning for one more year. Don’t count on it this year. The series’ Facebook page and official forums were wiped from existence, and all PC versions are gone from Steam, notes Pasta Padre. A statement from 2K Sports confirms the series’ widely…

The “Next Halo Journey” Begins This Year, Says Microsoft

Folks got concerned when the word “Halo” wasn’t on a list of upcoming games in an official Microsoft Xbox One update. Fret not, Master Chief lovers, you’ll get your Spartan on this year, according to an Microsoft representative. In a post that stated the Redmond-based tech giant sold more than three million Xbox Ones last…

Chicago Cops: 13-Year-Old Killed Cousin After Xbox Argument

Cops in Chicago say a 13-year-old boy killed his 16-year-old cousin on Sunday morning, following a day in which the two had argued “about an Xbox” according to a police report. The younger boy shot his cousin as he slept, according to a police report in this account by the Chicago Tribune, and later admitted…

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,…

The Xbox One Could Have Been Download-Only

This isn’t one of those “drawing board” kind of fantasies, something that sat on a whiteboard back in 2008. Microsoft was thinking about ditching the Xbox One’s optical drive as late as June 2013 In an interview with OXM, Microsoft Studios boss Phil Spencer has said, “Obviously, after the announcement and E3, there was some…

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”

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.…

Xbox Customer Support: No. 1 Among Baseball Fans

Screenshot via T.J. Lauerman (Original tweet here)

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…