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Ninja Gaiden‘s cyborg vs. zombies spin-off is coming to PC. Tecmo Koei announced this morning that the Steam version of Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z will be launching day-and-date with the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions in early 2014. Thank goodness. Ninja Gaiden and PCs go together like … you know.

5 Minutes in BioShock Infinite‘s Rapture Shows a City Before the Fall

We’re goin’ back to Rapture … Rapture … with Booker and Elizabeth in Burial at Sea, the first downloadable extension to BioShock Infinite, and if you have to ask why they ended up there and Booker is a Sam Spade caricature, you probably have not finished the game. It’s nice to see Rapture looking so…

Lost Planet 3 Needed More Crazy “Capcom-Style” Moments, Says Developer

Lost Planet 3 wasn’t perfect. But, despite being an overly familiar shooter, the story it told and the main character that players controlled manage to feel more meaningful than most other action-centric games out there. It felt like the cast’s relationships to each other and their own feelings were at stake. It also felt like…

The Ball’s in Your Court, NBA Live

The next six weeks will shine a bright light on a four-year question mark in sports video gaming: NBA Live. Every other team sport due for release this year has launched but this one. Like it or not, EA Sports will have the next month mostly to itself, and what it doesn’t say will speak…

Buggy penis physics: check out Eurogamer’s story on Mount Your Friends,the competitive climbing game where your character’s genitals spin like windmills. Apparently, this is a feature that was not actually originally intended. Thank god for bugs!

How To Survive Driving Into The Ocean In GTA V (And Other Fun Facts)

Speaking of the little details that make GTA V so great, here’s a video that answers questions I didn’t even know I had. Like, does a helmet actually do anything to protect your head? Can a car run out of gas? Can a car that’s run out of gas still explode? If a tree falls…

Excellent Battlefield 4 Beta Elevator Shoots Players Into the Sky

Battlefield 4 is currently in beta. So is the elevator that shoots players into the sky. Some gamers have been having a lot of fun with it, including this guy who uses it to leap above a sniper and surprise-kill him from behind. That’s the video above, by Stun_gravy. Here’s a fun discovery one, via…

Assassin’s Creed IV Looks Good So Far. But Can It Save The Series?

In 22 days’ time, we’ll know what’s really up with the next Assassin’s Creed. We’ll know if all of those trailers and videos Ubisoft has been pumping out for AC IV: Black Flag—13 of them!—have been the oozing confidence of a team that knows they’ve made a great game or have been the sprayed misdirection…

Xbox One DVR Can Record Gameplay When Achievements Unlock [UPDATE]

Something terrible. Something cool. The saga of the Xbox One has swung from one extreme to the other over the last few months. So, after the unsettling news about what Microsoft may be trying to sell to advertisers, there’s a slightly better feature of the Xbox One that’s come to light. When you hit an…

I always mention it whenever it comes up, but Call of Duty has been toppled from its death-and-taxes sure-thing spot atop the Xbox 360’s list of most-played games. The new champ should be no surprise: Grand Theft Auto V

Why Grand Theft Auto V Had Me Begging for Unforgiveness

Like many of the millions of Americans who got Grand Theft Auto V on or soon after its Sept. 17 release, I spent much of that first weekend in Los Santos, the game’s fictional mega-metropolis. Having bought, binged on, and beaten the game, I can mouth my own oohs and ahs. It’s bigger and better-looking…

Konami Apologizes for Glitch Paralyzing PES 2014‘s Multiplayer on 360

Konami says it is still investigating why some Xbox 360 players of Pro Evolution Soccer 2014 are unable to connect to its online multiplayer services, but the problem is large enough that the company has apologized to users. The publisher still doesn’t know exactly why the problem is happening. Those affected are finding that they…

Proof That Trevor Is The Best GTA V Character

Hands down. No competition. Nothing comes close to that crazy, gross gross gross dude. Mild spoilers for fun Trevor moments (nothing for the plot) in the video above. If you rather have your experience completely fresh, feel free to skip this one. The folks at Machinima put together a montage of Trevor’s transition moments—those moments…

Want To Play Xbox One Early? Then You Must Suffer.

The Xbox One isn’t out until November, and unless you’re lucky enough to be living near a travelling roadshow or consumer expo, you’re going to have to wait until November to play one. Or…will you… There is one other way. But I warn you. It is fraught with peril. And…American Idol washouts. That way is…

Top Microsoft Exec Says ‘Xbone’ Nickname Didn’t Even Occur To Him

It’s hard to believe they didn’t see it. And yet Microsoft’s Phil Spencer says he didn’t anticipate that their new console, the Xbox One, would immediately be dubbed the “Xbone” by fans and detractors alike. “At first, I guess the thing that bugged me the most is I didn’t see it,” Spencer told Gamespot in…

The Numbers Don’t Lie: Gamers Want Dead or Alive Bikinis

Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate: Core Fighters is a free-to-play version of DoA 5 Ultimate. The game has perks and items available for purchase, including the story mode of the full game and all the other characters. But it looks like what players really want are the sexy threads. One of the Dead or Alive…

Xbox One’s Day One Patch Takes 15-20 Minutes To Download

Let’s remember this on Nov. 22: Microsoft says the Xbox One will require a day-one patch that, the console’s chief architect says, will take 15 to 20 minutes to download. [first item, via IGN]

35 Ways To Die In Grand Theft Auto V

There are the usual, boring ways you can die like in car crashes and getting shot by the police, and then there are a few spectacular ones. Like sharks. And sometimes vehicle combos. My favorite might be simply: wall, in which you smash your forehead against a wall. Hey, it’s possible. Thanks for taking one…

Grand Theft Auto V Almost Killed My Watch Dogs Buzz…But It’s Back

Grand Theft Auto V is so well-made, so visually impressive—even on my creaky old Xbox 360—that it could crush any excitement I might have for any other 2013 open-world action games that are set in big cities and let you steal cars and cause mayhem. There is that risk. And there I was, yesterday, with…

A Free-To-Play RPG with a Dark Souls Twist

Ascend: Hand of Kul is a free-to-play RPG on Xbox 360, and it’s surprisingly fun. Sure, you do have to look past all the HEY BUY THIS but it’s a decent hack-and-slash where you can peek into other players’ worlds and banish some of your enemies for them to deal with. Not a bad gimmick.…