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After Many Years, The Witness Is Finally Coming Out

The next game from the creator of Braid will be out on January 26, 2016. Even the repeated numbers of the release date (0126•2016) are like a puzzle. Jonathan Blow’s last game was a bonafide video game classic, one that helped ignite a whole wave of independent, small-studio creations. Braid came out in 2008 and…

If You’ve Got A Wii U, Play Runbow

With everyone obsessing over Super Mario Maker, you might be ignoring Runbow. The top five games on the eShop right now are Super Mario Maker, Splatoon, The Legend of Zelda, Ocarina of Time, Runbow, and Super Mario World Wait, what was the fourth one? I know most people hit the snooze button the moment another…

Let’s Try To Decipher Activision’s Destiny Puffery

Here is a coded message from Activision, sent via press release this morning: SANTA MONICA, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)— Bungie and Activision Publishing, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI), announced today that Destiny: The Taken King broke the record for the most downloaded day-one game in PlayStation history and set a new…

Just a few months after Bloodborne’s DLC arrives, From Software will deliver Dark Souls III, with the game arriving next April. A specific date hasn’t been announced, and it’s unclear if the PC version will be on the same day as the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 versions. In the past, it’s been a bit…

Dear Lord, Persona 5 Looks Incredible

You know what helps alleviate the pain of Persona 5’s big delay? This ridiculous trailer, which features the characters of Atlus’s upcoming cat RPG climbing things, jumping into paintings, and playing baseball. Looks like the characters will live in a big city this time around, where apparently they’ll go on stealth missions and run screaming…

There’s A Cool Diablo-Themed Easter Egg In Heroes of the Storm

Whether it’s a hidden corner of a StarCraft II campaign map or something mentioned in a WoW quest, Blizzard always finds the weirdest ways to hide easter eggs in their games. This time it’s a Diablo III-themed one in Heroes of the Storm So to unlock this particular one, you need to be on The…

Persona 5 Delayed to 2016

The next entry in Atlus’ beloved RPG series was supposed to come out this year. But that ain’t happening. Persona 5 won’t be out until the summer of 2016. The delay was announced via a new TGS trailer and comes after Atlus had repeatedly said that they were on track for a 2015 release for…

Conan Has Some New Facebook Button Ideas

Facebook shouldn’t stop with the recently announced Dislike button. In fact, some of Conan O’Brien’s suggestions would make things much more fun. If there’s space for endless amount of emojis, there must be as well for a few silly buttons. To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

Pokémon Make For Badass Mecha

Because Lugia, leader of the Legendary Birds, who can tear cliffs down with one wave of its wings, apparently isn’t terrifying enough by itself. So now here it is in the form of a flying death robot. The mecha-mon were posted to r/pokemon by the artist, derangedhyena. There’s five pieces of artwork in total, depicting…

There’s A Virtual Last Guardian At TGS

Why play The Last Guardian when you can play with a huge, virtual Last Guardian at this year’s Tokyo Game Show? At Sony’s booth, there’s a virtual Trico on the side of the wall that people can interact with. Which is good, ‘cause the game itself isn’t playable on the showfloor. The animation and AI…

Know how there have been secret rooms in the Batman Arkham games teasing info about the inevitable follow-up? Rocksteady studio head Sefton Hill says that Arkham Knight doesn’t have one. Time to shut Detective Mode off, I guess.

Be Careful, The Next Guy You Trash Talk Could Be A UFC Fighter

Mark Hunt might be the heaviest hitter in the UFC. He’s almost certainly the toughest fighter living in Australia right now. His autobiography Born to Fight comes out on September 29, but I was lucky enough to get an advance copy. There’s a game related story in there that I have to share. Consider it…

Bedlam, a game we first wrote about last year, is out on PC today. Fallout Tactics fans, this one’s for you.

Um, About This Ghost In The Shell Game

This trailer forthe upcoming Ghost in the Shell FPS is giving me a bucket full of sadfaces. Brian was optimistic about the whole thing last year when the game was first announced, but he might have been the only person on earth seeing the glass half-full. This couldn’t be a worse fit for the IP.…

“This isn’t an article about the evils of free to play manipulation to get you to spend money. This is about how we can target you, because we (and our partners) know everything about you.” Some brutal reading at TouchArcade

Five Nights At Freddy’s Mod For Fallout Is Actually Kinda Creepy

Now I really want a Fallout horror game. Five Nights at Vault 5 is a mod that reimagines Five Nights at Freddy’s in the Fallout universe—specifically, Fallout: New Vegas. You’ve got your multi-night scenario, complete helplessness, and killer robots skulking about, but there’s one major difference: you can actually move. You’re not rooted to one…

Civilization’s Huge 61-Player War Is Just Nuts

As I type this, a computer is simulating the biggest and most destructive conflict Civilization V has ever seen. Over 60 factions are currently waging war, and the world they’re leaving in their wake is a…weird one. Battle Royale Mk II, as it’s called (the first Battle Royale died an agonising death), recently ticked past…

Metal Gear Solid V Has A Secret That Seems Impossible To Trigger

Holy shit. Some of the stuff hidden inside Metal Gear Solid V is ridiculous. SPOILERS FOR SECRETS INSIDE METAL GEAR SOLID FOLLOW. SPOILER SHIELDING DOG GO!! Right now, Metal Gear Solid V fans are racking their brains trying to figure out how to trigger a certain datamined scene within Metal Gear Solid V. Nobody has…

Mannequins Slowly Stalk You In Creepy New Horror Game

Mannequins are terrifying, which makes them perfect for a horror game. Late Night Shop is early into development, but I’m sold on the concept. For reasons unknown, players find themselves in a mall late at night, and realize the usually benign mannequins are following you around. The mannequins only move when you’re not looking at…

Celebrate Fifty Years Of Yuji Naka With Five Minutes Of Sonic

One of the key creators of the Sonic the Hedgehog series, programmer extraordinaire and former long-term head of Sonic Team, Yuji Naka turns 50 on September 17. One minute for each ten years seems fair. While right now Yuji Naka is preparing for the North American release of his Rodea the Sky Soldier on Wii…