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Never Alone’s New DLC Is About Preserving  Iñupiaq History

I never expected the world’s first Alaskan Native video game to come out with DLC. But Never Alone’s new add-on means more than just than just extra gameplay. In terms of how it got made and the narrative told inside the game itself, Never Alone stood apart from most video games that came out last…

Konami’s New Initiative: Erotic Castlevania Pachinko

Once upon a time, there was a company called Konami that would release all sorts of delightful video games in all kinds of genres under big, beloved franchises with names like Suikoden, Contra, Gradius, Silent Hill, Castlevania, Metal Gear, and Zone of the Enders. Today, there is a company called Konami that makes pachinko machines—Japanese…

Five Things You Should Know About The Five Nights at Freddy’s Movie

Yesterday, Deadline reported that Gil Kenan (Monster House, Poltergeist remake) was set to direct the Five Nights at Freddy’s movie. Since then, Kenan has been answering all sorts of questions on Twitter and Instagram—and these juicy details give us a better sense of what we can expect from the movie. The Animatronics 1) Here’s a…

The Witcher 3 vs. Dragon Age: Inquisition: The Comparison We Had To Make

In the last half a year or so, we’ve gotten not one but two epic western fantasy RPGs in the form of Dragon Age: Inquisition and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. It’s only natural that we’d want to compare them. Last fall, I reviewed Inquisition. I liked it! Then in May, I reviewed The Witcher…

The Red Ash Kickstarter Is A Disaster

In 2013, game producer Keiji Inafune earned gamers’ hearts worldwide by promising to bring back Mega Man in the form of Mighty No. 9. Two years later, he’s launched a sloppy, misleading new Kickstarter that threatens to squander all that goodwill. Red Ash, which took to crowdfunding earlier this month with promises of launching a…

Years Later, ZombiU Is Hitting PS4, Xbox One, And PC

There have been rumors of Ubisoft porting the excellent Wii U launch title ZombiU to other platforms for a while, but now it’s official: Zombi (no more u!) arrives digitally on August 18. Ubisoft dropped a trailer online this morning: It looks like…ZombiU. That’s not a bad thing, mind you, since ZombiU was not only…

Ready Player One author Ernest Cline on Growing Up Gamer

“It was the first time I had ever controlled anything on a video screen,” Ernest Cline, the author of Ready Player One—and a new book, Armada—says of playing Space Invaders as a child in 1977. “I was suddenly drunk with power.” Cline talked to former NPR producer and correspondent JJ Sutherland for Shall We Play…

GTA V Mod Is Trying To Turn PC Version Into An RPG

All the things you love about GTA V. All the things you love about role-playing video games. Together in one place. It’s slowly happening, all thanks to a person who doesn’t work at Rockstar. GTA: RPG is the work of LogicSpawn, a modder out of the UK who’s doing the hard work of adding skill…

League Of Legends Just Killed Off A Champion

Something weird happened last night in League of Legends, something that’s never happened before in the ludicrously popular game’s 6-year history: a character died. Like, actually died. In the story. And at least for now, in the game too. Lore is OP. League of Legends development studio Riot Games has been putting on a calamitous…

Rare Planned a Perfect Dark Spinoff

Rare’s creative director, Gregg Mayles, has been going through the company’s dusty drawers pulling out old design documents to share on Twitter. So far a lot of his reveals have been focused on the Banjo Kazooie games but last night he confirmed that Rare had planned a spinoff to Perfect Dark. It looks like it…

Rocket League’s getting its first DLC and update next month, with paid and free content. You don’t have to pay for spectator mode, the Utopia Coliseum map, or the new new flags, music, and fireworks. New cars, boosts, wheels, paint types, and trophies will cost $3.99. There’s no specific release date yet. You can reach…

You’ve been wondering what Total War: Warhammer would look and play like, right? A new walkthrough video gives a look at the units, leaders and gameplay of the mash-up strategy title.

Our colleagues over at Kotaku UK explored the extensive history of PlayStation Home, chronicling the rise and fall of “Sony’s most successful disaster.” Click here to take a look

Dragon Ball Fan-Movie’s Real Hero Isn’t Goku

To celebrate the North American release of Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection F, Sydney-based Deerstalker Pictures made a short Dragon Ball Z movie. Goku is fighting Frieza near the Kame House and although Krillin’s trying to help him, it’s not him or Goku who’s putting an end to the battle. The Kame House’s resident, Master Roshi…

The Monster Hunter-esque Final Fantasy Explorers hits North American 3DSes early next year, on January 26. In case you need a refresher on exactly what the game is about, there’s a debut trailer above, and you can find our impressions of the Japanese version here

Seven Times Game Creators Cameoed As Themselves

Whether it’s a classic adventure game, or a shooter that came out a few months, ago it doesn’t matter. Some developers and publishers just can’t resist putting themselves in their games, usually as a hidden easter egg, but sometimes they’re just right in front of us. YouTubers at OutsideXbox collected seven of these cameos. All…

My review of the new King’s Quest.

RIP Microsoft Solitaire, 1990-2015

A screenshot from the Windows 10 version of Solitaire, taken by my friend @Andrew_Cycle. He captions it: “Our dystopian society is even more nightmarish than any sci-fi author predicted.” PC Gamer notes that this version of Solitaire—which comes bundled with the OS once more—plays ads that “run over the full Solitaire window, some for 15…

Rocket League Can Be America’s Secret Gateway To Soccer

Football (or, soccer) is the biggest sport on Earth. Everyone plays it, everyone gets it, everyone loves it. Everyone, that is, except for Americans. That’s a gross generalisation, of course. I know plenty of Americans who love football, and plenty of Europeans or Latin Americans who don’t. But if we’re being general, then my opening…

What Do You Think Of PlayStation Plus/Xbox Live Gold Games So Far?

For the past couple of weeks, the video game world has obsessed over Rocket League, a game that became popular because A) it’s about cars playing soccer; and B) it’s totally free for a whole lot of PlayStation owners. See, every month for the past couple of years, both Sony and Microsoft have offered a…