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“We hated the game’s music, and then it won multiple awards” – One of five interesting details about The Vanishing Of Ethan Carter, shared by the game’s creative director on the PlayStation blog today. A version of the very good PC first-person mystery game hits PS4 on Tuesday.

Mega Man Legends Successor’s Kickstarter Is Kinda Sloppy

You might think that, given the widespread love for Mega Man Legends (and the loud outcry when Capcom cancelled #3), a spiritual successor wouldn’t have trouble finding funding. Yet Red Ash,a Kickstarter by Mega Man designer Keiji Inafune that’s just about as close as we’ll ever get to a Mega Man Legends 3, hasn’t made…

So is the new Hitman episodic or a full game or what? Here’s some clarity, via the developers: on December 8 you can spend $60 to buy a digital version that will be updated with new stuff over the course of the following year. Or you can buy it on disc “at some point” in…

Running Around As An Angry Chicken Is a Fun Way To Play Diablo III

The goal of the “Angry Chicken” build in Diablo III is simple: turn your Witch Doctor into a fast, unstoppable chicken as often as possible and do massive damage. It sounds silly for a serious game with demons and angels but that’s the point. And it actually works perfectly even on Torment VI difficulty. Noxious…

Conan Goes To Comic-Con As The Doof Warrior From Mad Max

Conan O’Brien and Andy Richter replaced Immortan Joe and The Doof Warrior from Mad Max: Fury Road for a short Comic-Con clip. They’re on the road but they should seriously arrive there with Conan messing around with the flamethrower-guitar on top of the Doof Wagon. It’d be some serious cosplay. It’s definitely not mediocre: To…

Lego Dimensions Might Have Little Too Much Fan Service

Yes, that is all of the previous regenerations of the Doctor up there, in Lego video game form. They’re coming to a game that already has characters and elements from Batman, Lord of the Rings, Portal, and Back to the Future among others. This game might be too much for even Fahey. Just in time…

EarthBound, The Arcade Cabinet

At Camp Fangamer later this month, there’ll be a very special arcade cabinet in attendance: a custom arcade version of Earthbound. It’s running EarthBound Reshuffler, a ROM hack that randomises almost everything in the game; enemy names, stats, items, NPC sprites, the works. The game is going to be played and streamed all weekend long,…

Chime was one of the best games ever released on Xbox Live Arcade. That was five years ago, though, so here comes Chime Sharp, a sequel (this time on PC) that looks to both add new stuff while fixing elements of the original game.

Tough Final Fantasy Achievement Made Easier With Robots

There’s a challenge in Final Fantasy X (and an achievenemt in FFXHD) that tests the player’s ability to dodge lightning. It’s really hard for humans, but luckily, humans can build robots to help. Taking place in an area called the Thunder Plains, the challenge is called Lightning Dodge, and gives players a split-second warning to…

Via Gamasutra, there’s a great translated interview from 1997 with Nintendo legend Gunpei Yokoi on shmuplations, where he talks about his work near the end of his career (he sadly passed away later that year).

Dang, The Fallout Minecraft Mod Is Coming Along Nicely

This ought to tide you over until Fallout 4 comes out… er, if it comes out before Fallout 4. The Project Wasteland mod for Minecraft has been in development for a little while now, but take even a cursory glance and it’s easy to understand why. This thing isn’t just gonna bring Fallout’s Wasteland into…

An Illustrated Guide To Why I Can’t Stop Playing Assassin’s Creed

I have once again returned to an Assassin’s Creed game and found great things. Specifically, I have learned a lot about open-world video games, how Ubisoft makes them, and why I love them so much. I must show you. I’ve gone back to Assassin’s Creed Rogue, the underhyped last-gen (and PC!) release that was overshadowed…

Daybreak CEO To Convicted Lizard Squad Hacker: ‘I’m Coming For You’

The CEO of Daybreak, formerly Sony Online Entertainment, is not happy. John Smedley’s plane was grounded after a bomb threat last August, a move infamous hacker group Lizard Squad took credit for. A Lizard Squad member was recently sentenced, but Smedley wants more. Lizard Squad was, of course, also responsible for taking down Xbox Live…

The First Five-ish Minutes of DC Comics Legends

DC Comics Legends allows players to form a team of the bravest heroes and boldest villains DC has to offer and then politely take turns battling enemies to the death. Sounds like fun to me! Normally the First Five Minutes would involve showing you the first 300 seconds of a game from the moment I…

We Asked Publishers Which 360 Games They’ll Make Playable On Xbox One

Microsoft announced Xbox One was getting Xbox 360 backwards compatibility at E3 this year, a feature everyone but Nintendo moved away from this hardware generation. We haven’t heard much since, so we decided to ask a bunch of game publishers about some of their biggest games. On Microsoft’s Xbox Feedback page, it’s possible for fans…

Riot just put out its champion spotlight for the upcoming giant catfish champion Tahm Kench. This guy seems so cool! I bet he’s also going to lead to so many awful puns about “feeding” in-game thanks to his swallow-other-champions ability.

And Now For Some Great Heroes Of The Storm Fan Art

Blizzard put on an a fan art competition as part of its Heroes of the Storm launch festivities. Today they posted work from the 25 semi-finalists, and their work is all pretty great. See for yourself! You can see the whole collection on the Battle.net website. Here are some of the ones that stood out…

How Kickstarter Saved Obsidian

In 2012, Obsidian Entertainment almost fell apart. The independent game studio had just suffered a major blow—the cancellation of a big-budget role-playing game they were developing with Microsoft—and they were struggling to make ends meet in the midst of an uncertain, transitional gaming industry. Josh Sawyer, one of the company’s public faces and the veteran…

Brock Lesnar Destroys A Car, Street Fighter Style

Brock Lesnar beat up a car on this week’s episode of Monday Night Raw. You know who else does that? Street Fighter characters. You can see where this is going… The folks at Sleepy Bear Gaming Studio did a marvelous thing, expertly overlaying visuals and sound effects from Street Fighter 2’s classic Bonus Stage over…

Plagiarism Accusations Shake Up Dark Souls Community

The Dark Souls games are praised for their gameplay, but the complex lore is nearly as good. Most players rely on experts to explain what’s going on, and VaatiVidya is the most well-known story scholar around. At the moment, however, he’s embroiled in a nasty plagiarism scandal. VaatiVidya, otherwise known as Michael Samuels, has 425,145…