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Five Things I Hate About Heroes Of The Storm

Heroes of the Storm is coming out very soon. That means it’s officially time to process my feelings about Blizzard’s intriguing new MOBA. Yesterday I gave the positives. Now let’s do the negatives. It’s way too expensive. I know I said yesterday that Heroes of the Storm has a great “try it before you buy…

Awkward GTA Online Glitch Changes Israeli Flag Into Palestinian One

This isn’t some kind of subtle political commentary, is it, Rockstar? It’s nice that GTA Online lets players customize their appearances in all kinds of unique ways. But, sometimes all that customization runs into some particularly weird problems. Like, say, when the parachute bag of a country locked in seemingly unresolvable conflict gets changed the…

Except for Just Dance, all of Ubisoft’s upcoming games will only be released on new-gen platforms, the company said during its fiscal year earnings calltoday. The means no more Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of games like Assassin’s Creed or The Division going forward. Contact the author at [email protected]

In an apparent delay, Ubisoft is now describing its third-person shooterThe Division as a “fourth quarter” release. Given that their company’s financial year ends in March, that would peg the game for sometime between January 1 and March 31, 2016.

Ubisoft Announces Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate

It’s official: the next Assassin’s Creed is called Syndicate, and it’ll be out for PS4 and Xbox One on October 23, with a PC release coming later in the fall. If you read Kotaku, you already know a lot about Syndicate—it’s set in Victorian London, it will have both male and female protagonists, and it…

The First Five Ico-Riffic Minutes Of Toren

While we continue to wait for another masterpiece from the makers of Ico and Shadow of the Colossus, Brazilian developer Swordtales captures their spirit perfectly in the achingly beautiful Toren. Nathan Graysonwas rightto call out the similarities between those classics and this strange and wonderful indie from a relatively unknown developer. Had I not seen…

Announcement Of Announcement Of Announcements

By now we’re all used to announcements of announcements, but Nintendo is taking things to the next level: here, for your amusement, is an announcement of an announcement of how they’ll deliver their E3 announcements. Video games! You can reach the author of this post at [email protected] or on Twitter at @jasonschreier

The Black Glove, a surreal indie game being made by former BioShock developers, has been shelved indefinitely. Developer Night Games explained in its announcement that they were unable to find a good publisher following the game’s unsuccessful Kickstarter campaign. Bummer! It looked like a very promising game. Contact the author at [email protected]

A GOTY edition of 2013’s beautiful and gloomy mobile game Badland is coming out at the end of May, developer Frogmind Games announced. Better yet, it’s coming to a bunch of new platforms: PS4, PS3, Vita, and Steam on May 26, Xbox One on May 29, and Wii U sometime in June. It’ll cost $12…

Classic RPG Grandia II is being remastered for Steam release. Chosen by fans via survey, the acclaimed GameArts role-playing game will be getting an HD touch-up from GungHo Online Entertainment based on the 2000 Dreamcast version. Grandia II was first released on PC back in 2002.

26 Years Later Jean-Claude Van Damme Remakes His Kickboxer Dance Scene

JCVD is still in good shape, and he proved it last night on Conan when he recreated a few minutes of VHS history: A dancing scene from his 1989 movie Kickboxer that didn’t really end well. The original scene from 26 years ago, with a different pair of angry dudes, is in the clip below…

Artist Lap Pun Cheung created a speed painting series featuring Final Fantasy VII’s most memorable moments. It was a 6-month-long project and he only finished it recently with Cloud & Co. finally facing Sepiroth. You can check all 130 paintings here. It’s quite the ride. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing…

App Monster Strike is getting both an anime and a Nintendo 3DS version in Japan, Famitsu reports.

Castlevania Successor Makes Over $1 Million In A Single Day

Koji Igarashi’s hustle to make a new Castlevania-style game has paid off: his spiritual successor to a series Konami keeps screwing up—because Konami is Konami—has in less than 24 hours made over $1 million on Kickstarter. Bloodstained was only asking for $500,000, so to have doubled that in one day means they’re on track to…

Skyrim D&D Probably Ruins TV, But That’s OK

So awpluke and some friends thought they’d spice their D&D game up by replacing a table with a flipped-over 50” TV. Then putting Skyrim on that TV. Running the flycam toggle (which gives you a birds-eye view), they could give their tablecloth/imaginations a break and play D&D on some pretty badass scenery. Moving all those…

You Can Play Pokemon Inside Minecraft

To think, in 2013 we’d get excited about people building Pokemon maps in Minecraft. In 2015, it takes a lot more than that: it takes recreating Pokemon systems in the game, from Pokeballs to the little (and big) pocket monsters themselves. Pixelmon has been around for years, but we’ve never written about it, so it’s…

What If Half-Life 3 Didn’t Star Gordon Freeman…

After all these years assuming we’d be finishing Gordon’s story, would the internet be ready for this? Actually, who cares, because this would be pretty great. Wake up and smell the ashes, Alyx… Image byGrobi-Grafik (via spyrale)

The Monday Stream Plays: The Binding of Isaac [It’s Over!]

It’s time to make Isaac cry. Or pee. Or poop. Whichever one helps me kill the monsters, really. I’m a big fan of roguelikes—they never get old. There’s always something new to discover, always something you haven’t experienced yet. And so I constantly find myself returning to games like The Binding of Isaac well after…

Five Things I Love About Heroes Of The Storm

Heroes of the Storm is finally coming out at the beginning of June. I’ve been playing Blizzard’s up-and-coming MOBA pretty much nonstop for the past few weeks, and have developed a lot of feelings about the game during its extended beta as a result. Let’s start with the positive ones. It lets you try stuff…

What Jason Voorhees Really Looks Like, According To Mortal Kombat

Huh. Not really what I was expecting! The image above was discovered by Test Your Might, and it’s the product of PC players tinkering with the game. While Jason Voorhees does wear a mask during the entirety of Mortal Kombat, Netherrealm Studios did render a face under there. A face that nobody was ever supposed…