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Batman: Arkham Knight Delayed To 2015
“Awesome takes time,” the ever-ebullient Dax Ginn recently told a group of reporters in explaining why his studio’s new Batman game, the first from Rocksteady since 2011, is no longer scheduled for a late-2014 release. If this news sounds a wee bit familiar, it’s because a whole bunch of games seem to be slipping to…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 3, 2014 -
Darksiders’ Creators Are Making An 1800’s-Themed Co-op Shooter
Crytek USA’s debut title will be a third-person co-op game. With 1800’s guns and 1800’s zombies. The game is called HUNT, and it features a band of four badasses whose sole job is to hunt down dangerous creatures. They do so in procedurally generated encounters, on procedurally generated levels, as they occasionally come across the…
By András Neltz Published June 3, 2014 -
First Person Smash Bros. Is Just As Gruesome As You Might Think
Dodging and edge-hogging would be 100% more dramatic in Smash Bros. with a first-person view. YouTuber pipocaVFX gives us a sneak-peek featuring Link, the Master Hand and a scary third special someone at the end. We’re lucky that the clip is not from Super Smash Bros. Wii U. I just don’t want to see Animal…
By Gergo Vas Published June 3, 2014 -
Popular Manga, Redesigned For Children
Artist Matt Reedy‘s ongoing project, Little Golden Manga transforms popular manga titles into children’s books, as if they were part of the classic Little Golden Books series. Here’s Attack on Titan, Death Note and FLCL. Well, the Colossal Titan might look peaceful now, but the smaller ones are still scary as hell: Matt Reedy [Behance,…
By Gergo Vas Published June 3, 2014 -
A LEGO Batman Love Story
If you’ve got a spare seven minutes to end the day with, here’s a touching love story in which two people are brought together by something a little sweeter than a desire to avenge the murder of a young boy’s parents. The short is called Lichen and, DISCLAIMER, was actually made by a friend of…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 3, 2014 -
Girls Claim Slender Man Is Real, Accused Of Stabbing Friend 19 Times
Two 12-year-old girls from Waukesha, Wisconsin are facing attempted murder charges following a brutal attack on one of their classmates. An attack they say was inspired by their devotion to internet horror myth Slender Man. The accused, Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier, are alleged to have invited a friend over for a sleepover, during which…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 2, 2014 -
The Human Body Has Trouble Gaming For 90+ Hours, It Seems
Neal “Koibu” Erickson once played video games for 90 hours straight. Since that obviously wasn’t enough, he recently tried to game for 120 hours straight Some would call this endurance, others would call it madness. Erickson calls it progress. “I feel like if I’m not doing things that are better, or more challenging, I’m not…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 2, 2014 -
Classic PC Game Gets First Upgrade In Two Years
PC roguelike…building sim…thingDwarf Fortress has been out since 2006. And it’s about to get its first update in over two years. That’s staying power. Not that people already playing it will be surprised. See, Dwarf Fortress is not your average game. The developers, Bay 12, don’t see it as something that’ll ever be “done”. It’s…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 2, 2014 -
EA Game Sale Makes Fun Of Steam
If you visit the Origin homepage right now, this is the first thing you’ll see. And when the bulk of Steam jokes run with the premise of people buying a ton of cheap games that you’ll never play, this ad seems like a clear jab at Steam. Maybe the entire thing seems ludicrous to you,…
By Patricia Hernandez Published June 2, 2014 -
The Wii U Just Got A Little Better
An update for the Wii U, bringing the system to v5.0.o, is rolling out right now. If you’re sick of waiting for the console’s menu to load every time you boot up the system, you’ll be happy with it. It finally implements a “quick launch” menu, which lets you jump straight back into the last…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 2, 2014 -
Frozen, Done In The Style of Call of Duty Videos
Even beloved Frozen can lend itself to the Call of Duty montage style, provided few key changes—namely, adding dubsteb, obnoxious cuts, horns, and silly text. The result of the transformation is hilarious, as this video made by MemeMaster420 shows. I appreciate that it doesn’t just make some bad Doritos joke either—instead, it also incorporates jokes…
By Patricia Hernandez Published June 2, 2014 -
New Battlefield Game’s Footage Leaks. It Has POLICE BIKES.
YouTube user Freddy Dance has posted what he claims to be footage from a beta for the upcoming Battlefield: Hardline. You know. The Battlefield game with cops in it. This is the second clip to have leaked from the game, the first being an early trailer that was six months old. This is obviously much…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 2, 2014 -
Valve’s VR Headset Looks (And Sounds) Really Cool
Oculus isn’t the only virtual reality headset in town. Valve has been working on its own VR unit, and t’s come a long way since we first saw it back in 2012. Back then, it was as prototype as a prototype unit could get. Fast forward to 2014 and it’s looking a lot more polished.…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 2, 2014 -
Grown Man Impersonates 151 Pokémon
Brock Baker is a man of many voices. In this case 151 of them. Like the dude says, he doesn’t exactly fit the demographic of an actual Pokemon voice actor, so it’s quite the achievement. If you want to see more of Brock’s work, here’s a compilation of Simpsons characters he took a swing at…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 2, 2014 -
Hearthstone Can Be Cruel
When you replace some of the cards in your hand at the start of a Hearthstone match, you expect new cards. What are the chances that you get pretty much the exact same hand back, you think? Well, it happened to at least one guy who goes by the handle Scolarion. Granted, what he gets…
By Patricia Hernandez Published June 2, 2014 -
Mortal Kombat X Wishlist
There’s a newMortal Kombat? Cool. I’ve invited a handful of Mortal Kombat fans for a chat about what they’d like to see in the newly-announced Mortal Kombat X. They’re hashing it out below. Note: I’m using this post, in part, to test a new “invitation” system that lets us automatically feature certain people’s comments. The…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 2, 2014 -
Butt Animations Have Gone Too Far
Those playing through WildStar, the new science fiction MMO by Carbine Studios, might’ve noticed something a little, err, lively about the way certain character’s butts sway. Spotted this weekend by game critic Rowan Kaiser, it seems the walking animations for the Mordesh (which are space zombies in WildStar) are quite the thing to behold: Here’s…
By Patricia Hernandez Published June 2, 2014 -
Surviving The Forest, The Hottest Game On Steam Right Now
Let me tell you a little story about my adventure trying to stay alive in The Forest, a fantastic new open world survival game that is currently the top-selling game on Steam. This isn’t a happy tale, but I hope it gives you a good sense of what playing The Forest is like. Note that…
By Patricia Hernandez Published June 2, 2014 -
Let Console Gamers Choose Between Frame Rate And Resolution
We once asked our readers which they felt more strongly about, a speedy frame rate or a higher video resolution. The results were mixed — mixed enough that it makes absolutely no sense that console gamers aren’t allowed even a fraction of the control over video settings that PC gamers are. This is one of…
By Mike Fahey Published June 2, 2014 -
Some Players Are Hunting Down Minorities In Watch Dogs
Ubisoft’s latest open world game, Watch Dogs, lets players assume the role of a hacker named Aiden Pearce. Pearce uses a cellphone app to learn more about the strangers roaming Watch Dogs’ version of Chicago—and some players are using this information to kill digital minorities. If you’ve seen screenshots or footage of Watch Dogs, then…
By Patricia Hernandez Published June 2, 2014