When I was 10 years old I cared mainly about two things: hadoukens and jumping. I was also interested in some freelance adventuring if the situation required it. But that was it. Yet there’s only so much jumping a 10 year old can stomach, and hadoukens take a lot out of a youngster, so I…
Vlambeer’s Rami Ismail reminds the world in this piece – well, those of us in the English-speaking part of it, at least – that the fact we speak English has us at a big advantage when it comes to video games and the internet. Pointing towards the gaming industry’s almost total reliance on English (outside…
Before the internet became something everyone used, mods in PC gaming were a weird thing. This great RPS feature by Graham Smith takes a collection of Half-Life mods – available on a CD – and through them looks back at a time when mods were cruder, sillier and nowhere near the prevalent force they are…
Today, Microsoft released a trailer that, at first glance, may seem like it’s simply a video that showcases the slick design of the Xbox One hardware and interface. And really, that’s mostly what it is. But if you pay attention at the :51 second mark, you catch a quick nod to Halo 5: It’s just text.…
If you’re going to perform Zelda music, you might as well do so while standing in an epic desert. Here’s the latest from frequent video-game violin maestro Taylor Davis, who this time lends her talents to a rendition of “Bolero of Fire” from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Listen to the original here:
The Swampland: wanna see how a map in Titanfall is made? Check out this quick look of Swampland, a map that will be in Titanfall’s upcoming DLC, Expedition. You can also read more about the map here. The DLC will cost $9.99.
EVE Online is a mad melting pot of politics and $300,000 space ship battles, so what happens when it spills over into real life? RPS chronicled the insanity of EVE Fanfest in Iceland, which included a near-fight between the writer and EVE‘s most important player. It’s incredible, passion-fueled stuff. Read here
EVE Online is at least in part a game about space pirates. But it’s also a massive, teeming online ecosystem that often blurs the line between virtual and real-life experiences. So when you mess with EVE, it’s fair to say that you can expect to be met with swift and brutal justice both online and…
Some rumors are very, very fake. Others turn out to be true—and today’s Sunset Overdrive news adds yet more credence to a major Xbox leak from January that predicted a number of still-unannounced titles, including a remake of Halo 2 and a sequel to Forza Horizon In January, a user named “ntkrnl” on the message…
Look, we know you’re looking at a screen without the benefit of red and blue lenses right now. But don’t let that stop you from admiring that Chun Li artwork. It’s good, isn’t it? Every year, the Toronto Comics Arts Festival mounts a gallery show that has comics artists and professional illustrators creating work that…
Remember Steam’s tag feature, which lets users label games with anything they’d like—provided the tags aren’t abusive or spoilery? They’ve struck again, and this time, their target isCall of Duty. If you look at Call of Duty’s Steam page right now, you’ll come across this (click to expand to see the text clearly): Notice the…
I rarely get all that hyped while reading game previews, but Phil Owen’s recent preview of Insomniac’s open-world Xbox One action game Sunset Overdrive was an exception. Now we can watch it in action, and it does indeed look like a hell of a lot of fun. Basically, some sorta mixture of Dead Rising, Infamous…
Epic Games is making a new Unreal Tournament game, they announced today on their livestream. It’ll be developed in collaboration with fans, and it’ll be free. That’s not free-to-play, Epic promises. Free. No microtransactions here—Epic’s cut will come from the community marketplace, where fans can sell what they make in the new Unreal Tournament, and…
Are we (finally) getting a new Unreal Tournament game? We’ll find out at 2pm Eastern, when the folks at Epic Games promise they’ll be talking about “the future of Unreal Tournament.” They’re also gonna talk some more about Unreal Engine 4 and virtual reality in general. The whole thing will be streamed live on Twitch—watch…
We’ve got a slew of great discounted peripherals for you today, starting with the CM Storm Quickfire Rapid for $70. This was one of your six contenders for best gaming keyboard, and it saves significant desk space by going tenkeyless. We’re linking to the brown switches, but you can add $1 to get the blacks,…
Sailor Scouts are normally tough gals, what with the fighting evil by moonlight thing, but that doesn’t mean they can’t be even more badass. Case in point: this wonderful punk Sailor Moon cosplay. These pictures taken by Vivid Vision show a group of friends at the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo—and yes, there are individual…
Are you one of the people that’s been annoyed by the fact that the DualShock 4’s light bar never turns off? Well, Sony has finally clued us in to why the PlayStation 4 developers decided not to allow gamers to conserve battery life and their own sanity by sticking an “off” switch on the thing.…
Meet the cast of Watch Dogs in this all-new trailer. There are a lot of guns in the clip above, no? The open-world hacking action game comes out this month.
Remember Pixel Press, the beautiful sounding app that promises to let you create your own video games by simply drawing them? Well, the thing has successfully completed its metamorphosis from an idealistic Kickstarter project into an actual thing that people can use. Huzzah! Now wouldn’t it be great it that happened more often?
Originally planned for a 2014 release, free-running zombie apocalypse game Dying Light is now being aimed at a February release next year. A post on the game’s official site says that developer Techland is taking more time to make Dying Light live up to their expectations.
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