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Walmart’s Finally Doing a Pre-Owned Game Trade-In Program
Next week, you’ll be able to take your old games to Walmart and trade them in. You’ll get credit for them—good for buying socks, giant liters of soda or cat food—but you won’t be getting cash. 3,100 stores across the U.S. will be kicking off the new trade-in program, Walmart announced in a conference call…
By Evan Narcisse Published March 18, 2014 -
Make Your Street Look Like Something Out Of The Last Of Us
Games like The Last of Us, Enslaved and Tokyo Jungle give us glimpses of what life would look like after people have all but disappeared. It’s often beautiful, but unless you live in one of the places shown in those games, it’s not exactly relevant. Urban Jungle, on the other hand, lets you add a…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 17, 2014 -
Not Every Game At GDC Is About Kissing Folks You Shouldn’t Be Kissing
We’ve got some reporters on the scene at this week’s big Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, but we’re also trying something new: we’ve got a cartoonist covering the show for us. Writer/artist Elizabeth Simins will be hanging out at GDC all week, filing comic strips each day to chronicle her adventures at the show.…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 17, 2014 -
Yes, You Can Complete Titanfall’s Campaigns Without Firing A Shot
Those who have played it already know this, but for those who haven’t, be aware that Titanfall’s “campaign” isn’t really deserving of the name. It’s there for…I have no idea, actually. Maybe they needed some flimsy sort of narrative to justify future action figures/cartoons/comics books? In terms of what it brings to the game, it…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 17, 2014 -
The New Godzilla Has…A Tiny Little Head
As it is with most modern movies, the first good look we’re getting at the star of the upcoming Godzilla flick is via an action figure. Sure, we’ve seen glimpses in the trailers, but nothing this crisp and clear. And…he looks pretty good! Very similar to his original design, though obviously with some changes, most…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 17, 2014 -
Short Horror Movie Will Make You Sleep With The Lights On, Forever
Swedish animator and filmmaker David F. Sandberg made this short horror flick a few months back, but it’s only just started getting some traction online in the last few days. With good reason. I normally can’t stand horror stuff, but this one was short enough to stomach. Once. After that, it’s all nope nope nope,…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 17, 2014 -
Titanfall sweded
By John Struan Published March 17, 2014 -
Crysis 3 boards by Chris Weston
By John Struan Published March 17, 2014 -
One minute of 16 Bit Titanfall gameplay.
By John Struan Published March 17, 2014 -
Watch Dogs Now Has A Scene Suggesting Sexual Violence
Watch Dogs’ delay hasn’t just meant months of bug squashing and fixes. The team also found the time to add some new content to the game, some of which has seen its rating bumped to adults-only in Australia. The original rating for the Watch Dogs due last year was MA15+, meaning only those over the…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 17, 2014 -
Xbox Executive Marc Whitten Leaving Microsoft After 14 Years
Microsoft just announced that Marc Whitten, Chief Product Officer of Xbox, will be leaving the company to take up a role with wireless audio company Sonos. The full statement is below: Following the launch of Xbox One, the most successful launch in Xbox history, and the recent launch of “Titanfall,” the most anticipated game of…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 17, 2014 -
The Stomping Lands: that DayZ-like survival game with dinosaurs is rolling out a bunch of updates about the game and its mechanics all week. For example: you’ll have to look up and use the stars to track down dinosaurs/pinpoint locations. You can read more about that here.
By Patricia Hernandez Published March 17, 2014 -
XCOM‘s Creator Wants To Make A New Strategy Game
Julian Gollop, the Bulgaria-based designed best known for creating the original XCOM game, has just launched a Kickstarter for a new “wizard tactics” game called Chaos Reborn Wizard tactics! Awesome. Here’s Gollop describing the game: Based on my cult classic ZX Spectrum game ‘Chaos’, first published in 1985 by Games Workshop, Chaos Reborn is part…
By Jason Schreier Published March 17, 2014 -
Campo Santo posted wallpapers in various resolutions of Olly Moss’s Firewatch key art
By John Struan Published March 17, 2014 -
All Work And No Play Makes Jack A Dull Boy
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack s dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dult boy. All work and no,play makes Jack a Dull Boy All Work and no play makes jack a dull boy. All wori and no play makes…
By Steve Marinconz Published March 17, 2014 -
Superman Needs To Wear A GoPro
Ever wonder what it would look like to fly faster than a speeding bullet? Well, the folks at CorridorDigital got their hands on a UAV with a camera and decided to use it to envision what it might look like if Superman spent a day wearing a camera on his head. The idea of seeing…
By Steve Marinconz Published March 17, 2014 -
Bumblebee Takes Command In The Next Transformers Animated Series
Arise, Bumblebee Prime? The tiny yellow Volkswagen that cost like $3 back in 1984 finally nabs a show-runner spot, as The Hub Network announces he’ll lead a fresh team of Autobots in a new Transformers animated series, in production for 2015. Picking up years after the Transformers: Prime series and the special Transformers Prime Beast…
By Mike Fahey Published March 17, 2014 -
Fan art of the newly revealed Street Fighter character Decapre
By John Struan Published March 17, 2014