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Nintendo: All These Sequels Don’t Mean We’re ‘Playing It Safe’

In a season of new Mario Karts and Donkey Kong Country games Nintendo hears the calls from supporters and critics to make something new. Their answer: we’re already doing it. I don’t believe in writing things I wouldn’t say to the faces of the people I’m writing about, so after writing on Kotaku last week…

This Might Be The Closest We’re Getting To A Final Fantasy VII Remake

Rendered with the Unreal Development Kit, digital artist Laggyzaki‘s remake of one of the most memorable locations in Final Fantasy VII—the Sector 5 church in Midgar—should make everyone nostalgic and wonder how the rest of the game would look in high definition. It’s a pretty accurate replica of the original. All that’s missing is Aeris…

To ease the pain that Just Cause 3 is still not on the radar, here’s a picture of a completely normal scene fromJust Cause 2. Another ordinary day for Rico Rodriguez on Panau Island.

Better Come to This XCOM Prequel With a Plan. Or Aliens Will Kill You.

The developers at 2K Marin working on The Bureau: XCOM Declassified say that they’re going to be throwing serious challenge at you. And from what I played a few months ago, this 1962-set prequel to last year’s hit release isn’t the kind of game that you just coast through. Good thing this newest trailer covers…

Hotline Miami 2 Turns the Violence Up a Notch in This Creepy Teaser

Devolver Digital has officially announced the sequel to last year’s bloody and surreal top-down action game, Hotline Miami The game, subtitled Wrong Number, will let you take control of several different characters with their own, distinct storylines as you slaughter your way through the new levels. And, of course, there will be new weapons. Check…

This Musical Tribute to WoW Is Equal Parts Funny and Heartwarming

A “We Are The World”-inspired music video about World of Warcraft featuring Jimmy Fallon, Felicia Day, Chris Hardwick, and Leeroy Jenkins. Need I say more? The crew of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon created the video as a tribute to “one of the greatest games of all time.” It, of course, automatically becomes a tribute…

Capcom’s Two Classic Arcade Titles, Reborn on Modern Consoles

The sleek side-scrolling action-RPG you can see above is Capcom’s Chronicles of Mystara, an updated re-release and bundle of two of their older arcade games, Tower of Doom and Shadow over Mystara In addition to reworking the graphics, Capcom also included a bevy of new features, including drop-in/drop-out co-op for four players, a House Rules…

Knack is as Charming as Ever on Late-Night TV

Upcoming PS4-exclusive family-oriented action game Knack was the focus of the PS4’s (and Mark Cerny’s) appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon earlier tonight. There was much rejoicing. A good experience, overall: Fallon and the audience had a great time, and we also got to know that Knack is actually an homage to the Stay…

Don’t Update Your PS3 Today! [Update: Firmware Pulled]

As of, oh, right now, there should be a prompt on your PS3 asking you to upgrade to 4.45. Whatever you do, don’t accept it. Not yet, anyway. We’ve started getting reports from some readers that the update is bricking their system, locking their consoles on the boot-up “ribbon” screen, and a thread on Sony’s…

Books All About The Games You (Well, Some People) Love

You can read plenty of books about video games, but there aren’t many books all about one individual video game. Which is exactly why Boss Fight books want to step in and fix that. Boss Fight wants to be “the 33 1/3 of video games”, bringing together passionate authors to write a whole book about…

An Entire British Town Has Been Turned Into A Zelda Map

As part of the Switch Fringe festival in Ipswich, England, artist The Decibel Kid drew this map of the city to help attendees find their way around and track down shows and events. While most aspects are actual parts of Ipswich rendered in 16-bit style, keep your eyes out for the odd Nintendo cameo, like…

A Game Whose Patch Notes Are Actually Worth Reading

Indie stealth-puzzler Gunpoint hassome of the best achievements going around, but did you know it also has some of the best patch notes? Normally something to be ignored, or at best glanced over, creator Tom Francis obviously found enough spare time between counting dollar bills to write patch notes that sound like they were written…

Nintendo Is Releasing A Free-To-Play Game

Yup. You can wail “SAY IT AIN’T SO”, but Nintendo can easily wail back – if they ever decided to begin wailing directly to consumers – “THE TIMES THEY ARE A CHANGIN'”. Speaking with IGN at E3 last week, Nintendo designer Shigeru Miyamoto revealed that the company’s first foray into the business model, popular with…

Steam Might Soon Let You Share Your Games With Your Friends

You can lend your friends a console disc. You can not lend them a game you buy on Steam. Or at least, you haven’t been able to previously. That might soon be about to change. Some code buried in the latest Steam client beta (pictured above), first spotted by NeoGAF poster Grief.exe but which I…

A Million More Reasons Why Blanka Sucks

I’m sure it’s a familiar story. You or your friend gets a Super Nintendo with Street Fighter II. A horde of friends bumrush your house to play. One little bastard always figured out how Blanka’s electricity move didn’t he? And proceeded to dominate everyone before we figured out how to Hadouken. Screw that kid. Ever…

The Last Of Us Turned Into A Six-Hour “Movie”

This is a six-hour video that shows you most of The Last Of Us, beginning to end. It’s achieved by recording linear gameplay (no dawdling or getting stuck or dying) and including all the cutscenes and story elements. Why would you watch this, when half the fun is playing through the game’s combat and exploration?…

The Official LEGO Movie Looks Amazing, Guys

This is the real deal. A real LEGO movie. It’s out next year. Just when you thought Hollywood would go the inevitable shiny and obvious CG route, they surprise us with this. It looks great! 1980’s Space Guy!

This LEGO Star Wars Trench-Run Is One In A Million

While I’m impressed by the attention to detail in this re-creation of Star Wars‘ iconic last ditch torpedo-shot (as displayed at the Brickworld LEGO convention and photographed by Peter Mowry), I’m almost more impressed with how effectively it captures the mess of grey junk that covers the exterior of the Death Star. The full LEGO…

MIT developed this program which allows users to interface with a 3D character that judges your body language—it’s called MACH and it’s meant to help you socialize better. Reminds me of project Milo a little bit—can you imagine having games where the characters can read your body language like this? It’s probably coming, judging from…

Goodbye, GameCube Controller. It’s Been Fun.

Like any Smash Bros. fan, I’ve taken in the news of a Wii U iteration with great joy. Look at the awesome new characters! No tripping? Hooray! It’ll find a sweet spot between casual and hardcore play? Excellent! And yet, there’s a tinge of melancholy about it all: the Wii U doesn’t have a GameCube…