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This is What the Unreal Engine 4 Can Do For Skeletons, Fedoras, and a Game That’s $300,000 Short

Project Awakened is supposed to be a big open-world action game that lets you play as any super-hero you could dream up. But it’s $300,000 short of its Kickstarter goal with just five days to go. That’s probably why we now get to see a glimpse of what the next-gen Unreal Engine 4 could do…

Beyond: Two Souls Is Coming October 8th, Just Got Dafoe’d

Sony has just revealed that Beyond: Two Souls will be bringing its innumerable polygons to PS3 on October 8th. The announcement eschews any mention of PS4, but does have some extra flavor. Dafoe flavor. Yes, the rumor that Willem Dafoe is part of Quantic Dream’s ambitious title is true, despite David Cage’s denial of the…

Tons of Games Are Coming Out This Month So You Want This $150

March is shaping up to be one of the biggest months in gaming in recent memory. Bioshock Infinite? Check. Tomb Raider? Check. Even more Walking Dead? You get it. Now you just have to, you know, buy the games and shut yourself up in your room until April. At least it’ll be warm when you…

A Fascinating Point-And-Click Adventure Bogged Down By Crap

Cognition is a frustrating game to play. Not just because the fundamentals are frustrating—and they are frustrating—but because there’s so much good stuff buried underneath them. I love the tone, the music, the characters. I just can’t get past how clunky it all feels. Let’s start from the beginning: Cognition is a point-and-click episodic adventure…

This Is Why We Need More Black People Making Video Games

When I traded correspondence with writer David Brothers last week, I made the argument that video games needs its equivalent to Blazing Saddles. This time, I’m saying that it could use its own version of Milestone Media, the groundbreaking comics company started by a crew of black professionals. In the previous piece, we spent much…

After A Tease Like This, Square Enix Had Sure As Hell Better Release Bravely Default In The West

Japanese developer/publisher/dream-ruiner Square Enix has become rather infamous for launching teasers and countdown clocks that get fans’ hopes wayyy up, only to crush them later. Social games without music. Mobile games that only exist to take your money. That sort of thing. So when I saw this message on the official Twitter account for Bravely…

This Week’s iPad Charts: Buzz Lightyear Versus Predator

A battle of truly intergalactic proportions wages in this week’s paid iPad app charts, as Disney’s newly-released Toy Story: Smash It! debuts in the top spot and AVP: Evolution claws its way towards the top of the food chain. It’s the movie crossover I’d love to see. The Toy Story film franchise is spectacular, but…

The Witcher 3 Looks Ready for the PS4 in These New Screenshots

CD Projekt Red told us they were making a new engine before they told us what it was being used for. Of course, it was pretty easy to guess that The Witcher 3 was the big mystery title that RedEngine 3 was going to power. And now we’re getting a look at the open-world that…

If You Think Good Graphics Make Characters Worth Caring About, You’re Probably Insane

Last week, when the folks behind Killzone went on Jimmy Fallon’s late night show to talk PS4, they said something that stuck with me. In response to Fallon’s question about what the PS4’s impressive memory could do for developers, Guerilla Games boss Herman Hulst answered with a great deal of enthusiasm. He said it allows…

Oh Good, a Getting Bitten By a Venomous Snake Simulator

There has got to be a better way to obtain snake juice in order to produce antivenom than poking at them with your finger until they get angry enough to bite your face off. It’s right there in the name of this free frightening iPad game—Killer Snake. Not Fluffy Snake. Not Mr. Cuddly McTouch-Hims. Killer…

Metro: Last Light is out on May 14 and May 17 in North America and elsewhere, respectively. Keep your flashlights handy!

This Must Be the Coolest University Graduation Ceremony on Earth

Think your graduation was cool? Maybe it was. Maybe it was totally gnarly. But, I’ll tell you what, I’m pretty damn sure Sailor Moon didn’t roll in and a red Pikmin didn’t stroll up on stage. Oh, and there probably wasn’t a large Wii Remote, nor was there a large Xperia phone. Call it a…

You Had One Job, and You Screwed Up “Naruto”

It’s “Naruto”. Not “Nartuo”. N-A-R-U-T-O. Naruto This was noticed earlier this week by Rich at IGN, and as far as embarrassing box art misspellings go, “Nartuo” tops Resident Evil: Revelaitons Revelations Someone at Namco Bandai had one job to do! Only one! At least they got “Shippuden” right. And “Powerful,” for that matter. Namco is…

Batman and The Pope: sister site Jalopnik makes a comparison

Today’s Best “Gameplay” Trailer Comes Courtesy Of Total War: Rome II

It’s not actual gameplay. There’s no HUD, no mouse cursor. But at least give Creative Assembly credit for releasing a cutscene for Total War: Rome II that’s made up entirely of in-game assets, something they did to good effect in Shogun 2 As this series evolves, I get the feeling Creative Assembly are some of…

A Portal Bathroom Would Probably Call You Fat

Cartoonist Stephen Lester is “currently on a mission to fill his home with vintage video games and video game memorabilia”. Part of that involves his guest bathroom, which is becoming a themed shrine to Valve’s Portal series. Colour-coded and filled with merch, it’s… certainly… something. Especially since I’m pretty sure that’s a talking Cave Johnson…

Sweet Dark Souls Posters Look Suitably Satisfying

Crowsmack has the walls of Dark Souls fans in mind with these two vintage-inspired posters based on the game, which are available as prints here

Zelda X Pokémon, If It Looked Like This, Would Probably Shift A Unit Or Two

Artist Finni Chang does what Nintendon’t. Pairing the pocket monsters with Nobunaga’s Ambition was a total waste when they could have been combined with Zelda instead. These sweet-as-pie illustrations are, if you’re that into them, also available as prints. $15 will get you one, while $25 will get you all three. Legend of Zelda x…

Amazing Camera Footage From John Carmack’s Latest Rocket Launch

id Software legend John Carmack doesn’t just work technical wonders and make great games. He also spends a lot of time (and money) on Armadillo Aerospace, an amateur outfit that is trying to make a space rocket that, instead of flying into space never to be seen again, can be re-used. Last month, Armadillo’s latest…

You Can Take One Game With You To A Desert Island. What Is It?

My wife asked me this the other day, and what I thought was a pretty inane question actually turned into an absolute mind-tearer. Why? Because I wouldn’t take my favourite game. That game is Wind Waker. I love it with every ounce of my heart, but faced with the prospect of playing only one game…