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This Assassin’s Creed Heroine Is a Great Black Game Character. Here’s How It Happened.

The odds should’ve been against Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation. It starred a woman—specifically the half-black, half-French heroine Aveline du Grandpre. And it was an exclusive on the PlayStation Vita, a system that many people see as a sadly under-supported platform. But Liberation shipped a very strong 600,000 units, according to Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot. Sure,…

Square Enix has trademarked the name Deus Ex: Human Defiance in Europe. What do you think? Sequel? Remake? Spinoff?

Oh Yes, Persona Cosplay Is Pure Magic

Megami Tensei spin-off series Persona looks great. Its characters are cool. Their clothes are cool. Persona is cool. So, it’s pretty easy to see why fans love cosplaying as characters from the Persona games—especially Persona 3 and Persona 4. As we do every Wednesday, here’s a round-up of some—not all—of the best Persona cosplay the…

A Game About A Dude Who Sleepwalks Looks A Lot Cooler Than It Sounds

Bob sleepwalks. It’s a hazard, both in the real world and his dreamworld, so it’s lucky he has his subconscious—Subob—there to help. And you to control Subob. That’s the basic premise of Back to Bed, a game made by a bunch of Danish indies who, having knocked out a rough version of the game in…

An Admirable Attempt To Explain Why Gamers “Love” Company Executives

It’s one of the strangest things I’ve ever seen in this job, especially when you consider so many gamers spend so much of their time loathing the companies they represent. But when it comes to the actual men and women running giant video game publishers, there’s a lot of love in the house. We saw…

These guys have plans to make custom pinball machines featuring the work of top artists. Please help

The WarZ Is Back On Steam After A Forced Vacation

Let’s be kind and say The WarZ had a rough launch. A very rough launch. And that’s being very kind Things got so bad for the zombie survival game that it had to be removed from Steam, essentially because the game that was being promised was not the game people were actually paying for Well,…

Indie Devs Ask For $150,000 For A Single Game Character, Get It In Under 24 Hours

That escalated quickly. When Skullgirls developers Lab Zero Games asked for $150,000 to create a single new character for the game, they were initially met with some scoffs. Scoffs that mean absolutely nothing now, because the game’s fans, knowing how much work actually goes into creating a fighting game character, have responded with open hearts…

The First Tomb Raider Had Some Outstanding Menu Music

In place of the Off Topic post tonight, I thought I’d post this music. I was reminded of this excellent theme when watching those GamePro TV episodes from earlier. Man, I loved the theme to the first Tomb Raider. Listening to this was an extreme nostalgia trip. What other 90s games had menu music that…

The Other Side of that Supposed Assassin’s Creed IV Poster is a Map

A poster that’s turned up online today, seemingly showing the title and main character of the next Assassin’s Creed game, appears to have two sides. You’ve seen the front, of course, but here’s what a tipster says is the back. As you could probably guess from the piratical theme, the image would suggest the game…

Super Smash Bros. Is Amazing, Even If It Doesn’t Make All Fighting Game Fans Happy

Here’s ReallyFreakinClever with an earnest video about the merits of Nintendo’s Super Smash Bros. You may not agree with all of it; I didn’t. But I think he’s on-point when he lauds the accessibility of the franchise, particularly when compared to the fighting game genre as a whole (though that’s improving nowadays). Then again, I…

Hogwarts Comes To Life In This Incredible 400,000-Brick LEGO Diorama

Last year, Alice Finch won “best in show” at BrickCon for her enormous recreation of Harry Potter’s Hogwarts. As she should have. Because it might be the most impressive LEGO construction ever made by a single person. The exterior shot you see above is good enough, but it’s when you open it up and see…

Minority Report interfaces & touchscreen controls look cool, but are they as useful or futuristic as we think they are?

The Most Hilarious Sports Game Glitches, Now In Motion

The constant progression of annual sport titles has another advantage besides the games getting more and more realistic every year. It creates moments where the players go nuts—suddenly, our ordinary game turns itself into Dragon Ball Z or Super Smash TV. We selected below a few of these from the last few years’ FIFA, NHL…

THQ Selling Off Darksiders, Homeworld, Red Faction And Anything Else Of Value

After the big auction for its top-shelf intellectual property and game studios last month, the bones of former publishing giant THQ have announced that the company’s remaining franchises are now to be sold as part of a “court-approved sales process.” The series up for grabs include Darksiders, Homeworld, Red Faction and Destroy All Humans! Final…

Persona 2: Eternal Punishment Is Out On PSN Today

Persona 2: Eternal Punishment, the second-second game in Atlus’s twisted demonic series, is out on the PlayStation Network today. A brief explanation: Persona 2 is actually two games: Innocent Sin and Eternal Punishment. Both were released on PlayStation, then re-released for the PSP. While the PSP remake of Innocent Sin was brought to North America,…

Straight From The Future, It’s Crysis Running On A VR Headset

Well, actually not the future. The present. See, when first they announced the Oculus Rift VR headset, I thought, “Oh, virtual reality. I liked The Lawnmower Man. This should be weird.” Then, modder Nathan Andrews got the headset working with Half-Life 2, and I thought, “Oh, wow. Okay. I’d love to use this thing.” Now…

Rayman Legends Was Supposed to Be Out Today on Wii U. But, Hey, Here’s a Silver Lining.

Those of us who got Wii U systems last November were supposed to reach an oasis today in our crawl through the machine’s oh-so-typical year-one software desert. We were supposed to be playing the sidescroller Rayman: Legends right now. We’re not. The game was recently, painfully delayed to the fall. If it reduces the sting…

This Star Wars Pinball Adaptation is a Tour de Force

E3 is never a time for social calls. It’s nonstop work. Last June, the only developer I met with outside the walls of the L.A. Convention Center was over drinks with Zen Studios’ U.S. staff at the J.W. Marriott. They’d built a great name for themselves with Pinball FX2, and their profile shot through the…

Etrian Odyssey IV Is Beating The Crap Out Of Me, And I Love It

Sometimes the pain just hurts so good. Etrian Odyssey IV, I love to hate you. The fourth game in the Etrian Odyssey series is much like all of the rest: intricate, challenging, and unabashedly hardcore. It hits you really hard, but that’s okay, because you know you love it. I’ve spent the weekend with Etrian…