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Rayman Jungle Run Brings an All-New Bunch of Lush Cartooniness to Mobile in September

The visuals for last year’s Rayman Origins were a feast for the eyes. Its soundtrack was super-awesome, too. Who could play something that fun, that pretty, that sonically inspired and not want more. Not me, dammit. So I’m excited that the limbless wonder will headlining an all-new mobile game that looks exactly like Origins Out…

Bust Your Neck On 36 New Trials Evolution Tracks

Today Ubisoft teased the Origin of Pain DLC pack coming to Trials Evolution this fall on XBLA for 400 Microsoft Points. If the user-generated maps weren’t enough for you, this DLC pack brings you 36 new tracks, as well as new editor objects to play around with and a new BMX bike to ride around…

Let’s See All The Cool New Stuff In The StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm Beta

This is what I’m doing today while I wait for Blizzard to extend me an invitation to the beta for StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm. Watching other people play StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm Here’s Husky, one of my favorite YouTubers and one of the best announcers in eSports, playing and talking over…

PS2 KillzoneIs Getting an HD Upgrade For PS3

Sony will release a boxed set of all three console Killzone games on October 23 for $40, the company revealed today, saying the first one, which was made for the PlayStation 2, will be getting a 720p upgrade. This is just the latest in PS3 bundles. Previously, Sony has sold God of War, Ratchet &…

See the Origins of Dishonored’s Awesomely Ominous Game Design in This New Trailer

Dishonored is promising a lot. The upcoming first-person game from Arkane Studios will supposedly offer up its stealth, strategy and combat options in accordance to how you want to play the game. In this new trailer, Arkane leads Harvey Smith and Rafaël Colantonio are joined by their fellow creators to talk about making Dishonored‘s world…

This Week’s Nintendo Download Travels Back in Time For A Classic Version of Prince of Persia. Also: Goat-Stacking.

Listen, I love Prince of Persia. With all that lovely animation and derring-do, Jordan Mechner’s adventure games are well-loved for good reason. For those wanting to re-visit PoP’s charms, the Wii Virtual Console get the 1992 SNES version. But, guys: this Crazy Hunter game that appears in this week’s Nintendo Download looks absolutely bizarre. Apparently…

Skyrim‘s New DLC Is Great—If You Like Doing Chores

There are four types of video game players, says Richard Bartle: the Explorer, the Socializer, the Killer, and the Achiever. The names are rather self-explanatory: the Explorer loves to wander; the Socializer loves to chat; the Killer loves to compete; and the Achiever loves to rack up points and trophies, even when they might seem…

Mike Fahey is out this morning! So in his place, there’s this. Go to 5:14—watch it!

In This Assassin’s Creed, You Build Cities and Then FIGHT

There have been a bunch of those Assassin’s Creed spin-off games. But this newly revealed one offers a new spin. It’s a strategy sim. Dubbed Assassin’s Creed: Utopia, the game is set during America’s colonial era and allows players to build their 17th century colony—and then, watch it flourish over 150 years, right up to…

Listen To This Gravelly Voice Talk Up Trials Evolution

Trials Evolution is heading to the PC nearly next year. It’s optimized for the PC—and some other stuff. I wasn’t really paying attention, but focused more on trying to imitate this raspy voice. Triaals Evoluution. Nope, still can’t do it!

New Call of Juarez Is Called “Gunslinger”, But You’re a Bounty Hunter

There’s a new Call of Juarez game in town. It’s dubbed Call of Juarez: Gunslinger. Here’s the game’s debut trailer, which features actors. Good thing this is a movie! Oh wait. In Gunslinger, players are a bounty hunter out to get folks like Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, Jesse James, etc. Gameplay brings back the…

Maybe “Bad” Games Are Just Lacking In Confidence

Renaud Charpentier, of Total War devs Creative Assembly, may have a point. So many “bad” games, which to be fair most people would call simply “average”, aren’t offensively terrible. They’re just boring. Bland. “Competent”. The ones that stick with us, even if they don’t play so well, stick with us for a reason. Like, say,…

A Second, Very Brief Look at Insomniac’s Next Big Game

Resistance and Ratchet & Clank developers Insomniac took to the spotlight at E3 2011 and revealed Overstrike. A game that we’ve basically not seen since. Well, it’s back, and with a new name, and once I stop thinking it sounds like the name of a racing game, I’m sure everything will be just fine. This…

One of the PC’s Best Strategy Games is Coming to the iPad [Update: No It’s Not!]

As hinted at a month ago, Paradox Interactive, masters of the big PC strategy game, will be shrinking one down for play on something a little more portable. Hearts of Iron, the company’s big World War Two series, will be hitting the iPad on October 4. Those wondering just how it’s been shrunk down, there’s…

A Giant Desert Party For Fans of Fallout, Wasteland, RAGE, etc.

Well, not just for you. Fans of Wasteland, RAGE, Borderlands or any other game set in a post-apocalyptic desert are more than catered for at Wasteland Weekend, which will be held in the Mojave Desert at the end of the month. While originally conceived as a Mad Max-inspired event, it’s since taken on wider influences,…

First Footage of Wasteland 2 Stares a Robot Scorpion in the Face

Until now, we’d only seen artwork and a screenshot of the upcoming Wasteland sequel, but here’s your first look at the game in motion. OK, so there’s not much motion at all, and the scene in question is the same from the screenshot, but the point of this was to show off the game’s various…

Welcome To The Last Of Us’ Jungle In This Giant Gameplay Demo

Naughty Dog’s presentation of The Last of Us at PAX over the weekend ran for over fifteen minutes, and contained plenty of new footage for the upcoming game about post-apocalyptic interpersonal relationships / surviving hordes of angry plant people. It’ll be out next year.

Phoenix Wright is Back in These First Ace Attorney 5 Screenshots

Scans? Who needs ’em when you’ve got actual screenshots of the newest entry in the Ace Attorney series, which not only sees the return of Phoenix Wright, but marks the series’ first foray into 3D visuals. These official images, released by Capcom, are a mix of artwork and in-game shots, showing the game’s new 3D…

Glenn Beck vs One of The World’s Most Famous Game Creators

Conservative pundit Glenn Beck has his fans, but famed video game developer Warren Spector reportedly isn’t one of them. Talking on his radio show earlier this week, Beck recounts the tale of when one of his staffers ran into the Deus Ex and System Shock legend at the recent GameStop Manager’s Conference (the employee also…

David Byrne + St. Vincent + Saxophones. Oh, Yeah.

This new video from Talking Heads frontman David Byrne and wicked good looper/singer/music-maven St. Vincent is my jam. I mean… two of my favorite singers and a whole full-on sax-section groove. It’s like they’re trying to kill me with awesomeness. Best of all, you can preview the whole album, “Love This Giant” over at NPR.…