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The People Behind Infamous Are Making A Samurai Game
Sucker Punch, the studio behind Infamous and Sly Cooper, has announced a new game. Ghost Of Tsushima, coming to the Playstation 4 focuses on feudal samurai. It has been three years since Sucker Punch’s previous game, the Playstation 4 title Infamous Second Son. A self dubbed “action, stealth adventure game,” Ghost Of Tsushima will feature…
By Heather Alexandra Published October 30, 2017 -
Spelunky 2 Announced
Hope you’re ready for some more adventuring, because Mossmouth just announced Spelunky 2 for the PS4. The first Spelunky, as many of you know, was a beloved indie platformer with randomly generated levels and many, many secrets. This time around, one of the available characters will actually be the kid of the protagonist from the…
By Patricia Hernandez Published October 30, 2017 -
Watch The Big PlayStation Press Conference Right Here [UPDATE: Over]
Today at 11am ET, Sony is holding a press conference from Paris Games Week that the folks behind PlayStation say will include “seven all-new game announcements for PS4 and PS VR.” Sony will also be showing new stuff from the company’s slate of games for 2018 and beyond. UPDATE (12:45pm): And it’s over. From Sucker…
By Jason Schreier Published October 30, 2017 -
Last Year’s Nintendo Halloween Costume Gets A Logical Follow Up
In 2016, the dad from YouTube channel RuiRei Channel created a Famicom console costume to wear with his twin sons. This year, they’re back with the totally logical follow up: a Super Famicom costume. Like last year, the family designed and built the costume, which was dubbed “Super Fami Oyako” (スーファミ親子) or “Super Fami Parent…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 30, 2017 -
Attack On Titan Season 3 Airing In Summer 2018
Over the weekend, the Attack on Titan anime’s third season was announced. It begins broadcasting in Japan starting July 2018. Studio Wit will once again be handling the animation duties. Hopefully season three won’t be delayed like season two was! The English language (subbed or dubbed) isn’t yet confirmed, but it should be broadcasted simultaneously…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 30, 2017 -
Total Nintendo Switch Sales Might Surpass The Wii U’s By Next April [Update]
As of September 30, Nintendo has sold 13.56 million Wii U consoles worldwide since it was released in 2012. By next April, the Kyoto-based game company is forecasting that it will have sold 14 million Switches. The Nintendo Switch launched on March 3 of this year, so by April 2018, the hardware will have been…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 30, 2017 -
Hayao Miyazaki Announced The Title Of His Last Film
This weekend, Hayao Miyazaki revealed that the title of his last film will be Kimitachi wa Dou Ikiru ka (“How do you live?”). The title is from a book by the same name written by Genzaburo Yoshino (1899-1981), who started writing children’s books during the 1930s because he realized the Imperial government was not heavily…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 30, 2017 -
GameStop Offering Unlimited 6-Month Access To Preowned Games
GameStop is introducing a new thing called PowerPass, which is a program that lets you pay $60 then, for six months, play as many pre-owned games as you want. PowerPass lets you choose a game from GameStop’s preowned library, take it home then swap it for something else when you’re done. There’s no limit on…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 29, 2017 -
Gay Players Are Coming Out In A Major Sports Video Game
This year’s edition of Football Manager, one of the biggest sports game series on the planet, is going to allow its virtual players to come out. If you’re unfamiliar with the series, it’s a management/spreadsheet game that puts the player in control of a football club, letting them run everything from game tactics to merchandise…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 29, 2017 -
Modder Hacks RetroPie System So He Can Connect Every Controller He Owns
People like to argue over which controller is the all time best. John Milner decided to side-step that debate entirely and just hook them all up. Milner, who goes by jfrmilner online, liked being able to play old games on his RetroPie, a modded Raspberry Pi mini-computer, but didn’t like needing to use an Xbox…
By Ethan Gach Published October 29, 2017 -
Wolfenstein 2 Collectible Mocks Progressive Magazine Over Its Coverage Of White Nationalists
There are a ton of things to pick up in Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus, ranging from postcards and vinyl albums to newspaper clippings. Most of them are simply there to build out the game’s Nazi-ruled America, but one in particular makes fun of the magazine Mother Jones for a profile of Richard Spencer it…
By Ethan Gach Published October 29, 2017 -
Super Mario Land 2‘s Wonderful Halloween Levels
Out twenty five years ago next month, the second entry in the handheld Mario spin-off series was significant for a number of reasons, but perhaps none as timely as its Halloween world. The Pumpkin Zone is one of Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins’s more festive levels. While some of the game’s worlds are…
By Ethan Gach Published October 28, 2017 -
The Papers, Please film adaptation now has a trailer. If you were wondering what a game about reading through documents would look like as a movie, the question has now be answered. Created by Nikita Ordynskiy with the full support of developer Lucas Pope, the short film is due out in 2018.
By Ethan Gach Published October 28, 2017 -
The former Director of Xbox Live Policy, Stephen Toulouse, passed away at the age of 45. Toulouse, also known as Stepto, was instrumental to shaping the platform’s approach to online community building and policing. He left Microsoft in 2012 after 17 years with the company.
By Ethan Gach Published October 28, 2017 -
Minecraft now has Stranger Things costumes. Actually, Stranger Things skins to be more precise. The game’s latest pack will let you explore and build as up to fifty different characters from the show, including from season two, so be warned, the DLC does include spoilers
By Ethan Gach Published October 28, 2017 -
More Evidence That Assassin’s Creed And Watch Dogs Are Set In The Same Universe
There’ve been hints in the past that Assassin’s Creed and Watch Dogs exist in the same fictional world. A fun new easter egg in the new Assassin’s Creed Origins sure offers more support for that theory. What follows is a spoiler for Assassin’s Creed Origins, of course. So don’t scroll down past this picture of…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 28, 2017
