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Sony Boss On No Man’s Sky: ‘It Wasn’t A Great PR Strategy’

Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida knows how you feel, No Man’s Sky players. He says he enjoyed the game, but understands why people are so upset about director Sean Murray’s tendency to over-promise and under-deliver. No Man’s Sky, which came out in early August, immediately drew controversy when players discovered that features Murray had…

Now that’s he’snailed gameplay, developer Ryan Juckett can finally add some color to his minimalist shooter. The latest Inversus update adds 45 unlockable color palettes, 250 emotes, persistent leveling and leaderboards. The updatehit Steam today, with the PS4 version’s release TBD.

The Mildly Overwatch-ish Paladins Enters Open Beta

Hi-Rez Studios’ free-to-play hero shooter Paladins enters open beta today, and while its collectible card-based character customization system sets it apart from other games in the genre, Androxus here is pretty much Reaper with horns. I was putting together a little rotator GIF for the top of the post, planning to talk about what is…

Sony’s Japan Studio Brings Tabletop Tower Defense To VR

During the recent PlayStation press conference in Tokyo, Sony announced V Yuusha no Kuse ni Namaiki da R?, a VR version of the What Did I Do to Deserve This, My Lord? Developed by Acquire, those titles were originally released on the PSP, with the third entry hitting the Vita. Acquire is back, working with…

Rise From Your Grave, 90s Shooter

The logo, the guitars, the call-outs, the shotguns, the gibs…DUSK is the 90s not as they were, but as our trigger finger remembers them. It’s got both a singleplayer campaign, an “endless survival mode” and “1 v 1 arena multiplayer”. Again, very 90s. It’ll be out next year.

Overwatch‘s Weekly Brawls Need Some Work

Another weekly brawl where only a handful of characters are allowed? Come on, Blizzard. Is that the best you can do? I’ve seen that sentiment a lot surrounding this week’s Overwatch brawl, “Tanks A Lot,” which limits players’ hero choices to the game’s tank characters. As a general rule, brawls impose some sort of special…

Never Change, Yakuza

Yes, that is Beat Takeshithrowing a baby. Yakuza 6 cannot come soon enough. It’s from a trailer that Sega screened/streamed for the game at TGS yesterday, which has all the gravelly voice acting and head-punching you could ever need.

The Good News: You Can Now Change Your Blizzard BattleTag

The bad news: it’s gonna cost you $10 in cash money. Yes, despite many other online services allowing for free and easy name changes, Blizzard have announced today that they’re only going to bother with the latter. Anyone stuck with a BattleTag they came up with when they were 12/drunk and wants a change can…

Mad Catz Sells Saitek To Logitech

In 2007 Mad Catz purchased relatively venerable PC peripheral maker Saitek for $30 million. After nearly nine years of flight sticks and farming controllers, Mad Catz is passing Saitek over to Logitech for a mere $13 million. Being a relatively old man, I’ve been playing with Saitek stuff since not long after the company was…

A Musical Character Customization Trick For Everyone To Copy

Most role-playing games let you customize some aspect of your character. Their hair, or outfit, or voice, that kind of thing. Divinity: Original Sin 2, which hits Steam early access today, lets you go one further and customize your hero’s theme music. The developers at Larian Studios already talked about this concept in a dev…

Did You Know That FFXIV Has A Jail For Very Bad Players?

Have you been bad? Very bad? Maybe you need a time-out. In Final Fantasy XIV, if you have been very bad, your time-out will come complete with a chastising parent figure and a very literal jail. On the MMORPG, players who spam, boast dirty usernames or otherwise violate the game’s user agreement are sent to…

Here’s a good video response to the latest Every Frame a Painting essay about Marvel movie music. It’s by critic/musician/smart guy Dan Golding, who takes a deeper look at the reasons why modern film music is less melodic and hummable than music from older films. We’ve republished a couple of Dan’s essays about film music…

The Mystery of Fallout 4’s Children of the Atom

In this week’s episode of The Save Files, we take a look at one of Fallout’s most outlandish factions: the Church of Atom. At first, everything about the Atom’s religion sounds completely nuts…that is, until you play the Far Harbor DLC. For those of you who missed it, THE SAVE FILES is a new YouTube…

Meet The Anonymous Watchdog Who Broke The CS:GO Betting Scandal

One of 2016’s most explosive pieces of gaming journalism was broken by a news-obsessed Indian IT guy with a relatively unknown YouTube channel. HonorTheCall, an anonymous internet presence, is a full-time software developer whose YouTube image, up until June, was built on small-fry Call of Duty news. Over Call of Duty footage, HonorTheCall pronounced updates…

South Park: The Fractured But Whole is delayed to Q1 2017. “The development team wants to make sure the game experience meets the high expectations of fans and the additional time will help them achieve this goal,” Ubisoft says. 🙁

I Can’t Stop Hunting Treasure In The Witcher 3

There’s kings to slay, monsters to hunt, and friends to save in The Witcher 3 but all I really care about is finding gear. I will climb the highest mountain for a new sword. I can’t stop. Not when there’s so much treasure to be found. I can’t say I ever thought about The Witcher…

The Forgotten Parts of GTA Online

GTA Online has changed a lot since 2013, thanks to an ever-growing list of new cars, guns and heists. Along the way, some parts of GTA have become forgotten or even removed. Let’s take a look back, shall we? Arm Wrestling In a game that lets you buy car insurance, playing a “match” of arm…

Hitman’s 10th Elusive Target, The Pharmacist, will be available September 16th. They’ll be in Paris for a week, which is plenty of time to plan an awesome approach and then forget one minor detail and bungle the whole thing (not that I would do that, obviously).

World Of Final Fantasy Is The Fall’s Most Exciting Final Fantasy Game

When new Final Fantasy XV footage arrives I nod and silently appreciate. When a new World of Final Fantasy trailer shows up, I chair dance and squeak. Is that just me? It’s the difference between travelling with unfamiliar characters in a strange, new world and going to a theme park packed with your best Final…

Isaac Hayes’ Son Says Someone Else Made His Dad Quit South Park

Back in 2006, singer and actor Isaac Hayes abruptly quit South Park, where he had voiced the character Chef for a decade. Hayes, an active Scientologist, was apparently upset about the episode “Trapped In The Closet,” which makes fun of the cultish religion he followed. But it sounds like his departure wasn’t entirely up to…