By Ron Duwell |
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow was a big surprise back in 2010. Western reboots of Japanese series have not always gone over well with the core fans of the franchises, but developer Mercury Steam nailed the paper thin margin of pleasing newcomers and oldtimers alike. The result wasn’t…
By Ron Duwell |
After posting big financial losses in 2012, Konami is looking to seriously turn around its recent misfortunes with a strong showing from all of its biggest franchises. Naturally, this means Konami is going to be bringing out Hideo Kojima on stage to tease us with…
By Joey Davidson |
Today, we’ve got a fresh batch of screenshots and artwork for the upcoming Wolfenstein: The New Order. The assets also come with some light story details about this new shooter. Here’s the bit about the story: Europe, 1960. The Nazis turned the tide of the…
By Joey Davidson |
As of yesterday, Metro: Last Light has officially launched. The brand new trailer above is the fresh piece of media from 4A Games and Deep Silver. It’s awesome that we’re even seeing this game, folks, because it’s one of the first titles to release from the…
By Jon Rettinger |
The NVIDIA Shield just had its pricing and release announced on Tuesday, and already the new controller is on display here in San Francisco at Google I/O 2013. While we spent some time with the Shield back at CES 2013, at that time it was still…
By Joey Davidson |
Today during the 15th anniversary celebration of all things Gran Turismo, Sony and Polyphony Digital have announced that Gran Turismo 6 is in development for the PlayStation 3. Here’s the tweet from Gran Turismo Creator Kazunori Yamauchi: “I’d like to announce today that we are developing GT 6 for the…
By Brandon Russell |
The clearest evidence yet has surfaced suggesting Google is intent on introducing a Game Center-like platform. Mere minutes before I/O, Eufloria HD rolled out an update that explicitly mentions Google Play Games achievements. Presumably the platform will work in the same vein as other achievement…
By Joey Davidson |
Late last month, it was rumored that Scribblenauts was about to see a collaboration with the DC Comics universe. That rumor has officially become reality, as WB Games has announced Scribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure. This brand new adventure from 5th Cell will feature…
By Ron Duwell |
It’s been a long and arduous path to get an official announcement from Sony on Gran Turismo 6, especially over the last month or so, but today could finally be the day with the 15th Anniversary bash being held at the Silverstone Circuit in the…
By Joey Davidson |
Yesterday, Ubisoft released a brand new, wacky gameplay trailer for the upcoming Rayman Legends. This time around, our slapstick heroes vault off of an inflatable desert island to explore what lies beneath the waves in the ocean levels of the game. The trailer is actually…
By Ron Duwell |
Phoenix Wright fans rejoice. It has been eight years since we last saw the popular lawyer take the stand as the starring role in hisAce Attorney series.The latest in his game series now officially has an English title and trailer to back up the announcement.…
By Ron Duwell |
Even though I am a JRPG kinda guy, I’ve never been a huge fan of Namco Bandai’s Tales series. If I had to choose one game in the series I came closest to “liking” though, it would definitely be Tales of Symphonia, which was a…
By Ron Duwell |
Precursor Games has its Kickstarter campaign for Shadow of the Eternals officially up and running. The team of mostly former Silicon Knights developers is looking for $1.35M to create the spiritual successor to their GameCube hit Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem. The $1.35M is not a…
By Ron Duwell |
Warren Spector, famous for his work on Deus Ex and Epic Mickey, will be heading up the Denius-Sams Gaming Academy at the University of Texas in Austin. He will be joined by the school’s co-founder, Blizzard Entertainment COO Paul Sams, for whom the school is…
By Ron Duwell |
BioShock Infinite mastermind Ken Levine has taken up his golden quill and ink and has gotten to work on his latest game. He announced via Twitter today that his writing was underway and that this new game was “something else.” Fans pulled for more information…
By Ron Duwell |
It’s hard to believe that we are so close to finally getting a hold of The Last of Us. The latest from Naughty Dog is promising to be one of the sure-fire hits of 2013, and it has all the momentum to become a huge…
By Joey Davidson |
Don’t get too excited, friends, this is not a gameplay trailer. Instead, Ubisoft elected to get a narrator to talk over art splashes surrounding the age of pirates that’s the central theme in Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag. It’s an interesting trailer that gives a little…
By Joey Davidson |
NVIDIA’s Project SHIELD has moved from idea and prototype into official product form. Simply known as “SHIELD,” this new Android powered gaming device is set to launch next month. It will sell for $349. Starting May 20th, 2013, interested gamers will be able to pre-order…
By Joey Davidson |
A press release hit our inbox this morning detailing a few special bits about the upcoming Pokémon X and Y. First, it shared a link to a brand new gameplay trailer, which you can see in the video above. Next, we’ve learned officially that Pokémon fans will be…
By Joey Davidson |
Over the weekend, one of the more interesting gaming Kickstarter projects finally closed its funding window. C-Wars, a title being pitched and developed by the Beijing, China-based Onipunks, vaulted over its meager $32,000 goal in the early goings of its Kickstarter. After that, the developers…
By Joey Davidson |
Sure, I love playing classic games on current systems by way of ports and Virtual Consoles. But the 10-year-old version of me really can’t get over the fact that Sega is making a 3D version of Sonic the Hedgehog for the Nintendo 3DS. That marriage, even…
By Joey Davidson |
Shadow of the Eternals is a game that’s currently in pitch and money raising form. Precursor Games, a new developer formed from veterans in the industry, are independently crowdfunding this spiritual successor to Silicon Knights’ Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem. Hot off the presses from Precursor’s…
By Joey Davidson |
Square Enix posted a net income loss of 13.7 billion yen in its recently released fiscal documents for FY 2013. Jamming the full number (13,714,000,000 yen) into Google and asking for dollars in return gets us a net loss of $134,959,474 USD. Why the big…
By Joey Davidson |
What was originally a full-on XCOM relaunch in FPS form has now become a third-person origin story in the established XCOM universe. The Bureau: XCOM Declassified is a tactical, over-the-shoulder shooter with influence from and mechanics surrounding XCOM: Enemy Unknown. When this project was originally unveiled as a rebirth of…
