Following the unexpected reveal of Far Cry 4 during an investors briefing last week, the first details on the game's story have been leaked by Ubisoft's online store. A preorder page for the game recently went live on the Uplay store , accompanied by the image above and a short description of what the story is about. Ubisoft apparently didn't intend for this information to go public yet, as the page...
A 19-year-old man from Colorado robbed a Wells Fargo Bank last Wednesday, only to be discovered and arrested just hours later after buying a new gaming system at Wal-Mart, according to an arrest affidavit obtained by the Canon City Daily Record . Tyler Matthew Schnapp handed a bank teller a folded piece of paper that explained he was robbing the bank, informing the teller to give him money from the...
Chris, Tom, Rob, and Shaun relive one of the best N64 multiplayer games on this weeks Multiple Players....
Some controversy has emerged over the box art for Far Cry 4 , prompting Ubisoft creative director Alex Hutchinson to comment on the matter in the hopes of clearing things up. The box art, which is one of only two images released for the game so far, appears to show a white man sitting on the ruined remains of a statue while holding his hand on the head of a darker-skinned man. This has generated discussion...
Kevin dons the stunning armour of Dark Souls, learns some classy new moves, and lives out his dream of becoming Scorpion from Mortal Kombat....
GameStop has re-launched its PC digital distribution service as part of a wider move that should make buying downloadable PC games from the company an easier experience. Effective immediately, when you buy a digital PC game from GameStop, you'll receive a code to redeem your game through platforms like Steam, Origin, or Uplay. Previously, you needed to download and install GameStop's own client to...
The latest game in the long-running Wolfenstein series, Wolfenstein: The New Order , arrives today, May 20, and with its release, a flood of reviews have hit the Internet. Is the first game from developer MachineGames --which was founded by former employees of Riddick and The Darkness maker Starbreeze Studios--a quality one? We've gathered a handful of reviews from GameSpot and other outlets to give...
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Emails obtained by WPRI today suggest that former executives at Curt Schilling's failed video game company 38 Studios knew that the $75 million loan they obtained from the state of Rhode Island in 2010 would not be enough to complete development on MMO Project Copernicus . Former 38 Studios vice chairman Thomas Zaccagnino said in an email dated July 1, 2010: "I really do not think we should highlight...
Joining the other features introduced in the latest Xbox One system update , Microsoft announced today that Snap support has been added to Skype. The system's Snap feature--which allows an app to be brought up on the right side of the screen while the remainder of the screen is used to continue playing games, watching movies, or whatever else--was of limited use with Skype before now. The only way...
Tom poured his sweat and tears into getting three gold stars in every cup in Mario Kart. Was his reward worth the effort?...
After 26 years of waiting, Wasteland fans will finally get their hands on the sequel, Wasteland 2 , in late August, developer InXile Entertainment announced today. Back in 2012, InXile hoped to raise $900,000 through Kickstarter in order to develop a sequel to classic RPG Wasteland. The project became one of the highest-funded the crowdfunding site had seen up to that point, raising more than $2.9...
Transistor , a sci-fi game from the creators of Bastion , released today on PC and PS4. In the game you play as a singer named Red who takes possession of the titular sword that was going to be used to kill her. Combining action-RPG gameplay with strategy elements, the game has generally been well received by critics. On review aggregator Metacritic, Transistor is currently sitting at 85 for PS4 and...
Compare the Royal Raceway track originally from Mario Kart 64 pitted against the Mario Kart 8 recreation....
Take another look into this open world survivor horror adventure....
Drakengard 3 is a weird game. If anything, I wish it was weirder. ...
Microsoft has rolled out the latest Xbox One system update, which offers a range of fixes and new features for the company's latest console. If you're part of Microsoft's early access preview program, this update is already applied to your console, and it has been since early May. The latest Xbox One system update introduces a new sound mixer for snapped apps, chat volume controls for when you're...
United Kingdom-based developer Rare Ltd., developer of April's Kinect Sports Rivals for Xbox One and classic games like GoldenEye 007 and Banjo-Kazooie , has laid off a number of developers recently as part of a "methodology" shift at the iconic studio. Sources told CVG that just under 20 employees are affected, including Chris Sutherland, who has worked at Rare for a period of over two decades. CVG...
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and Monolith Productions today released a new trailer for this fall's Lord of the Rings game, Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor . The first in a series of videos detailing the game's features and story, today's trailer showcases how players can upgrade main character Talion's various abilities. Specifically, it touches on the weapons Talion uses and the Runes system...
[UPDATE] Major Nelson has clarified his comments in a post on Reddit . "OK. Let's step back a bit. In the podcast, I said I was doing something never done before. When I said 'we' it was in the context of the podcast...not the overall Xbox business. Sure there are some announcements for E3 but I don't know everything that we (Xbox business) are announcing." He also says on Twitter that, "I was referring...