Chris Roberts, the brain behind Wing Commander and Freelancer, announced his return to game development yesterday with a newly launched website*. The site more than hints at an upcoming high-end space sim, giving users a ‘golden ticket’ to a private s…
Gearbox Software’s final look for Borderlands 2′s Mechromancer DLC was posted this morning. The character, available October 16, is the fifth playable class in the game and is still available with pre-order. Without the pre-order she’ll cost $10.Cont…
Before watching the above Mega64 video, ask yourself what you would do if you saw a dude in strange clothes knock out and then strip another dude in strange clothes on a busy public street. If your answer is “stare and do nothing,” then you’d fit r…
Had a hard time catching all of the new multiplayer stuff revealed in the first Black Ops 2 multiplayer trailer? Treyarch game design director David Vonderhaar takes us on an extended tour of that trailer and clues us in on the new tech and firepower …
Fight your way to the top this week with Tekken Tag Tournament 2… Choose your platform to jump to a specific release list: Continue reading Now Playing: September 10-16, 2012N…
You can methodically, quietly, take out your aggression on some virtual targets for cheap today. The Hitman Collection, containing Hitman 2: Silent Assassin, Blood Money, and Codename 47, is on sale for $6.24 today on Steam. If you want just one Hitma…
EA has tried “over the years” to buy out Valve, the New York Times reports. These talks, had they ever reached negotiation, would have valued Valve at “well over $1 billion,” NYT says, which is most likely a ridiculous understatement.Valve is a privat…
Frictional Games’ Amnesia: The Dark Descent has sold over a million copies over the past two years. Breaking the math down, Frictional owner Thomas Grip says sales of 1.4 million is the “optimistic figure,” since he doesn’t think people purchasing mul…
Darksiders 2 managed to come out on top in August NPD-tracked sales, selling 247,000 copies across PS3, Xbox 360 and PC, whereas Sleeping Dogs sold 172,000 across PS3 and Xbox 360, an NPD rep confirmed with Joystiq.PC sales for Sleeping Dogs were omit…
There are so many games out there we couldn’t possibly review them all. Welcome to Snapshot, where we highlight games that might fall outside our usual coverage but are still something we think you should know about. Today: They Bleed Pixels for PC. I…
Video games are statistically proven* to cause violence, anger, depression, heartbreak, pestilence, dry rashes, higher taxes, climate change, traffic jams, thunderstorms, crying babies, Jersey Shore, the shortage of oil, dry rot, wedgies, and Lindsay …
Command and Conquer: Generals 2 includes single-player, in response to fan feedback. Originally intended as a retail game, EA last month revealed Generals 2 is now the first ‘universe’ to be included in the ‘Command and Conquer’ free-to-play service. …
Sleeping Dogs returns to the top of the UK sales chart this week. This would be the third time the Square Enix sandbox crime game has held first in the month since its debut. It took last week off for Guild Wars 2, which now sits in sixth following an…
Steam’s Big Picture Mode, the new menu designed for use on TVs, will be available in beta today, as reported over the weekend. More information, including screenshots of the menu, was released today, including the look at the on-screen keyboard.The “l…
WayForward, the developer behind adorable DSiWare and iOS game Shantae: Risky’s Revenge, wants to get this thing on Steam, and it’s using Greenlight to do so. You may recognize WayForward as the team behind the Adventure Time game for DS, as well as B…
Super Hexagon has sold “about 10,000 copies in three days and has been in the top 25 on the iPhone charts,” developer Terry Cavanagh says on Reddit, where he’s currently hosting an Ask Me Anything thread. Personally, we find Super Hexagon to be “beyon…
To the Moon is now on Steam in German, French, Italian and English, as promised earlier this month, and it’s on sale for 20 percent off through September 14. With the sale, To the Moon is $8 as a standalone or $10 bundled with the soundtrack, which in…
Last August, we found out that Steam’s Big Picture interface would be moving into its beta phase “soon,” but we never expected it would be, like, soon. It is Valve after all, and we never figured that Big Picture’s public beta would happen in our life…
The first expansion for Ubisoft’s free-to-play shooter Ghost Recon Online drops next Wednesday, September 12, bringing with it new gear, weapons and the games largest map to date. Additionally, “over 300 balance changes, improvements, and bug fixes” w…
While Escape Goat has been available on the PC and Xbox Live Indie Games for quite a while now, the titular goat and his mousy companion are coming to a browser near you. This HTML5 port includes the full game, which centers around a goat and a mouse …
Now and then I think of buying games on PC,like maybe something with some action or some stealth?But how to know which game is right for me? So many different gaming companies,Been burned before and it’s an ache I still remember.You can get addicted t…
Seven of the eleven Kickstarter projects to surpass $1 million in funding belong to the games category. In a post entitled “The Year of the Game,” the crowd funding site reveals that games have gone from the eighth most-funded category in the site’…
Okay let’s see, I’ve got a map of the basement, two spools of thread, a key with a skull on it and four packs of gummi fruit snacks in the inventory. Something in here has to let me turn on the computer so I can write an article about GoG’s 50 percent…
What time is it? Frantic, sleepless coding time! A last-minute event has been added to the upcoming Fantastic Arcade celebrations in Austin, TX: a 48-hour game jam in which participants will attempt to create games about, based on, inspired by, or oth…
Capybara Games’ colorful puzzler Critter Crunch is gonna puke rainbow chunks September 11 all over Steam.”The game will be available for both PC and Mac, support mouse/keyboard or controller and have all the great online modes – including the ability …
Following the divisive announcement of Steam Greenlight’s $100 fee, Valve says the service will “continue to evolve” across the near future. Speaking to Gamasutra, Valve’s UI designer Alden Kroll said users inundated his company with suggestions follo…
X-COM has quite a history on PC. In fact, apart from a pair of PlayStation ports (and for the Amiga and CD32!), the franchise’s home is entirely bound to the PC. Developer Firaxis is definitely aware of the franchise’s history, lead designer Jake Solo…
Cannon Fodder has ran an ulikely route back to videogame prominance, but has it been worth the wait?It was never the unlikeliest of sequels – it could have been a PSP possibility, there was the chance of a DS incarnation and then, of course, the…
NBA 2K13 is right around the corner, and at long last, we’ve gotten the details on the game’s career mode (all the way down to a “talk to your GM” lite RPG), and the levels of customization available. How deep is the customization? Just wait til you’re…
If you haven’t heard of Red 5’s FireFall at this point… well it basically means that you’re not a convention goer. They’ve consistently had the largest booth at every consumer show I