Even when they’re being protected by bigger, stronger adults, the children who’ve survived in The Last of Us‘ fiction are seeing horrible things. Just like in this fan film. If nothing else, Alone—a TLOU fan film made by Australian film-making collective Pocketsquare—nails the moody nihilism of Naughty Dog’s hit game. Sure, the nameless dude and…
Here’s a deep dive into Dragon Age: Inquisition, via a panel at this week’s Eurogamer Expo. The 30-minute presentation—which starts at 10:43 in the video below—offers up some insights as to the artistic goals of the game and how you’ll be able to switch things up in combat.
Frikkin’ sick! OlliOlli2, a sequel to awesome sidescrolling skate game OlliOlli, will be coming to PlayStation platforms next year. The follow-up will have a new art style and a new local multiplayer mode too. You can find out more here.
Are graphics this realistic actually possible in a modern-day video game? According to the people behind the much-ballyhooed Infinite Detail technology, we’ll get the chance to find out soon. You may remember hearing about the Infinite Detail graphics engine from Australian tech company Euclidean a few years back. The main idea behind the engine is…
The dirtiest thing I’ve ever done on a table happened last Friday. I played a game about helping a human and tentacled alien get each other off. Tentacle porn. It’s quite possibly the perviest, most indefensible phenomena in all of geek culture. It’s also the inspiration for a great new card game that debuted in…
You love them and they still work but, let’s admit it, your old consoles aren’t looking as good as they used to. Like a lot of older electronics, they’ve become a sickly shade of yellow. But, it turns out that you can fix that with the same stuff used to color hair. Over on NeoGAF,…
Only 300 people have gotten to test out the Steam Machine that Valve itself is making. After six months with one of the hotly anticipated high-powered gaming PCs, one such man made a video talking about his experience with it. Watch it. You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll ask “why, why, why? As most people probably…
You see them barking, jumping and running around in their little dirt track fiefdoms all over your cities. No jobs, no bills, no deadlines. They look like they’re having so much fun. How much fun? A new game breaks it down for you. Dog Park lets you be a dog. Not an anthropomorphized, talking, walking-on-two-legs…
Portland had a big geek gathering this past weekend and, wouldn’t you know it, many most excellent cosplayers were out in force at the Rose City Comic-Con. Here’s Iron Totoro or, as I like to call him, My Neighbor Tony Stark. Come on through for more costuming that runs the gamut from cute to creepy.…
Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: China won’t be like Unity or Rogue, the big console titles that Ubisoft is delivering this fall. No, the new game will be a 2.5D sidescroller featuring Shao Jun, an Assassin trained by fan-favorite Ezio Auditore. And the game will only be available to people who’ve bought the Assassin’s Creed Unity Season…
System Shock‘s one of those games that lots of descendant creations owe a huge debt to. If you’re a fan of moody, story-centric first-person experiences like Deus Ex or BioShock, then you should be watching some of System Shock‘s creators play it right now. Watch live video from algorithmancy on www.twitch.tv Programmer/designer Marc Leblanc has…
Now you can take the opening area of Doom wherever you go. As long as you have a web browser, that is. A coder/artist that goes by the username P_Malin recreated an interactive embed of the first environment from Id Software’s iconic first-person shooter using Shadertoy. His recreation lets you move around the environment and…
Want to see for yourself if Battleborn is going to be different from Borderlands? Feast your eyes on this hefty chunk of gameplay footage from Gearbox Software’s next game, then. In the clip above, you’ll see a bunch of Battleborn‘s playable characters in action during a runthrough of the same co-op mission shown to press…
Two years ago, beloved science-fiction writer Neal Stephenson launched a crowdfunding campaign to start making a realistic swordfighting game. The Clang Kickstarter notched more than $500,000 towards that end. But a game never materialized and, as announced today, people who backed Clang are starting to get their money back. The game, it seems, won’t be…
“I’ve Given Up on Destiny and Got My Refund” “ERRORS ERRORS ERRORS” “Server problems. Worse then ever now -.-“ These are some of the top trending posts on Bungie’s official help forums. As you can probably guess, they’re filled with angry people. The users in those threads are mad at the lack of a support…
Yes, Microsoft owns Minecraft now. But, don’t worry, the PS4 will be getting a disc version of the hit sandbox game next month. A Blu-Ray release of Minecraft PS4 Edition hits on October 7
Back in July, Sega announced that the upcoming Sonic Boom games would be hitting the 3DS and Wii U on November 11 and 18, respectively. This morning, the Japanese company updated the release date of the Wii U version. Guess they don’t want their hedgehog getting becoming a Grand Theft Auto casualty? Both Sonic Boom…
Starting today, PS3 owners will get the chance to try out the open beta of PlayStation Now streaming service. God of War: Ascension, inFAMOUS, and the recently released Ultra Street Fighter IV will be joining the 150 or so games currently in the PlayStation now catalog.
If you were one of the fans who helped make last-gen weirdo thriller Deadly Premonition a cult hit, then you’re going to have a very good weekend. That’s because D4: Dark Dreams Don’t Die—the next game from Deadly Premonition creator Swery—comes on Friday. In a surprise announcement coinciding with this year’s TGS, Microsoft revealed that…
Once upon a time, models used to dress up as Lara Croft. You probably remember that. And you might also recall a GamePro magazine contest where a winner won a date with one of those models. Only the two of them—and a bunch of PR/marketing folks, probably—know what happened on their date. Until now. Scott…
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