A Game About Two Girls Gleefully Breaking the World

Remember how playing Katamari Damacy felt? How it seemed like you could roll up nearly everything in sight onto your candy-and-cat-and-house-filled magic ball? One new game shown in New York City last week is sort of like that PS2 classic but with one big difference: you’re slamming yourself into the world as hard as you…

Comparison: The Wii U Gets The “Definitive Version” Bayonetta

After the famously fudged-up PlayStation 3 port of Platinum Games sexy action game, fans were rightly cautious when Nintendo announced the original Bayonetta would come bundled with its Wii U exclusive sequel. Digital Foundry puts those worries to rest. Putting all three versions of Bayonetta through the wringer, Digital Foundry found that while some of…

This Week In The Business: The Dorky-Looking Goggles People

QUOTE | “We’re going to be remembered as the dorky looking goggles that people were putting on in the beginning.” – Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe, talking about what he sees as a vast future for Virtual Reality. Elsewhere in the business of video games this past week … QUOTE | “We’re fighting the good fight…

I’m Glad That Vikings Have Taken Over Video Games

Seriously, between Skyrim, The Banner Saga, and now gorgeous-looking 2D brawler Viking Squad, they’ve been killing it lately. And people. They’ve been killing lots and lots of people. Viking Squad is a great-looking brawler coming from the presumably difficult-to-grip folks at Slick Entertainment. It’s got all the traditional staples of a good rough-’em-up-and-take-their-stuff: nice hand-drawn…

How Many American Teens and Adults Play Mobile Games

New research from the Entertainment Software Association suggests that a third of all adults and teens in the United States play mobile games. More than 20% of them said they’d never played a game before, or had stopped some time ago. The fact that mobile games have been attracting new folks has been suspected for…

​Bungie Is Starting To Fix Destiny‘s Loot

We all figured that Bungie would begin to take steps to fix Destiny’s flawed loot system. Good news: The first big changes come next week. In a new update at the Destiny blog, the game’s developers say that after next week’s 1.0.2 patch, rare and legendary engrams will always decode to an item that’s at…

​Shooters Are Better With Silly Sound Effects

Foley artists spend countless hours doing the thankless job of getting your game sounds — shotguns, plasma rifles and chainsaws — just right. It’s not an easy job. But those games are still fun if you replace all that hard work with dumb mouth noises. Youtube user MrElephante222 made the video above, replacing all the…

The Slapstick Fighting Game That Took Over An Entire Festival

“I think the game is kind of horrifying,” one game developer tells me over drinks. “Its violence… the intent behind it, is a little too real.” His comments strike me as strange, given that Gang Beasts reminds me of watching slapstick comedy from The Marx Brothers and The Three Stooges as a kid. Gang Beasts…

​One Small Tweak Makes Vita Remote Play So Much Better

I haven’t been the biggest fan of the PlayStation Vita’s remote play function. It sounds great in theory—use your Vita to stream games from your PS4, play games in bed or on the go! But it never works quite like I want it to. One of the issues for me has been lag, but lately,…

Official Pokémon Card Game for iPad Just Launched On Canadian App Store

The Pokémon Trading Card Game just showed up on Canada’s iOS app store. This means that it’s likely heading to other territories soon too. The Pokemon Company announced it during the Pokemon World Championships last month. For now it’s iPad-only, but it syncs up with the long-running desktop version Here the first details of what…

The Last of Us sure could be eerie looking. No wonder, then, that real-world photographers find it a morbid and fascinating muse. These haunting images were made by Sam Javanrouh, using only the PS4’s standard capture features in the game’s Left Behind chapter: Check out more of Javanrouh’s work on his website To contact the…

“Rising game budgets have created breathtaking, cinematic experiences. But not everyone is happy.” The Economist takes a look at the state of the video game industry in the wake of Destiny’s famously pricey launch and provides an interesting overview of where game development is headed in the near future.

PlayStation Home Finally Closing Down

Goodnight, sweet prince. You were… you, um… well at least you tried. PlayStation Home, Sony’s long-running (though never exactly beloved) attempt at creating a PlayStation 3 social hub one part Xbox Live and one part Second Life, is finally being put out to pasture. There, on March 31st, 2015, it will presumably be shot, with…