Nintendo just bought a stake in NicoNico Douga’s parent company Dwango. The company provides content via smartphones, but Nintendo says it won’t be using Dwango for that. More on Siliconera.
Dallas Cowboys receiver Dez Bryant just did something pretty awesome. In attendance at a Dallas Best Buy store for a PS4 midnight launch, the NFL star walked up and bought five consoles for those waiting in line. So, you know, if you too live in an area with an NFL team, keep your eyes peeled.…
It’s OK, Crusader Kings IIisn’t for everyone. I get that. But I’d like to think we can all at least find common ground and enjoy the game’s patch notes, which continue to be the very best Having earlier fixed such glaring errorsas “If married, women now fool their husbands about the parentage of children born…
This is strange. Very strange. When Fable was originally released on the first Xbox the game’s Australian rating was ‘M’. Today the Australian Classification Board revealed that Fable: Anniversary, the HD remastered version of Fable for the Xbox 360, would be rated R18+. Adults only. The reason? “Sexual activity related to incentives and rewards”. Very…
A Roomba in the Austrian village of Hinterstoder has, according to its owner, woken up from being powered down and hurled itself upon a working stovetop, incinerating the device and leaving naught but a pile of ashes behind. Helmut Kniewasser, one of the firefighters attending the blaze, has the story (courtesy of the Daily Mail).…
The guys at Bluraren’t the only studio making top-shelf commercials for the video game business. The team at visual effects outfit The Mill have worked on loads of them as well, including some of this year’s best and most prominent. The video below is the studio’s showreel for the year, and while it contains footage…
The PlayStation 4 is officially on sale. Next-gen is now current-gen. Here’s a three-minute sizzle reel, shown off on SpikeTV tonight, that teases what’s coming in the near future for the newest video game console out there.
Congrats to this guy, Mr. Joey Chiu, for being the first person in line to buy a PlayStation 4 at Sony’s New York PS4 event. He says he’s gonna play either Resogun or Knack first, after which he will presumably be going to Disneyland. Watch the happy fella get his console: Not bad. And if…
The fifth Metal Gear Solid is getting a “Deja Vu” mission, and it’ll have the totally next-gen graphics of classic Snake, as you can see above. Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes is out this spring for current- and next-gen systems.
When Spike’s Geoff Keighley asked Sony’s Shuhei Yoshida and Adam Boyes about the enigmatic Last Guardian, I didn’t expect much of a response. And of course… we didn’t get much of a response. Enjoy.
The first buzzworthy game on the Ouya, the four-player competitive archery-combat game Towerfall, will be coming to the PS4 with some 50 new levels. It’ll be called Towerfall Ascension. More details here
Tonight at Sony’s PS4 event in New York, Bungie announced that PlayStation owners will get to play the beta of their multiplatform online shooter Destiny first. The game will be out in 2014 and is also coming to Xbox One and Xbox 360.
At Sony’s PS4 press event, Sucker Punch unveiled this new trailer for their open-world superhero game Infamous: Second Son, and announced that it’ll be out on March 21, 2014. In other news, I am psyched for this game.
We don’t know much about it—could that be a non-Nathan Drake protagonist?—but we do know this: Naughty Dog is making an Uncharted game for PS4, teased at the big Sony show tonight. No gameplay just yet, but hey, at least we know what the folks at Naughty Dog are up to! “We have great news…
Today at Sony’s PS4 event Naughty Dog revealed Left Behind, the first story-based DLC for The Last of Us. The teaser trailer showed Ellie along with Riley Abel, her friend from back during her school days in the Quarantine Zone. Those who have read the Dark Horse comic run of The Last of Us: American…
Why wait until E3 for a press conference full of gaming news? Sony’s promising big announcements for tonight’s big PS4 All Access show, and we’ve got it streaming for you live, right here. Sony’s promising news on Metal Gear Solid V, Destiny, and The Last of Us DLC, plus whatever big surprises they’ve got up…
The PS4 has added some features, and they aren’t all so obvious. You might want to know how to turn off that speaker in your controller when it starts making noise during a game. You might want to find out how rare is that trophy you just got. Let’s take a look. First up is…
“Knack looks a little… too benign.” If you’re going to watch a PS4 unboxing video, make it National Public Radio’s PS4 unboxing video.
The PS4 has a bunch of new features, but one of the coolest is the ability to automatically record gameplay video, take screenshots, and broadcast to Twitch or Ustream straight from your console. Take a look at this video for a look at all the features of the PS4’s share button. One note about using…
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