The PlayStation Blog today posted an in-depth video explaining how Hello Games’ ambitious procedurally generated indie space adventure game No Man’s Sky came to be and what it’s all about. In the seven-minute video, Hello Games managing director Sean Murray says the studio knew from the beginning, even before it created the Joe Danger series, […]
This week seems to be all about speedruns. Just days after a world record Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes speedrun video surfaced this week comes another that shows someone completing classic NES game Super Mario Bros. in under five minutes. Speedrunner Blubbler posted a video this week (via Eurogamer) that shows a completion of […]
Sony today announced on the European PlayStation Blog that the rumored Last of Us PlayStation 4 bundle is indeed real, and will presumably launch alongside the game next month. The €429.99 ($585) bundle includes a copy of The Last of Us Remastered, a 500GB PlayStation 4, and a DualShock 4 controller. There’s no word on […]
It wasn’t only gamers who seemed to enjoy the epic Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain E3 trailer, which you can watch above. Hollywood liked it, too. In a post on the game’s website titled “Celebrity Comments on the E3 trailer,” there’s input from a handful of Hollywood people, including key personnel behind movies […]
YouTube is bringing 48 and 60 frames-per-second playback to the video site, allowing you to view video game footage in a new way. “Your video game footage with crazy high frame rates will soon look as awesome on YouTube as it does when you’re playing, when we launch support for 48 and even 60 frames […]
During Nintendo’s annual shareholder meeting overnight, the company re-elected Nintendo president Satoru Iwata to the board of directors. Iwata was not physically present at the meeting, as he’s still recovering from a recent surgery that also kept him from attending E3 this month. The proposal to re-elect Iwata and nine others was approved as originally […]
Yacht Club Games’ Polygon — 9/10 “There is a reason we can all remember so much from games that are almost 30-years-old, and Shovel Knight has tapped into that reason in a profound way. We don’t love the brands of our youth, we love the characters, the settings, the way actually playing those games made […]
Microsoft has announced the free games that Xbox Live Gold members will receive in July, and it includes four games in total–one of which was already made free during June. As the Games with Gold program is still new to Xbox One (it only started earlier this month), we’re still learning about how Microsoft will […]
Blizzard Entertainment has released the first images of the revamped Human male character model that you’ll find in MMO World of Warcraft when the Warlords of Draenor expansion hits this fall. The game’s current Human male model has received a great deal of criticism for its “odd proportions and face geometry,” but that’s all been […]
During Google’s recent I/O conference for application developers, Gears of War creator Epic Games presented a short demo showing off what Google’s mobile technology can do. Running on an Nvidia Tegra K1 processor, the demo involves cinematic views of a damp corridor and two robots. The robots walk around and eventually stop at an arcade […]
