Afro Samurai sequel announced for consoles and PC
The Banner Saga publisher Versus Evil revealed that it is publishing a follow-up to Namco Bandai’s 2007 PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 action game Afro Samurai for next-gen consoles and PC platforms. Afro Samurai‘s sequel is developed by Redacted Studios, a developer founded by former Namco Bandai senior producer David...
Dead Island: Epidemic mutates the MOBA genre
Dead Island: Epidemic is a twisted take on the MOBA genre, allowing players to use WASD and a clicky trigger finger to move and shoot. As the narrator puts it: “Unlike other titles in the genre, you’ll have direct control over your character – no last-hitting, click-to-move nonsense here.”
El Banner Saga now available in six new languages
Slaying creatures of Nordic myth is great fun in English – our four of five stars review states as much – but for those who don’t habla ingles, developer Stoic Studio has localized The Banner Saga for a handful of new languages. You’ve probably already guessed that Spanish is among...
Rainbow Six: Siege to include male hostages, too
Rainbow Six: Siege was the surprise finale of Ubisoft’s E3 conference, featuring a team of players descending on a suburban home where a woman was held hostage by a group of heavily armed bad guys. The woman cowered while the house exploded around her, and she was referred to as...
Minecraft reaching 54 million sold, console editions pass PC
Popular blocky sandbox game Minecraft is closing in on 54 million copies sold across all platforms, says Mojang’s Patrick Geuder, who also added via Twitter that the console (Xbox 360 and PS3) versions of the game have now surpassed sales of the PC and Mac versions. The game will arrive...
Watch a small Insomniac team make its next game, Slow Down Bull
Ratchet and Clank series developer Insomniac Games announced a new pet project this week, Slow Down Bull. The game is in development for PC by a small team of four or five people at the studio. Slow Down Bull is an action game in which players will attempt to rein...
Shovel Knight review: Heaps and bounds
Shovel Knight has my number. It’s laser-focused on children of the 8-bit era, blending elements of multiple games from Capcom’s halcyon days on the Nintendo Entertainment System. The most prominent influences are the Mega Man series and DuckTales, some of the best action platformers the NES had to offer. Like...
Benjamin’s Flight comes to Thomas Was Alone on Steam
Was this the end? That was what Thomas wondered when “Benjamin’s Flight” landed on Steam, completing the free add-on content’s journey across platforms. Jetpacks make for lovely levels, Thomas couldn’t argue with that. Or “free,” he couldn’t argue with that either. Now that Benjamin’s Flight was on PC, creator Mike...
Steam Greenlights 75 more games: Futuridium, Lost Orbit
Yep, 75 more games are on the path to Steam. We won’t list them all, but a few notable stand-outs include Futuridium EP, Ensign-1, Pale Blue, Lost Orbit, The Masterplan and, of course, VoidSpace – The Dogecoin MMORPG. A few other games have interesting-sounding names, such as Exploding Robots, Gender...