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...
Road Not Taken hitting PS4, PC August 5
Spry Fox’s stylish roguelike puzzler Road Not Taken will launch for the PlayStation 4 and PC platforms in August, the studio revealed today. Road Not Taken is an overhead-view adventure game in which players have a limited number of in-game years to solve environmental puzzles, befriend NPCs, and advance the...
Joystiq Deals: SmartPlane, Ryse, Child of Light
We’re offering you something a little bit different today at Joystiq Deals: the chance to pilot a plane using your smartphone. The SmartPlane is a small gadget aircraft that operates entirely on input from a user’s smartphone or tablet device. Normally priced at $70, it can be yours today for...
Steam Summer Sale, day 7: Batman, BioShock Infinite, Counter-Strike
It’s been a week since the Steam Summer Sale began its assault on our collective wallets, and the bombs keep dropping. Hold on to your butts. Today’s Steam Summer Sale offerings include Kerbal Space Program for $16.19, Endless Space for $7.49, The Banner Saga for $12.49, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive for...
The Legend of Korra: as told by Bayonetta dev Platinum Games
The Legend of Korra, Nickelodeon’s animated successor to Avatar: The Last Airbender, is being turned into a cel-shaded pummelfest by Platinum Games. The announcement comes a few days ahead of the third-season premiere of The Legend of Korra on June 27. Platinum’s take on Korra, overseen by show scribe Tim...