Murdered: Soul Suspect review: Good cop, dead cop
Murdered: Soul Suspect makes a bold choice right from the start by favoring information over action. It’s unusual to play as a street-smart detective and not have to worry about aiming, reloading, or even how to throw a punch, instead focusing your efforts on stepping back and thinking about your...
Lionhead bringing Fable Anniversary to PC
While Fable Anniversary was previously exclusive to Xbox 360 owners, a clamoring cacophony of Fable fans has apparently persuaded Lionhead and Microsoft to bring the HD remake of the 2004 Xbox game to Steam. When and for how much, however, are tales yet to be told.
Double Fine’s Broken Age now on Ouya
Double Fine’s adventure game Broken Age is now available on the Ouya microconsole, bringing two of Kickstarter’s highest-earning gaming projects together at last in holy crowdfunded union. Broken Age earned over $3.3 million when it turned to Kickstarter’s crowdfunding platform for support, later expanding its scope for a split release....
MotoGP 14 launches in Europe on June 20, U.S. release planned
Long-running motorcycle racing sim series MotoGP will make its PlayStation 4 debut this month in Europe, developer Milestone announced this week. Announced back in March, MotoGP 14 will be the first series entry to hit the PlayStation 4 alongside ports for the Xbox 360, PS3, PS Vita and PC platforms....
Joystiq Deals: PasswordBox, BackBlaze, Lords of Shadow 2
We want you to keep your PC data safe and secure. That’s why Joystiq Deals is currently offering a one-year subscription to BackBlaze’s cloud storage and online backup service for just $24.99 — a savings of 50 percent compared to its regular price. Passwords are another key part of PC...
French RPG Shiness is a manga in motion, coming in 2015
Upcoming RPG Shiness by French studio Ynnis Interactive is pretty. Absurdly pretty. Like, pretty to the point that we just wrote a poem we’d like to share. Ahem. “Shiness: Shall we compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more colorful and possessing at least one giant sky-whale with a...
Tanks wreck everything in Armored Warfare gameplay footage
It’s still baffling that Obsidian, a developer best known for roleplaying epics such as Fallout: New Vegas and Neverwinter Nights 2, is working on a free-to-play tank combat game dubbed Armored Warfare, though watching buildings be forcibly leveled by heavy artillery goes quite a ways toward easing that bewilderment. This...
Fans grab development reins on Natural Selection 2
Unknown Worlds Entertainment has decided to pull its developers from cult-hit, team-based shooter Natural Selection 2, though instead of ending the game’s lifespan the studio is handing development duties to a group of dedicated fans. WasabiOne, co-leader of the newly-founded fan development team, revealed this news via the Natural Selection...
How guerrilla warfare works in Homefront: The Revolution
Not too long after Crytek UK began working on a sequel to Homefront, the developer started to get worried. Studio closures at THQ, rumors of the publisher’s financial strain and whispers of the entire organization’s dissolution overtook any news surrounding the company and its projects, including a follow-up to the...
Unreal Tournament 3, STALKER games update following GameSpy shutdown
Developers continue to scramble to update their legacy products in the wake of GameSpy’s recent server shutdown, with Unreal Tournament 3 and the STALKER trilogy emerging as the latest games to update in order to maintain online play. Epic Games has released a replacement executable for Unreal Tournament 3 that...