Metro Redux makes a return trip underground in August
Metro Redux brings remastered, post-apocalyptic Moscow to North America on August 26, and Europe on August 29. Described as a “true director’s cut” of Metro 2033 and its sequel em>Metro: Last Light, the 2-in-1 package will be available on PS4, Xbox One and PC. The boxed compilation is priced $50,...
Valiant Hearts: The Great War review: Friends in low places
Valiant Hearts: The Great War treads surely and lightly through the grimmest of places. It sends you digging into the trenches of World War 1, but knows that leaving you to wallow in the mud and blood forever does not grant it emotional maturity. For every dour moment in Valiant...
Shovel Knight launch trailer dreams of excavation
Even when things are at their darkest, the brave and noble Shovel Knight doesn’t throw in the trowel. Yacht Club Games’ nostalgic 2D platformer gets shovelin’ into Steam, Wii U and 3DS on Thursday, June 26, priced at $15.
Punkbuster wrongly bans Battlefield 3 players, EA working on solution
Alongside legions of actual cheaters, EA’s third-party anti-cheating technology, Punkbuster, has apparently been booting innocents from Battlefield 3, a problem the publisher is currently looking into. “We are investigating an issue of Punkbuster bans that were incorrectly applied to some of our players,” reads a statement on EA’s official help...
Postcards from WildStar: character creation checklist
Welcome to Postcards from WildStar, a look at Carbine’s new MMO. Stay tuned for more entries in the coming weeks. Like my fellow postcard-sender and Joystiq contributor Sinan Kubba, I’ve been an MMO player for many moons. I lost myself to Star Wars Galaxies in high school, and to this...
Windswept deserts, 80s buddy cops from ex-Team Ico devs
A group of five game industry veterans, including two former The Last Guardian developers, have founded Friend & Foe, an independent studio in Tokyo. Friend & Foe is working on two games in parallel, Vane and Dangerous Men. Vane is the more fleshed-out project, complete with a flurry of images...
GRID Autosport DLC plans include new cars, ‘mini-expansions’
GRID Autosport makes its public debut tomorrow, and to celebrate, developer Codemasters offers one final blog entryto discuss the studio’s post-launch DLC plans. While GRID Autosport will debut with 80 cars, Codemasters plans to expand the game’s virtual garage via periodic car packs. It’s not known how many cars will...
Joystiq Deals: Backend Hacker Bundle, Forza 5, FTL
Website coders, we’ve got a great bargain for you today here at Joystiq Deals. This week we’re offering The Backend Hacker Bundle, a collection of five in-depth courses that teach the full particulars of PHP, MySQL, JavaScript and CSS. Regularly priced at $445, the bundle’s 39 hours’ worth of resources...
Assassin’s Creed Unity hitting PC at same time as consoles
Though the series is notorious for its delayed PC releases, Ubisoft wants to launch the PC version of Assassin’s Creed Unity at the same time the console editions hit retail later this year, Rock Paper Shotgun reports. “We’re always aiming to ship all our games on all platforms at the...
Steam Summer Sale, day 5: Dark Souls, Rogue Legacy, Saints Row 4
Twas’ the fifth day of the Steam Summer Sale, with deals in droves. At just five dollars, prepare to die with Dark Souls. Fan-favorite Rogue Legacy is slashed by 75 percent ($3.74), You can play Arma 3 ($29.99) and keep half your rent. Phosphor Games’ Nether is down to just...