Joystiq Streams: Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel! with Gearbox [Update: It’s over]
Moons haven’t gotten so much love as they have by video games in the past month since Buzz Aldrin landed on one in 1969. Link pulls one down to smash up dragons in Hyrule Warriors, and the good Guardians playing Destiny have spent an inordinate amount of time blowing up...
Humble’s End of Summer Sale Encore offers free Tropico 3
The Humble Store’s End of Summer Sale Encore event features a number of solid deals in its final hours, including free copies of Kalypso’s dictator sim Tropico 3 for all customers. Sale highlights include Telltale’s episodic adventure game series The Wolf Among Us for $9.99, Messhof’s one-on-one swordfighting game Nidhogg...
Assassin’s Creed Unity’s season pass includes game set in China
Ubisoft unveiled a season pass for Assassin’s Creed Unity today, and it includes a full standalone game. The pass costs players $30 and “opens up every piece of DLC” for the game, including Dead Kings, a story campaign set after Assassin’s Creed Unity. The full game available to Unity’s season...
P.T.’s ghost makes a spooky cameo in Metal Gear Solid 5
Lisa, the terrifying ghost woman featured in the Silent Hills demo P.T., will make an appearance in Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain, developer Kojima Productions revealed during TGS. The video above, cropped from a streamed TGS presentation, shows Snake harassing enemies with the “Active Decoy” item, which summons...
GTA 5 adding first-person vehicle view on PC, next-gen
A since-pulled support article on Rockstar’s website points to some new features for Grand Theft Auto 5 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. According to the article, seen above, the revised versions of GTA 5 will feature a first-person mode for vehicles “that shows the interior of the vehicle,...
Destiny retains UK No.1 against Disney Infinity 2.0, Hyrule Warriors
Destiny “comfortably” held on to top spot in the UK, says data compilers Chart Track, despite new releases Disney Infinity 2.0 and Hyrule Warriors charging into second and third. Sales of the space-roaming shooter had a typical second week dip, going down by 78 percent, but it was enough for...
Dark Souls 2’s ‘Crown of the Ivory King’ pushed back [update: NA?]
Update: We’ve yet to hear back from Bandai Namco America, and the game’s US homepage is still advertising the DLC for tomorrow, September 24. Once we confirm if the delay includes North America or not, we’ll update this story. Bandai Namco Europe announced a week’s delay for ‘Crown of the...
Falling Skies combats an invasion on September 30
Falling Skies: The Game, the turn-based alien invasion battler that takes place between the third and fourth season of TNT’s similarly-named sci-fi drama, will pull strategists into the fight on September 30 on Xbox 360, PS3, Wii U and PC. Pre-orders placed at GameStop will expand the controllable roster to...
Earn an honest living in Farming Simulator 15 on October 30
Farming Simulator 15, the latest in the million-selling series (yes, really), will start tending the PC’s fields at ungodly hours on October 30, developer Focus Home Entertainment has announced. Crops will also be planted on Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS3 and PS4, but they won’t be ready for harvest until...