Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare available at Walmart a day early
Not content to wait for Tuesday, Walmart and Activision are pushing Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare out at the big box retailer on Monday, November 3. While the Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Day Zero Edition sold by Walmart won’t have any exclusive in-game content right in the $60 package,...
Blizzard gives thousands of Hearthstone bots the boot
“Several thousand” bots have been banned from Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft recently, Blizzard revealed in a Battle.net blog. The developer found that the accounts were associated with third-party programs that automate actions within the game, and they will now be banned from the game until 2015. “As we’ve stated, fair...
LucasArts classics reach GOG.com on October 28
Six classic LucasArts games, including The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, will be re-released via GOG.com on October 28, according to a now-deleted forum post preserved in the digital amber of Google Cache. “We’re proud to announce a new partnership with...
Dungeon of the Endless rockets to Steam today
Amplitude Studios’ roguelike Dungeon of the Endless left the Early Access nest today, launching in full on Steam. The game entered its alpha phase on the platform in December as the developers’ next “Endless” game, set in the same universe as Endless Space. In it, players guide a crew of...
GungHo strikes publishing deal with Skulls of the Shogun dev
Puzzle & Dragons creator GungHo Online Entertainment America has secured a deal to publish games from 17-BIT, developer of the multiplatform tactical strategy game Skulls of the Shogun and the upcoming Galak-Z: The Dimensional. GungHo notes that it established the relationship in order to “ classic game experiences with modern...
Halloween Horror Streams: Vampire’s delight in Quest for Glory IV
Who needs the lush audio design of Alien: Isolation or the pristine mix of technology and art in Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs to get frightened by video games? Horror ain’t dependent on a sense of convincing reality, son! It’s all about creating atmosphere, the right mood for making your...
Report: Call of Duty sales decline likely to continue
Analysts at Cowen And Company have examined Amazon’s pre-order tallies for the upcoming Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare and have concluded that the game will probably continue the series’ trend of declining returns. “Advanced Warfare is now pacing almost 40 percent behind last year’s Ghosts and almost 70 percent behind...
FIFA reigns in the UK, Bayonetta 2 debuts in top ten
em>FIFA 15 continues to rock the UK’s sales charts, marking the soccer sim’s fifth consecutive week at the top. EA’s marquee sports game is followed by the PlayStation version of Minecraft, which reached Vita this month and made a sizable jump from ninth to second in the sales charts last...
How a green hostage named Gary shaped Rainbow Six Siege
In developing Rainbow Six Siege, with gameplay centered around protecting or rescuing a hostage, Ubisoft looked to the real world for inspiration and guidance. That’s the subject illustrated by the latest edition of “Behind the Wall,” a series of behind-the-scenes looks at the game, published by Ubisoft. “We actually had...
Meet the followers backing you up in Dragon Age: Inquisition
There’s no Twitter in Thedas, so it’s no surprise players of Dragon Age: Inquisition will have a handful of followers rather than thousands. Still, if each of the nine potential allies are as helpful and have as much personality as the three shown here, we doubt the Inquisitor will mind.