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A Bird Story is Kan Gao’s follow-up to To the Moon, a quietly emotional and surprisingly deep game about life and love that’s been well-received since its release three years ago. Now, with A Bird Story launching on Friday, Gao is proud of his new game, but he feels the...

Joystiq Deals serves up a collection of informative lectures and easy-to-use programming guides as part of our Name Your Own Price Learn to Code Bundle. You can get access to two courses for as little as $1, or beat the average purchase price for all eight, with a portion of...

After 11 years, Call of Duty has followed an unexpected evolutionary path. The road to Advanced Warfare – which we awarded 4 stars in our review – looks more like the one stretching between entries in ’80s horror franchises. Friday the 13th was about a slasher attacking teenagers and it...

Blizzard’s recent round of bans in Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft have forced the closure of Crawlerbots, a site that provided automated gameplay options to Hearthstone and WoW players. Last week, Blizzard announced that it had banned “several thousand” accounts associated with third-party programs that automate actions in Hearthstone. The accounts...

I had always heard your entire life flashes in front of your eyes the second before you die. As it turns out, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare isn’t advanced enough to feature pre-frag life-flashing, but at least you get to respawn and run and bounce around its futuristic world, over...

Volume, the stealthy follow-up to Mike Bithell’s Thomas Was Alone, stars famed character actor Andy Serkis as the main antagonist – the powerful and dastardly CEO, Guy Gisborne. Serkis is best known for portraying Gollum in the Lord of the Rings films, though he also starred in The Prestige and...

It’s late to the hunting party, but the PS4 is finally up and running in Evolve’s “Big Alpha” test. 2K also announced it’s extending the closed alpha until 12PM PT tomorrow, November 4 (3PM ET, 8PM UK), and that’s not just for PS4 but Xbox One and PC too. After...

We’re used to FIFA reigning over UK charts like, well, rain over UK chaps (and chapettes), but this is plainly ridiculous. FIFA 15 is up to six weeks in a row already as the British best-seller, seeing off one major launch after another like it just doesn’t care – and...

Telltale Games has tweeted another teaser for Game of Thrones: A Telltale Game Series, its upcoming video game adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” novels. “There’s squids in the Wolfswood, and flayed men ride the Kingsroad,” reads the newest promo image, which prominently features a...