Hearthstone out now on PC and Mac
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, Blizzard’s free-to-play digital card game, is available now for PC and Mac in North and South America. Support for iPad is on its way, followed by Android, iPhone and Windows tablets. The open beta for Hearthstone launched in January in America and Europe. Anyone interested in...
Joystiq Streams: Once more unto the Titanfall breach [UPDATE: Relive the stream!]
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers (and sisters) that make up the Joystiq Troopers have not acquitted ourselves well in Titanfall. In fact, our myriad attempts to roll deep in Respawn Entertainment’s debut shooter have fallen squarely on the comedy spectrum. First came what is now known...
Infocom’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy playable for free online
The BBC has released a free online version of Infocom’s classic PC text adventure The Hitchhiker‘s Guide to the Galaxy, commemorating the 30th anniversary of the game’s initial release. Designed by “Hitchhiker’s Guide” author Douglas Adams, Infocom’s game mixes humor, sci-fi, and frequent player death for an experience many regard...
Valve VR leader joins Oculus R&D with new Seattle team
Oculus has scooped up Atman Binstock as its new Chief Architect; he’s the former Valve virtual reality head and one of the leaders of the VR Room demo at Steam Dev Days. Binstock will head up a new Oculus R&D team in Seattle, Washington, which joins existing offices in Irvine,...
The Witcher 3 delayed to February 2015
Poland-based developer CD Projekt Red announced that the release of its multiplatform action-RPG, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, has been delayed to next year as the studio focuses on testing and polish. “We could have released the game towards the end of this year as we had initially planned,” the...
Rumor: Watch Dogs closed beta spotted on Xbox One store
Two Reddit users posted separate photos of a Watch Dogs closed beta listed on the Xbox One Games Store yesterday, suggesting Ubisoft might be giving players an early hack at the game. The listing’s not on the storefront currently, so if it was there, it’s been swiftly baleeted. We’ve reached...
Titanfall PC’s 48GB install the result of uncompressed audio
PC players will have to spend quite a bit longer waiting for their Titanfall download to drop than those on Xbox One. The PC download of Titanfall clocks in at a substantial 48 gigabytes, considerably larger than the 17GB download on Xbox One. The reason for the size discrepancy, developer...
Frozen Endzone blitzes onto Steam Early Access
Frozen Endzone takes the turn-based strategy Mode 7 delivered in Frozen Synapse, but makes it all sportsball by swapping out the guns for pigskins – snazzy, futuristic-looking pigskins, but pigskins all the same. If that’s a combination that has you ready to pad up and get tactical, the good news...
MotoGP 14 announced, first in series to burn rubber on next-gen console
The MotoGP series’ tank hasn’t hit empty yet – in fact, it’s boosting onto the PlayStation 4 in June with MotoGP 14. It will be the first MotoGP game on the new generation of consoles. The game will also appear on the Xbox 360, PS3, PS Vita and PC. According...
Betrayer leaving Early Access, launching on March 24 for PC
Betaryer‘s prowl through Early Access will conclude on March 24, when the final version of the monochromatic adventure game launches on PC for $19.99. Set on a ghost-ridden part of Virginia’s coast in the 16th century, Betrayer has players piecing together the setting’s mystery while fending off Conquistadors and other...