Now Playing: February 24 – March 2, 2014
Hide your valuables, Thief is on the loose this week … Choose your platform to jump to a specific release list:
Blizzard reveals new Diablo 3: Reaper of Souls pre-order items
Blizzard has revealed a pair of new Diablo 3: Reaper of Souls pre-order incentives, sweetening the deal for players who plan to delve into the upcoming expansion during its first week of release. Players who pre-purchase or redeem a Reaper of Souls key via their Battle.net accounts before March 31...
Metareview: Thief
Say “hello” to Thief, the first game of the year with review scores across the board. Ours trended toward the higher side calling it a game where the “balance isn’t entirely successful.” Game Informer (80/100): “Locked behind this old-school game design is a gem that stealth fans should eye up...
Portabliss: Tengami
This is Portabliss, a column about downloadable games that can be played on the go. Days after having soaked in the culture of Tokyo’s suburban streets, I played Tengami for the first time, and it was the perfect set up to blow me away. Nyamyam’s point-and-click (or point-and-tap) adventure draws...
Joystiq Tiny Streams: Plumbing depths in Crypt of the NecroDancer
Block-rocking beats typically don’t spring to mind when engaging in swords and sorcery fantasy. We don’t automatically associate Tolkien and the dancefloor. Why shouldn’t we? Skeletons and cave dwelling beasts like to get done, and so do fated heroes questing for loot and glory. Crypt of the NecroDancer dares to...
Star Citizen tops $39 million, adds $41 million goal
Chris Roberts’ upcoming space epic Star Citizen has surpassed yet another crowdfunding milestone, by attracting over $39 million to the game’s development to date. As with previous funding milestones, topping $39 million adds a new feature to the game. Specifically, a star system known as UDS-2943-01-22. “The object, once thought...
Co-op roleplaying game Divinity: Original Sin arrives this Spring
Larian Studios’ latest high fantasy epic, Divinity: Original Sin, is now slated for a Spring release, and to whet players’ appetites, the developer has issued the above trailer, titled “Spring Is Coming.” According to a press release issued by Larian, the Spring launch window will allow the developer to utilize...
The year of the octopus continues with Airscape: The Fall of Gravity
Airscape: The Fall of Gravity pulls an adorable yellow octopus from his beachside (see: in the ocean) home and sticks him on a strange, alien planet with dangerous enemies and wacky gravity physics. It’s an action platformer that has players leap over and around obstacles such as angry robots, lasers,...
New Wasteland 2 beta build goes live on PC, Mac tomorrow
Wasteland 2 isn’t ready to travel into the arid, post-apocalyptic desert just yet, but a new beta build set to release tomorrow will allow developer inXile Entertainment to progress ever-closer to a full release. The team has already addressed more than 1,000 bugs and suggestions (out of 2,300), and with...
Netflix to pay Comcast for better connection and speed [Update]
Pretty much every contemporary gaming machine – be it a tablet, smartphone, console, handheld or PC – has the ability to connect to the internet for streaming media content. If you’re using such a device to watch Netflix on a Comcast network, your speed and stability should see a bump...