Clementine’s hammer proficiency tested in The Walking Dead screens
A child’s innocence is near impossible to preserve in the zombie apocalypse. So it should come as no surprise that adolescent protagonist Clementine has no problem battling the undead in these screens for The Walking Dead‘s next episode, “A House Divided.”
Daylight hits PS4, PC on April 8 for $15, includes Twitch interaction
Winter is almost over. Know what that means? That means more daylight! And starting on April 8, more Daylight. An email sent to Joystiq reveals that the procedurally-generated horror game for PC and PS4 from Zombie Studios has been given a new release date that corresponds with comments from studio...
Prison breakout sim The Escapists picked up by Worms studio Team17
Team17, the UK outfit behind the popular Worms franchise, will publish Mouldy Toof Studios’ indie prison break-out sim for PC, The Escapists. This is the second game to be published under Team17’s third-party publishing label, the first being indie top-down stealth game Light. In The Escapists, players assume the role...
Joystiq Streams: Getting surreal with Jazzpunk [Relive the stream!]
Joystiq Streams needs a break from all the high octane shooting action it’s been doing in Titanfall. What better way to unwind from massive bouts of mech violence than with Necrophone Games’ deeply strange Jazzpunk? Its heady blend of bizarre humor, pop culture detritus, adventure and weird mini-games has entranced...
Shadow of Mordor enemies less devious on Xbox 360, PS3
Monolith Productions is doing “whatever we can” to ensure feature parity between the Xbox 360, PS3 versions of Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor and the Xbox One, PS4 offerings. But the developer admits this may be an impossibility and reveals the game’s core hook, the Nemesis system driving its procedurally-generated enemies,...
Throwback RPG Pier Solar HD delayed to April, 3DS version considered
Sega Genesis homebrew-turned-modern console release Pier Solar HD has been pushed back to an April launch on all platforms, developer WaterMelon confirmed this week. WaterMelon‘s retro-styled RPG was originally set to launch digitally in March for the PlayStation 3, PS4, Wii U, PC, Mac, Linux, Android, Ouya and Dreamcast platforms....
Batman Arkham Origins Blackgate Deluxe hits PC, consoles April 1
Batman Arkham Origins: Blackgate will receive a Deluxe Edition version on April 1, Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment announced today. The Deluxe Edition will launch digitally on PS3, Xbox 360, Wii U and PC via Steam after Blackgate was previously only available on Vita and 3DS. The transition to consoles and...
Microsoft adds achievements to renamed Xbox cloud service OneDrive
Microsoft has officially changed the name of its cloud service SkyDrive to “OneDrive.” The Windows, Windows Phone, iOS, Android and Xbox One-compatible service will also receive a monthly payment plan option in addition to a new referral program that offers up to 15 GB of additional space when inviting friends...
Destiny, Monaco, BioShock Infinite talks round out GDC 2014 panels
Interesting art talks looking at character customization and animation workflow for Destiny will be hosted by Bungie at this year’s Game Developers Conference, which goes down in San Francisco next month. Irrational Games (what’s left of it, anyway) will provide a breakdown of how Elizabeth’s AI-controlled movements were created for...
Gone North Games forgoes violence to tell A Story About My Uncle
Though exceedingly common in video games, blood and guts are not a necessary component of good design – an oft-forgotten point that developer Gone North Games hopes to demonstrate with its upcoming indie platformer A Story About My Uncle. Officially described as a “non-violent first-person platform adventure game built in...