News::Nine Things You Should Know About The Next Final Fantasy VII Spinoff

In June, Square Enix quietly announced a new mobile game called Final Fantasy VII G-Bike, based on the mini-game from their iconic RPG.

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News::XSEED dates Akiba's Trip, confirms PS4 version

XSEED plans to release the PlayStation 4 version of Akiba's Trip: Undead & Undressed in North America this holiday season, the publisher confirmed today.

The PS3 and Vita iterations of the vampire-husking RPG brawler will launch on August 12.

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News::Dark Souls II: The Crown of the Sunken King | Game Informer

Dark Souls II begins its major downloadable offerings with The Crown of the Sunken King, the first installment in a trilogy of DLC for From Softwares action/RPG. It provides 4-6 hours of additional content deep below the Black Gulch, giving players three new areas to explore. These new surroundings make particularly good use of vertical space, twisting environments, and deadly traps. Travel is exceptionally dangerous, since walls meshing together can throw off even expert players, leaving their exact location hard to pinpoint.



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News::Chinas OMG to establish team Oh My Girl, an all-female League of Legends team (rumor)

Revealed by former Chinese team LoLadies jungler, Sherry, there just might be some truth to the rumor that OMG is establishing an all-female League of Legends team.



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News::I'm afraid not enough people will play Hohokum

Hohokum isn't an easily described game. It's one of those cases where it's not until you try it for yourself that you fully grasp the appeal, which can be a tough sell. Yeah, the whimsical art direction is terrific, but the way the game feels is pretty great, too! The people who are into it seem to really dig it, but I worry there's just not enough awareness.

With a Cross-Buy launch on PS3, PS4, and PS Vita, hopefully it'll find its place with those latter two systems especially, which are in need of more games and more non-ports, respectively.

As you may have heard, Hohokum is a part of this year's PlayStation Store PLAY program, which means PlayStation Plus members can save 20 percent by pre-ordering the game, but there's more: pre-orders also include a static PS3 theme and an exclusive Hohokum DLC pack for Sound Shapes. Anyway, it's out on August 12. Hope you play it and dig.

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News::EA improves revenue in first quarter of 2014, delays Dragon Age and Battlefield

As Electronic Arts' first fiscal quarter came to a close on June 30, the publisher found that it had beaten expectations for profits and revenue. EA credits much of this success to the runaway success of Titanfall .

CEO Andrew Wilson said that it was a strong start to the year for EA and that they were committed to putting the players first and delivering the entertainment, innovation, and creativity that players want.

This news comes after the publisher giant revealed that it delayed two of its key releases: Dragon Age: Inquisition and Battlefield Hardline , but reaffirmed its goal of $4.1 billion in net revenue and earnings per share of $1.85. Dragon Age: Inquisition has been moved back a month to November 18, and Battlefield Hardline has been moved to early 2015.

EA is hoping for BioWare's Dragon Age to be a hot seller this holiday. Mark Darrah, Executive Producer of Inquisition stated that the extra few weeks will give time to put more polish on the game and that Dragon Age would be all the better for it.

EA improves revenues and profit in Q1, delays Dragon Age [GamesIndustry International]

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News::The Uncharted Movie Snatches Spider-Man 3's Release Date

With the third Spidey movie pushed back to 2018 to squeeze in The Sinister Six movie, Nathan Drake's turn on the big screen is slated to fill Spider-Man 3's June 10, 2016 spot. I smell a conspiracy.

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News::Canabalt 2.0 brings more modes and multiplayer to iOS

For the most part, I'm over endless runners, but I'll always have Canabalt. It hit at the right time and holds up well. Matter of fact, it's gotten even better with age: there's a free new update for the iOS version, out now, that adds multiplayer, eight game modes, and bug fixes.

For an added challenge, you can control both characters in multiplayer by yourself.

Should you not already own the game, it's on sale for $0.99 through Sunday.

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News::Holy Batman 1989 videogame figure, NECA!

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of both the 1989 film and videogame, NECA has announced its first ever Batman figure in 7" scale.

This figure has over 25 points of articulation plus removable cape, Batarang, and Spear Gun accessories. The figure is painted in a way to replicate the game's original cel-shaded look. It's packaged in a special window box with opening flap to recreate the feel of the 1989 videogame packaging, and that's absolutely awesome. That's the reason I ended up buying the RoboCop figure, actually.

Batman will be available in October, but don't dawdle because according to the NECA website this will be a one-run only figure. And you don't want to miss out on it, like I missed out on the Friday the 13th variant for San Diego Comic-Con.

NECA’s Batman 1989 Video Game Appearance Action Figure Revealed! [Action Figure Insider]

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News::The Swapper Video Review What is a Human Soul? - PSLS

"Remember Portal? That small, innocent little puzzle game that was an offshoot of the Half-Life series? That game that became a phenomenon, spawned the cake is a lie movement, and is perhaps revered as one of the best puzzle games of all time? Many games since have tried to match up to what Portal accomplished, but few have come close. For Portal, it wasnt just about the fantastic and ingenious puzzles. It was about the atmosphere, the message in the game, the sinister overarching force, and the psychological why behind it all. Portal embodied so much beyond just how to get to your end goal, and The Swapper follows suit with its dark and twisted way of intertwining devious puzzles with an unspoken narrative." - PSLS



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News::Unrest Review | IncGamers

Unrest is a shoo-in for the IncGamers 2014 RPG most likely to make you agonise over an arranged marriage award.



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News::A Pokémon-Style Game For Those of You Without A Nintendo System

It's easy to blame nostalgia for the special place in our hearts that the original Pokémon games occupy, but Red and Blue genuinely have a lot of great elements that the modern games in the franchise don't really offer anymore. Enter Collectems, a new game that blends what made Pokémon Red and Blue so great, with some of the better features you can find in newer Pokémon games.

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News::The Crew Beta Impressions

Colm Ahern: Ubisoft is going for the racing market later this year with The Crew. Currently, they're running a closed beta and we've got an impressions video for you to have a look at. below.



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News::Unlimited Ninja Merges All 15 Servers Into 1

Ray Media has announced today that all of their 15 servers have been merged into one giant server, for their browser MMO Unlimited Ninja. Players have been complaining about the consequences of a merger this size due to the level gaps, however many veteran players have returned to Unlimited Ninja as a result so the server is alive and kicking again.



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News::Review: Divinity: Original Sin [Pixel Dynamo]

Pixel Dynamo goes Source Hunting in their review of Divinity: Original Sin.



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News::Interview: Trion Worlds CEO On The Move To Free - 'There Are So Many Lousy F2P Games Out There'

In an interview with Forbes.com, Trion Words' CEO Scott Hartsman discussed the march of free-to-play, and how Trion Worlds' own stable - including Rift, Defiance and the upcoming ArcheAge - has negotiated it.



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News::My Slight Concerns About Destiny

One of the writers from IM PLAYIN talks about some of his slight concerns over Destiny, before playing the Beta on the Xbox One "My biggest worry about this game is whether its just going to be a Halo clone. I wouldnt say Halo ripoff, just because Bungie are making it and they are Halo all over. Im probably one of the few Xbox 360 and One owners that isnt overly fussed by the Halo series. I played Halo 3 and thought it was alright ODST wasnt too bad, I guess. But I just never really got into it. Its probably because Im a history geek, so I like my action FPS games to be historically accurate (ish), well, at least historically based. The look of the game is very Halo, even the front cover looks like its featuring a cloaked Master Chief from the Halo 5 teaser video. To me, Destiny looks like the lovechild of Halo and Mass Effect, with a bit of Borderlands thrown in there for good measure. In theory, that should be one hell of a game. I just worry that we might have see...



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News::Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms Preview | GameGrin

Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms is the upcoming sequel to a game you've probably never heard of (Kult: Heretic Kingdoms) and, given that, it's looking surprisingly good.



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News::The Swapper Review | GodisaGeek

Mikhail Madnani: " I havent been able to stop thinking about the puzzles and story since I completed The Swapper. For a game so cryptic, Im surprised at how much it impacted me. The ending in particular will stay with you for a long time. The Vitas small screen did wonders for the immersion, despite the beauty of The Swappers unique art style. My advice is turning the lights off, grabbing a good pair of noise-removing headphones, and getting completely and utterly enveloped in The Swapper. It is the triumvirate of visual, aural, and mental bliss."



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News::The Expansive Vodcast #8 Elite Dangerous TerraTech

There are some big things in the universe, some of them are really big and appear on Kickstarter. The games that this episodes guests are working on are no exception. Adam Woods, Frontier Developments producer extraordinaire, working on Elite Dangerous and Russ Clarke, founder of Payload Studios working on TerraTech, both join Neil Hickton, Andy Buick and Smiley Dave to chat about their games and a few other things besides. Elite Dangerous should require no introduction, David Brabens brain-child of awesome grows bigger and stronger by the day, helped along to where it is now by a very successful Kickstarter campaign. It is now reaching critical mass in the form of a Beta hitting PCs from the 29th July. TerraTech is no less adventurous and daring and the heavily customisable mining exploration combat game is currently nearing the end of its Kickstarter campaign - go check it out and back them and we are sure you will like what you see. They are so close to being funded...



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News::Review: Valiant Hearts: The Great War | KaboomShark

Valiant Hearts: The Great War is a beautiful melody of art, music and gameplay that can keep one enraptured for the entire experience.



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News::Review: Sokobond

Chemistry is governed by a definite set of rules. Opposite charges attract, like dissolves like, matter is always conserved. There are more rules than just those, but one of the great things about the study of matter and its interactions is that if one truly understands the rules and laws governing chemicals, he can predict outcomes given a set of preconditions.

In that sense, Sokobond has even more in common with chemistry than it lets on. Though it boasts that no chemistry knowledge is required to play, it too runs on a specific set of rules, and any player who internalizes those rules can find success in-game. As a fortunate side effect, any who spend time connecting atoms in Sokobond might just learn something about chemistry too.

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News::Show Us Your Favorite Batman Story

According to DC Comics, it's Batman Day today. So let's talk about your favorite stories featuring the Dark Knight.

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News::'Dead Rising 3' for PC will include 'Untold Stories' DLC for free

On Wednesday Capcom announced the PC version of the Xbox One launch title, "Dead Rising 3," will include all the "Untold Stories of Los Perdidos" DLC for free.



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News::The Crew: Is it this generations Burnout Paradise?

VideoGamer: "It's got some of the same DNA as Criterion's racers, but right now The Crew's world is being let down by dull events."



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News::Disappearing Act: Xbox Sales Plummet While Microsoft's Other Devices Continue To Struggle

As Erik Kain reported here last week, the U.S. retail numbers for Xbox One dont look that awful. The PS4 beat it handily at retail in June, by 36%, but with nearly 197,000 units sold, Xbox One seems to have benefited from its recent price cut. That said, Microsoft cant hide the fact that sales have been so tepid in 2014, its been working through channel inventory and manufacturing barely any new consoles. Consider these stats: In the prior quarter, Microsoft reported 2 million console sales of which 1.2 million were the Xbox One. That means the company was moving about 800,000 Xbox 360s just three months ago. If we assume that the 360 is selling similarly at this point, then this quarters 1.1 million consoles likely consisted of just 300,000 Xbox Ones. To get a sense of how terrible that is, its as bad as Nintendos Wii U results for the quarter that ended in



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News::Ages of the Apocalypse

Wastelander75 writes: "I take a look at various Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic worlds we've explored in video games, and see if they're actually possible in the real world."



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News::The Walking Dead: Season Two Episode Four - Amid the Ruins Review | GodisaGeek

Robin Parker: "Amid the Ruins has its fair share of shortcomings, but it also ticks most of the boxes of what we have been asking for in the past. It maintains a good pace throughout, and avoids getting bogged down with trivialities. It also manages to provide a mix of action sections, emotional scenes, and conversational passages yet we also get some much-appreciated character development. In the first season of The Walking Dead, you really had to worry about each and every choice, whereas here there seems to be a tragic inevitability about everything. Its hard to say whether that is actually an issue, or a reflection of the harsh world Clementine finds herself in. Maybe by making it seem like everything will go wrong, despite your best efforts, Telltale are trying to show just how hopeless the situation has become. This might be a stretch of the imagination, but if it is intended to make us feel numb to the horrors of the world, then they have played a master stroke. Time wi...



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News::The Red Solstice Hands-On Preview - As Unforgiving as the Red Planet Itself | COG

COG writes - Available now on Steam early access we can tell you that The Red Solstice is a lot of fun and painfully difficult. While it might take some time to learn the game's mechanics it looks as if developer Ironward is definitely going in the right direction with this multiplayer title.



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News::Project CARS to Feature at Sony Booth at Gamescom

VRFocus - Videogame publisher Bandai Namco has today confirmed its line-up for the upcoming Gamescom 2014 event in Cologne, Germany on 13th - 17th August. While the companies line-up includes the likes of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and Rise of Incarnates, it revealed that Project CARS, the virtual reality (VR) racing title from Slightly Mad Studios that it is distributing will in fact be on display at Sony Computer Entertainment's (SCE) booth.



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News::Radial-G Heading to NASCAR This Weekend

VRFocus - Tammeka Games is still pushing on its Kickstarter campaign for the upcoming virtual reality (VR) compatible sci-fi racing title, Radial-G. The campaign is approaching its halfway point in reaching its funding goal of £50,000 GBP, with nine days left before its closure. The developer itself has said that it still has a long way to go if it is to reach its goal within the amount of time left. That said, the campaign is set to benefit from some wide exposure at a major NASCAR event in the USA this weekend.



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News::Alien Isolation vs The Evil Within - who's ahead in Survival Horror hype

Rice Digital compares growing interest in the two torch-bearers for the return of true survival horror.



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News::Where to Buy Great Video Game Artwork

I have a rule for my house: no more than a third of the artwork on my walls is allowed to be gaming-related. This rule fell apart pretty quickly when it became clear just how much beautiful video game artwork there is out there. Once, all you could really get was posters designed for the walls of kids' bedrooms; now there is a huge array of video game art that grown adults can frame and hang up without embarrassment (although I do still have a few framed posters around the place. Don't tell anyone). I now have a constant rotation of game art going on. If I didn't, my walls would be adorned by nothing else.

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