Much ado about something (and we're not sure what the something is).
First, they said it was an exclusive. Then, they sort of implied that it was a timed exclusive.
Balloons, puppies and grenades - sounds like my 8th birthday party.
The Game Awards seems to be aiming at being the Oscars of games, with celebrity appearances, lots of loud whooping and lavish settings - as well as quite a few world premiere trailers. Do we need a video game Oscars? That's up for debate - but we did enjoy getting a whole glut of announcements all at once.
All I want for Christmas is the ability to kill NPCs.
The thing with launching an MMO is that it requires as much care as a particularly accident-prone and overly curious toddler. People are constantly clamouring for bug fixes, tweaks, and new content, and if the game is going to have any longevity, you're damn well going to do what they say. Also it keeps trying to climb into the oven.
Now we can watch The Great British Bake Off! YESSS.
We've been waiting for this one for ages. Sure, Netflix has all the gritty political dramas you could ever want, but what if your idea of fun is watching Paxman snort derisively at sobbing geniuses on University Challenge?
And I will fight anyone who badmouths Threes.
It's an indie bonanza this weekend, with not one, not two, but THREE games all out on the same day, so you can spend all of your two days off frolicking in the world of charming indie games.
WE CALLED IT WE CALLED IT WE CALLED IT.
Next year's Assassin's Creed game will take place in London during the 19th Century, Kotaku has confirmed. Shortly afterwards, Twitter exploded with fans sharing everything they remember from primary school history lessons and BBC documentary series What The Victorians Did For Us. Jack The Ripper! Charles Darwin! Sherlock Holmes! Queen Vicky! All our favourite people.
If you're the type to get excited by patch notes, you're in for a treat.
The latest Destiny update is thrilling stuff - weapons fixes, tweaks here and there for balance, better stability and fewer technical troubles such as the occasionally poor frame rate. Not the kind of stuff that'll make you need a change of trousers (unless you're swapping a pair of intergalactic space-breeches for a set with better stats), but that's not all Bungie have done...
No longer just a (final) fantasy.
Xbox has never been the place for JRPG fans. They've always been off in their clubhouse, playing Shin Megami Tensei and reading about how to make your hair all pointy and gravity-defying. But that might be about to change.
It's Friday, Friday, gotta get MAD DEALZ on Friday.
Apologies for the delay - we've been having issues with the website so we weren't able to upload this on Friday. The deals are still valid until today, so you'll just have to get them, like, NOW.
If you're not a fan of Black Friday, we understand. Really, we do. It's one of the few times of the year when people turn all feral because a 52-inch TV is #163;50 off. Then again, it's also one of the few times of the year when you can bite people in the aisles of Walmart and everyone's reaction is just "well, she did really want the last box of Twinkies."
The games, they are a-changin'.
We thought it was quite poetic that Assassin's Creed Unity, a game about anger, protests and the power of the people, should cause a ragestorm that almost emulated the French Revolution itself, only with much less guillotining and far fewer heads on pikes. At least, in our area of the country.
Things can only get meta from here.
Turn 10 has used the in-game livery editor in Forza Motorsport 5 to craft a design for V8 Supercars team Dick Johnson Racing (DJR), just in time for the motorsport competition's season finale in December. DJR has been given a 'wildcard' entry for the race, with Marcos Ambrose returning from the States.
Our latest issue is now on sale in the UK.
If you're a fan of mythical beasts, space guns, exploding caffeine monsters and the rise and fall of the French aristocracy, then you are in for a treat this month. And no, Halo 5 doesn't reveal Master Chief to be Marie Antoinette, but we can still hope.
Yours on Xbox One and Xbox 360 for a limited time.
Haven't played Activision's $500 million investment yet? Here's your chance to get it for zero monies on Xbox One and Xbox 360, where you'll be able to sample character creation, progression and more, with the option to upgrade to the final version.
The latest Halo miniseries is solid popcorn entertainment in its own right, but what does it bode for the IP as a whole?.
As the first episode of Halo Nightfall begins, a character asks: "what would you do if you knew the world would end tomorrow?" Well, it's hardly Homeland or The Wire, but if you're a fan of Halo lore, you could probably do worse than to spend those remaining minutes with the franchise's second live action TV spin-off series, which launches as part of the Master Chief Collection this winter.
"We felt that we were going to make the tough but right decision to cancel it.".
You can't get much more emphatic than that. Prey 2, Bethesda's futuristic-looking space shooter was announced at E3 2011, and then all news and communication ended there. Now's it been totally cancelled, which is unfortunate and a little sad. "It's all of those things, for sure," said Bethesda's Pete Hines, when speaking to OXM at PAX Australia earlier today.
Hope your Japanese is up to scratch.
Capcom's umpteenth remaster - a spruced-up edition of the Gamecube's spruced-up edition of the PlayStation's Resident Evil, for Xbox One and Xbox 360 - has a new trailer, which explores such additions as the alternative control scheme and costumes. Some of you may struggle with the Japanese voiceover, but the on-screen action should be comprehensible enough. Being eaten by the undead is the ultimate international language.
Blocked and Loaded to hit Xbox Live Arcade soon-ish.
The Committee for the Promotion of General Mayhem hereby recognises Guncraft: Blocked and Loaded, an Xbox 360 port of a PC game in which players carefully build maps out of blocks, then blow them apart using helicopters and machineguns. You are definitely cooking with charcoal, Exato. When's the release date again?
"They're by no means the finished experiences or even the finished content.".
Destiny's emphasis on exploration somewhat backfired the other week when intrepid pioneers managed to wangle their way into hidden areas that form part of upcoming DLC packs - the first of which, The Dark Below, arrives on 9th December. Speaking to Eurogamer, Bungie president Harold Ryan has offered a defence against ensuing claims that the developer and Activision are cheating players of content that should be included with the main game.
Save import substitute is now in open beta.
It's said that you can tell a lot about somebody by the company they keep. I think you can deduce a lot more from the quality of the RPG world they leave behind. BioWare, of course, specialises in this sort of endgame payoff, as anybody who's ever banished an Archdemon or assumed control of a Reaper fleet will know.
First story expansion dated, but how much of it will you have seen already?.
Activision has slapped a launch date on Destiny's The Dark Below DLC, which adds new weapons, gear, story missions, co-op and multiplayer activities to Bungie's interplanetary epic. It lands on 9th December, and is set primarily on the Moon. You know, where the wizards come from.
