
We all knew this game was coming, but a formal announcement was required anyway. EA Sports announced today that NHL 14 is on the way for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on September 10, 2013 in North America, and September 13, 2013 in Europe.

We all knew this game was coming, but a formal announcement was required anyway. EA Sports announced today that NHL 14 is on the way for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on September 10, 2013 in North America, and September 13, 2013 in Europe.

In the Toy Box mode, players can build their own adventures and worlds featuring hundreds of characters, vehicles, items and environments. Much like LittleBigPlanet 2, players can create their own games with what appears to be an extraordinarily robust toolkit.

LucasArts, the game publisher and developer behind two decades of games, is being shuttered by Disney, according to a release sent out Wednesday afternoon. Disney plans to shift from developing games internally to licensing beloved franchises like Star Wars and Indiana Jones to other developers.

I have two, TWO, things about Doom to show you. This is like being an archaeologist in the jungle and discovering a skellington, but the skellington’s heart is still beating and then, oh noes, there’s a ball chasing me and I’ve dropped my hat and give me back my whip Alfred Molina!

“Antichamber made way too much sense.”
Surely that’s the driving mandate behind Parallax. I can’t think of any other mindset – if, indeed, the otherworldly creatures that produced this thing even adhere to our primitive concept of “mind” – that’d bring us to this point.

Deep Silver put out a trailer announcing Saints Row IV (that’s FOUR to you people who can’t read Roman) yesterday! It launches on 20th August 2013 in the US and 23rd August 2013 in the boring parts of the world. Me and Ye Olde Man Gillen had a look at it with a cynical eye, KG’s cat gently humping him on the leg throughout.

Gritty-looking Russian-accented choochoo-themed tunnel shooter Metro: Last Light was bought from THQ by Deep Silver, and will come out in North America on May 14th and everywhere else May 17th Read the rest of this entry »

A mouse click has never been so powerful. The idea of simulating an aesthetically pleasing pastime, only to make it even more aesthetically pleasing, is something that James Brown of Ancient Workshop has embraced wholeheartedly. Read the rest of this entry »

There’s dedication & there’s dedication. The second, slantier version means there’s been a bit more effort being put in. Let’s use Quake as an example: it’s the difference between someone still making Quake levels all these years later & someone who has built a Quake editor for modern sensibilities, making it all wizzy. Read the rest of this entry »

If you haven’t finished Dead Space 3, plan to, and care about the story as well as the severance, beware. Somewhere in the back of my space-scarred and delirious mind, I knew that there was some DLC for Dead Space 3 in the pipeline.