Booyah — it’s part three of ten in our series, “How to not look like an idiot inTeam Fortress 2,” started Monday and leading up to the official release ofThe Orange Box. Today, we look at the soldier: an all-purpose grunt, the Soldier is decent — but not spectacular — in both close-quarters and ranged combat. He’s got a decent — but not spectacular — amount of health, and he’s got an abysmal — but not decent — running speed....

Good Old Games is having the rather largeAtari Collectionon sale for 50% off this weekend. Some of the games have been on sale a couple of times before, so here’s your chance to grab them if you had missed out. Notable games that can be picked up for cheap areAlone in the Dark 1+2+3for $2.99, bothIndependence Wargames for $2.99 each,The Witcher: Enhanced Editionfor $4.99,Master of Orion 1+2for $2.99, theStar Controlgames, and theTotal Annihilationgames....

Third time’s the…same? “If at first you don’t succeed…” is an interesting business model, especially considering thatDead or Alive 5wasn’t really a “failure,” per se. However, try, try again Team Ninja did, and we are now treated to a third version of this particular entry in the franchise. When it all boils down to it, doesUltimatereally make that big of a difference? Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate(PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 [reviewed])Developer: Team NinjaPublisher: Tecmo KoeiReleased: September 3, 2013MSRP: $39....

[It Came from Japan!is a series where I seek out and review the weirdest, most original and enjoyable titles that never left the Land of the Rising Sun.] Magical Pop’nis the reason I do this series. I mean this figuratively and literally. It’s the rare, coveted import that lives up to the hype, if not the ridiculously high eBay listing price. Make no mistake: If the game had made it to the West in the mid-’90s,Magical Pop’nwould frequently be mentioned as one of the best action-platformers of its era....

Caught between The Rock and a Hard Place Amazon Studios has announced that it will helm the movie adaptation of Electronic Arts’ award-winning co-op adventureIt Takes Two. According tothe Hollyweirds over at Variety, the film will be produced by Seven Bucks Productions, the studio founded by Dany Garcia and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. It Takes Two, which launched on PC and consoles in March 2021, tells the story of an estranged married couple forced to work together after being magically transformed into their child’s handmade dolls....

You’ll have to wait until next year We already sort of expected this news, but here we go. In a recent investor meeting Satoru Iwata was pressed for specifics on whether we would see any mention of Nintendo’s upcoming NX hardware at E3 this year. Surprising nobody, Iwata reconfirmed that Nintendo would not be discussing the NX until at least 2016. He reiterated that this means Nintendo will not be showing off the console next month, or revealing any new details....

As announced by Nintendo president Satoru Iwata during a Nintendo Direct presentation, Japan is scheduled to receive three new 3DS XL bundles this year, two of which sport custom designs. Interestingly, these packages include their individual game pre-installed on an SD card. Monster Hunter 3Gwill arrive on November 1 bundled with a black 3DS XL for 18,900 yen;Animal Crossing: Jump Outis getting its own model the following week for 22,800 yen (shown above); and lastly, the customNew Super Mario Bros 2....

Burn to fight! [Update:The game will be released in the Americas, South Korea, and Hong Kong on August 23.] King of Fighters XIVis coming to Japan on August 25, SNK Playmore just announced. Atlus USA (or Sega) will be releasing the PlayStation 4-exclusive fighting game in the Americas sometime later this year, though no specific release date has been announced just yet. In the meantime, SNK plans to release an enhanced version ofThe Last Blade 2for both PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita....

Monarch of the Quarter-hole Super Villain Games hasdropped a traileroutlining their upcoming game,King of the Arcade, which is set to drop on June 05, 2025. Right now, the game is set to release exclusively on Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S, which is something I didn’t even know happens. King of the Arcadeseems to be about saving a local arcade with prime joystick handling. You play as Mac McCormick, a former arcade champion....

“Become the top creative development studio in the world” [Update:Kojima Productions opened in September 2012, which makes me greatly confused why they made such a big deal about it at the GDC panel today. I guess they just wanted to call it “Red Fox” and show off their logo. Apologies about that; the perils of live reporting. At least we got an awesome header image out of it.] Metal Gear Solid Vdeveloper Kojima Productions is opening a 3,000 sq....

But now it’s dead We nearly gotPTon PC. At the eleventh hour, Konami swooped in and canned it. C’est la vie. Qimsar, a 17-year-old student, had been working on a “100 percent playable and 100 percent game accurate” remake ofPT. He almost finished. Just before an update that would’ve implemented the last animations, Konami called him to cease and desist the project. In a post onGame Jolt, Qimsar describes the call....

L.A. Noire: The Complete Editionis coming to Xbox 360, PS3 and PC on November 15 (November 18 internationally). Does that mean those who spent $60 back in May bought an incomplete version? This new version of the game — out half a year after the original title launched — contains all the released DLC, includingNicholson Electroplating,Reefer Madness,The Consul’s Car,The Naked CityandA Slip of the Tongue. If you were holding out, looks like your patience has been rewarded....

Today we have a very special episode ofMash Tactics. Not only are we starting early at 1:00PM PST, but we have thenewBurgerTimegame unveiling with special guests. Joining us will beJohn Greiner,President/CEO of MonkeyPaw GamesandRay Almeda,Marketing/PR Manager of Monkey PawGames. They will be showing us the first glimpse of the E3 preview build ofBurgerTime World Tourfor theXbox 360(also coming toPlayStation3,WiiWareand PC). We will be playing some single-player, multiplayer, and maybe do a time-attack battle for some fun and giggles....