Time for your GPU upgrade? Price cuts? Love ’em. Especially when they happen for something I need. Look at the cuts NVIDIA has made for some of their desktop line, effective today: NVIDIA tells us that the expect sites like Newegg, TigerDirect and others to go live with this new pricing today. They tease that we might even see lower pricing from some. Oh, here you go: Here’s theASUS GTX650TIfor $129 (with a $10 instant rebate)....
Stickers! GameStop is giving away some neato goodies for pre-orderingOctopath Travelerfrom them. On launch, you’ll get some sticker sheets and a character card to go along with your game. Any version will qualify, so you can nab these with thecollector’s edition, which sounds very enticing. There seem to be multiple cards for each character in the game, though it looks like you’ll only receive one. I can see those going for stupidly high prices on eBay shortly after launch....
PS4 is leading platform If video game sales were racing speeds, Slightly Mad Studios would be pleased with the lap times ofProject CARS. After just a month since release, the hardcore-simulation racer has sped past one million sales. Not shabby at all for what amounts to a relatively niche title given how brutally unforgiving it is. Not surprisingly, the majority of that audience is on PlayStation 4.Steam statsindicate just more than 165,000 players on PC....
Back in Dallas QuakeConis back this year, coming back to Dallas, Texas this August 1-4. As always, attendance is free, thanks to id Software and Bethesda Softworks. The latter will be showing of upcoming games for the first time there, they say. For the 18th straight year, QuakeCon will host its Bring Your Own Computer LAN party. You’ll never see anything like this anywhere else. Last year was my first year at QuakeCon....
I wantedRayman Legendsto sell well. Most of us did, hopefully. It’s an already terrific game that looks even better when put up against some of the other stuff Ubisoft releases. During an earnings call, Ubisoft CFO Alain Martinez said “We saw some slowdown on the released games; we believe we were below what we were expecting in our initial target.” And because we can’t have nice things, yes, that group includesLegends....
Many of us probably didn’t envision a future in which we could play AAA games on mobile devices. Well, these days are upon us, and horror fans will be pleased to know thatResident Evil Villageis coming to Apple products this Halloween. According toCapcom, the eighth installment in theResident Evilseries will release for iPhone and iPad on October 30. This continues the long-standing tradition of releasing horror media during the spookiest time of the year....
Professor Layton and his apprentice Luke have returned for their third DS game, and as those who have played the previous games probably expected, it’s really good.Professor Layton and the Unwound Futuretakes the formula that’s worked so well for the past two games and pretty much leaves it untouched. Aside from a few new minigames, the new Super Hint option, and (obviously) the story, nothing has really changed from any of the previous Layton games....
In celebration of over 1 million sales Rocket Leaguehas been an out-of-nowhere phenomenon. I had assumed its large player base was made up mostly of users who downloaded it for free through PlayStation Plus. As it turns out, it has sold more than a million copies on Steam to date. Eager to further capitalize on its success, Valve announced various plans to support Psyonix’s soccar game. It will be expanding onto Mac and SteamOS later this year....
If the rumor is true, Sony may be losing one of their best game creators. Eurogamersays that Fumito Ueda, Team Ico boss and creator ofShadow of the Colossus, Icoand the upcomingThe Last Guardian, has left Sony. Sources say that Ueda will continue work onThe Last Guardian, but as a freelance worker. When he’s done with the game, he’ll move onto new personal projects. If this rumor is true, I wonder why he bailed....
We’ll take it Back in August, Sega expressed interest in bringing us more remakes and remasters afterPersona 4 Goldensold like hotcakes on Steam. As we all know in the gaming world: one statement is often a dalliance to placate fans, and multiple statements can lead to reality. Speaking on a financial results briefing that has just been released (as translated by Gematsu), Sega CEO Haruki Satomi once again explained to investors that the company was pursuing more “remasters or remakes....
Samurai & Dragons card packs I was already behind Sega’s Vita titleSamurai & Dragonsfrom the name alone, but as a Sega fan I really like where they’re going with upcoming content. This free-to-playKingdom Conquestfollow-up will see two different special monster card packs released in Japan soon. One is made up of personified Sega consoles, and the other personified Sega hardware. Oh, Japan. The console one features 13 Segakko, or Sega’s Daughters, and everything from the Dreamcast to the Game Gear will be turned into a cute girl....
These days the former is a nickname The early days of the wild west of localization are a fascinating beast. We’ve seen it with series likeFinal FightandMario, but one that isn’t mentioned that often isSonic— particularly when it comes to the main villain’s moniker. That’s mainly because the Japanese original of “Eggman” and the western “Robotnik” have been used either interchangeably or simultaneously, and Sonic Team head Takashi Iizuka once again has stepped in to clarify the situation....
Just this year alone, we’ll be getting quite a few Soulslikes. Coming from both recognizable and new studios, the age-old formula continues kicking, perhaps more than it ever has. But, instead of getting excited, I’m as tired as I ever was of the same old regurgitated design. The Soulslike fatigue The Soulslike fatigue should become an official psychological term meant to describe the appearance of the “it’s all so tiresome” mentality in people who just can’t keep up with so many games in the genre....
