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- Boss Fight Books to Get a New Look for Richard Moss’s “Age of Empires”
- GDC Awards: All the Winners from 1996 to Today
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Wins “Game of the Year” at 2025-2026 GDC Awards
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- Video Game Research Library
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- The History Of The Word “Metroidvania” And How It Spread – A Critical Hit (2025)
- Creator of Hit Game Shovel Knight Is at a ‘Make or Break’ Moment – Bloomberg (2025)
- Shadow of the Colossus: An oral history – Design Room (2025)
- In 2005, games started rewiring our brains – The AV Club (2025)
Author: John Scalzo
Rockstar Games Collection includes Red Dead, LA Noire, GTA Episodes, Midnight Club LA
It’s just raining Rockstar news today! In addition to showing a trio of editors from Game Informer around Grand Theft Auto V, the publisher also announced that the four-game Rockstar Games Collection: Edition 1 will be available for the PS3 and Xbox 360 on November 6.
The compilation, which is priced at $59.99, is a stellar deal and includes such fan favorites as Red Dead Redemption, L.A. Noire, Grand Theft Auto: Episodes From Liberty City, and Midnight Club: Los Angeles – Complete Edition. If these games have somehow passed under your personal radar, here’s a quick overview of what you’ll find within the Rockstar Games Collection: Edition 1…
Red Dead Redemption – Winner of over 170 Game of the Year awards, Red Dead Redemption brings the dying West to life with a vibrant open-world, powerful story, and intense single- and multiplayer action.
Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City – The explosive conclusion to the highest-rated game of all time, Grand Theft Auto IV, featuring two complete games on one disc: The Lost and Damned & The Ballad of Gay Tony.
L.A. Noire – The revolutionary crime thriller featuring MotionScan, a breakthrough technology that captures every nuance of a real actor’s facial performance, providing a level of realism, detail and emotion never before seen in a video game. Featuring brand new gameplay and a dark, hard-boiled detective story, L.A. Noire became the first ever video game to be recognized by the Tribeca Film Festival.
Midnight Club: Los Angeles Complete Edition – One of the highest-reviewed racing titles of this generation, featuring deeply customizable real world cars, non-stop open world street racing and intense multiplayer action. The Complete Edition also includes every downloadable real world vehicle and city section released since launch.
Posted in News, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged L.A. Noire, Midnight Club: Los Angeles, Red Dead Redemption
First Borderlands 2 DLC expansion available next week
“Captain Scarlett and Her Pirate’s Booty.”
It sounds like the solution to a particularly dirty game of Clue, but in reality, it’s the name of the first downloadable expansion for Borderlands 2. And it’ll be available next week!
The campaign add-on will be available to download for the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 on October 16. If you pre-purchased the Borderlands 2 Season Pass, you’ll be able to download the expansion for free. If not, it’ll run you $9.99/800 Microsoft Points on your platform of choice.
Gearbox has planned three more expansions, and we’ll hopefully have more information on them soon.
Posted in News, PC, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged Borderlands 2
Game Informer is getting a hands-on look at Grand Theft Auto V right now
How’s this for breaking news? Game Informer is reporting that three of their editors are at Rockstar’s New York headquarters to get a hands-on look at Grand Theft Auto V for a December cover story. Aside from a handful of screenshots released over the Summer, GTA5 has been subject to a self-imposed media blackout by its publisher since early March. So we’re grabbing onto any GTA5 news crumbs that we can.
Thankfully, Rockstar’s radio silence will come crashing down next month thanks to the huge info blowout planned by Game Informer. Who knows, maybe we’ll even get a release date.
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Tagged Grand Theft Auto V
Nintendo Download: Lego Lord of the Rings demo, Mario Golf GBC, More
My precious has shrunk down to handheld size as a 3DS demo of Lego Lord of the Rings is now available on the 3DS eShop as part of today’s Nintendo Download. If you’re looking for a more full game experience, five titles also made their way to Nintendo’s three download services today:
Mario Golf (3DS eShop) – The stakes are high in the race to become the Grand Champion of golf. Four Club Champs stand in your way, and you’ll have to defeat them all to get a shot at playing the most famous golfer in the land.
Crazy Kangaroo (3DS eShop) – A groundbreaking, super-addictive and unbelievably cute platform game from Gamelion that delivers pure awesomeness!
Nurikabe by Nikoli (3DS eShop) – In this super popular puzzle, black spaces and white spaces slowly come together to show their true form. “Nurikabe” is a puzzle in which you refer to the arranged numbers to fill in all of the spaces.
Robot Rescue 2 (DSiWare) – Your mission is to navigate a cadre of codependent robots through an evil computer labyrinth that’s brimming with deadly traps. At certain points you’ll need to repaint your robots by stepping on a special tile in order to change their color.
The Last Blade 2 (Wii Virtual Console) – The Last Blade 2, originally released in 1998, is the sequel to the fighting game, The Last Blade, which was released a year before. It picks up where the previous title left off and takes the story of battling at the gates of hell to its climax. This time around, there are 16 unique swordsmen from which to choose.
Posted in 3DS, DS, News, Wii
Tagged Lego Lord of the Rings
XBLA Today: Walking Dead Episode 4, Naughty Bear 2, Worms Revolution
We’ve got two new Xbox Live Arcade titles to play with this week, including Naughty Bear: Panic in Paradise, a sequel to the semi-popular teddy bear death simulator…
When the Bears of Perfection Island went on holiday to Paradise Island, Naughty Bear was not invited! Naughty Bear manages to secretly travel with the other bears, duct-taped to the exterior of the bus. With a list of bears who wronged him in hands, Naughty is ready to make them pay, one by one.
And Worms Revolution, the latest in the super-popular strategy series:
Worms Revolution sticks an exploding sheep under worm-on-worm conflict and blasts it squarely into the 21st century. With 32 single player missions, 20 single player puzzles, online or local multiplayer for up to 4 players, 3 multiplayer modes, customisation, worm classes and dynamic water!
Both games are available to download now for 1200 Microsoft Points ($15). Also available today, for 400 Microsoft Points ($5), is Around Every Corner, the fourth episode of The Walking Dead:
In the wake of terrible loss, the group arrives in Savannah in search of salvation from the horrors around them. Stalked by an unseen human threat and the constant menace of the undead, learn to deal with an increasingly paranoid group and how to protect Clementine.
Posted in News, Xbox 360
Tagged The Walking Dead
The Joker and Green Lantern confirmed for Injustice thanks to ubercreepy box art
The Joker has never been one to shy away from a fight, and his gruesome mug is front and center on the official Injustice: Gods Among Us box art, just released today by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.
Also, did you know The Joker is going to be included in Injustice: Gods Among Us? Because he is. And apparently so is the Green Lantern. While it would have been a huge shock if either of these two characters didn’t make the final cut, it’s nice to finally have confirmation. But what I’d really like to know is who’ll be voicing the Clown Prince of Crime now that Mark Hamill has hung up his purple suit.
Injustice: Gods Among Us is still in development at NetherRealm Studios and will be available for the PS3, Xbox 360, and Wii U in April 2013.
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Tagged Injustice: Gods Among Us
God of War: Ascension demo included with Total Recall Blu-ray
Just so we’re clear, the headline is referring to Total Recall the 2012 remake, not Total Recall the Arnold Schwarzenegger masterpiece. Anyway…
When the Total Recall remake starring Colin Farrell, kate Beckinsale, and Jessica Biel comes to Blu-ray on December 18, it’ll bring a God of War: Ascension demo first glimpsed at E3 2012 with it. The demo will be available on the disc “for a limited time.” It’ll likely make its way to the PlayStation Network after this limited time, but Sony has yet to say for sure.
This isn’t the first time Kratos has teamed up with a Sony Pictures Blu-ray release. A God of War III demo was included with District 9 back in 2009.
Posted in News, PS3
Tagged God of War: Ascension
Painkiller: Hell & Damnation comes to PC this Halloween, PS3/Xbox 360 in January
Nordic Games has announced that Painkiller: Hell & Damnation, their remake of the Doom-like first person shooter, will be available in “uncut” form for the PC on October 31. That’s right, Halloween. Muwhahahaha.
With the evil laugh out of the way, Nordic also revealed that a PS3 and Xbox 360 version of Painkiller: Hell & Damnation is also in the works. The PS3/Xbox 360 edition of the game, along with a “cut” version of the PC edition, will be available in stores on January 22, 2013.
If you’re so inclined, a PC-exclusive Collector’s Edition will also be available on October 31 and it’ll include “stickers, postcards from hell, ten tracks from the heavy metal soundtrack, a making of DVD, in-game tarot card for Single Player Power-Up and an exclusive multiplayer skin.”
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Tagged Painkiller Hell & Damnation