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- GDC Awards: All the Winners from 1996 to Today
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Wins “Game of the Year” at 2025-2026 GDC Awards
- Silent Hill, Dragon Quest, Skyrim, and More Announced as Finalists for the World Video Game Hall of Fame’s Class of 2026
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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: Nicole Kline
Take that Ubisoft! Sunset Overdrive will include playable female characters
Insomniac’s Associate Community Manager, Brandon Winfrey, tells us a tale of magic and wonder in the latest “Sunset TV” developer diary for Sunset Overdrive . By “magic,” I mean he talks about the utterly amazing traps you can set up to kill enemies (the Pyro Geyser? Hell yes!). And by “wonder,” I mean you can play as a woman in Sunset Overdrive… or a person of another nationality, or a dude in a skirt, or whatever the heck you want to play as (limited only by the character creator and your imagination).
In the video, one of the female characters sports a hooded white robe. Surely this is a friendly poke at the backlash Ubisoft received during this year’s E3 Expo over the lack of female characters in Assassin’s Creed: Unity. Watch the video… it’s great.
Sunset Overdrive will be out on October 28 for the Xbox One.
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Daily Scoop: June 23, 2014 – Video games and comic books and TV, oh my!
Instead of spending a ton of money on tickets to go to Wizard World Philly this year, I made the decision to stay home and catch up on a lot of things. I read a ton of comics (Saga, Invincible, and The Walking Dead), played a lot of video games (Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch, and TowerFall: Ascension), and watched a ton of television (Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, True Blood, and 24). Nothing’s wrong with that at all… except I don’t want to leave the house anymore and I just want to spend more hours catching up on everything. The wake of not being in school can be bad! I mean, for my levels of Vitamin D, I guess.
Anyway, let’s talk about game deals, shall we? Steam, of course, has a load of new games in their Summer Sale, like Rogue Legacy for $3.74, FTL: Advanced Edition for $3.99, and Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition for $4.99. There are some great sales happening at the Humble Store as well – pick up Secret Ponchos for $11.24 (Early Access), Gone Home for $4.99, and A Wizard’s Lizard for $9.89.
Now, let’s check out some t-shirts!
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Tecmo Koei Japan has released a new Link-centric trailer for Hyrule Warriors
This beautiful new trailer for Hyrule Warriors, released by Tecmo Koei of Japan, should get your sword hand tingling. It’s got Link wiping out scores of bad dudes. I especially loved his use of bombs!
Hyrule Warriors will be available for the Wii U on September 26.
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Tagged Hyrule Warriors
Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory II announced for PS4 in Japan
Compile Heart has announced that they’ll be bringing Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory II to the PlayStation 4 in Japan. They did so via this extremely bizarre trailer.
We don’t have any other details as of yet (including if it will ever come to the US), but enjoy!
CoD: Ghosts Invasion DLC will be available for PC, PS3, PS4 on July 3
PC and PlayStation Call of Duty players should start getting hyped! The Call of Duty: Ghosts third DLC pack, Invasion, will be available to download on the PC, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation 4 starting July 3.
With Invasion, players will get “Awakening,” the third part in Extinction, the four-part episodic storyline. They’ll also get four brand-new multiplayer maps: “Departed,” “Pharaoh,” “Mutiny,” and “Favela.” Players can pay either $14.99 for the Invasion DLC, or get it for a discounted price through the Call of Duty: Ghosts Season Pass.
Pick up the Call of Duty: Ghosts Invasion DLC pack on July 3 for $14.99 on PC, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation 4.
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Tagged Call of Duty: Ghosts
R.B.I. Baseball 14 coming to PS4, Xbox One next week
Next week, R.B.I. Baseball 14 will be coming to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. MLB Advanced Media brought the game to mobile platforms back in the Spring, as well as the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The company will be updating these versions of the game this Summer, bringing them a multiplayer mode and alumni packs.
And let’s not forget, there will also be updated rosters! The next-gen and mobile editions of the game will now feature rising stars such as “Jose Abreu (White Sox), Emilio Bonifacio (Cubs), Brandon Hicks (Giants), Mark Reynolds (Brewers), Jonathan Schoop (Orioles) and Masahiro Tanaka (Yankees),” among others.
R.B.I. Baseball will be out on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on June 24 (so two days from now).
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Tagged R.B.I. Baseball 14
Atari’s plan includes catering to “LGBT, social casinos, real-money gambling, and YouTube”
Atari is the company that brought Pong and Asteroids to our living room… and brought countless numbers of cartridges of E.T. to New Mexico. The company currently known as Atari recently underwent some financial problems, but they’ve announced that they’ll be focusing on a new corporate strategy, one that involves “reaching out to new audiences – including LGBT, social casinos, real-money gambling, and YouTube with exclusive video content.”
What does that even mean? Well, Chief Executive Officer of Atari, Fred Chesnais, said, “Atari is more than a game publishing company; it’s an iconic brand that has established a passionate and timeless culture… Known across multiple generations around the world, Atari will continue to embrace all audiences. What the company has accomplished over the years is no small feat, but there is more to come. We’re looking forward to delivering on our new strategy and engaging with our audience in new ways across multiple channels as the next era of Atari unfolds. We are leading a rebuilding exercise in a highly volatile industry, so at the same time we are also aware of the challenges that lay ahead.”
The company plans to move to PC and mobile as well as “other digital mediums.” They also plan to continue with hardware licensing, “gamified hardware, and wearable devices.” Does this mean Atari games coming to Oculus Rift – via Facebook? Do you start with more lives if you have more Facebook friends? This is exciting.
Daily Scoop: June 20, 2014 – Saga
If you like Space Operas even the slightest, you should definitely check out the comic book series Saga. I am finally caught up on it – I bought the third volume and promised myself I’d read it when I was done school – and wow, it is incredible. I wish they would make a video game out of it – the universe is so rich and I would love to explore it on my own. There’s just so much out there!
Speaking of so much being out there, the Steam Summer Sale is still going strong. You can get State of Decay for $4.99, Plague Inc: Evolved for $10.04, and The Walking Dead: Season 2 for $12.49, among many other sales. If that’s not enough, the Humble Store is offering up Thief for $14.99, The Novelist for $7.49, and Papo & Yo for $3.74. Scoop ’em up!
Let’s end this week with a fantastic lineup of t-shirts!
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