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Video Game Canon- Angry Birds, Dragon Quest, FIFA Soccer, and Silent Hill are the World Video Game Hall of Fame’s Class of 2026
- BAFTA Games Awards: All the Winners from 2003 to Today
- Clair Obscur Completes the Sweep by Winning “Best Game” at 2025-2026 BAFTA Games Awards
- Boss Fight Books to Get a New Look for Richard Moss’s “Age of Empires”
- GDC Awards: All the Winners from 1996 to Today
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- Video Game Research Library
- Spore: An oral history – Design Room (2026)
- We Pitched a Museum a 1993 Game Hint Line (And They Actually Said Yes) – Yarn Spinner (2026)
- 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)
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NCAA Football 14, Binary Domain, more added to PS Store
This year’s entry in EA Sports’ annual college football simulation series, NCAA Football 14, is now available to download through the PlayStation Store. Also available this week is Sega’s underrated humans versus robots shooter, Binary Domain.
Other games available to download this week include:
- History Legends of War: Patton, a turn-based strategy game available for the PS3 or the Vita.
- Castle Shikigami 2, a PS2 Classics re-release of the cult favorite shooter.
- Aabs Animals, an “animal entertainment” game for the Vita.
- Coconut Dodge Revitalised, a Vita game where you… dodge coconuts.
- Lego Legends of Chima: Laval’s Journey, the latest Lego game for the Vita.
- Total Recoil, a Vita game that takes the arcade shooter genre “to the max.”
More details on all of these titles can be found after the break and a complete list of this week’s new game add-ons can be found at the PlayStation Blog. (more…)
Posted in News, PS3, Vita
Tagged Binary Domain, NCAA Football 14
See how Final Fantasy X HD compares to the PS2 original
Square Enix has released a nifty new trailer comparing the graphical fidelity of Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster with the standard definition PS2 original.
The publisher has also announced that eager consumers can now pre-order the PS3 compilation. Every pre-order will be upgraded to a special Limited Edition that includes an artbook and custom packaging. While Square Enix is happy to take your money now, they have yet to announce a release date for the collection.
The high definition remake will also be available on the Vita as two separate games: Final Fantasy X HD Remaster and Final Fantasy X-2 HD Remaster.
Posted in News, PS3, Vita
Tagged Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster
An Introduction to the World of Grand Theft Auto V: First gameplay video released
As promised, Rockstar has released the first gameplay video for Grand Theft Auto V this morning. Everyone already knows all about the three playable characters and Southern California-inspired environments of Los Santos, so you should have no trouble diving right in to “An Introduction to the World of Grand Theft Auto V.” And stay tuned for a first look at the game’s multiplayer component, Grand Theft Auto Online. Rockstar has revealed that we’ll get a closer look at that soon/
Grand Theft Auto V will be released exclusively for the PS3 and Xbox 360 on September 17.
Posted in News, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged Grand Theft Auto V
Tales of Xillia 2 coming to North America, Europe in 2014
Namco Bandai plans to release Tales of Xillia for the PS3 on August 6. The game was originally released in Japan in 2011 and took two long years to travel across the Pacific.
Luckily, fans of the Tales series won’t have to wait very long for the sequel. The publisher has announced (during France’s Japan Expo) that Tales of Xillia 2 will be released in North America and across Europe in 2014.
[Source: Siliconera, Facebook]
Posted in News, PS3
Tagged Tales of Xillia 2
New Releases: NCAA Football 14, Civ V: Brave New World, MGS: Legacy Collection, More
This week, we’re bouncing back a bit from last week’s extremely slim week thanks to the annual college football simulation from EA Sports: NCAA Football 14. This year’s edition is available on both the PS3 and the Xbox 360 and Denard Robinson (formerly of the University of Michigan and now a member of the Jacksonville Jaguars) is your cover athlete.
Also available this week…
- Civilization V: Brave New World, the second expansion to the PC-exclusive Civilization V.
- Metal Gear Solid: The Legacy Collection, a PS3-exclsuive compilation which contains every Metal Gear game in existence.
- Dark, an action RPG for the Xbox 360 from Kalypso that stars a brooding vampire.
Posted in News, PC, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged Metal Gear Solid: Legacy Collection, NCAA Football 14
Here’s the 12-minute gameplay video of Destiny from E3 2013
In case you missed it in all the chaos that was this year’s E3, Bungie has released the extended gameplay demo of Destiny, their upcoming sci-fi shooter, that was shown at Sony’s Press Conference.
The game is set in the distant future after the collapse of a Golden Age of exploration, with players taking on the role of a Guardian of the last city on Earth. Destiny is planned for a 2014 release on PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One.
Celebrate the 4th of July with a new Saints Row IV trailer
Volition is celebrating America’s Independence Day with a brand new trailer for Saints Row IV. There’s plenty of fireworks and Keith David gives a speech that rivals the great Bill “President Whitmore” Pullman… what more could you want? And, I think this goes without saying but, like all Saints Row IV trailers, this one is completely not safe for work.
Saints Row IV will be released for the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 on August 20.
Posted in News, PC, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged Saints Row IV
Remember Me Review: Beauty and Innovation Marred by Misogyny
Remember Me, developed by Dontnod Entertainment and published by Capcom, snuck up on me earlier this month. It’s a third-person action-adventure game which relies heavily on melee combat. From the outset, it seemed to be the full package, with stunning visuals, a fascinating female lead character, and a compelling story. But is it a game worth remembering, or a game you’d rather soon forget? (more…)