Most Recent: PS3

Learn more about the heroine of Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation with this trailer

Posted on October 18, 2012 by Nicole Kline

This badass trailer for Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation gives you some of the backstory of the franchise’s first female assassin, Aveline de Grandpré. This lovely lady makes fighting injustice look easy.

Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation will be available for the PlayStation Vita on October 30, 2012.

Posted in News, PC, PS3, Xbox 360 | Tagged

BioShock Infinite Ultimate Songbird Edition announced

Posted on October 18, 2012 by Nicole Kline

Irrational Games just upped the competition for best collector’s edition ever with the new Ultimate Songbird Edition for BioShock Infinite. This version of the game – which costs $149.99 – comes with the Songbird statue, an art book, a resin miniature for their upcoming board game based on the video game (yay!), a lithograph, a sweet keychain, a digital soundtrack, three gear powerups, and downloadable content specific to whichever platform you buy it on. Oh, and it comes with the game, too.

Don’t want that giant statue? Order the Premium Edition instead, which comes with everything except the statue, and will cost you $79.99. You can pre-order your copy of either edition (or the game-only box) at your retailer of choice now. Personally, I’m excited to hear more about the board game, BioShock Infinite: The Siege of Columbia by Plaid Hat Games. Just take my money, Ken Levine.

BioShock Infinite will be released on February 26, 2013 for the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360.

Posted in News, PC, PS3, Xbox 360 | Tagged

Prey 2 is officially still in limbo

Posted on October 18, 2012 by John Scalzo

Back in April, Bethesda officially declared that development on Prey 2 had stalled. A company spokesman would confirm that the game wasn’t being cancelled, but that it would definitely not make its planned 2012 release date. In the six months since that news was handed down… not much has changed.

Nathan Cheever, a designer at Human Head Studios took to Twitter this week to confirm that the game is still in limbo:

As we said at the time, the original Prey took 11 years to go from announcement to release. So this delay is, sadly, par for the course for the series.

Posted in News, PC, PS3, Xbox 360 | Tagged

The Scientifically Proven Top 100 Video Games of All Time

Posted on October 17, 2012 by John Scalzo

We greatly expanded and updated The Scientifically Proven Best Video Games of All Time as The Video Game Canon in 2017. You should check it out!

When it comes to deciding which video games qualify as the best of all time, everyone has an opinion. And sometimes those opinions result in a violent argument over the mental faculties (or lack thereof) of the listmaker. So we thought we’d add a little science to the equation to find out exactly which games can be considered the “100 Best Video Games of All Time” and which ones have been fighting above their weight class all these years. (more…)

Posted in DS, Features, Mobile, PC, PS2, PS3, Retro, Top Story, Wii, Xbox 360 | Tagged ,

Call of Duty: Black Ops II launch trailer released a month early

Posted on October 17, 2012 by Nicole Kline

Call of Duty: Black Ops II has an awesome launch trailer, and even though the game’s launch is still a month away, we can check it out now. I’m not big on the Call of Duty series, but I was hopelessly addicted to the first Black Ops, and with the pre-order bonus of the Nuketown 2525 map, I’m worried I’m going to cave and get it. Well… maybe I’ll just watch the trailer again.

Call of Duty: Black Ops II will be released for the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 on November 13, 2012 with a Wii U version arriving a few days later.

Posted in News, PC, PS3, Wii U, Xbox 360 | Tagged

PSN Today: 007 Legends, Doom 3 BFG Edition, Silent Hill: Book of Memories, more

Posted on October 16, 2012 by John Scalzo

Everyone’s favorite spy, James Bond, and everyone’s favorite space marine, uh… the Doomguy, recreate some of their classic adventures in this week’s PlayStation Store update.

Agent 007’s mission is to relive the last 50 years of the Bond film franchise in anticipation of the upcoming Skyfall. Taking missions from five previous Bond films (one each for every man who’s played Bond), 007 Legends promises to be the ultimate Bond history lesson.

Also available this week is Doom 3: BFG Edition, a compilation containing Doom, Doon II, Doom 3, Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil, and the brand new Doom 3: The Lost Mission expansion. Only Tom Cruise carries more “doom” around.

If you’re a PS Vita owner, you might be more interested in something completely new… like early access to the PlayStation All-Stars: Battle Royale beta (PS Plus subscribers with a PS3 can get in as well). Konami has also finally released the WayForward-developed Silent Hill: Book of Memories for the handheld.

Hit the jump for a look at the rest of this week’s new releases (including Jeopardy!, Wheel of Fortune, and many more). And don’t forget to check out the PlayStation Blog for all of this week’s new game add-ons and PlayStation Plus bonuses. (more…)

Posted in News, PS3, Vita | Tagged , ,

Daily Scoop: October 16, 2012 – Plans within plans

Posted on October 16, 2012 by Nicole Kline

Nothing like having a full agenda and getting nothing done! I swear that’s been my life lately. Try to get one thing together and a million other things seem to fall in the way. Oh, and also, today is kind of a natural bummer of a day – it’s the day BioShock Infinite was supposed to come out. Boo!

Anyway, what’s going on for today? John Scalzo, our Editor-in-Chief, let me know that Gamefly is having a nice sale – it’s an under $15 sale on used games. You can get Mass Effect 3 or Syndicate for $9.99, or Binary Domain or Batman: Arkham City for $14.99. Or you could just spend your money on the Borderlands 2 DLC that came out today, or saving it up for the new Sleeping Dogs DLC that was just announced. Scoop those up, people! For sure.

Some great t-shirts are up for sale today! (more…)

Posted in Daily Scoop, Etcetera, News, PC, PS3, Xbox 360 |

Sleeping Dogs “Nightmare in North Point” DLC launches on October 30

Posted on October 16, 2012 by Nicole Kline

Sleeping Dogs is about to get a scary makeover with its new DLC game mode, “Nightmare in North Point.” Square Enix and United Front Games showed off the new mode at this weekend’s New York Comic Con. Check out the video above for some very awesome gameplay. Wei Shen, now with lightning powers, like he’s in Big Trouble in Little China? Holy crap yes.

“Nightmare in North Point” will be out on October 30 for the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360. Be sure to grab a copy of Sleeping Dogs so you can play this scary DLC expansion in time for Halloween.

Posted in News, PC, PS3, Xbox 360 | Tagged