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Video Game Canon- Jordan Minor’s “Boss Fight Books: Super Mario Galaxy” is Now Available for Pre-Order
- Angry Birds, Dragon Quest, FIFA Soccer, and Silent Hill are the World Video Game Hall of Fame’s Class of 2026
- 2025 GOTY Scoreboard: In Progress
- 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
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- Video Game Research Library
- With Grand Theft Auto 6 poised to take over the world, I reached out to Jack Thompson and it did not go well – PC Gamer (2026)
- Vib-Ribbon: An oral history – Design Room (2026)
- How a Second-Grade Teacher Revived a Beloved Video Game – The New York Times (2026)
- Spore: An oral history – Design Room (2026)
- Diablo IV PC Cooled With Real Human Blood Is Still Going Strong Two Years Later, Says Guy Who Won It – Aftermath (2026)
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Evolve, No Man’s Sky dominate Best of E3 2014 Game Critics Awards
Two of the most buzzed-about games going into the 2014 E3 Expo were Turtle Rock’s Evolve and Hello Games’s No Man’s Sky. Not surprisingly, both games cleaned up in this year’s Best of E3 2014 Game Critics Awards.
Evolve tallied four wins including “Best of Show,” “Best Console Game,” “Best Action Game,” and “Best Online Multiplayer.” No Man’s Sky traded on its unique reputation while on its way to winning “Best Original Game” and “Best Independent Game” as well as a “Special Commendation For Innovation.”
No other game was honored in multiple categories though Super Smash Bros. For 3DS was selected as “Best Handheld/Mobile Game” and Super Smash Bros. For Wii U took home “Best Fighting Game.”
A complete list of this year’s winners can be found after the break. (more…)
You can see John Cena on the cover of WWE 2K15 this October
2K Games and the WWE have announced that John Cena will appear on the cover of the upcoming WWE 2K15 (cue the groans from wrestling fans who can’t stand Cena).
Cena starred in a promotional video to help with the announcement and the wrestler revealed that he’ll be working closely with 2K to “put my own little touches on the game.” We don’t yet know what those “little touches” are, but hopefully we’ll find out soon. You can watch the video for yourself after the break.
WWE 2K15 is in development at Yukes and Visual Concepts and will be released for the PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One on October 28. (more…)
Kickstart This! It’s Just Not Cricket Edition
That’s right, it’s time for football (or soccer, for the average American reader and editor). World Cup fever has landed and is now in full swing like the Rio Carnival. It has been a tournament of surprises, with the current World Cup champions knocked out by the second game, along with perennial contenders England (but I’m Scottish, so the less said about Luis Suarez’s two beautiful goals, the better).
There are a number of great Kickstarter campaigns in full force as well, and instead of placing bets on goals scored or corners won, perhaps think about donating some of that cash to these fine projects. We have the amazingly named Catlateral Damage, top-down 2D action-adventure Midora, and 2D puzzle-platformer For My Brother. On top of that, there is also a side-scrolling space shooter known as Temporus, the stealth ninja mastery of Twin Souls, and the 8-bit existential journey of Glitch.
Let’s go for the goal! (more…)
Comcept shows off another gameplay trailer for Mighty No. 9
Keiji Inafune and his team at Comcept have released a new gameplay trailer for Mighty No. 9, their spiritual successor to Inafune’s world famous Mega Man series.
Today’s trailer is an update to Mighty No. 9’s May trailer in that it once again focuses on the industrial locale that Mighty No. 5 calls home and the icy domain of Mighty No. 2. Go Mighty go!
Thanks to its hugely successful Kickstarter campaign, Comcept will release Mighty No. 9 for the 3DS, PC (Windows, Mac, Linux), PS3, PS4, Vita, Wii U, Xbox 360, and Xbox One in Spring 2015.
Catlateral Damage is fully funded on Kickstarter; PS4 stretch goal added
Chris Chung’s Catlateral Damage has reached its funding goal on Kickstarter. Backers pushed the game past its $40,000 target early on Sunday morning and that means that it’s time to talk stretch goals.
Chung has multiple bonus levels in mind as the pledges roll in including a Supermarket ($48,000), Museum ($56,000), and Pet Store ($85,000). Steam Workshop integration will be added and developer tools will be released to the public if the game manages to reach $70,000. And console gamers will even be able to get in on the Catlateral Damage if funding reaches $100,000. The ever-popular “???” is listed after that.
If you missed our Best of PAX East 2014 selections, you might not be familiar with Catlateral Damage. The title can best be described as a first-person reverse-Katamari game. If the Prince was cleaning up all of our garbage, it was this cat that threw it all on the ground.
Catlateral Damage will be released for the PC and Ouya sometime before the end of the year. As of this writing, backers have pledged $46,089 towards the game.
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New Releases: Sniper Elite III
Do you like snipers? How about elite snipers? Oh, and do you hate Nazis? Who doesn’t, right?They’re bad dudes.
If you agree with all of the above, then this week’s lone new retail release, Sniper Elite III, is perfect for you. Players will take control of OSS sniper Karl Fairburne as he takes on Germany’s Akrika Korps during the waning days of World War II. Sniper Elite III will be released this week for current-generation consoles (PS3 and Xbox 360), next-generation consoles (PS4 and Xbox One), and the PC.
Apologizes to all Wii U owners out there.
Gaze upon the Lycans of The Order: 1886 in this behind-the-scenes video
Previously, Ready At Dawn focused most of their marketing muscle behind the titular Order of The Order: 1886. But now they’re ready to show us the flip side of this centuries-long struggle. In a new developer diary, several members of the Ready At Dawn team revealed the Half-Breeds, a werewolf-like race of hybrids that are also known as Lycans.
So yeah, call them what you want, but they’re werewolves. In addition to giving us our first glimpse at this bestial group, developers from Ready At Dawn used the video to talk at length about the creative process behind their werewolves. It’s definitely worth a watch.
The Order: 1886 will be available exclusively for the PS4 on February 20.
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InFamous: First Light will be released on August 26
Sucker Punch tweeted some sweet news yesterday – InFamous: First Light will be available to download for the PlayStation 4 beginning on August 26. To celebrate this announcement, they even included some sweet concept art of our girl, Fetch. She looks badass! Click on the image above to see the full size. I can’t wait to take on Curdun Cay with her in two months.
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