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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
- 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)
- In 2005, games started rewiring our brains – The AV Club (2025)
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Ultra Street Fighter IV adds five characters in early 2014
Capcom just can’t stop. During this weekend’s Evo 2013 event, the publisher announced that the latest Street Fighter IV update, Ultra Street Fighter IV, will be available for the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 in early 2014.
If you already own Super Street Fighter IV or Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition, the update will be available as a DLC expansion priced at $14.99. Capcom also plans to sell the game as a disc-based retail release with a $39.99 price tag.
So what does Ultra Street Fighter IV add to the franchise? Aside from the usual round of balance tweaks, the game will add several new arenas and five new characters. Three (Rolento, Hugo, and Poison) made their video game debuts in the Final Fight franchise, while a fourth (Elena) was originally found in Street Fighter III. The fifth character is currently a mystery.
I don’t know why Capcom didn’t go with the name “Super Duper Street Fighter IV” for this update. After all, they already had the logo.
Posted in News, PC, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged Street Fighter IV
Mad Max gameplay trailer asks “What is the Soul of a Man?”
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and Avalanche Studios have released the first gameplay trailer for their game adaptation of Mad Max. If you look real close, you can certainly see a few moments of pure gameplay, but the trailer is just as heavy with cinematic cutscenes and views of the ominous Wasteland. Still pretty impressive, though.
Mad Max is due out sometime in 2014 for the PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One.
Injustice’s next DLC character is Martian Manhunter
After first teasing his addition to the game over a month ago, NetherRealm Studios has officially revealed that Martian Manhunter will be the next DLC character for Injustice: Gods Among Us. NetherRealm released the first trailer featuring Martian Manhunter (as well as a John Stewart Green Lantern skin with new dialogue) at this year’s Evo 2013 event. You can check it out above.
No release date for the Martian Manhunter DLC was announced.
Posted in News, PS3, Wii U, Xbox 360
Tagged Injustice: Gods Among Us
New Releases: Shin Megami Tensei IV, Dynasty Warriors 8, Time and Eternity, More
It’s a “grab bag” week of new releases as there’s a little something for everyone.
Atlus is bringing their popular Shin Megami Tensei series (known as MegaTen to fans and well wishers) back to the 3DS with the fourth numbered entry in the series, Shin Megami Tensei IV. It will be joined by Time and Eternity, a hand-drawn PS3 RPG from NIS America, that other Japanese RPG powerhouse.
Fans of action games will be happy to know that another Dynasty Warriors game will be available in stores this week. Dynasty Warriors 8 will be released for the PS3 and Xbox 360. In other action news, somebody packaged all of the Serious Sam games together for the Xbox 360-exclusive The Serious Sam Collection.
Finally this week, Turbo: Super Stunt Squad, from DreamWorks and D3 Publisher, will be released on nearly every system known to man: 3DS, DS, PS3, Wii, Wii U, and Xbox 360.
DuckTales Remastered woo-hoos its way to PC, PS3, Wii U on August 13
Ever since DuckTales Remastered was announced at this year’s PAX East, I’ve been waiting patiently to refill Scrooge’s magnificent Money Bin with treasure. Today, Capcom announced the game’s official release date, so I won’t be waiting much longer.
DuckTales Remastered will be available to download through Steam, the PlayStation Network, and the Wii U eShop on August 13. A special PS3 retail edition, which includes a PSN download code and a collector’s pin, will be released on August 20. The Xbox Live Arcade version will follow a month later on September 11. All four downloadable versions have been priced at $14.99, while the retail version will carry a $19.99 price tag.
Finally, developer WayForward has released the first “Duckumentary” behind-the-scenes video detailing how the background designers took the original artwork and gave it a “Remastered” look and feel.
Monaco Review: What’s Yours Is Mine… But Not If I Go Alone
Monaco is an indie game by Pocketwatch Games, in which you and your fellow professional criminals spend some quality time together breaking out of – and into – various facilities. The game is top-down and done in simple graphics, with large pixelated characters and backgrounds. You can choose to take on each mission alone, choosing which character you want to play as, or team up with up to three other people, each of whom can play someone different. The multiplayer aspects of the game are a complete blast, but taking on the game solo can be a frustrating affair. (more…)
Get a first look at Rambo: The Video Game, available this Winter in Europe
In the works for two years, Reef Entertainment has released the first trailer for Rambo: The Video Game today. The game is a first-person retelling of the first three Rambo films: First Blood, Rambo: First Blood Part II, and Rambo III.
Using their dialogue from the films, Rambo will feature the voice talents of Sylvester Stallone and the late Richard Crenna. It’ll be available this Winter in Europe for the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360. Hopefully, an American release will happen around the same time.
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