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- Video Game Research Library
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- 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)
Most Recent: Xbox One
XBL Store Today: EA Sports UFC, Mutant Blobs Attack!!!
Two new additions were made to the Xbox Live Game Store today and they are EA Sports UFC on the Xbox One…
EA Sports UFC ($59.99)
Feel The Fight. The creators of the critically-acclaimed Fight Night franchise bring you into the next-generation of fighting. Step into the Octagon with EA Sports UFC and make your opponent feel every strike, takedown and submission.
And the DrinkBox Studios-developed puzzle platformer Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack!!! on the Xbox 360…
Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack!!! ($7.99)
A puzzle-platformer of cataclysmic proportions, starring an ornery blob with an insatiable appetite. Begin the game a tiny captive carnivore, finish a city-devouring giant. Gain freakish new abilities including magnetism, telekinesis, and rocket power. Platforming has never been this viscous, nor this various. 24 expansive single player campaign levels, PLUS top-down bonus stages. Consume everything, regret nothing!
Posted in News, Xbox 360, Xbox One
Tagged EA Sports UFC
Kevin Conroy hints at January release date for Batman: Arkham Knight
When Kevin Conroy speaks, you listen. Not only is the prolific voice actor the preferred Batman for an entire generation of kids, but he also has a habit of revealing secrets about the games he’s going to appear in. Good for us, bad for the publishers behind those games.
About a year ago, Conroy inadvertently revealed the existence of Batman: Arkham Knight at the Dallas Comic Con. This past weekend, while the rest of the world was recovering from E3, Conroy was at the Denver Comic-Con and dropped this little nugget on Groovey TV:
“I have a massive game you may have heard of called Arkham Knight. It was supposed to come out in January, we’ve been working on it for a year and a half, it’s still not done. So it’s going to come out next January, but I know everyone is frustrated. The reason it’s been delayed is because it’s so awesome.”
Batman: Arkham Knight was originally scheduled to launch for the PC, PS4, and Xbox One this Fall before WB Games pushed it back to 2015. Will it be available in January, as Conroy said, we’ll just have to wait and see.
Posted in News, PC, PS4, Xbox One
Tagged Batman: Arkham Knight
Watch Dogs hacks its way into our hearts as the best-selling game of May 2014
We were already pretty aware of the fact that a lot of copies of Watch Dogs and Mario Kart 8 were sold in the last week of May. Now, the NPD Group has made it official by releasing their official report of the best-selling games of May 2014.
Not surprisingly, Watch Dogs took the gold while Mario Kart 8 had to settle for the silver. The top ten was populated by several other May releases including Wolfenstein: The New Order (#4) and Kirby: Triple Deluxe (#9). A retail release of Minecraft on the PS3 also pushed that game back into the top five (#5, to be exact).
According to Joystiq, the NPD Group also confirmed that the PS4 has outsold the Xbox One for the fifth straight month. You can view the complete top ten list from the month of May after the break. (more…)
Posted in 3DS, News, PC, PS3, PS4, Vita, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One
Tagged Call of Duty: Ghosts, Kirby: Triple Deluxe, Mario Kart 8, Minecraft, MLB 14: The Show, NBA 2K14, NPD, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, TitanFall, Watch Dogs, Wolfenstein: The New Order
New Releases: EA Sports UFC, Tropico 5
With video game fans the world over still nursing E3 hangovers, it makes a lot of sense that the game publishers have decided to hold off on retail releases for another week.
But nothing can stop Electronic Arts and their EA Sports label is finally ready to release the first EA-branded UFC game, EA Sports UFC. It’ll be available for the PS4 and Xbox One and players who pre-order will receive early access to Bruce Lee.
Also available this week is the latest attempt by El Presidente to conquer his tropical island in the PC edition of Tropico 5.
Now I want to see someone create Fidel Castro in EA Sports UFC’s Create-A-Fighter mode and pit him against Bruce Lee.
Meet Pagan Min in the Far Cry 4 E3 trailer
At E3 2014, Ubisoft showed off the big villain, Pagan Min, from their upcoming game, Far Cry 4. Min is terrifying, which makes sense, seeing as he’s the dictator of Kyrat. The country is currently in a civil war trying to overthrow him, and you show up at a really bad time.
Far Cry 4 will be out November 18 for PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Xbox One.
Ubisoft reveals more details of Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege
Ubisoft announced Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege at this week’s E3, which will be available on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One in 2015. Ubisoft Montreal is taking the lead on development, and will utilize the company’s Realblast engine.
In Rainbow Six: Siege, enemies will wall themselves in, and the Rainbow Six team will fight their way through using any means necessary. This will give players a unique opportunity to interact with the environment in new ways, seeing different levels of destruction based on what strategies they use.
Ubisoft Creative Director Xavier Marquis said, “As fans of Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six and tactical shooters in general, we set out to create the game we always wanted to play within the counter-terrorism universe. We asked ourselves ‘how could we capture the incredible tension and unique tactics of these confrontations?’ We found the answer in the Siege gameplay and procedural destruction… Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege is the game that Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six fans have been waiting for, and first-person shooter players will be drawn to its unique gameplay.”
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege will be coming to PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One in 2015. Hit the jump for the full press release. (more…)
Come watch CoD Advanced Warfare’s 9-minute E3 2014 gameplay walkthrough
I haven’t said this in a long time, but I’m actually pretty excited about the latest Call of Duty, which is called Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. It has some pretty amazing science fiction elements in it, but looks like it still has that smooth gameplay CoD players know and love. The E3 2014 gameplay walkthrough above shows off part of the “Induction” campaign level, which takes place in Seoul, South Korea. This game has some incredible features, like being able to rip off a car door and use it as a shield.
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare will be out on November 4 for PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Wii U, Xbox 360, and Xbox One.
Dead Island 2 trailer brings levity to the franchise
This hilarious reveal trailer for Dead Island 2 is a far cry from the depressing Dead Island and Dead Island: Riptide trailers, which I find to be a relief. With so many zombie games having already saturated the market, seeing this franchise change from super serious to super silly makes it much more appealing to me. Here’s hoping the gameplay is as fun as this trailer.
Dead Island 2 is powered by Unreal Engine 4, and will be coming to PC, Playstation 4, and Xbox One next Spring.