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Judging from this behind-the-scenes video, South Park: The Stick of Truth is everything you’d want from a true-to-the-source South Park game. (Minus Isaac Hayes, RIP.) There’s “authentic crappiness,” analogue fart controls, and wisecracks written by the creators of the show, Trey Parker and Matt Sto
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Our days of piloting a little spaceship through beautiful firework patterns of bullets are sadly coming to an end, as the Western branch of Cave Interactive—the preeminent Japanese studio that makes impossible shoot’em ups known as danmaku, or bullet hells—is ceasing communication with the West. On
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The NSA and its British chums across the pond have been using a backdoor in ad-supported mobile apps—specifically, Angry Birds—to mine sensitive data, according to The New York Times. This includes Google Map locations, websites visited, and buddy lists, according to newly declassified documents lea
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The Square Enix Collective, the Final Fantasy maker’s, uh, crowd-something platform—launched yesterday, but it’s actually just a screening process for games that will appear on Square’s official Indiegogo page. Confusing, I know, but I can explain. The way it works is that if a game garners enough i
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A few weeks ago, after yet another bad quarter, Nintendo announced that it was finally considering experimenting with bringing their games to mobile devices. Last night, we found out what they meant, and it’s less than anyone thought. The dojo of Mario will be releasing demos of their games in an at
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Back in the 50s, before people had any idea that space was lifeless and blank, sci-fi was marked by fascinating illustrations of exotic alien planets and clunky metal spaceships. That is what I’m reminded of when looking at No Man Sky’s beautiful, utopian, retro-future concept art, which Edge was ki
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How Do You Do It? is a quick game about one of those precious formative moments, when as a child, you realized that there was such a thing called sex that people did to each other, and though you were uncertain about the specifics, you undressed two dolls and tried to get them to do it. (Full disccl
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The biggest and best rumor of this young year materialized in the blogosphere today, as it’s being reported that Neill Blomkamp of District 9 and Elysium fame is directing the pilot episode of the upcoming Halo TV show. If true, Microsoft’s doing something very, very right. Until we get confirmation
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The Witness—Jonathan Blow’s Myst-like puzzler that set on a deserted island that is, yes, professionally landscaped—will be playable in virtual reality, the Braid-creator posted on his blog. But it wouldn’t be a Blow post without a dash of vitriol: Last year I was pessimistic about VR systems in the
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Microsoft has snapped up the rights to Gears of War from Epic Games and will be continuing the series, the tech goliath made known today. It sounds like we can expect an indefinite amount of masculine men built like slabs of concrete snapping to cover behind, um, slabs of concrete. This is good news
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In our feature today we posed it as a question, but the new trailer pretty much verifies that Jazzpunk is the funniest game ever, or at least it will give Octodad a run for its money. When I saw it at an indie game party a year ago, the guys at Necrophone Games told me how they developed it through
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Understandably, wargame fans among our readership might still be bummed out if they didn’t make it to Paradox Con 2014 in Miami last week. But the trailer for Runemaster—the (likely strategic) RPG with incredible storytelling potentiality that Paradox Interactive announced at the party (and by party