Gaming
Upcoming Rick and Morty VR Game Is Possibly Too Good of an Idea
Owlchemy Labs, makers of Job Simulator, are working on a new VR title named Rick and Morty: Virtual Rickality. The game, which is still in its early stages, is supposed to let PC VR goggle wearers wander around Rick’s garage lab and interact with anything found in there. Show fans know how absolutely dangerous that can be. Owlchemy reps confirm that there will be portals involved. Also, they’ve be...[Read More]
Leaked Pictures of Unannounced Gears of War 4 Xbox One S Revealed
Some pictures of a Gears of War 4 themed Xbox One S have emerged and…well…it’s really red. NeoGAF user Ekim posted a box shot of the Xbox One S bundle on the site and on Twitter. The pic shows an Xbox One S console and controller slathered in red and sporting the Gears of War logo. The console is evidently the 2TB model. Included with the bundle is a downloadable copy of Gears of War 4 Ultimate Ed...[Read More]
Batman: Return to Arkham Reportedly Delayed Until November at Least
Batman: Return to Arkham, WB’s compilation that contains remastered versions of Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: Arkham City, has been delayed until at least November. This followed Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment’s statement saying the game was indefinitely delayed. Sources have told Eurogamer that the compilation, that was supposed to launch on July 26 for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One,...[Read More]
Mai added to Dead or Alive 5 Roster
As if Dead or Alive 5: Last Round’s cheesecake count wasn’t high enough, Team Ninja announced an addition to the roster that might break their jiggle physics engine for all eternity. Announced this weekend during the 2016 Dead or Alive Festival in Japan, Mai Shiranui will be added to the roster of the latest entry in the series, one month after her inclusion as part of the Women Fighters Team in T...[Read More]
Police Say Armed Robbers Targeted Pokemon GO Players
As if playing Pokemon GO wasn’t dangerous enough, police in O’Fallon, Missouri have more dire news. According to a Facebook post on the O’Fallon Missouri Police Department’s page, armed robbers seem to be targeting Pokemon GO players. This is their statement: “This morning at approximately 2 AM we responded to the report of an armed robbery near the intersection of Highway K and Feise Road. ...[Read More]
Retro Review: Sinistar (Arcade)
I may have spent my gaming time at home playing the Atari 2600 when I was younger, but I truly cut my gaming teeth in the arcade. My first arcade game was Gun Fight, an ancient, two-player versus, Western-themed gun fighting game. This was back around 1976. I became hooked on arcades at that very moment, and that addiction has lasted for a very large part of my life. Even today, I will go to a ra...[Read More]
Pokemon GO aka Digital Meth
Video games shouldn’t make people this crazy. This is the sort of behavior normally associated with drugs. Here’s a sample of headlines that have popped up since Nintendo released Pokemon GO, their mobile rendition of catching cute pocket monsters in real life: Can’t get Pokémon Go in your country yet? Here’s how to download it now It’s a thing: Pokémon Go invades Seattle Pokémon...[Read More]
Red Dead Redemption Finally Hitting Xbox One via Backwards Compatibility
After lots of requests and a false start, it’s finally going to happen. Red Dead Redemption, the acclaimed 2010 western from Rockstar, will be available on July 8th via the Xbox One backwards compatibility program. If you own a copy of the game for the Xbox 360 – be it the standard version, Undead Nightmare, or the Game of the Year Edition – you will be able to play it on the Xbox One. For those w...[Read More]
Xbox Adding Wheelchair Option, Improved Visuals to Avatars
Microsoft’s avatar system is getting an update soon. One of the features being added with the update is one that’s pretty cool, and one that surprisingly hasn’t been asked for before. It started with a comment made on Twitter by Seamus Blackley, co-creator of Xbox, about how hard it would be technically to add wheelchairs to avatars. Xbox engineering lead Mike Ybarra revealed images showing male a...[Read More]
Rockstar’s The Warriors Available on PS4
Rockstar Games’ 2005 The Warriors has made it onto the PlayStation Store for the PlayStation4. The game, a take on the 1979 cult film, was originally released for the original Xbox and PlayStation 2 in 2005. It was released for the PlayStation 3 in 2013 via PSN as well. This is not a remaster, however. It is the original game, upscaled to 1080p and supporting trophies. The Warriors features beat-e...[Read More]
Mario 3 Speedrunner Races Stephen Colbert Cooking a Hot Pocket
As a fan of both the Games Done Quick speedrunning charity events and Stephen Colbert, I just couldn’t pass up a chance to see this! (For the record, I prefer The Colbert Report over The Late Show, but he still has some magic bits in his new format.) Mitch Fowler, aka Mitchflowerpower, appeared on The Late Show as a way to promote Summer Games Done Quick, a charity event currently running and last...[Read More]
Blizzard Sues Maker of Overwatch Cheat Tool for Copyright Infringement
Blizzard Entertainment, developer of the runaway hit Overwatch, is not one to shy away from protecting its copyrights or going after anyone who attempts to allow cheating in its games. In a lawsuit filed at a federal court in California, Blizzard is doing both. They are accusing German company Bossland, the maker of the Overwatch cheat tool “Watchover Tyrant”, of copyright infringement and unfair ...[Read More]