PAX East 2013 event schedule now available

Pick your panels, pick your nose, but don’t pick the panelists’ noses Theschedule of events for this month’s PAX Easthas finally arrived and you can check it out right now on the official PAX site. The more rigorous planners among you can now begin furiously plotting how to make the most of your time. If I may be so bold as to suggest a couple of excellent choices, our very own Dale North will be appearing on two panels during the event....

June 13, 2025 · 1 min · 163 words · Alejandro Alvarado

Pre-ordering Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity comes with this Guardian keychain

He’s just a baby Although not really a mainlineZeldagame, Nintendo is kind of pulling out all the stops when promotingHyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity. There’s a bonus whereBreath of the Wildsave data grants a special training sword. There’s amiibo support because Nintendo doesn’t miss opportunities to sell these physical add-ons. Now there’s a physical pre-order offer that might be too cool to miss out on. Pre-orderingHyrule Warriors: Age of Calamityfrom GameStop will get you a Mystery Guardian keychain....

June 13, 2025 · 1 min · 144 words · Jennifer Hayes

Puyo Puyo Champions heads West next month

Chain Combo Puyo Puyo Championsis heading West soon. Sega has announced that the artist formerly known asPuyo Puyo eSportswill be making its Western debut on June 17, 2025, for PC, PS4, Xbox One, and Switch. You’ll be able to grab the puzzler for a cheap $9.99 on your respective digital platform of choice. As with the previous entry in the series (Puyo Puyo Tetris), this new edition will feature competitive online multiplayer, a tournament mode, the ultra-popular “Fever” mode, and multiple selectable characters....

June 13, 2025 · 1 min · 156 words · Lisa Bradley

Rumor: Green Day tracks headed to Rock Band

As if MTV Games and Harmonix don’t have enough problems with theleakof the PlayStation Portable gameRock Band Unpluggedsome two weeks before its release. Now, the same people who simply couldn’t help themselves from getting all grabby-grabby on the unauthorized softwarehave dug deepinto the game’s files, finding a slew hints at Green Day songs. The files appear to make references to the following Green Day tracks: “Welcome to Paradise,” “She’s a Rebel,” “Nice Guys Finish Last,” “Longview,” “Minority,” “Letterbomb,” “American Idiot,” “Boulevard of Broken Dreams,” “Jaded,” “Whatsername,” “Walking Contradiction,” “She,” “St....

June 13, 2025 · 2 min · 321 words · Arthur Black

Sony’s PlayStation 3 holiday ad campaign is … uh … yeah

There was once a time when Sony’s PlayStation commercials were absolutely fantastic. We no longer live in that time. Rather, we live in an age where Sony is just abstract and confusing, rather than interesting and fun. Overly artistic and melodramatic “reflections” commercials like the one above serve to hammer the reality home. Apparently, these spots are merely primers for a bigger campaign, but I hardly think that this kind of approach is going to stand out against the entrenched appeal of the Wii or Microsoft’s new focus on sellingLipsandScene It?...

June 13, 2025 · 1 min · 151 words · Sonya Mcdonald

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order’s lead is male because of Rey

Logic, I guess? WhenStar Wars Jedi: Fallen Orderwas officially revealed, I gave a shrug of indifference. This looked like basically every otherStar Warsaction title ever made and was starring one of the most boring looking characters I’ve seen in a while. I’ll always stand by a director/developer’s choice to cast whomever they want for their titles, butStar Warsis so much more than generic ass human’s fighting for the fate of the galaxy....

June 13, 2025 · 2 min · 298 words · Samuel Medina

Take a closer look at PDP’s GameCube-style controllers for Wii U

Yoshi’s my favorite I think I’ll be perfectly set with theGameCube controller adapterfor Wii U, but PDP’s line of GameCube-inspired controllers (known officially as “Wired Fight Pads”) are another valid option. Courtesy ofAmazon, we now have some good photos of these gamepads. They are styled after Mario, Princess Peach, and Yoshi, and will be available later this year for $24.99 each. I dig the way they look, but I’d certainly want to see how everything feels before buying....

June 13, 2025 · 1 min · 106 words · Hector Valentine

Tales of Symphonia Chronicles announced for NA and EU

YES! Yay! Have you playedTales of Symphonia? If you haven’t, know it’s a face-punchingly fantastic game, with amazing music to match. If you missed it, or even if you played it and loved it, you’ll be glad to know that at today’s Tales of Festival in Japan, series producer Hideo Baga announced that bothTales of Symphoniaand its sequel,Dawn of the New World,are coming to the PS3 as a HD combo release....

June 13, 2025 · 1 min · 172 words · Jillian Mendez

Team Fortress 2sdays: Chicken Ballet

Bawk Bawk Bawk! Ever since Holmes showed off the amazing lookingChickensword, I’ve had cocks on the brain. I mean I usually have them on the brain, but never this fowl. Maybe I need to take a beak from all this madness. It’s just hard to give a cluck with everything going on lately. Maybe I should just forget about my ruffled feathers though. Watch you yolks play someTeam Fortress 2. It’s like poultry in motion after all....

June 13, 2025 · 1 min · 212 words · Ryan Taylor

The new Shadow Warrior is out on September 26

From the developers of Hard Reset Flying Wild Hog’sShadow Warrioris headed to GOG.com, Steam, and the Humble Store on Jun 04, 2025. Now that the release date is out of the way, let me just say that, basically, everything you need to know about the game is right here in convenient trailer form. If you’re one to like this chaotic style of first-person shooter, I’ll add that the game isroughly as fun to playas it looks....

June 13, 2025 · 1 min · 118 words · Mark Mcgrath

The Phantom Pain and Amnesia: Collection kick off the October PS Plus lineup

I oughta play this again To everyone who thought about messing withMetal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Painbut never went through with it: next month is your month! The uneven but incredible-feeling open-world tactical adventure is going to be one of the PlayStation Plus games for October. In particular, if you’ve never tried the series before, I’d implore you to give this a shot — even if it’s just the first few hours....

June 13, 2025 · 1 min · 148 words · Matthew Huynh

The recent Dante nerfs in Warframe have the community heated

Nerfs suck in PvE games, but it’s understandable why they happen. Recently, the newest Warframe, Dante, was released.Just over a week later, his abilities have been nerfedand the community has mostly agreed that these changes were too much. Here are the biggest takeaways from his nerfs: These two are themost significant and talked aboutchanges to the frame out of the many others. Yes, he did receive some tweaks to make other abilities more potent....

June 13, 2025 · 3 min · 456 words · Ariana Price

Titan Quest 2 multiplayer guide – How to play with friends

Titan Quest 2‘s early access nature is perhaps one of the biggest reasons why multiplayer in the game, as of writing, is extremely limited in scope. If you’re unwilling to take risks with the experimental side, you’ll have to stick with the game’s single-player content. There’s the main campaign and side quests to complete. However, the game offers an experimental multiplayer mode allowing you to play with your friends. How to play with your friends in Titan Quest 2?...

June 13, 2025 · 1 min · 165 words · Monica Lowe