The latestMass Effect 3commercial to run duringAMC’s hit TV showThe Walking Deadseems a little more capable at selling the title toMass Effectvirgins, but not by much. It’s nice that this trailer works to show us that there are many little side human dramas playing out amid the backdrop of the game’s climactic battle for the Earth. It’s not so nice that none of these dramas appear to involve any actual playable characters from the game....
Not so exclusive Microsoft’s biggest third-party console exclusive won’t stay that way for long, if reports are to be believed. Rumor has it that the follow-up toTitanfallwill land on PlayStation 4 whenever it’s set to release. According toWall Street Journal, a person close to the development of theTitanfallsequel told them that it will be available on PS4. The source also mentioned that the game is in the planning phases. EA’s declined to comment....
PS4 version coming later After a successful run on Kickstarter, Krillbite Studio will release its first-person horror adventureAmong the Sleepfor Windows, Mac, and Linux injust one week, on May 29. This is that game about a two-year-old who, in an interesting twist, happens to be your player character. That’s one way to rationalize having a defenseless protagonist! Weird stuff, spooky stuff, is going on at night and you’re apparently one brave toddler....
It’s not a newLEGO Indiana Jones, and it’s certainly notLEGO Rock Band. But Traveler’s Tales and Warner Bros. Interactive have announced a new Nintendo DS game, LEGO Battles, set to ship this summer. Instead of focusing on a popular non-LEGO intellectual property,LEGO Battleslooks towards the classic LEGO scenarios, LEGO Castle, LEGO Pirates, and LEGO Space. They’re calling it a new “build and play” experience, that lets players build their own LEGO bases and battle other teams in over 70 different levels....
‘Delightful puzzles’ pretty much go hand in hand with Trine When I was first sold onTrine, all I needed to hear is that it was vaguely similar toThe Lost Vikings. I sought it out that very day. Over time, the magic ofTrinekind of waned a bit, and the dream almost came crashing down entirely withTrine 3. I had the chance to play the first six levels ofTrine 4, and was pleasantly surprised at how Frozenbyte seems to have turned things around....
Or, uh, just keep your controller really still This is a pretty straightforward pointer forElden Ringplayers on PS4/PS5, but it’s one I kept pushing off for way too long. Before you forget, youmaywant to turn off motion controls; otherwise, you could end up accidentally performing a gesture while you’re in the middle of an open-world skirmish or, worse yet, during a fully locked-in boss fight. Much likeBloodbornebefore it, I have definitely died from a motion-triggered gesture gone wrong inElden Ring....
Another major publisher finds its next buffet Free-to-play was a good idea, and some surprisingly great games were coming out of the market. Then the big publishers took notice and decided to go overboard. Not only is Ubisoft planninga slew of F2P gamesto flood the market, it wants to go one step further — filling $60 retail games with microtransactions. “There will be free-to-play on consoles,” said Ubi’sAlain Martinez.“But in the future, with games likeSleeping Dogs, we could see more opportunity for $60 games to learn from the free-to-play model....
Digital Extremes has finally announced the exact release date forWarframe‘s next major content update,Dante Unbound. It is now due to launch late in March, and everything points to it being fairly sizeable in most respects, its most interesting feature being the all-new Dante Warframe. Little is known about Dante so far, other than the fact that it is the mysterious grimoire-wielding biomech that used to be responsible for the Leverian museum....
E3 is happening next week! Are you excited yet, or already sick of all the pre-E3 announcements? Right off the bat I can tell you there’s not a single mention of an Android game this week, so feel free to go straight to the comments to lament the state of Android gaming. In fact this week has slim pickings in general, but there were a few decent games worth highlighting....
Oh, Japan. You and your game-themed food. YourTales of Heartscurry didn’t look too hot,but we’re totally down for yourYakuza 3ramen. On March 2nd,Yakuza 3ramen will hit Japanese grocery stores and konbini.IGNsays that Sega just announced a partnership with food company Ace Cook to produce the line. It turns out that there’s an in-game shop inYakuza 3called Kyushu Ichibanboshi, which happens to also be the name of the real-world ramen. Apparently, if you enter the shop in the game, the manager will tell you the story behind the real-world ramen’s development....
The Ocarina piece is exclusive Remember thatLegend of Zelda Monopolythat was confirmed earlier this year? Well it’s still a thing, and it’s going to arrive on September 15 for $39.99. If you get it anywhere other than GameStop you’re missing out on the exclusiveOcarina of Timegamepiece, as well as a small Hyrule Map lithograph. With how much the tabletop and card game industry has evolved in just the past five years or so, I can’t find anyone (myself included) who is willing to playMonopoly....
The SpotPass experiment continues In case you haven’t heard of theZelda: Breath of the Wildchannel system, listen up. Basically, you just load up the channel feature on your Switch, and occasionally a “gift” system will pop up for you to peruse and gain knowledge from. If you feel like it, you can click on a special button inside of said channel and get free items (read: mini DLC) for use in your game....
Since 2024, the number of Steam-released games using AI content of any kind has increased by a whopping seven times. That means about 7,800 titles are making use of artificial intelligence, and though I’m not happy about it—there might be some validity in there. Per a pair of Totally Human Media studies, Steam only featured some 1,000 games with generative AI content in them in April of last year. Fast-forward to July 2025, and there are nearly 8,000 of them, accounting for about 20 percent of all Steam games released this year and seven percent of the entire Steam library....
