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Ken Levine hints at new first-person sci-fi adventure

Earnest Cavalli — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 18:30:00 -0500

BioShock creator Ken Levine recently let slip on Twitter that he's working on a new game, and that he'd be happy to answer questions. Levine offers no solid details on the project, but we do learn a few basics. According to Levine, the game is set i...

Five Nights At Freddy's 3 seeks your Greenlight approval

Earnest Cavalli — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 17:30:00 -0500

Three months after Five Nights At Freddy's 2, developer Scott Cawthon wants players to return to his dark world of murderous animatronic creatures, but first he needs approval from Steam Greenlight. To entice fans, Cawthon has released the above tea...

Joystiq Deals: Last chance for OSTraining

Joystiq Staff — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 16:30:00 -0500

This week is your last chance to take advantage of a steep discount on a collection of OSTraining courses via Joystiq Deals. From now through Sunday, you can get access to over 1,800 tech training videos for only $79, giving you the chance to learn a...

Guilty Gear Xrd arcade to receive console-exclusive fighters

Earnest Cavalli — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 15:30:00 -0500

In a recent Japanese-language update, developer Arc System Works reveals plans to add the console exclusive characters of Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN- to the fighting game's arcade incarnation. According to a translation by the fighting game devotees at S...

Lumines changes hands, returning on iOS and Android

Mike Suszek — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 14:30:00 -0500

Mobcast acquired the Lumines and Meteos properties from Q Entertainment, the Japanese smartphone game developer announced this week, as translated by Gematsu. Additionally, a new Lumines game is on the way for iOS and Android, and will be a collabora...

Square Enix action, stealth triple packs head to North America

Jessica Conditt — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 13:30:00 -0500

Square Enix is preparing to launch the Ultimate Action Triple Pack and Ultimate Stealth Triple Pack for PS3 and Xbox 360 in North America this year, according to listings on Amazon spotted by @Wario64. The Action Triple Pack includes Tomb Raider, Jus...

North American Tetris player achieves Grand Master rank

Danny Cowan — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 12:00:00 -0500

Tetris wizard and Twitch streamer KevinDDR has reached the notoriously difficult-to-achieve Grand Master ranking in Arika's Tetris: The Grand Master 3, becoming the first player in North America to receive the honor. An archive of the event as it hap...

Rock out with your Spotify out on PlayStation

Alexander Sliwinski — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 11:30:00 -0500

Happy clap, happy clap! Music service Spotify is coming to PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3 this spring, but the best part is you'll be able to have your songs playing in the background while gaming. The PlayStation Blog also mentions that folks will ...

Dial 868-HACK on Steam, steal data

Mike Suszek — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 11:00:00 -0500

Independent developer Michael Brough launched a PC and Mac version of his strategy game 868-HACK on Steam this week. The brightly-colored roguelike previously arrived on iOS in August 2013. In it, players "steal precious data while the world sleeps,"...

PSN Store Update: Phrasing!

Sinan Kubba — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 10:00:00 -0500

Alright, let's talk about dying lights, grim fandangos and how life is strange. No, not that recent rumor, silly-billy! We're totally referring to this week's new releases on the PlayStation Store, which include Techland's Dying Light ($60), the Grim...

Shelter 2 'Cuteness' trailer is all about the lynx kitten fuzzies

Sinan Kubba — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 08:30:00 -0500

Joystiq Trivia: Every morning I send Managing Editor Susan Arendt a cat gif to kick off the day. Like all good people, we share a love of cat gifs. This morning, I'm just sending her this aptly titled "Cuteness in Shelter 2" trailer. Because: d'awwww...

1.84M New 3DS units shipped in 2014, Wii U up to 9.2M

Sinan Kubba — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 07:00:00 -0500

The New 3DS is off to a "good start" according to Nintendo, after the enhanced handheld shipped 1.84 million units by the end of 2014. The company launched the New 3DS and its XL variant in Japan back in October, before bringing them to Australia the...

Nintendo: Sales tracking below forecasts, weak yen drives profit

Sinan Kubba — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 06:00:00 -0500

Nintendo reduced its annual sales forecast by 6.8 percent today, leading to a 50 percent drop in the projected operating profit for its core business. Nonetheless, the ever-weakening state of the yen is balancing that out by boosting the company's ov...

Expect two new series from Feminist Frequency in 2015

Earnest Cavalli — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 18:00:00 -0500

Controversial games critic and YouTube star Anita Sarkeesian has outlined plans to launch two new web series in 2015, while continuing to produce her popular Feminist Frequency videos. According to the report (.pdf), Sarkeesian's non-profit organiza...

Microsoft: 6.6 million Xbox consoles shipped in Q2 2015

Earnest Cavalli — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 17:00:00 -0500

In a recent earnings release, Microsoft reveals that during the quarter ending December 31, 2014 it earned revenues of $26.5 billion, partly thanks to the 6.6 million Xbox consoles it shipped in that time. "Our sales engagement worldwide continues t...

Jam out to The Music of League of Legends

Jessica Conditt — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 16:00:00 -0500

Today, this is our jam. The Music of League of Legends - Volume 1 collects 15 new and classic songs from League of Legends, available to download for free or for listening on YouTube. "The amount of blood, sweat, and tears that went into this projec...

Joystiq Streams: Never stop not starving in Don't Starve Together

Anthony John Agnello — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 15:46:00 -0500

The last time we played Don't Starve Together, everything went super well. We all survived and built happy homes in the woods, raising beefalo and generally keeping everything awesome forever all the time! No turkeys haunted our dreams and the eats w...

Elite: Dangerous dev lays off fifteen in Cambridge, UK

Earnest Cavalli — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 15:00:00 -0500

A recent investor update reveals that developer Frontier Developments has laid off 15 employees a little over a month after it launched freeform space simulation Elite: Dangerous. According to the update, Frontier plans to shift its focus entirely t...

Madden predicts Patriots over Seahawks in Super Bowl XLIX

Earnest Cavalli — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 14:00:00 -0500

With Super Bowl XLIX on Sunday, it's time again to gaze deep into the crystal ball that is the latest version of EA Sports' Madden NFL to see how the game will shake out. End result? Patriots beat Seahawks, 28 to 24, thanks to four touchdowns from Su...

Watch 14 minutes of The Witcher 3's gameplay

Mike Suszek — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 12:30:00 -0500

Have you finished reading about the first three hours of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt? If you don't want the wild ride to end, then check out this 14-minute gameplay trailer to see some horseback riding, conversations and exploration in the game. The Wit...

RetroBlazer feels like Doom by way of Saturday morning cartoons

S. Prell — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 11:00:00 -0500

Amil Parra isn't a big fan of violence. That might sound strange coming from a man designing an homage to '90s sprite-based FPS games like Doom and Wolfenstein 3D, but one look at the game in motion and it becomes obvious that the inspiration Parra d...

Dying Light launch trailer shows catastrophe on a hot tin roof

Sinan Kubba — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 10:30:00 -0500

Dead Island creator Techland is once again chucking a ton of undead at your face, but this time you have to freerun from them. "Go anywhere, climb anything," but try to stay alive, eh? Dying Light is available now on Steam for $60, with physical cop...

Hyrule Warriors ships a million, celebrates with wallpaper party

Sinan Kubba — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 10:00:00 -0500

Hyrule Warriors shipped a million units worldwide since it launched last fall, which equates to many, many millions of enemies taken out in the army-mashing crossover. Famitsu reported the milestone today, which we've confirmed with a Koei Tecmo Euro...

Dragon's Dogma Online announced

Sinan Kubba — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 09:30:00 -0500

Dragon's Dogma Online is official, after Famitsu announced it's featuring the game in the latest issue of its magazine. The entry in Capcom's action-RPG series was much speculated after trademarks showed up in Europe and Japan last month. We're wait...

Design ideas we love and want more of in 2015

Joystiq Staff — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 08:15:00 -0500

When dissected, our favorite games are usually composed of many ideas and designs that make the entire package worthy of our time. In 2014, there were countless game ideas and design choices that we were enamored with: from the educational value of ...