PC game winter sale: cheap Civilization VI, Valve Complete Pack, and hundreds more

Deals from 2K, WB, Valve, and more Winter has come and so have newPC game winter sales. If you don’t want to wait around for Steam’s eventual sale, GMG has started its event early and, as usual, filled it with compelling deals (most of which will probably be cheaper than Steam’s upcoming discounts due to a stacking coupon). The sale is running for a fairly long duration through a three-week period (no joke), though most of the goodies will only be around for the first two weeks....

July 5, 2025 · 1 min · 210 words · Bryan Collins

Pikmin 3 could be the next Wii U game coming to Switch

Deluxe version rumored It looks like 2020 will be light on Nintendo Direct streams, but there’s still plenty of news to look forward to over the sleepy summer. This morning, Nintendo dropped an out-of-nowherePaper Mario: The Origami Kingannouncement with a July 17 date. Soon, we might hear aboutPikmin 3on Switch. That’s according toVentureBeat‘s Jeff Grubb, who reports that “other Nintendo studios will have games ready for release soon,” not just Intelligent Systems....

July 5, 2025 · 2 min · 275 words · Brittney Duncan

PlayStation has no interest in following Xbox Game Pass’ approach to first-party games

As we move ever closer to a new console generation, platform-holders have been forced to consider how they can leverage their strengths to make the most of emerging trends. For instance, Xbox’s Project xCloud uses Microsoft’s Azure technology to enable streaming to mobile devices. Sony understands that PlayStation’s two biggest strengths are consistently great first-party games and a massive userbase. Because of this, PlayStation isn’t necessarily gunning to create a subscription service that rivals Xbox Game Pass....

July 5, 2025 · 2 min · 364 words · Alan Powers

Primal comes to PSN’s PS2 Classics this week

Primalis one of those games that not too many people remember, but those that do remember it very fondly indeed. It’s not even a very good game, but its engaging story and interesting concepts turned what could have been a forgotten failure into a charming and memorable experience. It’s also going to bedownloadable on your PS3tomorrow, which is nice! So many years have passed since I last played this. I still hadambitionsback then....

July 5, 2025 · 1 min · 113 words · Levi Howard MD

Quentin Tarantino’s next movie is called Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

After months of hearing slivers of news aboutQuentin Tarantino’s next film project, we finally have some concrete details about its plot, cast, and title.Once Upon a Time in Hollywoodwill take place in Los Angeles in 1969, during “the height of hippy Hollywood.” Tarantino alumni Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt will star as Western star Rick Dalton and stunt double Cliff Booth, respectively. While it has been previously reported that Tarantino’s film will focus on the Manson family murders, Tarantino has since stated that the historical event will be more of a backdrop to this sprawlingPulp Fiction-esque story....

July 5, 2025 · 2 min · 259 words · Mr. Sean Edwards MD

Rodea: The Sky Soldier coming to Wii U, 3DS this fall

Sonic programmer’s long lost action game is finally on its way NIS America just revealed plans to localizeRodea: The Sky Soldierfor North America and Europe. Expect to see the aerial action game hit Nintendo 3DS and Wii U sometime this autumn. Rodeahas an interesting development history. After being announced for Wii in 2010, it virtually disappeared off the face of the earth for a few years before resurfacing in 2014 with a change of platforms....

July 5, 2025 · 1 min · 169 words · Rebecca Sellers

Shadow of the Tomb Raider’s website coding references Fall release and other details

Someone goofed If this is an accident, someone over at Square Enix is going to have a bad day, because it seems a newTomb Raiderannouncement was accidentally spoiled thanks to some poor HTML-related decisions on theofficialTomb Raiderwebsite. If you head over to the website, you’ll be greeted with a message promising an announcement tomorrow at 6AM PT. However,Kotaku’sown cyber sleuth Jason Schreier discovered that inspecting the HTML element revealed the following:...

July 5, 2025 · 1 min · 154 words · Eric Herrera

Sierra’s making a comeback, and signs point to King’s Quest and Geometry Wars

More at gamescom Activision’s playing the role of necromancer, and reviving Sierra Entertainment from the dead. At least, if recent indications can be believed. Ateaser sitehas appeared that plays the above video with a new Sierra logo and then simply states “gamescom 2014.” That tidbit’s enough to drum up hype for the return of the beloved point-and-click developer, but a little more’s been discovered. A savvy sleuth that commented onIGN‘s story found code buried within some CSS script that point toKing’s QuestandGeometry Warsas the titles Sierra will work on....

July 5, 2025 · 1 min · 155 words · Cheryl Robbins

Sony: 3D Dot Game Heroes ‘DEFINITELY’ coming to NA

Fresh from theofficial PlayStation Twitter, it appears 3D Dot Game Heroes is definitely coming to North America. How do we know this? Well, because the tweet says: “No need to import – 3D Dot Game Heroes for PS3 is DEFINITELY coming to NA! Spread the word, more to come.” They even broke out the caps lock on us. And everyone knows caps = serious business. Unfortunately, that was all they said, but it’s great news nonetheless, albeit completely expected....

July 5, 2025 · 1 min · 91 words · Gabriel Martin

Star Wars Battlefront II is gearing up for Obi-Wan Kenobi

The Battle of Geonosis commences on November 28 After months of small or otherwise inconsequential updates,Star Wars Battlefront IIhas begun getting some genuinely interesting content.General Grievous was a start, and this month will be even bigger with the Battle of Geonosis update bringing out the beloved Clone Wars-era Obi-Wan Kenobi. DICE discussed the new hero, map, and vehiclesin a blog post. “The experience of playing Geonosis shouldn’t be about a single player winning the objective for the entire team,” said level designer Peter Vesti Frendrup....

July 5, 2025 · 2 min · 279 words · Brandi Lawrence

Stardew Valley launching for PlayStation Vita on May 22

Coming to the little handheld that could Stardew Valley‘s long and winding road to the PlayStation Vita is about to come to an end. As announced on its blog, developer ConcernedApe confirmed the long-awaited port of the acclaimed indie game will be made available for Vita on May 22. As previously announced, the game will support cross-buy, so anyone who already has it for PlayStation 4 will be able to download the Vita version too....

July 5, 2025 · 1 min · 110 words · Christina Long

Surviving The Last of Us won’t be easy

But crafting should help I feel like we’ve been hearing a lot aboutThe Last of Uslately, but that’sfarfrom a bad thing, as I’m finally starting to get a better idea of how it’ll actually play. Here’s more talk about the action-survival game, directly from the folks working on it. In the video, Naughty Dog discusses some of the choices that players will face when crafting. Given the overlap in (already limited) resources, we’ll be forced to go on the offensive or defensive in terms of what we build....

July 5, 2025 · 1 min · 108 words · Elizabeth Butler

Ten Minute Taste: FIFA 10

I’m no sports buff, but I enjoy a good soccer game. In fact, soccer and golf are the only sports games I’ll ever play. Well, these and Baseball Simulator 1000 for the NES. That game was awesome. FIFA 10is probably the ultimate soccer game. It’s looking that way so far. As you’ll see in our Ten Minute Taste of EA’sFIFA 10(Xbox 360 version), there’s a whole lot going on under the hood here....

July 5, 2025 · 1 min · 161 words · Gabriela Stark