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May 2013 Archive

May 31, 2013
1. New Killer is Dead videos show off a boss fight and "Gigolo Mode"
2. Legendary buried E.T. cartridges to be excavated
3. Wind Waker-esque platformer A Hat in Time soars on Kickstarter
4. Dishonored dev now making Prey 2, new report claims
5. Minerva matter: The Half-Life 2 mod that opened the gates of Valve
6. Watch us play Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon from 5pm BST
7. Watch Dogs and Assassin's Creed 4 confirmed for Xbox One
8. Watch us play The Last of Us from 7pm BST
9. Bethesda re-releases Wolfenstein 3D on XBLA and PSN ahead of The New Order
10. Here's a fresh look at Gunpoint
11. Wii U platformer Toki Tori 2+ gets Steam release date
12. El Shaddai director acquires IP rights from previous publisher
13. Windows 8.1 changes detailed, Microsoft to revive Start button
14. Shadow of the Eternals "unlikely" to be completed if Kickstarter fails
15. After Microsoft's divisive "TV TV TV" Xbox One reveal, Sony's Kaz Hirai insists PS4 is "first and foremost" a game console
16. Leviathan: Warships review
17. Mutant Mudds Deluxe dated for North America in June on Wii U
18. Telltale Humble Bundle lasts for this week only
19. The Neverhood creators launch Kickstarter for spiritual successor Armikrog
May 30, 2013
1. Asymmetrical mutliplayer horror game The Flock is like Pitch Black where you're the monster
2. Grand Theft Auto 5 expected to sell 18 million copies in its first year - report
3. BioWare RPG classic Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic ported to iPad
4. NQuest dev on why it turned down publisher offers to make a sequel
5. EA makes some Online Pass content free on Xbox Marketplace
6. Killzone: Shadow Fall is playable after only downloading the first level and menu
7. Sinking Simulator: the curious case of a tiny dev team divided and a pulled crowd-funding campaign
8. Crysis 3 The Lost Island DLC returns series to its “spiritual roots”
9. Limbo ventures onto PlayStation Vita next week
10. Flower to bloom on Vita
11. Sony ad suggests PS4 will be out in the UK in 2013
12. Xbox One's Kinect will talk back to users ala Siri or Knight Rider - rumour
13. In Theory: Can the Xbox One cloud transform next-gen gaming?
14. Sony execs respond to #PS4NoDRM online campaign
15. War for Nosgoth reference sparks Legacy of Kain reboot speculation
16. Wolfenstein: The New Order preview: The Reich stuff?
17. PS4 developer: Sony mandates Vita Remote Play for all games
18. Driver: San Francisco dev reportedly working on a racing game called The Crew
19. Mirror's Edge 2 listed on Amazon Italy, Germany
20. Fuse review
21. Stickets review
22. London's V&A museum appoints resident game designer
23. Wii U Sniper Elite V2 lacks online play and DLC
24. Dead Island: Riptide TV advert banned for showing couple committing suicide
25. This is Hardware: Shipbreakers, the F2P RTS from the creators of Homeworld
26. Rain preview: Japan Studio's other Ico heir
27. Nintendo announces bigger Wii U GamePad battery in Japan
May 29, 2013
1. Darkwood developer Acid Wizard on ambiguity, humour and fear of the unknown
2. Valve explains how Dota 2's communication ban system is training its player base to be more friendly
3. Watch us play Grid 2 from 5pm BST
4. World of Diving is an online, undersea exploration game that supports Oculus Rift
5. After some pay up to ?130 for the privilege, "serious issues" delay free-to-play Marvel Heroes early access launch
6. Xbox One: developers have their say on specs, self-publishing and TV TV TV
7. Nintendo launches web-based Miiverse for PC and smartphones
8. Rezzed 2013 Leftfield Collection line-up unveiled
9. Blizzard delays Titan MMO, will now launch 2016 "at the earliest"
10. Despite a bumpy ride to release, Resistance dev Insomniac already prototyping new Fuse "experiences"
11. How Dying Light's everything Dead Island could have been
12. The Last of Us' Season Pass and DLC detailed
13. Zineth dev re-imagines its pop art-inspired skating game in first-person with Perfect Stride
14. Fleish & Cherry in Crazy Hotel brings back the 1930's animation aesthetic
May 28, 2013
1. Humble Indie Bundle 8 might be the hottest one yet
2. Sonic Lost World channels Super Mario Galaxy and I'm not complaining
3. Yakuza 1 & 2 HD on Japanese Wii Us touted as "an experiment" by series producer
4. Final Fantasy 9 sidequest discovered after 13 years
5. Zumba Fitness series to be revived for Xbox One
6. Indie stealth puzzler Gunpoint aims for release next week
7. The Next DRM coming to Vita
8. Grid 2 review
9. Mojang's Scrolls goes into open beta 3rd June, costs ?13
10. UK chart: revived Resident Evil: Revelations captures top spot
11. Football Manager 2013 best-selling game in the series
12. Conker's Bad Fur Day creators get together for Director's Commentary over a decade after release
13. Rayman Legends release date brought forward to August
14. The Starship Damrey review
May 27, 2013
1. Street Fighter 2: The Movie review
2. Watch Call of Duty: Ghosts at 60FPS
3. The legend of Nave, the Argentinian arcade cabinet
May 26, 2013
1. Curiosity dispelled: Peter Molyneux reveals what's inside the cube
2. Ubisoft offers US gamers the chance to be a pedestrian in Watch Dogs
3. Inside Metro: Last Light
4. Herzog Zwei retrospective
May 25, 2013
1. This week on Outside Xbox
2. Face-Off: Resident Evil: Revelations
3. Wii U Wii U Wii U: Is it time to call an ambulance for Nintendo's console?
4. Microsoft makes its first mouse with a dedicated Windows button
May 24, 2013
1. Halo project Bootcamp outed by Korean Rating Board
2. Microsoft patents awarding achievements for watching TV
3. Game Dev Tycoon developer finds success after its cheeky anti-piracy stunt
4. Chemical Spillage Simulation announced for release next month
5. Aroooo! The inside story on Call of Duty dog motion capture
6. EA makes SimCity Amusement Park expansion official
7. Devil May Cry dev Ninja Theory's next game is Fightback
8. Hello Games working on a next-gen game that isn't Joe Danger 3
9. Grid 2 Special Edition costs ?125,000
10. "This is a win for Xbox customers" says Microsoft, emerging victorious from Motorola/Google fight
11. FIFA 14 release date, pre-order bonuses, Limited, Ultimate and Collector's Edition announced
12. Dust 514 review
13. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy HD due next week on iOS
14. Capcom/Sega/Namco crossover Project X Zone's demo is out now on the 3DS eShop
15. Stylish 1920s vaudevillian puzzle/platformer Contrast coming to PC, PSN and XBLA in Q3
May 23, 2013
1. Kinect 2.0 for Windows due next year
2. Angry Birds movie to be penned by The Simpsons and King of the Hill writer
3. Destiny gets a minute long trailer starring Breaking Bad's Gus
4. Far Cry HD rated in Brazil for Xbox 360 and PS3
5. Overwatch is Valve handing ban power to the Counter-Strike: GO community
6. Final Fantasy 14: A Realm Reborn out on PC and PS3 this August
7. Phil Harrison tries (again) to clarify game ownership, second-hand sales and always-online in Xbox One
8. The next Xbox: everything we know so far
9. The Jagged Alliance: Flashback Kickstarter has done it, raised the dough
10. How Far Cry 3 and UK racing veterans are helping bring Need for Speed to the next generation
11. Arty survival badger game Shelter gets a gameplay video
12. Dead Island dev unveils open world first-person survival horror game Dying Light for current-gen, next-gen and PC
13. Super Stardust spiritual successor a PlayStation 4 exclusive
14. Grand Theft Auto 5 Collector's Edition includes a real-life money bag and cap
15. The Realm Kickstarter fails "but the war is not over yet!"
16. It's the Xbox One Eurogamer Podcast special!
17. Eurogamer.net Podcast Christmas Quiz 2012!
18. Atari assets up for sale: Rollercoaster Tycoon for $3.5m, Test Drive for $1.5m, Total Annihilation for $250k
19. Capcom cancels Resident Evil Revelations blood pool stunt following Woolwich attack
20. Turn-based iOS game Warhammer Quest out next week
21. Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn review
22. Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon level editor allows your to make your own 80's distopian fantasy
23. Oculus Rift hires ex-Valve Team Fortress 2 VR specialist
24. Microsoft registers Kinect One and Kinect Fitness domains
25. SimCity update 4.0 adds a new park and a new region - but doesn't increase the city size
26. Call of Doggie: Ghosts, the CoD game we always wanted
27. Ex-Skyrim dev's The Stomping Land looks like a prehistoric DayZ with dinosaurs
28. Remedy on why Alan Wake 2 isn't happening right now
May 22, 2013
1. Microsoft won't let indies self-publish on Xbox One
2. Metro: Last Light DLC announced
3. Eurogamer Podcast: PlayStation 4 special edition
4. Spec Analysis: Xbox One
5. What EA Sports' new Ignite engine means for a game like FIFA 14
6. Mortal Kombat Komplete Edition for PC announced
7. Crytek's Ryse confirmed as an Xbox One exclusive
8. Xbox One shows flickers of visionary promise but misses an opportunity to prove it with games
9. Battlefield 4 release date, Xbox One version announced
10. FIFA 14 on PS4 and Xbox One uses the fancy new Ignite Engine - but the PC version doesn't
11. Microsoft reveals Xbox One, due worldwide this year
12. Microsoft exec's Xbox One Rare game tease sets tongues wagging
13. The Xbox One controller still takes batteries but has programmable trigger-feedback
14. Hands-on with Xbox One
15. The big interview: Phil Harrison on Xbox One, Kinect, indie games and red rings
16. Xbox One second-hand games will charge a fee to play
May 21, 2013
1. Spielberg attached to a Halo TV show
2. Gamerscores and Achievements carry over from Xbox 360 to Xbox One
3. Alan Wake developer announces Xbox One game Quantum Break
4. Xbox One will not be backwards compatible
5. Forza Motorsport 5 announced for Xbox One
6. Destiny coming to Xbox One
7. Mocapped dogs, exponential polygons and a mysterious apocalypse: Infinity Ward's next-gen Call of Duty: Ghosts
8. Thief confirmed for Xbox One
9. Exclusive FIFA 14 Ultimate Team content for Xbox One
10. Next Xbox Reveal: live report and live video
11. Retro shmup/metroidvania A.N.N.E. hits its Kickstarter goal
12. Despicable Me animation director's Indiegogo game Ghost of a Tale looks enchanting
13. Call of Juarez: Gunslinger review
14. Sony Japan game Panopticon is Vita game Freedom Wars
15. Kevin Conroy Batman confusion continues with deleted “new Arkham game” tweet
16. Men's Room Mayhem due next week
17. That cancer game
18. What to expect from tonight's Xbox reveal
19. PlayStation 4 Press Conference Live Report
20. EA's MOBA Dawngate is trying to do a couple of things differently
21. Ludum Dare samurai entry Bladeless absolutely nails minimalist dueling
May 20, 2013
1. Penny Arcade series concludes in early June
2. Real-time SWAT commanding sim Door Kickers gets a new alpha
3. Terry Cavanagh teases next game codenamed Halting Problem
4. Zen Studios' tower-defense/RTS hybrid CastleStorm lays siege on XBLA next week
5. Splinter Cell: Blacklist co-op shown off in new trailer
6. Turns out Kevin Conroy is working on Batman: Arkham Origins after all
7. New video teases the PlayStation 4 box
8. Shadow Warrior remake set for PC and next-gen consoles
9. Nearly-finished Deus Ex Machina sequel starring Christopher Lee seeks Kickstarter help
10. Putty Squad remake out this summer
11. Watch us play Call of Juarez: Gunslinger from 5pm BST
12. Total War: Rome 2 and Company of Heroes 2 playable at Rezzed next month
13. Denis Dyack: "I'm sorry for X-Men Destiny"
14. 40 minutes of Fast & Furious: Showdown you'll never get back
15. Obsidian collaborating on a Russian MMO called Skyforge
16. Resident Evil: Revelations review
17. Resident Evil: Revelations Review
18. Guilty Gear Xrd SIGN announced by Arc System Works
19. UK chart: Metro: Last Light turns up top
May 19, 2013
1. Sony Xperia Z review
2. Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved retrospective
May 18, 2013
1. This week on Outside Xbox
2. Gran Turismo 6 preview: The turning point
3. Watch Gran Turismo 6 at 60FPS
4. Saturday Soapbox: IP Freely?
5. Ron Gilbert's match-three puzzler Scurvy Scallywags gets a trailer
May 17, 2013
1. Avant garde stealth game Tangiers looks like a surreal noir nightmare
2. Six new games accepted on Steam Greenlight
3. Nvidia's Project Shield to cost $349 in North America
4. Capcom inserts Tobias Fünke into a montage of its classic games
5. Vita exclusive Killzone: Mercenary out on 6th September in the UK
6. Madden NFL 25 the latest EA game to skip Wii U - what now for FIFA 14?
7. Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D review
8. Sega Nintendo alliance announced for three Sonic exclusives on Wii U and 3DS
9. Nintendo confirms Pikmin 3, The Wonderful 101 UK release dates
10. Homesick dev Chloe Sagal successfully crowd-funds life-saving operation
11. Ratchet & Clank: QForce Vita release date announced
12. Elder Scrolls Online: "You can compete with your friends to catch the biggest fish"
13. Weird purple Jason Vorhees from 1989 NES game Friday the 13th is back
14. Mystery Defense Grid 2 investor "represents a group of people who could revive independent games"
15. SimCity Amusement Park Pack DLC add-on revealed
16. Gears of War: Judgment Lost Relics DLC out in June
17. Catch some all new The Last of Us gameplay in our video preview
18. Nintendo now claiming ad revenue for YouTube Let's Play videos
19. Angry Birds movie set for 1st July 2016
20. David Jaffe is working on car combat game Autoduel with new studio Pixelbionic
May 16, 2013
1. Competitive platformer Atomic Ninjas announced for PS3 and Vita
2. Wii U to miss out on 15 EA games using Frostbite Engine 3
3. Stop-motion Metroidvania The Swapper due this month on Steam
4. Damned looks like a randomised, asymmetrical multiplayer take on Slender
5. Shaqfighter trademarked by Shaq's licensing company
6. UK LulzSec hackers jailed for their attacks on Sony and Bethesda among others
7. Vita-exclusive OlliOlli is an auto-skateboarder a bit like Tony Hawk's but in pixely 2D
8. Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate: Dat G-Rank - Getting the Horn
9. The Football Playbook review
10. 4A details Metro: Last Light tech upgrades
11. Sony Japan's mysterious Panopticon revealed in stylish new trailer
12. Former THQ president reveals Metro dev's terrible work conditions
13. Polyphony considering PS4 version of GT6; has "unfinished business" with PS3
14. Ubisoft forecasts lower Assassin's Creed 4 sales than AC3 managed this past financial year
15. EA's MOBA contender Dawngate gloves up
16. Avalanche Studios' mysterious steampunk sandbox game has been put on hold
17. EA to discontinue Online Passes
May 15, 2013
1. Resident Evil: Revelations introduces wacky new costumes
2. Among the Sleep to get a public alpha tomorrow
3. Shadow of the Eternals developer Precursor Games on its origins
4. Watch the Battlefield 4 trailer at 60FPS
5. Gran Turismo 6 is official, boasts 1200 cars
6. Pretty Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag trailer has ships, sharks and lots of stabbing
7. Dream is a video conceptualising how visually sumptuous next-gen games could be
8. Terraria, Dust 514, Metro: Last Light on EU PlayStation Store this week
9. Scribblenauts Unmasked confirmed, stars DC Comics superheroes
10. Scribblenauts DC superheroes game in development - report
11. Secrets of the Wii U GamePad
12. Demon's Souls, ICO & SOTC, and Kingdoms of Amalur free on PlayStation Plus in June
13. Inside Killzone: Shadow Fall
14. Hawken art prank changes CEO's mind about scantily clad women
15. EA announces Star Wars-focused DICE Los Angeles studio
16. Sony on Vita: "Sometimes you've had slow starts which have suddenly sprung into life"
17. 100 Yen: The Japanese Arcade Experience review
18. Action RPG roguelike Chasm successfully funded on Kickstarter
May 14, 2013
1. Frostbite engine in the works for mobile
2. Pre-order Rayman Legends at GAME to get Assassin's Creed, Splinter Cell skins
3. PlayStation 4 military MMO War Thunder gives you planes, warships, tanks
4. Rift finally capitulates and turns free-to-play as well
5. Watch us play Metro: Last Light from 5pm BST
6. WWE 2K14 UK release date punched up
7. Pretty new Wolfenstein: The New Order screenshots stamp in
8. Ubisoft "working hard" on ZombiU sequel prototype
9. 2008 PSN hack suspect smashes PCs, hides HDDs, gets off lightly
10. Pokémon X and Y adds mounts, is set in an alternate version of France
11. Google celebrates Atari Breakout's 37th birthday
12. Inside the Poppenkast, indie's secret idyll
13. BioShock Infinite sells "significantly" more than series predecessors
14. Defiance second series confirmed, and telly tie-in game patch goes live
15. Digital Foundry vs. Soul Sacrifice
16. Man on fire: an afternoon with Borderlands 2's new psycho class
17. XCOM's new perspective: how The Bureau stays true to the original's strategic heart
18. The Novelist is what happens when Ghost Trick and Majora's Mask have a baby
19. Ace Attorney 5 will be an eShop-only offering
20. Shadow of the Eternals launches an actual Kickstarter "due to overwhelming popular demand"
May 13, 2013
1. The Incredible Machine gets spiritual successor Contraption Maker
2. Several Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 details emerge
3. Metro: Last Light review
4. UK's first eSports bar to open in London
5. The Witcher 2 development tools released for free
6. SNES classic Super Metroid just 30p on Wii U eShop
7. UK chart: Dead Island: Riptide top for third week
8. Mario and Donkey Kong: Minis on the Move review
May 12, 2013
1. Wii U goes mobile
2. Gran Turismo 5 retrospective
May 11, 2013
1. Samsung Galaxy S4 review
2. This week on Outside Xbox
3. Next Xbox to be called Xbox Infinity - report
4. Saturday Soapbox: Force feeding fandom
5. GeoGuessr is a brilliant, educational Google Maps-based game
May 10, 2013
1. Half-Life 2 gets official Oculus Rift support
2. Road Redemption meets its Kickstarter goal with two days to go
3. Gears of War: Judgment's new Dreadnought map coming next week
4. Inside Watch Dogs, Ubisoft's new open world
5. Danny Bilson: inside the rise and fall of THQ
6. Chinese World of Tanks clone so similar it allegedly copies even historical inaccuracies and fictional tanks
7. Aliens: Colonial Marines managed 1.31 million sales
8. Radeon HD 7790 review
9. Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity review
10. Silicon Knights is "very busy" and "definitely alive"
11. QWOP creator makes a 16-player real-time rendition of chess
12. EA registers domains for Battlefields 13-20
13. Aliens: Colonial Marines co-developer TimeGate Studios has been shuttered - report
May 9, 2013
1. Shadow Warrior revival by the Hard Reset dev announced
2. The Room rakes in over 2 million sales
3. Saint's Row 4 dev walkthrough shows off six minutes of gameplay
4. Capcom expects Lost Planet 3 and Resi Revelations to sell 1.2 million
5. Total War: Rome 2 release date is Tuesday, 3rd September worldwide
6. Former THQ frontman Danny Bilson announces ambitious new game-and-film idea
7. Jagex hopes to have RuneScape on tablets by the end of the year
8. Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate: Dat G-Rank - Rockin' the Wroggi set
9. Ouya launch delayed a few weeks as another $15 million is raised
10. Level-5's horror adventure curio The Starship Damrey due next week on 3DS eShop
11. Sony: "Unlike PS3, we are not planning a major loss to be incurred with the launch of PS4"
12. Civilization 5 - Brave New World: Are culture players finally getting the endgame they deserve?
May 8, 2013
1. World of Warcraft subscriptions drop 1.3 million in three months
2. Wolfenstein: The New Order won't have multiplayer
3. Sony drops its PlayStation Mobile publishing fees
4. First-person open-world survival horror game The Forest looks brilliant
5. Will Wright's next game to be "built around the player's life"
6. Eve Online: Into the second decade
7. Mike Diva's Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon: The Movie trailer is perfect
8. New pay-what-you-want Humble Bundle has Double Fine games Costume Quest, Psychonauts, Stacking
9. There's an RPG sale on PSN that includes Ni No Kuni for ?20
10. Capcom's annual results are in, "focusing on the overhaul of overseas development companies"
11. Diablo 3 gold duping bug found, fixed, but servers not rolled back
12. Ropey Duke Nukem Forever turned into a Duke Nukem 3D mod
13. EA refuses to licence guns and war paraphernalia in its action games this year
14. Sony definitively rules out always-online for PS4
15. Zeno Clash 2 review
16. American McGee working on Kickstarters to revive Alice and make and Oz game
May 7, 2013
1. Spooky survival horror roguelike Darkwood launches its Indiegogo campaign
2. SimCity has sold over 1.6 million units
3. Soul Sacrifice to receive three free DLC packs
4. Surreal 2D sandbox title Hohokum coming to PS4 and Vita
5. Ben There, Dan That dev announces Gun Monkeys
6. Borderlands 2's Krieg the Psycho DLC due next week
7. GAME plans to open 18 new shops by July
8. Techland's Hellraid looks like Dead Island meets Oblivion - here's your first (brief) look
9. Splinter Cell: Blacklist preview: The king of multiplayer returns
10. Wii U's Splinter Cell: Blacklist is being developed by Ubisoft Shanghai
11. Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 Remix gets UK release date
12. Eclipse: New Dawn for the Galaxy review
13. Teaser images point to new Wolfenstein game by some of the people behind The Darkness and Chronicles of Riddick
14. Beyond: Two Souls special edition includes a 30-minute exclusive scene
15. Sony launches indie game category on PlayStation Store
16. The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing release date revealed
17. Mansions of Madness review
18. Another hour of Star Wars: Battlefront 3 gameplay footage leaks
19. Free-to-play Xbox 360 RPG Ascend: New Gods re-named
20. ShopTo refuses to sell upcoming Activision games in row over Call of Duty: Ghosts
21. Mile-high robots fight Lovecraft-esque monsters in Pacific Rim: The Video Game
22. Developers can disable PlayStation 4's Share button at certain parts of a game
23. Oh the things Oculus Rift can do: Today, Guillotine simulation
24. Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon sequel possible, says Michael Biehn
25. Add money to the $1.6m Dota 2 International prize pool by buying a "living" virtual book
26. UK charts: Dead Island: Riptide remains in top spot
27. Valve has been measuring people's sweat while they play games
28. Microsoft cautious on Windows 8 success: "we realise that change takes time"
29. As Will Wright, creator of the SimCity series, labels the launch of the new SimCity "inexcusable", Maxis details update 3 - but still no offline mode
30. Deadly Premonition: The Director's Cut review
31. Monaco creator working on fix to secure XBLA release
May 6, 2013
1. Eternal Darkness "spiritual successor" Shadow of the Eternals announced
2. EA acquires Star Wars video game license
3. Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time due this July
4. Nintendo seeks to convert iOS games onto Wii U - report
5. Next Xbox won't require an internet connection for single-player games - report
6. Grand Theft Auto 5 for PC spotted on German retail sites - rumour
7. The Sims 4 officially announced
8. Ocean views and indie gaming: introducing the developers on the tip of the African continent
9. "It was just there: dolphin, dolphin, dolphin"
May 5, 2013
1. Candy Box is the stupidest, most addictive thing since Cow Clicker
2. PlayStation 3: retail disc vs. digital delivery
3. Operation Flashpoint retrospective
May 4, 2013
1. This Week On Outside Xbox
2. Saturday Soapbox: The magic of dedicated hardware
3. Road Redemption adds Oculus Rift and XBLA stretch goals
May 3, 2013
1. Fire Emblem DLC censored in the west
2. Rambo game finally shows off Rambo
3. Pinball FX2 is coming to Steam next week
4. Epic's Unreal Engine 3 tech demo Epic Citadel now exists in your browser
5. Fuse demo launches next week on XBL and PSN
6. Senior Scottish cop calls for second look into prevention of children playing adult games online after 13-year-old boy slashes friend's throat following Gears of War 3 session
7. Eurogamer seeks Web Developer for companionship and maybe more
8. A Camelot Unchained recap: what's been funded, at an average of $150 a head
9. Dishonored: Void Walker's Arsenal DLC available 14th May
10. Persona 4 Arena review
11. Suda51 blames publisher problems for low game sales
12. Portal meets Cthulhu in sci-fi puzzler Magrunner: Dark Pulse
13. Moshimoshi is a free shmup with a catchy soundtrack and hilarious life advice
14. Obsidian's next-gen game "already looking great" says Feargus Urquhart
15. Aliens: Colonial Marines class action lawsuit targets Sega and Gearbox
16. Asda drops Wii U price to just ?149/?199
17. World of Tanks dev Wargaming sponsors new RAF education centre
18. Google hires LucasArts, DreamWorks veteran as Chief Game Designer
19. Kojima scraps Zone of the Enders sequel project
20. Gods Will Be Watching is a bleak, beautiful free survival sim
21. 2D randomly-generated sandbox adventure Starbound secures over $600K in three days
22. TimeGate Studios has filed for bankruptcy
23. Borderlands 2's fourth DLC is Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep
24. Warner Bros. and 5th Cell targeted by Keyboard Cat, Nyan Cat lawsuit
May 2, 2013
1. Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate: Dat G-Rank
2. Shoryuken founders announce crafting RTS/RPG hybrid Stonehearth
3. Splinter Cell Blacklist shows off its Spies vs. Mercs mode
4. The Conduit dev's Animales de la Muerte reincarnated as iOS tower defense game
5. Kojima: Xbox 360 disc size to blame for lack of Metal Gear Solid: Legacy Collection
6. Former Sony Liverpool developers announce Men's Room Mayhem for Vita, iOS and Android
7. Intel unveils Iris - its next-gen graphics tech
8. Nintendo's Game & Wario finally gets Wii U release date
9. Sid Meier's Ace Patrol, a turn-based WW1 strategy game for iOS, announced
10. XCOM: Enemy Unknown dev announces free-to-play strategy game Haunted Hollow
11. Slender: The Arrival review
12. Fighting Fantasy author's RPG Sorcery! re-imagined for and released on iOS for ?2.99
13. Kaz Hirai and his executives will sacrifice chunky annual bonuses to boost Sony's balance
14. The Last of Us ending details leak online
15. The "Denpa" Men 2: Beyond the Waves dated this month on the 3DS eShop
16. Three more games accepted on Steam Greenlight
17. A Link to the Past 2 will have a dark world
18. Papo & Yo developer releases teaser video for its next project Silent Enemy
May 1, 2013
1. Camelot Unchained demo shows 500 characters fighting at 90 FPS on a 2011 MacBook Pro
2. Call of Duty: Ghosts confirmed for PC, PS3, Xbox 360, and "next gen platforms"
3. Final Fantasy 14: A Realm Reborn release date narrowed
4. Molyneux signals end to Curiosity - and we could find out what's inside the cube on the day of the next Xbox reveal
5. Molyneux teases mystery appearance at Microsoft's next Xbox reveal event
6. Hitman Absolution, Catherine free for PlayStation Plus subscribers
7. A postcard from Reykjavik: Inside 2013's Eve FanFest
8. Grand Theft Auto 1 and 2 spotted for PS3, Vita release
9. Face-Off: Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon
10. Battle Worlds: Kronos dev thrilled by Kickstarter and "connecting with people"
11. Lovefilm Instant PlayStation 3 app finally gets HD streaming
12. Face-Off: Netflix vs. Lovefilm
13. Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition boxed release dated
14. Dragon's Dogma title update may corrupt your save, Capcom warns
15. Neverwinter open beta begins, opening cinematic released
16. Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon review
17. Paper-craft point-and-click Tengami confirmed for Wii U