By Anonymous on May 23, 2015 12:08 am
 Watch extended gameplay footage from Invisible, Inc. featuring the Giant Bomb crew.
By Anonymous on May 22, 2015 11:58 pm
Developer Creative Assembly today released the first gameplay trailer for the free-to-play strategy game Total War: Arena. This weekend, Creative Assembly will also show the first Total War: Arena live match. The developer will stream games from an exclusive ESL eSports event in Cologne, Germany. You can catch the broadcast on the official Total War Twitch channel, starting Saturday May 23, at 5:00 PM CEST. If you want to try the game before it's released, you can sign up to join the closed alpha, currently available in Europe, with United States servers coming soon. Total War: Arena is a free-to-play, team-based strategy game where two teams of 10 players engage in large-scale battles. For more on the game, check out GameSpot's preview of Total War: Arena.
By Anonymous on May 22, 2015 11:35 pm
 On Steam this weekend, you can pick up the three Game of the Year Editions of the Batman Arkham games--Arkham Asylum, Arkham City, and Arkham Origins--for just $5 each. You can still get the Assassin's Creed IV/Unity Xbox One bundle for $300 on eBay. To celebrate the 35th anniversary of Pac-Man, you can get a variety of Pac-Man games and merchandise on sale today at Amazon, including the exceptional Pac-Man Championship Edition DX+ for $2.50 (also on Steam). Preorder any game at Target and get 30 percent off select games, including Bloodborne, Mortal Kombat X, MLB 15, and more. You can preorder a number of games through Dell--Splatoon, The Elder Scrolls Online, and Batman: Arkham Knight--and receive a $15 Dell gift card. Below you'll find the rest of today's best deals divided by platform: PlayStation 4Walmart is offering The Last of Us Remastered PS4 bundle with an extra controller for $399. Amazon is offering the collector's edition of The Order: 1886 as a freebie alongside The Last of Us Remastered PS4 bundle for $400. EBay has seller-refurbished PS4s for $324. Preorder the Batman: Arkham Knight PS4 bundle at Dell and get three free months of PlayStation Plus and a $25 Dell gift card. Additionally, you can bring the price down from $420 to $400 by using the promo code: 6980X63DCJNXSP Buy a PS4 (including the $400 Last of Us Remastered bundle) and get a free copy of Destiny at Best Buy. Sony has kicked off a new PSN sale focused on DLC and season passes. Other PS4 game deals: PlayStation Plus' free games for May are now available and include Guacamelee, Murasaki Baby, Hohokum, The Unfinished Swan, and more. Xbox OneWalmart is offering the Halo Master Chief Collection Xbox One bundle with a free second controller for $349. Likewise, Amazon is offering a free controller with the $350 Assassin's Creed bundle. Get Evolve for $20 when you buy the Master Chief Collection Xbox One bundle for $350 at Best Buy. You can buy a year of Xbox Live Gold on eBay for $39. Best Buy will take $20 off the price of a one-year Xbox Live Gold membership when you buy any Xbox 360 or Xbox One. Microsoft's latest Deals With Gold promotion is on, discounting a handful of Xbox One and Xbox 360 games, such as Dragon Age: Inquisition for $30 and Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes for $10. You can check out all the deals here. Other Xbox One game deals: May's free Games With Gold games are now available on Xbox One and Xbox 360 and include CastleStorm and F1 2013. PCBuy a GeForce GTX 980 or GTX 970 and you'll get free copies of The Witcher 3 and Batman: Arkham Knight. The newest Humble Bundle features Paradox games. Paying any price gets you games like Magicka and Knights of Pen and Paper, while paying $15 or more also gets you Europa Universalis IV, Crusader Kings II, and more. Alternatively, check out the new Humble Weekly Bundle on adventure games. Get 20 percent off at Green Man Gaming with the promo code: GET20P-ERCENT-OFFNOW Ultima VIII: Gold Edition is free on Origin. Other PC game deals: Wii UBest Buy has taken $25 off the price of the Super Mario 3D World/Nintendo Land Wii U bundle, bringing it down to $275. If you don't mind a refurbished system, Nintendo's online store has a Wii U bundle with Nintendo Land for $200, or Nintendo Land and Super Mario 3D World for $225. 3DSWalmart is offering a New 3DS XL bundle with Super Smash Bros. for 3DS and your choice of select Amiibo figurines for $219. Alternatively, the retailer has a New 3DS XL bundle with your choice of select games and a Pokemon figurine for $219-$227. Eligible games include Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate, Code Name: Steam, and quite a few more. Target has an exclusive red 2DS bundle with Yoshi's New Island for $90. PS VitaHardwareAmazon prices are accurate as of publishing, but can fluctuate occasionally throughout the day. GameSpot's gaming deals posts always highlight the best deals we can find regardless of retailer. We also occasionally use retailer affiliate links, which means that purchasing goods through those links helps support all the great content (including the deals posts) you find for free here on the site.
By Anonymous on May 22, 2015 09:24 pm
 The iconic word board game Scrabble has added the word "newb" to its official dictionary along with some other Internet-speak terms most gamers will recognize. Collins, which publishes the Official Scrabble Words dictionary, has added 6,500 words to the board game overall in its first update since 2011. Some other words you may have seen during an in-game chat include: - Pwn, meaning to dominate an opponent, is worth 8 points
- Thanx, which is only one letter shorter than "thanks," is worth 15 points
- LOLZ, "laughs at someone else's or one's own expense," according to Collins, is worth 13 points
- WAHH, to express wailing, is worth 10 points
You can find the new Collins Official Scrabble Words dictionary here. "Dictionaries have always included formal and informal English, but it used to be hard to find printed evidence of the use of slang words," head of language content at Collins Helen Newstead told the BBC. "Now people use slang in social media posts, tweets, blogs, comments, text messages—you name it—so there's a host of evidence for informal varieties of English that simply didn't exist before." Unfortunately, 1337, n00b, and shrekt have yet to make it into the dictionary. Maybe next time.
By Anonymous on May 22, 2015 09:08 pm
The first-ever PC gaming show at E3 continues to grow.  Organizers this week announced ten new developers that will appear during the event in some form, including Guild Wars developer ArenaNet and Total War studio Creative Assembly. The full list of newly confirmed developers is below. These developers add to the previously announced batch participants, which includes Blizzard Entertainment and Square Enix, along with Gears of War designer Cliff Bleszinski and DayZ creator Dean Hall. Check out this post to see all of the previously confirmed participants. Newly Confirmed PC Gaming Show Participants:The first-ever "PC Gaming Show" will be held Tuesday, June 16 at 5 PM PDT. It's being put on by chip-maker AMD and PC Gamer magazine and will be held at the Belasco Theater in Los Angeles. For more on E3 2015, check out GameSpot's roundup of the dates and times for all the briefings.
By Anonymous on May 22, 2015 08:33 pm
Iconic gaming console the Nintendo Entertainment System was released in North America thirty years ago in 1985. To mark the milestone, video game museum The Strong has announced that it will host a special exhibit dedicated to the system later this year. The exhibit is being jointly produced by The Strong and the Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Japan.  "Japan is home to a rich history of video game culture and pioneering companies such as Nintendo and Sony. This partnership allows for a cross-cultural exchange of ideas about how best to chronicle and conserve this important history," The Strong director Jon-Paul C. Dyson said in a statement. The Strong's exhibit, called "Playing with Power: 30 Years of the Nintendo Entertainment System," will debut at the Rochester, NY museum this fall. Specifically, the exhibit will offer insight into the console's development and release, including previously unseen interviews with NES hardware developer Masayuki Uemura. A variety of NES games will also be playable at the exhibit, including two of the console's most memorable titles, Super Mario Bros. and Duck Hunt. In addition, The Strong and the Ritsumeikan University will share research projects, while staff from both organizations may trade places as part of an exchange program. "This partnership allows researchers and scholars in both the United States and Japan to learn from one another about how best to study and preserve the many contributions video games have had to our shared cultural heritage," Ritsumeikan University program chair Masayuki Uemura said. "Together, we can also help tell the story of the Japanese video game industry to guests of The Strong, beginning with the exhibit about the Nintendo Entertainment System this fall." Last month, The Strong revealed the finalists for the first wave of inductees for its World Video Game Hall of Fame. See all the games that made the cut here.
By Anonymous on May 22, 2015 08:30 pm
 Aaron Sampson covers the pros and cons of the Prison of Elders, story content, and a new sidearm.
By Anonymous on May 22, 2015 08:11 pm
Hot Pockets has launched a new, video game-focused ad campaign that offers a funny (and cheesy) prediction for the future of virtual reality games. The ad, called "Hunger Can't Kill My Game," is already airing on TV in 15- and 30-second versions. Check out the 30-second clip below.
Of course, the manner in which the ad depicts VR games isn't exactly how things work right now--but it was always meant to be over-the-top and ridiculous. And it certainly delivers on those fronts. Gears of War creator Cliff Bleszinski, an early-round investor in Oculus Rift, responded to the new Hot Pockets VR ad recently on Twitter. Linking to the video, he wrote: "You go, marketing guy who read a CNN article about VR, you go." The VR market is heating up. The Oculus Rift and Sony's Project Morpheus headset go on sale in 2016, while the ViveVR headset, from Valve and HTC, is scheduled to arrive later this year.
By Anonymous on May 22, 2015 07:43 pm
First there were free-to-play games, but are "view-to-play" games next? That's the goal of a new Finnish studio called Futureplay Games, which is staffed by former Electronic Arts, Remedy, and Rovio veterans. The team defines "view-to-play" as: "entertainment with a natural integration of broadly accessible gameplay and ad-based monetization." That definition may not be very catchy, but Futureplay says "view-to-play" could represent the next era of mobile gaming.  Futureplay founder Jami Laes, the former executive vice president at Angry Birds developer Rovio, said "view-to-play" has the potential to revolutionize the mobile market. "It's faster, cheaper, and more fun to watch an ad than pay for an in-app purchase," Laes said in a statement. A message on Futureplay's website expands on the concept in broad strokes. "We believe in F2P and ads--both done right can be great, you will see," the company said. "We want to develop fast and have fun launching multiple games per year and not work multiple years per game." The developer has not yet announced any games, or further information about how the ads will work. However, he said people can expect these details and more in the coming months. Futureplay's other founders include former Remedy Entertainment executive producer Kai Auvinen, as well as other ex-Rovio employees Mika Rahko and Arttu Maki. The fifth Futureplay founder is Tuomas Huhtanen, who worked at Finnish software consultancy Reaktor for a decade. Would you prefer to watch an ad instead of making an in-app purchase? Let us know in the comments below. Final Fantasy publisher Square Enix tried something somewhat similar back in 2012 through its PC streaming Coreonline program. However, Square Enix killed this service less than two years later.
By Anonymous on May 22, 2015 07:30 pm
 We examine the five different magical signs in The Witcher 3, and how they evolve as you level up.
By Anonymous on May 22, 2015 06:08 am
Many articles could be written about the idea that the video game mascot--in the Mario/Sonic/Crash Bandicoot/Pikachu sense--is dead, and what that says about where games are as a medium, but suffice it to say, that Schrodinger's Cat and the Raiders of the Lost Quark tries to make a new one is at once endearing and utterly baffling. Of all the aspects of 90s gaming that are being mined for material, that's one I never expected to see make a comeback. In the game's favor, it's a great idea for a mascot-style platformer. On the subatomic level, a particle zoo--a real term used to describe the atomic building blocks of our universe--is used literally here as a bright, colorful cartoon zoo housing quarks, gluons, and the like. One day, security breaks down, Jurassic Park-style, and the zoo's inhabitants get loose. Unable to deal with the sudden chaos, the zoo's director calls in an agent with a particular set of skills: Schrodinger's Cat. You might remember him from such popular quantum states as "being alive and dead at the same time." Particle cat, particle cat.... The particular set of skills the Cat has turns out to be collecting and manipulating quarks to create completely new tools to traverse the environment. The science is rather cleverly on point here. There are four different types of quarks running around: Up, Down, Construction, and Destruction; each type is assigned to a shoulder button. Pressing them in combinations of three creates a different effect, just like they create protons in reality. Three Ups create a tiny helicopter. Three Downs create a drill that breaks through floors. Three Constructions create a giant bubble shield; three Destructions create a fragile platform to stand on. The 12 possible combinations are mostly left to the player to discover. It's a fun bit of trial and error to find all the different options, which are wisely shown in a little reference guide when you pause the game. A few too many are different permutations of "this helps you go up," but when you start running out of components, the options for a creative alternative are nice. It's an imaginative mechanic that feels like it belongs on a current gen system. The problem is that the rest of the game is absolutely committed to being a 90s mascot platformer in every other respect, complete with the Cat himself being given obnoxious, oft-repeated catchphrases, like "Scienceariffic!" and yelling "Holy Higgs!" when he dies. Schrodinger's Cat is, ultimately, the more ThinkGeek-y cousin of Bubsy The Cat, to the point where I bet a friend that "What could possibly go wrong?" was coming. The references to famous physicists and physics terms start off as cute, but they quickly become ubiquitous, obvious, and awkwardly shoehorned into the narrative. Non-player characters serve the same function, offering hints and clues to the next objective but burying those hints neck deep in references to the Higgs Boson and combinant theory at every turn. The script is less concerned with showing and playing with the physics concepts (in the way that Psychonauts utilized psychology) and more concerned with showing off the fact that yes, the designers clearly went to college. It's exclusionary nerdery at its worst. Secret trophy: Decipher this sentence without running to Google.  Even as a game, however, it is trying to serve two masters at once. Two types of levels are seen here. The best are pre-planned puzzle levels with a limited number of quarks to use, quark-stealing gluons scattered about, and the need to do some tricky platforming. Faint glimmers of greatness occur here--if you run out of the type of quark you need for the easy solution, you have to think creatively to use the quarks you do have. You have plenty of ways to get vertical in a level, but having the ability to explode a wall in just the right way to proceed and saving enough quarks to do so is a different story. The worst levels, on the other hand, are procedurally generated, awkwardly designed obstacle courses that rely far too much placing nondescript destructible walls in your way rather than creating a surmountable challenge. Both types suffer from a severe lack of variety in environments and enemies for a platformer, and seeing the subatomic world undulating in the background doesn't cut it. It doesn't take long for the game to show you virtually everything it has to offer. The actual mechanics of running, jumping, crawling, and clawing are just fine, but the mad genius platformer where you get to test any of those skills is missing. All we get in return is a gimmick in which you can create a special net out of your available quarks to cart the ones you knock unconscious away, making the job of the zoo's staff a lot easier. It's neat the first hundred times, but it's not nearly enough. You have to do way too much of it to feel a sense of accomplishment; you also have to do it while walking in the irksome paws of a sentient episode of The Big Bang Theory. The game turns a fresh, fascinating new mechanic using particle physics as a creative springboard into the most staid, stale platformer imaginable. If the goal was to create a game that's both alive and dead at the same time--mission accomplished.
By Anonymous on May 22, 2015 04:57 am
 Jason Voorhees refuses to die even if he has a brutality performed on him. In order for the glitch to work you will need to be in test your might mode and have the modifier "Brutality Kombat."
By Anonymous on May 22, 2015 04:38 am
 Watch extended gameplay footage from Destiny: House of Wolves featuring the Giant Bomb crew.
By Anonymous on May 22, 2015 04:30 am
 Need for Speed reboot is announced, CD Projekt explain why Witcher 3 doesn't look as good as it did in trailers, and a Bloodborne expansion is coming!
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