Pokémon Go's field test is coming to Oceania this month, developer Niantic Labs announced today. Australia and New Zealand will be the first western countries to get it in on the beta program, which launched exclusively in Japan last...

The Jim Henson Company's puppets were an honest-to-god highlight of Nintendo's E3 2015 showing, and it's about time someone dusted them off. Star Fox Zero is only a couple weeks away! I'm sure some of you will have opinions about the conte...

With less than a week to go, the April 12 release of Dark Souls III inches closer and the clock is now ticking on select pre-order deals. PC players are receiving discounts on Dark Souls III for up to 25 percent off while console ...

Deadly Premonition and D4 creator Swery (who has contributed a guest article here in the past) has been on a roll on Twitter lately. Maybe it's all the mind gunk that would otherwise be poured into a second season of D4 now just seepin...

You may have heard that Mondo will be selling four pretty amazing posters at Emerald City Comicon, but there's another surprise in the mix as well. The company has announced that there will be a pair of limited edition vinyl soundtracks for...

While I can see the appeal behind a cool looking figure of Ezio leaping off of a building, I don't share the same excitement for busts of the same character, with his arms ripped off, looking down at his life choices (presumably what lead t...

Turns out prayer isn't the easiest way to get items in Miitomo Drop. The minigame, stashed in the shop section of Nintendo's recent mobile game Miitomo, offers players a chance at themed items through a pachinko-style game of chance. O...

At first glance, Chunks just seems like a form of Minecraft designed with virtual reality in mind. You can create and destroy your overly-familiar-looking sandbox world as an all-seeing being in the sky, or mercilessly toss your little blo...

For the past year, a private World of Warcraft server called Nostalrius has been in operation, with one goal in mind -- preserve the original Vanilla experience, without any additional expansions or updates. It's a noble goal, but...

Don't have an Amazon Prime or Best Buy's Gamers Club Unlocked membership? No problemo, says Walmart. If you're planning to pick up Xbox One's latest exclusive title Quantum Break, the game is already discounted by 20 perfect over at the ret...

Many fans missed hearing David Hayter as the English voice of Snake in Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes and The Phantom Pain, and it's clear he's still bummed to this day to have been pushed aside in favor of actor Kiefer Sutherland. That...

When many of the world's best athletes are in Rio de Janeiro for this summer's Olympics, many of the world's best eSports athletes will be there too. At this week's London Games Festival, the eGames were announced -- ostensibly an Olympics ...

There is a flurry of rumors hitting the net today surrounded the upcoming Zelda title for Wii U. The main source of the rumor is Emily Rogers, who is known for leaking the existence of a Paper Mario game on the Wii U before Paper Mario...

Third parties typically have sales on Nintendo platforms weekly -- to the point where Atlus and a few other usual suspects almost perpetually have games on sale. But as always, Nintendo is very resilient to the practice, given that some tit...

The only thing standing between PC players and their sweet, sweet Dark Souls III is four days and 17.2GB. As of today, we have the means to knock out half of that list -- and it's not the half that would require a time machine. Dark So...

The Legacy of Kain games can't catch a break. It's been thirteen years since there's been a sequel in the wonderful vampire series. We've seen thirty minutes of the cancelled Dead Sun, which at least led to the asymmetrical spinoff Nos...

In celebration of the Heroes of the Dorm finals this weekend, Blizzard is running a special in-game promotion that you're gonna want to check out. Besides an XP bonus that will work on top of any other boosts you have active (like the one f...

You could say that I'm an Atlus fan. I first learned of Atlus proper in the mid-'90s, when my cousin brought over a little old game called Persona. Come to find out I had been playing "Atlus" games, whether developed or published, for sever...

Since Bungie has decided to break down the April Destiny update into multiple Twitch streams, it can get a little confusing in terms of figuring out what's actually in it. Thankfully, it sent over a handy infographic that explains it a...

Yesterday, Namco Bandai tweeted out an ominous "big announcement" reveal for Dark Souls. Seemingly realizing that maybe raising expectations isn't a great thing to do, it then tweeted "don't worry, it's not about the game." Right after ever...

Huge thanks to our very lovely, very sexy, very Australian: Nekro. He gave us the beautiful header you see above. Jed, normally you're pretty fuckable. Times you by four and animu you though? Me-fucking-ow. Fist me Mr. Whitaker. Fist me lon...

We got a quick look at Dragon Quest Heroes II: The Twin Kings and the Prophecy's End a couple months back, but the newest trailer is much more comprehensive, giving each character new and old ample screen time and explaining all of the vari...

Can you believe it?It's been nearly a year since Splatoon launched last May. And with this April 12 update, that would make it almost a year since Nintendo has been sporadically supporting the game with new levels, weapons, and other c...

Next week, yet another video game will be hitting Steam's Early Access program. The culprit? A parkour joint by developer Gregor Panič, titled Welkin Road. The pitch is easy to comprehend. It's a 3D freerunner set across multiple abstr...

I'd say I'm pretty much a Dark Souls fanboy at this point. I've played each game in the series long enough to earn all four platinum trophies, and then I kept on playing them for a long time afterwards. And yet, with Dark Souls III on the h...

Romancing SaGa 2 was originally released on the Super Famicom in 1993, and hasn't seen a release outside of Japan to date. ::cue drumroll:: Until now! Square Enix has just announced that the mobile edition of the game (released recently in ...

The day finally came -- the replacement for Club Nintendo is live -- My Nintendo. Rather than solely provide users with the bulk of their points from purchases, there's systems in place to provide rewards for checking into Miiverse and the ...