I still remember the first time I played Limbo at a friend's house. I had been hearing good buzz around it, but I was quite prepared for the utter brutality that the game had. The game is pretty reminiscent of something like the old-school ...

[Update: Guess what, format fans? Namco Bandai have announced that Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition will also be releasing on PS4, PC and Nintendo Switch. Ask and ye shall receive, it seems.]As part of Microsoft's E3 press conference, ...

Activision has quietly announced that Guitar Hero Live's online video service, GHTV, will be shutting down on December 1, 2018. This will see the termination of any semblance of DLC the game once had (since no content packs were ever releas...

Today marks the one-year anniversary of Xbox Game Pass. Let's take a look at how the service has evolved over the past 12 months. When it launched in June 2017, Xbox Game Pass served a specific niche. For $10 per month, people could downloa...

On the surface, Sephora may not seem like the right match for an esports event. Sponsors reach out to esports events to reach a demographic of young male viewers. On the other hand, the representation of female pro gamers is very low. The GIRLGAMER Esports Festival was a response...

Grove Street... Home. At least it was until Rockstar removed Express Yourself from N.W.A and Tom Petty's Running Down A Dream. But, for those of you who wanna go back to the land of the heinous, gang-bangers and cold heat, in the city where...

Xbox is trying something new with next month's Games with Gold offerings. Through the five years the program has been in place, Games with Gold has given four free games per month to anyone who pays for an Xbox Live Gold membership. In June...

Rarely does backward compatibility feel so thematically appropriate. Xbox One users keen to re-experience a bygone era of Xbox 360 games now have a new (but also old!) opportunity to replay a game set 75 years ago. Battlefield 1943 is ...

Burnout Paradise may have gotten an HD (HD-er?) remaster, but the real game in the series that deserves more love is Burnout Revenge. I can understand not caring for the Xbox and PS2 versions (Crash mode sucked in that one), but the 360 por...

Minecraft's next patch, dubbed the "Aquatic" update, will be the final update for the last-gen versions of the game. The reason for this decision is that Microsoft has decided to focus its effort on improving the versions of the game where ...

Dragon Age II used to be among BioWare's most derided RPGs. Derided is a strong word for what was really just a divisive game. Some people loved it, but others felt it skimped on the expansive RPG elements that the developer excelled a...

The original Saints Row was a competent enough game, but it mostly felt like a direct Grand Theft Auto clone instead of anything new. The sequel is where things started to get a bit crazy and is definitely the place where new players should...

Square Enix has a brand new website for you to peruse. To commemorate the occasion, the publisher is handing out its "popular" game Mini Ninjas on PC. The only caveat is that you'll need to jump through a crazy amount of hoops to actually d...

For those unaware, earlier in the month, Rockstar announced that a number of licensed songs within Grand Theft Auto IV's radio stations were going to be removed in a new update, due to the 10-year licensing agreement on them expiring. Well,...

Bullet Witch, an Xbox 360 exclusive from 2007, is getting a PC port today courtesy of Xseed. It's a weird and janky shooter about a witch who's fighting off hell's demons in an apocalyptic America. A press release describes it as "a unique ...

Thanks to Square Enix, Noctis now takes up so many different forms that it's getting hard to keep track. From his normal boy-band-hair-inspired self in the base game, ranging in various resolutions, to multiple games such as Tekken 7 and Di...

May's Xbox Games with Gold offerings are confirmed, and as usual it's a pretty good mix. The big highlights are easily Metal Gear Solid V: Phantom Pain, a game that everyone needs to have played at some point, as well as Vanquish, the Plati...

There have been rumors in recent days that Gears of War 2 would be getting a remaster a la the Gears of War: Ultimate Edition. That's not quite the case, but it's not too far removed. Gears of War 2 will be looking better than it ...

[Update: Rockstar has confirmed the removal of a large portion of the soundtrack, mainly affecting Vladiostok FM. The official word: "Due to music licensing restrictions, we are required to remove certain songs from the in-game soundtrack ...

If you've held off buying Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Remastered this whole time and you've held onto your original Xbox 360 copy of the game, some good news: it's now backward compatible. I'm tempted to fire up a few of the more memora...

Xbox Live Gold subscribers are in for another solid month this April. Xbox One owners will be treated to Assassin's Creed: Syndicate and The Witness while 360 owners will be given Cars 2 and Dead Space 2 to keep. Remember, all 360 titles of...

Hitman: Blood Money is one of those games you could keep coming back to year after year. There are just so many ways missions can unfold. You can act like Agent 47 should. You can go off script as a total doofus. You can learn the precise i...

It seems Demon's Souls isn't the only cult classic RPG that is having its online option turned off in 2018. Capcom has announced that the Xbox 360 versions of Dragon's Dogma and Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen will have its online component shu...

Some of the last console generation's most popular games now look and perform better on this console generation's newest hardware. For the first time since its launch last November, Microsoft has added to the list of Xbox 360 games that hav...

Xbox has been on a roll lately with how frequently the backward compatibility program gets additions that make you think "oh hell yeah I'd play that again!" Last week, it was Prey. Now, it's a PlatinumGames cult classic. Starting today, Van...

I tend to be a bit harsh on the free game selections from both Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network, but March isn't looking too hot. Well, it's actually looking Superhot, because that title is being included and is the only thing I'd reco...