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Courtesy of Humble Monthly I have it on good authority that some of you have been waiting for an excuse to hop onA Hat in Time. How’s this? The 3D platformer is currently $12 viaHumble Monthlyand you’ll also get instant access toThe Escapists 2andConan Exilesfor your trouble. (Uh, maybe don’t let your kids play the latter.) Along with those three “early unlocks,” Humble Monthly also includes a batch of mystery games that’ll be accessible at the beginning of August....

It’s focusing on smaller experiences Oculus VR has beenhard at workassembling teams of developers for its first-party games initiative. However, when titles begin to release, don’t expect them to be lengthy melodramas that aim to compete with other games in the triple-A space. At least not right away. When I talked with Oculus VR founder and CEO Brendan Iribe and VP of product Nate Mitchell, they told me that the first-party experiences Oculus wants to create immediately are shorter ones that show off what the technology can do....

Go get it The time has come. After a pretty rad leak back in early October, we learned thatYakuza KiwamiandBulletstorm: Full Clip Editionwould be heralding November’s PlayStation Plus offerings, andas of right now they’re live. Other free November PlayStation Plus games includeBurly Men at Sea, Roundabout, Arkedo SeriesandJackbox Party Pack 2.BurlyandRoundaboutare also free for Vita.Kiwamiis the clear highlight here, but don’t sleep on any of theJackbox Party Packs. They’re all great party games and collectively, contain some of the best multiplayer experiences around — grabbing the second here will most likely be a gateway into them....

The classics never die Nvidia has announced a fully RTX enabled version ofQuake IItoday. DubbedQuake II RTX, this remaster of the 1997 ID Software classic adds ray-tracing support and dramatically overhauls the atmosphere of the shooter. Coming as a free download for PC and Linux on July 29, 2025, Nvidia states that this newest update will include “top-to-bottom enhancements that improve virtually every aspect” of the classic game. For a few months now, mods have been going around that unofficially add ray-tracing support toQuake II....

To say that Nintendo was tight-lipped at GDC about games coming out after the first quarter this year is about as much of an understatement as saying their press conference at last year’s E3 was only somewhat of a let down. They wouldn’t budge an inch on anything exceptLegend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks, and all we got of that was a trailer. Plenty of people tried to ply information out of Reggie, but nothing much came of it except for aquote from X-Play, where he says that E3 is going to be exciting....

Morpheus lives The VR battles lines have been drawn. TheOculus Riftstruck first, but has been suffering from several setbacks like accusations of operating on a closed platform. Valve has hedged its bet on theHTC Vive, the best headset on a technical level with the arguably worst library right now. And now here comes a new challenger, Sony, in an attempt to balance the strengths of both into the cheapest consumer-grade tech to date....

Maybe it’s just me, but talking aboutLeft 4 Dead 2in the same way you would a fighting game is ridiculously fun. It allows me to say things like “bulletproof zombies, confirmed!” and oddly enough I get a kick out of it saying such silly things. Valve has been showing the game off at Comic-Con, andKotaku hadthe opportunity to check out a new type of uncommon infected, bulletproof zombies. The kevlar-wearing infected are only vulnerable in one spot, their backs, but they can be stunned from a melee attack....

Pretty gif-fest Sea of Solitude—I’d takeSolitude Sea— is currently in the prototyping phase, so who knows what’ll come of it. Still, when Jordan showed me thegifs on its site, it seemed worth sharing. Similar toEnslaved, it shows an alternate, colorful, empty (but monster-filled) post-apocalyptia. Plus, the main character has been turned into a monster, too. Yeah, the loneliness metaphor and all that’s a bit on the nose, but I always appreciate a pretty game gif....

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA We’re a little less than two weeks away from the release of Croteam’sSerious Sam 4and the developer has announced the specs that you will need if you want to run the game when it releases September 24. The base and recommended specifications are as follows: Minimum:CPU: 4 cores Intel or AMD @ 2.5 GHzRAM: 8 GBGPU: NVidia GeForce 780/970/1050 or AMD Radeon 7950/280/470VRAM: 3 GBOS: Windows 10 64-bit (1809/1903)DirectX 11...

Burning! King of Fighter XIVproducer Yauyki Oda recently say down with IGN Latin America for an interview. During the interview, he discussed what the studio has been up to, what they have planned for the future, what’s happening withKing of Fighters, and why we haven’t seen entries for certain franchises in quite some time. It’s an interesting interview to say the least, as it provides some insight to how SNK as a company works when it comes to games....

More companies are joining the all-digital event June is just around the corner, and with it comes this year’s all-digital E3. Today, several more companies confirmed their participation in the all-digital event. In a press release, the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) confirmed that Square Enix, Sega, Bandai Namco Entertainment, Gearbox Entertainment, Verizon, XSEED Games / Marvelous USA, Freedom Games, Devious Eye Entertainment, Turtle Beach, Verizon, and Binge.com are all participating in E3 2021....

It’s hard for me to think of many uses for tablets outside of gaming, since it seems I could do everything more easily on a computer without having to paw and claw at an expensive touchscreen. Games I can understand, and so it’s somewhat telling that games are the predominant focus of tablet users. According to a survey, an overwhelming 84% of owners use tablets for the playing of games, while 78% use it for searches and info gathering....

If you remember from earlier this year, European gamers and artists were able to submit art for thecover artof the originalBlazBlue. For those in the US of A who felt that it was a lost opportunity (or that the art from the European edition was just bad), you can right those wrongs. Aksys isannouncingtoday a chance for fans ofBlazBlueto create the interior artwork for both the PS3 and Xbox 360 editions ofBlazBlue: Continuum Shift....