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Lara to start sporting bootcut jeans? Jeff Ross, director of Sony Bend’s successful survival horror adventureDays Gone, has announced that they have saddled up the ol’ hog and taken up a new role with Crystal Dynamics, the studio behind the hugely successfulTomb Raiderreboot. Ross will work at CD in the role of Design Director. Rossconfirmed the news on social media, though the director remained tight-lipped regarding the projects he will now be plying his trade on....

$1,469, launches at CES next month Digital Storm says that they have the first liquid-cooled Valve-approved Steam Machine ready to show at CES next month. The PC maker says that they’re not trying to compete with console pricing at all, and are going after graphical power instead. Their new small form factor system will have both Steam and Windows on-board, will have up to a 700W power supply, and, again, liquid cooling....

Direct2Driveis having a mega sale from now until Christmas! Not only are they having a sale, but D2D is going crazy with their “D2D Gives Back 2010” promotion where 1-in-5 purchases are free! Anyone that buys anything from the over 2,500 games available on the service may be lucky enough to get everything in their shopping cart for free! D2D is alsoprice matchingagainstSteampowered,GamestopandGamersGate. Any game found cheaper on one of these sites will be matched by D2D....

A Quiet Place: Day Onehas hit theaters, bringing us back to the day the sound-sensitive “Death Angels” arrived on Earth. Like manyA Quiet Placefans, I walked into the theater with questions, the foremost of which was whetherA Quiet Place: Day Onewould have a post-credits scene. Do you need to wait for a post-credits scene? I’m here to tell you thatA Quiet Place: Day Onedoes not have a post-credit scene. You don’t need to worry about missing a jaw-dropping reveal if you don’t want to sit through the credits....

The NumeroFUT Challenge 3 SBC is now live inEA FC 25, and it can be completed to earn a free pack that you can use in Ultimate Team. This is the third fodder challenge released as part of the NumeroFUT promo, and you can complete it quite easily. You should have the cards required to complete the challenge, and it will help you to get a free pack. Let’s look at how to complete the latest fodder challenge, along with the reward pack you will get....

I bet it has something to do with videogames Edmund McMillen, creator ofBinding of Isaacand one half of Team Meat (Mewgenics,Super Meat Boy) is excited and I don’t know why. Maybe you can figure it out. Edmund recentlytweeted“the weekend is totally nuts, 2 major pending announcements… one of them will make some fans VERY happy 🙂 this year is going to rock” and then followed that up with pixelatedimage seen above....

After providing severalirritatingandconfusingannoyances to the gaming community in the last few weeks, the ESRB has followed up with an announcement that I actually … agree with. In a recent press release, the ESRB and PTA have declared their “shared commitment to educating parents about videogames,” something that most definitely needs to be done if we’re to move away from the ridiculous hysteria that surrounds children and gaming in these supposedly enlightened times....

The grime from Joel’s POV It may have been a huge, bug-ridden let-down whenThe Last of Us Part 1releasedon PC, but a series of patches is aiming to fix the biggest problems. And it’s not just Naughty Dog that’s tinkering with the remake, either. One modder has been looking to implement a first-person mode for the game, and a recent video shows off this work-in-progress. Visual artist and YouTuberBryan Ortiz(aka Voyagers Revenge) has uploaded some footage from their first-person modification ofThe Last of Us Part Ion PC....

Final Fantasy XIVFanFest China is currently underway, and there have been some new images revealed that provide hints for future content. With new sneak peeks into Cosmic Exploration, new large-scale field content, and the first glimpse of the new Ultimate Raid’s boss, there’s lots to get excited about. These images were shared during what appears to be a keynote speech with Naoki Yoshida streamed on Bilibili, a China based video sharing site....

Timely $4.99 is the usual asking price for episodes of Telltale’sGame of Thronesseries, but not today, valued Android user. The debut episode,Iron From Ice, is free if youdownload through Amazon. In his review, Darren said the game “…feels like a punch to the gut, and it sets the stage for an intensely emotionally draining experience.” (That’s a compliment, I’m pretty sure.) In an addendum, he added that “If you know for sure that you will never go back and read the books or watch the HBO series, then this is an okay place to start....

The stealthy demo forDragon’s Dogma 2that wesaw coming from a mile awayis now out… andit’s a character creator. This is not what most wanted, but I’d recommend you not to fret too much, asDragon’s Dogma 2‘s character creator— as well as the game itself — seems to be set to become an all-timer. Games with in-depth character creator modes aren’t that rare a thing nowadays, but not all games feature fanbases filled with incredibly passionate and artful fans, and theDragon’s Dogma2team sure does have that....

Rumors started circulating before E3 that Sony was looking to buy Gaikai, the cloud-based streaming game service. That…didn’t happen. The start-up is looking to be bought up, though.CNN Moneysays that the company has already hired bankers to get this going, and that they’re expecting more than $500 million. As it stands now, Gaikai is doing well. They have plenty of backing, and they’re working with big companies like Electronic Arts, Walmart and YouTube....

Last weekwas a battle between large men, little clothing and one too many pairs of arms to make me feel comfortable. At first the votes were dead even, but after the fierce bear-fueled bout of grab ass was over, a winner emerged with a large lead in votes. Here are the results: This victory clinches the crown for theStreet Fighterseries, with all theMortal Kombatcharacters now eliminated from the competition.Chun-Liwill have to put Zangief to the test next week, but for now we get to focus on one of the most well-known good guy bad guy conflicts ever played out in the gaming industry....