Live show: Insurgency and Halo 4

A Friday Night Fights double feature [Mash Tacticsairs Monday through Friday at 4p.m. Pacific onDtoid.TV. Watch King Foom play a variety of games, each day with its own theme. With a heavy focus on community and viewer interaction, you can be as much a part of the show as anything else.] We have a huge night of awesome live entertainment onMash Tacticsthis evening, starting with the premiere of the tactical military shooter,Insurgency....

May 13, 2025 · 2 min · 225 words · Rachael Jacobs

Namco shutting down Soulcalibur: Lost Swords

‘Gods, please forgive me’ Roughly a year and a half after its launch, Namco is ending its free-to-play PlayStation 3 experimentSoulcalibur: Lost Swords. It was apparently not great and coupled with a bad microtransaction scheme. Namco even made a real fucking sad trailer about the service ending. Just about 2 million downloaded the fighting game, which will cease sale of certain in-game items on September 30 and the rest October 27....

May 13, 2025 · 1 min · 120 words · Rebecca Gardner

New inFAMOUS trailer shows how you roll

Please, God, let there be someone else who finds that caption funny. I’d hate to be alone in this world. Sony released a new trailer forinFAMOUStoday and it’s pretty damn cool. This video is focused on how you’ll travel throughout Empire City, be it across the rooftops, on power lines or using the elevated train. It also shows a little bit of combat but it’s really only in service to the main goal of depicting the game’s environments....

May 13, 2025 · 1 min · 155 words · Paul Diaz

Online passes can expire, too!

Just when you thought thatonline passescouldn’t get more amazing, it’s been discovered that they can expire, locking brand new copies of games out of various multiplayer modes. What abrilliantnew feature. Attention was called to the issue by aNeed For Speed: Hot Pursuitplayer onNeoGAF, and he was joined by others with similar experiences. It’s been noted in the thread that the fine print absolves publishers from any responsibility, with warnings stating that online passes can indeed expire....

May 13, 2025 · 1 min · 151 words · Cheryl Moore

Payday: The Heist crossing over with Left 4 Dead

It’s almost impossible to describePayday: The Heistwithout bringing upLeft 4 Dead. The crime caper is undeniably similar to Valve’s zombie adventure, based as it is on four-player first-person co-op, providing challenging situations against immense opposition. It makes total sense, then, thatPaydayandLeft 4 Deadwill soon be meeting each other face to face. Valve is working with Overkill Software to make an official crossover, which sounds … pretty cool in my book....

May 13, 2025 · 1 min · 173 words · Matthew Meyers

People really like looking at porn on their PS3s

I’m not sure why you’d prefer using a console to look at porn over a PC or your phone if either are handy, considering the frustrating browser mechanics on many of them and the way ads like to display, but people like to do it. Can’t argue that fact. So PornHub has made these handy infographics detailing which consoles viewers use, how long they stay on the site, and other interesting tidbits of information....

May 13, 2025 · 1 min · 148 words · Barbara Ellis

Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth coming Fall 2014

Confirmed for North America I screamed. I screamed loudly. It’s not like we didn’t know that 3DS RPGPersona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinthwas coming eventually. But to finally know that it’s in the works and will be in stores this Fall is exciting. Thrilling.As I said last week, I’m already in love with this game. Now I’m having an All-Out Attack on my computer keyboard. Persona Qtakes characters from bothPersona 3andPersona 4and throws them into anEtrian Odyssey-ish world for a mash-up that would stop the heart of any Atlus fan....

May 13, 2025 · 1 min · 168 words · James Morrow

Play Pokemon, Zelda early at Wii U & 3DS mall tour

Mall hit tour Nintendo is bringing its games to twelve US malls from August 31 to November 3. Aside from games that have already released, likePikmin 3and the fabulousLuigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon, you’ll be able to check outPokemon XandY(likely the demoI playeda few weeks back),The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, andThe Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD. The tour is hitting malls in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Detroit, Dallas, Houston, Indianapolis, Denver, Tempe, Chicago, Milwaukee, Minnesota, Tulsa, and Kansas City....

May 13, 2025 · 1 min · 171 words · James Obrien

Preview: Two Worlds II: Pirates of the Flying Fortress

The expansion forTwo Worlds IIis around the corner, but how does one do a pirate-themed expansion for a pretty large open-world role-playing game? It turns out you do it by adding a lot of new content to play with and play through, a new story, and a laarrrrge update on the tech side. With a new area added to the existing world,Two Worlds II: Pirates of the Flying Fortresswill take you on a side adventure with a pirate theme....

May 13, 2025 · 4 min · 651 words · Jeremiah Avila

PSA: New Little King’s Story out now

Doing Konami’s job again I feel compelled to broadcast Konami releases these days, since Konami does such a poor job of it. TakeNew Little King’s Story, for instance. In Europe, Konami wouldn’t even tell people if it’d been localized, then suddenly it was released without warning. Customersdidn’t know the game was outuntil after it’d sat there for sale. Oh, Konami. In any case,New Little King’s Storyfor PS Vita available to download for $39....

May 13, 2025 · 1 min · 177 words · Carol Robinson

Puma making Metal Gear Solid V themed jacket, shoes

Also here’s some screesn of the Companion App Want some sick new gamer threads, bro? Well Konami has partnered up with Puma to put outsome Diamond Dogs brandedjackets and shoes based onMetal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes. The jackets are running for 15,000 yen ($146), while the shoes are going for 20,000 ($195) and 22,000 yen ($214). Then there’s the limited edition Seiko watch for 35,000 yen ($342). I won’t lie, the GM jacket and G-Trainer Mid shoes look awesome....

May 13, 2025 · 1 min · 148 words · Caleb Stephens

Some of the best Alphabear mad libs out there

It’s what’s for dinner Alphabearhas been out for a few weeks now, but we haven’t done much talking about itsince its release. That’s a dang shame, because it might just be one of my favorite games of 2015. On its surface it’s just a word game, but there is actually a deep strategic element to it as well. Using big words opens up more letters for the next turn, which increases the chance of failing to use a letter before it turns into a rock....

May 13, 2025 · 2 min · 345 words · Cindy Page

SWTOR bans players for playing the game wrong

Users have been receiving temporary bans for “exploiting”Star Wars: The Old Republic, asconfirmed by BioWare recently. The only trouble is, the players were not really breaking the game in anyway — they’ve only been doing what the game has allowed them to do. The issue stems fromplayers visiting Ilumbelow their character has reached Level 40, and opening boxes to find high level loot. If a player does this too many times (and I should point out in fairness that the banned parties do this alot), they will get their account suspended for potentially damaging the game’s economy....

May 13, 2025 · 2 min · 307 words · Christopher Randall