Star Wars Celebration begins tomorrow, and what better time to tease a Star Wars game than the days leading up to it? Bits and pieces of an image on EA’s Instagram account, now confirmed (but we always knew right) a storm trooper. However, the top left hand corner has yet to be revealed. What could be up in that corner? Looks like...
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I think it’s important to talk about the good things that are happening for women in entertainment as well as point out the bad ones. Today Feminist Frequency‘s Anita Sarkeesian posted the first video in a new series about Tropes vs. Women in Video Games. This series is about positive female characters. In this one, Sarkeesian talks...
As a pre-order bonus for the upcoming Batman: Arkham Knight, fans are set to receive the Harley Quinn DLC pack. While DLC is a very common occurrence in video games and playing villains isn’t new to the franchise. Being able to play Harley Quinn is a first. Rocksteady hasn’t released too many details about the DLC...
Nintendo President Saturo Iwata, speaking at a press conference to announce the company’s new partnership with DeNA to bring Nintendo games to smartphones, revealed that, contrary to recent speculation that Nintendo may be moving away from manufacturing gaming systems, work is under way to develop a “brand-new concept” gaming...
Today we have a brand new trailer for the highly anticipated game Batman: Arkham Knight, the fourth game in the series from Rocksteady Games, and it’s pretty dark. As you may have heard, Batman: Arkham Knight got an “M for Mature” rating, though the earlier games, Arkham Asylum, Arkham City and Arkham Origins got “T for...
Rochester, New York-based museum The Strong is about to do something pretty awesome. It’s opening a World Video Game Hall of Fame. “There is no other video game award and recognition program such as this, which focuses solely on individual game titles across platforms and their impact over time and across international borders,” said...
Are we actually going to get a movie based on a video game that will be worth watching? (Okay, fine. I love Mortal Kombat, but for all the wrong reasons.) We might be. Today we learned that Marion Cotillard (La Vie En Rose, The Dark Knight Rises) will join her Macbeth co-star Michael Fassbender in the video game film adaptation Assassin’s...
There are some of us out there who when Valentines Day arrive find ourselves envying our friends and their wonderful love lives. Valentines Day can become a lonely day for some, but not when you’re a gamer. I’ve picked some video games that I think will put your heart and mind at ease on this day of love. 1. The Sims The Sims. Yes...
If you remake it, they will buy. The trend of updating games for HD isn’t going away. This isn’t always a bad thing, especially where older games are concerned. But what if the game came out only one or two years ago? DmC, a reboot of the classic Devil May Cry series from the Playstation 2 days, originally came out for the Xbox...
Netflix, the bringer of screen-shaped happiness (House of Cards, Orange is the New Black and a bunch of Marvel series) is doing it again. According to WSJ, the streaming service is developing a live-action series based on the Nintendo video game series The Legend of Zelda. There is, as yet, no confirmation from Netflix, but the site’s...