Daniel McCall

At this point, it goes without saying that the gaming community is “miffed” over the whole Batman: Arkham Knight being shoddy on PC thing. To say that it was shameful for all involved — which actually didn’t include developer Rocksteady, apparently — would be an understatement. Considering the fact that the previous two games ran […]

News of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, video as well, has been pouring out of 2015 San Diego Comic-Con, but the behind-the-scenes trailer shown late yesterday may be some of the best we’ve seen yet. If you have but one geek bone in you, it’s likely you’ll experience the “feels,” as I’m told the kids […]

The previous episodes of Mr. Robot may have come off as a little slow, apart from the cliffhanger of an ending, but the third episode, titled 1-2_D3BUG.mkv, changes up the show’s potential future quite a bit. Warning: Spoilers ahead It also gives us viewers more insight into the dark… tendencies, we’ll call them, of Evil […]

When last we left off on Mr. Robot, “protagonist” of sorts Elliot Aldersion was in complete disbelief. After setting into motion the events that would frame an innocent person for a far-reaching hacking scandal, he’s dragged by men in black to a new location — and a familiar face from the corporation he hacked, Evil […]

You just about can’t have a Street Fighter game unless Ken is in it, and Capcom brought word out of San Diego Comic-Con that Ken will, in fact, be playable in Street Fighter V — but he won’t quite be the same Ken you’re used to. To further differentiate himself from eternal rival and sparring […]

Yes, people, this is apparently real. And it’s happening. A Street Fighter X G.I. Joe mash-up will be brought to you in comic form. The “event,” as Polygon describes it, is set to begin early next year. The comics will be headed up by IDW Publishing, Capcom has revealed. The project is a long ways […]

Valve released perhaps one of its biggest updates in some time for Team Fortress 2. As explained by the developers themselves, a number of fixes for all classes were applied to level the playing field — but that’s just the tip of the iceberg that is the Gun Mettle update. Admittedly, much of the fixes […]

Ever wanted to be able to break into a car legally? Well, if you live in Tennessee, now you can — but there’s a big catch. Despite repeated warnings from the public, dog owners often leave their dogs in their car while they go off to do something else, without a care that the temperature […]

Ever since that infamous tech demo that appeared to show a Final Fantasy VII remake, fans have been clamoring for a remake of the classic entry in the long-running RPG series. It almost seemed like a license to print money, an obvious business decision for the company. My question is, do we really want a […]

Only a few days after Eiji Tsuburaya’s 114th birthday, Google honored the co-creator of the infamous Godzilla by making a Google Doodle in his honor. Rather than doing just a Google Doodle to celebrate the creator’s legacy, Google made an interactive game of it. If you’ve never heard of cinematic legend Tsuburaya, he’s responsible in […]

If you didn’t get the chance to get your hands on the Street Fighter V demo during the recent ComicCon, don’t fret; Capcom will be releasing the demo on the PlayStation 4 later this month on July 23. In fact, you’ll get a little more out of the demo… and a little less. First, the […]

You’ve beaten Dragon Age: Inquisition, and you’re practically foaming at the mouth (okay, maybe not) for more story. Well, bad news for those of you who still haven’t jumped ship to current-gen platforms: future DLC for Dragon Age: Inquisition will only work on new systems. Sorry, Xbox 360 fans. Oh, and PlayStation 3 fans. Let’s […]

It hasn’t been very long since the PlayStation 4 was first released by Sony — two years, at least — but the company is already planning to roll out a hardware revision for the PS4 – one that seems to be significantly improved over its predecessor. And cheaper for Sony to manufacture, too. Pocket News […]

It’s difficult to make real hacking something entertaining on the silver screen, or any screen for that matter – and yet within the first few minutes of the series’ first episode, Mr. Robot showed vigilante hacker Elliot completely dismantling a business owner whose illegal activities were downright disgusting. Thanks in no small part to the […]

Mortal Kombat X‘s next DLC character, Predator, will be making — his? its? — way to PC and consoles this week, developer NetherRealm recently announced. On top of that, Klassic Fatalities, previously paid options, will now be free for all players. More specifically, Predator will join the Mortal Kombat X roster tomorrow, July 7, GameSpot […]

Burnout Paradise was easily one of the best racing titles on the Xbox 360, and developer Criterion is pushing Microsoft to bring the classic, breakneck-speed racer to the Xbox One. There aren’t many games as revered as Burnout Paradise. Criterion confirmed that it was in talks with Microsoft by way of a tweet (you know, […]

Final Fantasy XIV was supposed to be making its way to the Mac OS just in time for the release of the game’s expansion, Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward, but the company has now delayed the release due to a significant number of users reporting performance issues, among other things. The problem, apparently, is that Square […]

Just Cause 3 protagonist Rico Rodriguez has a particular way of getting past obstacles. Locked door standing between you and your objective? Simply plant some explosives, get out of dodge (or, if you want to go the stylish route, grapple your way to a safe distance), and then blow the door (and most of the […]

When Shenmue 3 was officially announced during Sony’s E3 2015 press conference, there was an uproarious applause and, at once, a collective, big sigh of relief; after all of this time, the oft-demanded sequel in the Shenmue series, which began and abruptly ended during the era of Sega’s Dreamcast console, was finally coming. Considering the […]

Batman finds numerous ways to keep himself entertained as he pummels baddies into the ground during the story mode, but he’s left plenty of action for Batgirl — especially since the two will be starring in a prequel. Rather than have Batman at the fore as he dispatches enemies with ease, Batgirl will be taking […]

Ready to take a trip back to Hyrule in Nintendo’s iconic title The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time yet again? Nintendo has announced that the universally acclaimed game is making its way to the Wii U by way of the virtual console. Before you start jumping for joy at the prospect of playing The […]

Last year the developers over at Gazillion Entertainment, headed up by Diablo veteran David Brevik, launched their free-to-play action RPG / MMO hybrid, Marvel Heroes. The game received largely mixed reviews by the press, many of which stated that the game’s lack of polish — and depth — held it back from being a serious […]

The Xbox One will reportedly be launching without the headset adapter that supports current-generation and at least some upcoming third-party headsets, according to recent reports from multiple sources. Current-generation headsets will not be compatible by default with the Xbox One due to the fact that the new headset plugs into the new controller by way […]

Later this week, Rockstar Games plans on handing out $250,000 to early players of Grand Theft Auto Online. Before you run to get a change of pants (or hopefully before), that’s $250,000 worth of in-game currency. This is, as previously reported on by The Inquisitr, part of a two-part lump sum. The news comes by […]

Battlefield 4’s multiplayer progression will allow you to stick with your play style, DICE revealed in a recent blog post. Battlefield 3 tasked players with ranking up and using specific weapons to unlock more goodies. It wasn’t a flawless system but it worked; on the downside, it meant that if you were late to the […]

Given that Total War: Rome 2 was massive in scale – even more massive than its ambitious predecessors – it was expected that there might be a bug or two when the game launched, but what gamers found out that there weren’t a few. There were many. Rome wasn’t built in a day, after all. […]

Rockstar Games has built up a solid reputation for releasing quality Grand Theft Auto titles for quite some time now, so it goes without saying that expectations were high – really high – for tomorrow’s release of Grand Theft Auto 5, the latest in the developer’s open-world hit franchise. Judging from all of the Grand […]

Amnesia: The Dark Descent, the first in what would eventually become a franchise from a small, relatively unknown developer (Frictional Games), was arguably one of the most terrifying video games ever made. It gave you a sense of helplessness; there were evil creatures that roamed the unfamiliar halls of the mansion your protagonist found himself […]

The release of Grand Theft Auto 5 on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 is just around the corner – that’s tomorrow, if you’ve lost track of time – but so far Rockstar has kept quiet about whether or not a PC version will be happening. Naturally, PC gamers aren’t happy. A petition to port the […]

When Square Enix made the decision to burn Final Fantasy XIV to the ground in order to build it anew – which is what literally happened in-game once Square Enix made preparations to relaunch the game – it was considered a bold, if not unprecedented move. A move that, if it were to fail, could […]

Update: New information from Square Enix regarding server congestion can be found at the bottom of the post. Over the weekend and into the official launch, Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn players have been experiencing a number of server problems. If you’ve ever played an MMO at launch before, you know server problems are […]

When you’ve got ne’er-do-wells running around your Minecraft world stealing all of your precious Diamonds and your embarrassingly large collection of Ender Pearls, you know there’s only one person to call to set things right. Yep, we’re talking about Shaft. Mineshaft, that is. “Mineshaft” is a new fan film featured on Machinima Prime’s YouTube Channel […]

Crystal Dynamics’ Tomb Raider reboot was a fairly big success worldwide considering the series’ rough history, so it wouldn’t exactly be farfetched to assume that a sequel to the game is in the works. It especially wouldn’t be farfetched because there is a sequel in the works. Apart from being obvious, the news wasn’t very […]

EA didn’t exactly try to keep it a secret that a new Star Wars: Battlefront game was in development, but the game’s reveal during the publisher’s E3 2013 press conference – as short as it may have been – still garnered a strong positive reaction from fans of the franchise. We still don’t know a […]

If you’re an Xbox Live Gold subscriber, you’ll soon be getting your next round of free games as part of the “Games with Gold” program. Starting tomorrow, August 1, Microsoft has confirmed that it will be offering Crackdown to subscribers for free. If you plan on downloading Crackdown, you’ll need to act fast – the […]

Just like the classic XCOM games, death in The Bureau: XCOM Declassified is permanent. If you send half of your squad running through mines and right into the line of fire from aliens, chances are high that none of your team will live to see another battle. One might say that in The Bureau: XCOM […]

Nintendo published its first quarter financials report for fiscal year 2014 early Wednesday morning. The company managed to rake in a profit for its first quarter, but it certainly wasn’t boosted by sales of the Wii U – not by a long shot. In the report, Nintendo confirmed a ¥81.5 billion sales figure, and ¥8.6 […]

Microsoft confirmed last month what some had suspected: the Xbox One will not be bundled with a headset like its predecessor. Instead, voice chat would be handled through the Kinect peripheral by default. Fortunately for those of you who would rather avoid hearing people scream obscenities through your speakers, there will be a solution. Several, […]

Microsoft’s matchmaking system on the Xbox 360 wasn’t without its share of problems, but it got the job done fairly well – but the company is aiming to make the system even better with Xbox One’s “Smart Match” system. In a post over on the Xbox website, Microsoft went into detail on the Xbox One’s […]

The recent surprising news that Polytron’s own Phil Fish had canceled development on Fez II came as a shock to the gaming world, leaving the internet awash with speculation, debates, and just about every other reaction one would expect. In response to the cancellation, Gears of War creator and former Epic Games employee Cliff Bleszinski […]

Nintendo’s upcoming Super Smash Bros. sequel already features a number of characters from a wide variety of games, but some gamers want a real character in the game – Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime. This group of gamers want Fils-Aime in the game so much, in fact, that a petition to include him in […]

The Witcher developer CD Projekt RED has traditionally offered extra content for entries in the series at no extra charge. In an industry that is more than willing to sell you extra content, they stood apart – and it sounds like that won’t be changing with The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, either. Speaking with the […]

Last week, a report from Digital Foundry claimed that while the PlayStation 4 would come equipped with 8GB of DDR5 RAM, only a little over half of that would be available to use by developers. To put speculation to rest, Sony decided to offer some clarification. The original report stated that developers would have access […]

As you’ve likely noticed from the Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag footage we’ve seen so far, naval battles play a major part in the game. Sadly, however, it looks like naval battles won’t be playing a role at all in the game’s multiplayer component. VG247 recently spoke with lead multiplayer game designer Tim Browne at […]

If you follow gaming news, you’ve likely heard a grand story or two about massive space battles in EVE Online, CCP Games’ massively multiplayer space game that has been going strong for over a decade now. You haven’t heard a story of a grand space battle quite like this, however. Over the weekend, a massive […]

After the Australian Classification Board shot down Saints Row 4 the first time, the game was put up for re-review with a few changes. Unfortunately, those changes apparently were not enough. Yesterday, news broke that Australia’s Classification Board has once again refused to allow the game to be sold in the country. Originally, one offense […]

Microsoft threw a bit of a curveball earlier this week when it announced that the Xbox One would allow for self-publishing, and that all units would be able to function as development kits – meaning that, in theory, anyone with enough drive, time, and money can put their game on the service. Now it seems […]

When Polytron announced around the end of E3 that Fez II was in development, it took many by surprise. The game was to be the sequel to the critically acclaimed, oft-delayed indie title from the mind of developer Phil Fish – and it was a sequel that no one expected to hear of so soon. […]

Ultra Street Fighter IV won’t be just adding new characters and stages – Capcom promised during its reveal that each character in the current roster would be tuned, and now we have an idea of what sort of balancing the developer has in mind for the returning characters. In an interview with Siliconera, Matt Dahlgren, […]

Stephane D’Astous, the founder and general manager of Eidos Montreal, has resigned from his position at the company, Polygon reported earlier today, citing “irreconcilable” differences with the studio’s parent company, Square Enix. “Since last year’s financial short-coming performance of Square Enix Europe, we (HQ London and GM Eidos Montreal) have had growing and divergent opinions […]