This isn’t how to do pre-order DLC Over the past three nights I’ve watched my lovely boyfriend and our hunky Australian roommate streamUntil Dawnand after finishing the game we decided to play the pre-order DLC chapter “The Road Not Taken” only we couldn’t find it. Turns out we already had. After researching online and finding many people were also confused I figured I’d get to the bottom of this and clear up the confusion....

I’m still holding out for Tron controllers Not to be outdone by Sony, Microsoft also has announced somenew accessoriesfor its updated Xbox One S. The Xbox One S controller, which has Bluetooth connectivity and improved grips, is now available in black, blue, and purple. Unlike the new PlayStation 4 controllers that have the light bar extend to the touchpad, these new gamepads don’t add anything from the existing white Xbox One S controllers other than color....

Shhh, I’m trying to clutch There’s nothing better than gaming with a group of friends, but the more people you add to a party, the more chaotic and noisy it can be.Xbox has released a featureto try and mitigate some of the extra sounds in the background, thanks to a feature called party chat noise suppression. It’s supposed to specifically help remove noises like buttons clicking on a controller and breathing, in addition to other unspecified background noise....

Zombies. Still a thing, I guess. It seems that the people can’t get enough of the undead funsters, as we continue to pump out movies, TV shows and video games featuring the decaying dudes, usually to great success. Focus Home Interactive, for example, are well underway with their efforts to adapt movie franchiseWorld War Zto home consoles, releasing a new trailer for the upcoming multiplayer shooter. Featuring the kind of wrestle-metal that would make even the undead cringe, we get to see a lotta shooting, a lotta shouting, and a helluva lot of zombies....

News coming in May [Update:It was just revealedthat said info is coming on May 11.] So uh, isDynasty Warriors 9still coming? We haven’t heard anything really since December of last year. Naturally, this article should be a clue — yes, it is! Series producer Akihiro Suzuki caved after all of the clamoring on Twitter, and provided the following statement: “I am sorry to have kept you waiting so long. Further information onDynasty Warriors 9will be released starting in May!...

Speedrunning charity event Awesome Games Done Quick is back in-person this year. AGDQ 2024 has locked its dates and locale for January 14 through 21 at the Wyndham Hotel and Resorts in Pittsburgh, PA. Though Games Done Quick has hosted a few in-person events since it was pushed online by COVID-19, last year’s Awesome Games Done Quickcalled off its in-person Florida event. At the time, organizerscitedboth “continued disregard” for COVID-19 dangers and increased aggression towards LGBTQ+ individuals as reasons for taking the event online instead....

Awesome Games Done Quick 2025 is kicking off next January, and I’m already looking forward to its arrival. Mostly, that’s because the event organizers announced not only the AGDQ 2025 schedule, but it plans on having a live band play during aCrazy Taxispeedrun. Naturally, most folks would be excited to hear about the return of AGDQ and its week of speedruns for charity. I am as well, but as an old Sega fan, I can’t help but admit that the news caused a double-take that nearly gave me whiplash....

Amazon is reportedly laying off 180 workers from its games division. Sources toldAftermaththat the company is eliminating the Amazon-backed Twitch channel Crown Channel. The Game Growth team, whose purpose revolved around Prime Gaming, is also getting the axe. Amazon itself confirmed these sources. It also sent a copy of an internal email to Aftermath from Amazon Games VP Christoph Hartmann stating, “We’ve listened to our customers and we know delivering free games every month is what they want most, so we are refining our Prime benefit to increase our focus there....

The new year promises a fresh lineup of Brawlers, each with unique and robust powers. Among them, Meeple stands out as a Controller fighter, wielding enough dominance to command the entire field. We’re here to show you how to improve this fighter’s performance with the best Meeple build inBrawl Stars. What is the best build for Meeple in Brawl Stars? Meeple can be found in the latest Pizza Planet event, where you must exchangePizza Slicesto unlock them....

It was but a few scant days ago when Team Ninja’s Tomonobu Itagaki wasmouthing offabout howTekken 6sucks and yet he’s already back on the diss-wagon, slandering yet another game he hasn’t played yet. Next up on the chopping block isHeavenly Sword, theSeptember-boundaction adventure heading to the PlayStation 3. In a recent issue ofEGM, our gobby game creator had this to say about the game with theworld’s greatest cutscene: “I’ve never played a good game where the developers put a big icon of the button you’re supposed to press onscreen....

Downloadable content is a hot commodity, allowing developers to squeeze even more money from customers in exchange for horse armor or a few songs onGuitar Hero. Needless to say, all the top games have caught DLC fever, includingBioShock. Despite the fact that its linear experience and lack of multiplayer doesn’t outwardly express a need for additional content, 2K’s Ken Levine is keen onadding to the currently low replayabilityof the game thanks to the power of the Internet:...

10-year-old Gryffin Sanders put his shell-dodging training to the test I don’t remember the last time I read or watched a feel-good story involving videogames in the mainstream news. Hell, I’m having trouble finding newswithingame media outlets that doesn’t paint a bleak or damning future for our hobby. Let’s correct that, shall we? Just over a week back outside the town of Hugo, Colorado, 10-year-old Gryffin Sanders was riding along in the car with his great grandmother Darlene Nestor and his 4-year-old brother....

Unlike thosepansiesat EA withMadden NFL 11, THQ isn’toffering a vote on who should be its cover athleteforUFC Undisputed 2010. THQ set its jaw on “firm,” and has revealed that UFC champ and now returning octagon veteran Brock Lesnar is to grace the cover of the game for its May 25th release. Like most MMA guys, Brock Lesnar is a big dude that probably has issues cleaning his own back because of his bulging chest and biceps....