Media Molecule reveals Tearaway Unfolded: Special Edition

With a cute doll It has yet to be seen if the PS4Tearaway Unfoldedremake is necessary, butthe original on Vita was pretty damn amazing. That’s why this new Special Edition package is so tempting — it includes a doll of the main male protagonist of the game, iota. It also comes with a code for the “Torn Away pack,” which features decorations and costumes. It’s available in a variety of regions (Australia and New Zealand, France, Iberia, Benelux, Norway, Middle East, South Africa), but strangely enough, not in the UK, where Media Molecule is based out of....

May 14, 2025 · 1 min · 97 words · Brandy Harvey

No More Heroes 2 dated for Europe

TwoNo More Heroesstories in one day? Awesome! No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggleis a hit here in America and the Wii game will be making its way to European territories on May 21. A new trailer was released for Desperate StruggleandLiveWii hassome screens you can check out too. We gaveNo More Heroes 2apretty high scoreas it rightly deserves, f*ck face. Everything about the game is screaming with style and pure badassness....

May 14, 2025 · 1 min · 108 words · Jody Evans

Palmer Luckey did not start with nothing

Plutoculus myth There are two Palmer Luckeys. I went back to read profiles of the now-24-year-old $700 millionaire who founded Oculus and became otherwordly-wealthy after reneging on keeping his company independent when Facebook came knocking with $2 billion in dollar-sign-emblazoned burlap sacks. There’s constant reference to his modesty and humility. That’s the Luckey he wants to present. That’s thegoofy, affable wunderkindyou want as the face of a massive consumer product....

May 14, 2025 · 6 min · 1089 words · Mr. Carlos Gonzalez

Saints Row IV sells a million copies in first week

Someone’s going to make this about GTA V, aren’t they? In its first week of being available at retail,Saints Row IVhas sold more than one million copies.Sold, not shipped. According to publisher Deep Silver, the PC version of the game tripled the first-week sales of its predecessorSaints Row: The Third. I’m not terribly far intoIVyet — far enough to have collected hundreds upon hundreds of those damn orbs and access to most of the powers — but I’m loving it....

May 14, 2025 · 1 min · 121 words · Megan Stokes

Silent Hill HD Collection changes voice actors

Konami has announced that it would be recasting the voice actors forSilent Hill 2andSilent Hill 3on theHD collection. I’m still trying to wrap my head around the decision, but James Sunderland’s original actor, Guy Chihi, has already formed an opinion — and accused Konami of trying to duck out of paying him. “Konami knows that they owe me residuals for all previous unauthorized re-uses of my mocap and vocal performances,” he alleged....

May 14, 2025 · 2 min · 245 words · Louis Perkins

Spore Origins hitting the iPhone soon, Yahtzee Adventures will as well

Yesterday, Electronic Arts announced a veritable slew of games slated for the iPhone. All of them are fairly unique EA products, and should hopefully toss some much-needed quality into the already endless number of shoddy titles available via iTunes. The nine games announced areYahtzee Adventures,EA Mini Golf,Lemonade Tycoon,Mahjong,Monopoly: Here and Now,Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09,Need for Speed Undercoverand the previously announcedSimCityandThe Sims 3. In addition to those landmark titles, EA also dropped thatSpore Originswill be available on September 7....

May 14, 2025 · 1 min · 163 words · Hunter Villegas

uPlay bug blocking some people from playing Watch Dogs

Watch Bugs A lot of peopleare having trouble watching dogs and it seems to have to do with redeeming uPlay content. After doing so, users on PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One have been getting stuck on the title screen while it tries to load a save. At the same time, some people have reportedly downloaded uPlay content without catching the bug, so they’re able to watch dogs just fine....

May 14, 2025 · 1 min · 115 words · Jennifer Miller

Valiant Hearts: The Great War is haunting

To Hell and back I don’t know about you, but I really like Ubisoft’s recent output of games utilizing the UbiArts Framework engine. I’m quite a fan of games that use 2D visuals to tell a story, and even with the recent release ofChild of Light, the publisher has got another UbiArts title in the pipeline.Revealed last yearalong with the 2D RPG,Valiant Hearts: The Great Warplans to try something a bit different with the engine by setting an adventure game in one of the most brutal conflicts in modern history....

May 14, 2025 · 8 min · 1593 words · Kathryn Holt

Voice of PaRappa the Rapper petitions for a sequel

WE GOTTA BELIEVE! PaRappa the Rapper needs the world, and the world needs PaRappa the Rapper. A piddling two games is not enough for the floppy-eared dog, and no one feels that more strongly than the man behind the dog: Dred Foxx. Foxx recently reprised his role as PaRappa inPlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, which reignited fan interest in a third installment of the legendary rhythm franchise (four if you countUmJammer Lammy)....

May 14, 2025 · 1 min · 207 words · Gregory Jefferson

Watching fish play Street Fighter II live is actually entertaining

What a world we live in First there was afish playingPokémonover a Twitch stream like it was a human or something, and now we’ve gottwofishfighting each otherinSuper Street Fighter II Turbo. If you’re new to this phenomenon, the tank is segmented into areas that represent different button inputs and when the fish swim into those areas, that information is sent to the game. I thought the aforementionedPokémonstream was novel but grew tired of it given the (totally expected) slow rate of progress....

May 14, 2025 · 1 min · 122 words · Shannon Barnes

Allison Road might fill the P.T.-sized hole in my heart

No looping hallways here Kojima and co. gave us a glimpse of home-based horror withP.T.and I desperately want more, even if it’s from a completely different group of people.Allison Roadlooks like the next closest thing. A couple of notes about this pre-alpha video aside from the usual warnings: it won’t spoil the scares and some elements, like the inventory system, aren’t present. This is real gameplay, but to help keep the story a mystery, the footage shown here is “not what you’ll see in the full version....

May 13, 2025 · 1 min · 142 words · Melissa Brewer

Comments of the Week – Prototype

Promoted from our Community Blogs! [Almost three years to the day since the lastComments of the Weekgraced the front page (RIP Captain Bus), Dtoid community blogger Dreamweaver has resurrected the fan-favorite feature. Enjoy! –Mr Andy Dixon] Wait, are your eyes deceiving you? Nope, it’s really here: Comments of the Week has returned! Well, maybe. Do you guys rememberAll That? It was one of my favorite TV shows when I was a kid....

May 13, 2025 · 5 min · 893 words · Devin Rogers

Dean ‘Rocket’ Hall reveals his plans for DayZ

With the incredibly popularDayZmod forArma IIspawning a standalone game soon to be in development, creator Dean “Rocket”Hall spoke with PC Gamerabout what players can expect, and the impetus for this move. For the uninitiated,DayZis a multiplayer zombie survival mod for the military sim,Arma II. It’s extremely rough around the edges, yet it’s garnered tons of praise and a hefty player base — 1.1 million players to be precise. Hall’s core concern seems to be security....

May 13, 2025 · 2 min · 334 words · Angela Mitchell