A new game from ScrewAttack about clinical depression All art, or indeed even all communication, is a process of connecting with others through shared experience. Whether we’re trying to express a specific experience, or conversely, reveling in the knowledge that there’s at least one other person out there who Gets Us, art can be as therapeutic to consume as it is to create. The more ambiguous and less concrete the subject of the art in question, the more difficult a process this becomes....

Promoted from our Community Blogs! [Dtoid community blogger Manchild gave us a touching and lovely blog on Father’s Day. Beware getting dust in your eyes. Want to see your own writing appear on the front page?Go write something!–Occams Electric Toothbrush] A few weeks after the birth of my son, I was desperately trying to sleep. When our daughter was born, the first two days having her home were a nightmare. Howver, they paled in comparison to Jack who fought sleep like it was a boogeyman....

Geoff Keighley’s not-affiliated-with-SpikeGame Awardsare tonight. Gosh, it really has been a year since he co-hostedVGXwith Joel McHale. (Let us never speak of that again.) The show will be streamed live out of Las Vegas tonight starting at 6:00pm Pacific on places like YouTube, embedded above, andTwitch. Besides the awards themselves, there’s going to be over a dozen premieres —Metal Gear Solid V‘s multiplayer, for one — and musical performances. If thenew awarddesigned by Weta Workshop is any indication, this is going to be an improvement over the past decade (!...

Thisstoryis absolutely brilliant. While most of us can only see as far ahead asModern Warfare 2, a gaming community with the dual gifts of foresight and shamelessness have seized a sneaky opportunity, deciding to register the domain namemodernwarfare4.comwith plans to blackmail Infinity Ward and get free copies of the game when it presumably comes out in 2013. Visiting the Web site provides the following message for those who desire the domain name:...

It’s worth it just for Crusader Kings II The latestHumble Weekly Saleis a cracker, putting up a bunch of Paradox Interactive’s biggest titles. Pay what you want and you’ll getWar of the Roses(along with access to theWar of the Vikingsalpha),Warlock: Masters of the Arcane,Leviathan: Warships,DungeonlandandThe Showdown Effect. I’ve spent quite a bit of time with most of them, reviewing all butDungeonland,and can confidently recommend them all. The most notable addition is probablyEuropa Universalis IIIwhich, while not quite as good as thelatestiteration of the series, is pretty bloody splendid, and will certainly eat up days of your life....

With real ghosts, possibly Ubisoft’s free-to-play online shooter,Ghost Recon Online,just got a Halloween update. Nothing screams horror and pranks like tactical multiplayer combat. The surely terrifying Halloween content pack comes with new player skins, different weapon stats, and six new weapons. If you can’t shoot a missile out of a witch’s broom, I’ll be extremely disappointed. On top of the themed shenanigans, a clan system has also been implemented. These social groups can be customised through the use of clan tags and clan crests....

Of course there’s a newSuper Monkey Ballgame coming to the PlayStation Vita.Super Monkey Ballis on EVERYTHING and so here’s the latest trailer that’s more of a tease rather than gameplay footage. Banana Splitzwill feature motion-based controls, front and back touch controls and of course traditional button and stick functionality. There will also be four-player multiplayer modes over WiFi where you may play in classic game modes such as Monkey Target or any of the new game modes being added for the Vita version....

Went one year over budget Jenova Chen’s D.I.C.E. Summit talk on my favorite game of last year,Journey, wasmoving for many reasons, but I was particularly moved when I heard that his team, thatgamecompany, went bankrupt in the struggle to finish the game. After the allotted two years in development,Journeystill wasn’t there. It wasn’t meeting the emotional peaks and valleys they had hoped to hit. This left them with a rough choice — ship the game as is, or go back into it to make it as emotionally moving as they had originally hoped it would be....

I put on my wizard robe and hat Mages of Mystraliawas one of my personal favorite games at PAX West 2016, but details on its release were still vague. At the time, indie game promoter Dan Adelman couldn’t officially give a platform for its release, but at the time he did note I was playing it using a DualShock 4. That hint is now solidified:Mages of Mystraliawill release on PlayStation 4....

Melted Xbox 360 as art? What a concept. “Mixed media,” the artist calls it. Microwave melted, studded with eyeballs and laced with phallic, veiny things. Really, who wouldn’t want it? And at $31,002, it’s an absolute steal. Half of the proceeds from this melted game system “art” go to charityCAIR. That was nice. I think the artist is calling this theXBOX 360 Elite Slug. So, yeah…it’s oneBay, and there’s no bids yet....

You did it. I did it. Our neighbours did it. Hell, mydaddid it (and he doesn’t know squat about gaming). Now Microsoft’s doing it, too. In an exclusive interview withGamesIndustry.biz, Microsoft’s Peter Moore and Chris Satchell grabbed an opportunity to take a couple of cheap shots at Sony while they weren’t in a position to retaliate. “It’s going to take [Sony] a couple of years to get up to speed on this, and I’m not sure that they necessarily have the talent, or it’s built into who they are as a company,” Moore said....

Previously set for July 26 MystandRivenstudio Cyan Worlds is taking an extra few weeks to polish up its next adventure game,Obduction. It is now scheduled to release for PC and Mac on August 06, 2025. That should be it. “We were so close, we could ship,” said producer Ryan Warzechain a blog post today. “But we came to the unanimous decision that if we shipped it was driven mainly by the deadline — not because we were satisfied....

I don’t know if you heard earlier, but it was first said that Wii Speak units came with a one-time activation code linked to that unit, for use with the Wii Speak Channel software download. This means that only those that first purchase it can use it fully, making used units useless. This brought about several questions. What happens if you lose your number? Or what happens if you acquire a new or replacement Wii console?...