Part one launches this year As one of Obsidian Entertainment’s most ambitious titles,Pillars of Eternityearned a lot of respect from fans of the genre. The developers found great success in returning to their roots, and they’ve got more in store for their epic fantasy universe with new content on the way. It’s starting off with an upcoming multi-part expansion that aims to open up the landscape. Prior to an announcement at the PC Gaming Show during E3, Obsidian gave us a peek at the first part of the expansion and what players who’ve invested countless hours into the base game can expect....

“No in-app purchases.” Well, that’s nice. Skulls of the Shogunhas launched on iOS, and is available to downloadvia the App Store. 17-BIT’s humorous turn-based strategy game, which originally launched on Windows 8, Xbox Live Arcade, and Windows Phone at the beginning of this year, will require 206MB of free space from your device and £4.99 from your wallet — it’s well worth it, if you ask me. Your iOS device willat leastneed to be an iPad 2, iPad mini, iPod Touch (4th gen), iPhone 4 or anything newer than those....

Free-to-play mobile ‘adventure’ Activision has announced a newSkylandersgame calledBattlecast, and it’s a free-to-play mobile card game. I’m guessing they want to get in on that sweetHearthstonemoney (which funnily enough, is part of the same wallet), as the mobile card market has been steadily increasing in the past few years or so. The publisher promises both online PVP and a single-player campaign, and physical card packs will be sold at retail. It’s crazy how muchSkylandershas grown since its noble beginnings as aSpyrospinoff in 2011....

Get to know the people who make great videogames [Sup Holmes is a weekly talk show for people that make great videogames. It airs live every Sunday at 4pm EST onYoutube, and can be found in Podcast form onLibsynandiTunes.] Today is the Super Bowl! I read somewhere that something like 40% of the people who watched last year’s game don’t care about football, and only watched the game for the “commercials and the cultural significance”....

There used to be dinosaurs in Brooklyn [Ed. note: El Great Burcho published this on February 2007. It’s one of ourGolden favorites.] No, I’m not being ironic, or corny, or funny. Neither am I drunk, stoned, nor under the influence of outside forces requiring me to like theSuper Mario Brosmovie anymore than I already do. I simply wish to inform you, the reader, as to the reasons why it seems to get an undeservedly bad vibe from the gaming community at large, and why we should all treat it with a hell of a lot more respect than we really do....

Where the giraffes are goats, and the goats are skateboards Coffee Stain Studios’Goat Simulatorbegan as a joke, a secret IP that was never meant to achieve the critical acclaim it has today. Armin Ibrisagic, a game designer that worked onGoat Simulator, stated that due to all the studio’s animators working on another project, the graphical assets had to be bought off the internet, with the titular character, the Goat, being bought at 75% off for around $20....

New modes, new vehicles, and a new exclusive gun Battlefield 3’sEnd Gamedownloadable content is almost here!Battlefield 3Premium members on the PlayStation 3 get the content first this week on March 5. Then Premium users on PC and Xbox 360 get it on March 12. Non-premium PS3 users will then be able to buy the new content starting on March 19. Xbox 360 and PC users can finally buy the DLC on March 26....

UPDATE:Blizzard has responded to our request for comment. TheWorld of Warcraftarm of the Blizzard Store is no longer a place solely devoted to selling in-game virtual pets and adorable plush animals. As of this afternoon, it’s a digital storefront that sells useful digital items for the MMO. An update to the Blizzard Store ushered in the game’s first for-cost mount,the Celestial Steed. It’s a winged beast that is armored from its nose to back....

[When we’re looking for blogs on a specific topic, we’ll put out a Bloggers Wanted call. Check out the blog prompt, write your own response in the Community Blogs and tag it with the “Bloggers Wanted Essay Response” tag, and you may see your blog promoted to the front page.— JRo] Hot on the heels of BlizzCon and theMists of Pandariaannouncement, this week’s topic is unsurprisingly going to be focused on MMOs....

I don’t care what anyone else says, but I was actually looking forward toProject H.A.M.M.E.Rquite a bit. It looked like brainless, dumb, hamfisted violence and that’s the kind of thing I sometimes want in a videogame. Sadly, however,it’s not what Nintendo wantsin its videogames anymore, and in the wake of such exciting titles asLet’s Act Like Twats at the CarnivalandTenuous Mario Inclusion 176, it seems there just isn’t room for one man and his hammer....

Storm the castle! CastleStormis definitely not a game that’s easy to draw a frame of reference for. One part Jenga, and one part tower defense, this mash up certainly draws from opposite genres to get its own formula going. Once it’s off though, its may surprise with just how tasking, and fun, it can be. CastleStorm(Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network, PC, Mobile)Developer: Zen StudiosPublisher: Zen StudiosRelease: March 2013 CastleStormis an oddity that’s not the easiest to explain....

Square Enix is taking usback to the world ofFinal Fantasy XIII. Lightning is back rocking a new outfit and, well, that’s all we really know of thestory so far. Something bad is happening. Probably. Story aside,Final Fantasy XIII-2features a some new heroes and a number of new gameplay features when it comes to the combat mechanic. One of the new features will make you think ofPokemon, in fact. Final Fantasy XIII-2(Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 [Previewed])Developer: Square EnixPublisher: Square EnixTo be released: 2011...

Gamers make out like bandits thanks to error Electronic Arts was offering a $20 voucher in exchange for the completion of a survey this weekend. A fair enough trade, until gamers worked out that EA hadn’t thought things through properly, and left open several loopholes through which people gained tons of free games. It was first deduced that the voucher could be obtained by anybody, regardless of whether or not they undertook the survey....