You can pick upHoatoo Microsoft has kind of taken its foot off of the gas when it comes to Games with Gold (their program where you get two games, free to keep, each month), but it almost never ceases to surprise me. That can be a good or a bad thing in any given month.For May 2023, it’s just sheer confusion. 2021’sHoais the other game set for May’s Games with Gold program, and the visuals alone are likely enough to sway people into giving it a try....

Price point isn’t everything; the latest data from the NPD group shows this. For September 2011, sales of Xbox 360 grew, despite being on average $35 more expensive than PS3. In the later years of both consoles’ lifespan, prices have been cut as an answer to slowing hardware sales. The math for the average price (total hardware revenue sales for a month divided by the number of systems sold) shows that the PS3 is cheaper than the Xbox 360, at $271 and $306 respectively....

It seemsStarbreezeStudios has a history of people being skeptical about their games. Enclave? Never heard of it; sounds stupid.Chronicles ofRiddick? A game taken from a movie license including the likeness of Vin Diesel; has to be lame.The Darkness? Based on a top-selling comic in which a mafiahitmangets possessed by a malevolent power; he then proceeds to rip everyone to shreds, call upon imps to help him rip everyone to shreds, and dual-wield pistols....

Sun’s Out Buns Out We’ll have a new reason to boot upOvercooked 2in July.Sun’s Out Buns Out,the latest in a string of free seasonal level packs, is coming to PC on July 5 and consoles soon after, according to IGN. Cold drinks, corn on the cob, hot dogs, fireworks, a parade, and dispensers – there’s a lot to love. The trailer for Sun’s Out Buns Out shows five chaotic summer-themed levels and a pair of pooches....

Prepare to die It’s a little sadist of Team Meat to make the masochists wait an extra month. But, I guess the masochists will appreciate that punishment. During last week’s Game Awards, we found out thatSuper Meat Boy Foreveris launching on the Epic Games Store on December 23. It spurred us to email PR and ask about timing of the console versions. We got a big ol’ “We’re not talking about [that] right now....

Spain, Italy and Sweden among those joining the party Sony Interactive Entertainment has announced that its PlayStation Now feature is to increase its European coverage across 2019, rolling out the cloud-based gaming service to further countries within the continent. Spain, Italy, Portugal, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Sweden are confirmed to be joining fellow EU countries UK, Germany, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, Luxembourg and Ireland. Allowing the former to gain access to a plethora of new and classic titles from PlayStation’s huge online library....

Nintendo’s top think-tank talks about upcoming software and Wii U happenings Perennial star child Shigeru Miyamoto has had an illustrious career, no doubt about that. From creatingDonkey Kongtobusting on stagewith Link’s sword and shield equipped, he has cemented himself as one of the most influential figures in all of gaming. So even though it appears that most of the projects he’s involved in lately are rooted in established Nintendo franchises, he still finds opportunities to flex his creativity....

SNEG has announced that they’re bringing the classic games from theClose CombatandWarlordsseries to Steam. They were (mostly) available already on GOG, but now they’re joining their other SNEG-revived brethren. Also, they’vemade the move today. Close Combatis a series of real-time strategy games that started off in 1996 and were created by Atomic Games. This was about the time that the RTS genre really started taking hold with 1995’sCommand & ConquerandWarcraft 2: Tides of Darkness....

Another silhouette mystery In just a few days time, NIS America is to reveal the next lass-kicker coming to goofy fighting titleSNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy. A new silhouette teases the upcoming roster member. We don’t appear to have any clues as to who the femme fatale is. But given that previous reveals have includedMillion Arthur’s heroineThief ArthurandFighting EX Layer’sSkullomania, you could probably just pull any character, of any gender, or game, out of thin air and you’ll still have a good chance of being correct....

You do you Back in July of 2016, a fan created an incredible concept for a skin inHeroes of the Storm— Janitor Leoric. Based on theDiablovillain’s moveset from the game, and subbing in mop for a mace and a bathroom for a makeshift crypt, they managed to craft an elaborate and on-theme skin that looks legitimately like something Blizzard would create. It’s so good thatBlizzard even recognized itas the winner of the 1-year anniversary drawing contest....

Player created tools rock. I remember spending countless hours crafting RPGs inStarcraft‘s use map settings editor, and most of you’re able to recall that several big games,DOTAincluded, were born from a mod of an existing game. Fortnitejust got itself a brand new bag in the form of the playground mode, which lets people chill out, roam free, and create stuff. Among many otherMinecraft-esque buildings and such some groups of players managed to insert new genres intoFortnite, like thisMario Kartrebuildshared by JoshB_C....

Same song, different verse YourDestiny 2progress is stuck on one platform, locked to the system that you started it on. That doesn’t need to be the case. But, in a predictable story that should be filed under “Just Sony Things,” the blame for lack of character transfers falls on the shoulders of one familiar culprit. In a recent episode of itsSplitscreen podcast(and as reported byVG247), Kotaku revealed that Sony is the lone party preventingDestiny 2account migration and character transfers....

Be on the lookout for Mr. Dtoid Sidescroller arena shooterBig Head Bashhas had a playable beta floating around out there for a while now, but Spicy Horse officially launched the browser-based game this week. It’s free across platforms like Facebook, Kongregate, and Armor Games, all of which are compatible with one another for the purposes of gunning down other players. The collectible-toy combatants you play as are the standout feature here — from comic book characters to game designers to musicians and even afamiliar green robot....