Just Cause 3’s newest trailer nails it all on the head

Explosions? Check. Uh, more explosions? Just Causeis such a marketable game. Any footage, trailers, or screenshots inevitably capture what makes its mayhem so marvelous. Everything is just non-stop action and the viewer always comes away thinking “Yep, that’sJust Causealright.” This CGI trailer forJust Cause 3is a perfect example. Early on, Rico drives his car off a cliff, jumps off the vehicle’s roof, and grapples to the underside of a helicopter where he shoots a rocket at a tank....

June 30, 2025 · 1 min · 141 words · Fernando Nelson

Liars Table codes (August 2025)

Updated: June 20, 2025 We searched for new codes! Everyone lies; that’s a fact. However, competitive lying is something you don’t see often, and that may be whyLiar’s Tableis so fun. If you want everyone to see how experienced you are, you will want to change the look of your cards at least, and you’re able to do that with theLiar’s Tablecodes. By redeemingLiar’s Tablecodes, you will get some cash that you can use to buy potions, card back-covers, and voices that you can use during the game....

June 30, 2025 · 2 min · 376 words · Richard Banks

Lionhead reveals Fable II ‘Knothole Island’ DLC

Today, Lionhead announced their big downloadable content secret forFable II, which unsurprisingly takes the form of an entirely new area called Knothole Island. The content will sweep adventurers to a “remote” island with a climate similar to that of Antarctica. The area is now frozen over and only the best (or the worst) of Albion can restore it to its previous glory. Knothole Island will be available for download on December 12 for 800 Microsoft space bucks....

June 30, 2025 · 1 min · 178 words · Abigail Russell

Low gravity and cubic ball are mutators headed to Rocket League in a free update

Watch a preview tomorrow Rocket Leaguefans will probably want to just skip ahead and watch the video below. It gives brief mention to the additions Psyonix is making to the car soccer game next month. It goes by pretty quickly, so I took the time to write out the full list below the video. You’re welcome. Most of the mutators are self-explanatory, with a lot of focus on the ball’s attributes....

June 30, 2025 · 1 min · 164 words · Ryan Gonzalez

Max Payne (and others) derezzed for 8-bit home computers

What if, instead ofMax Payne 3, the next chapter in the saga was a retro throwback for old-ass computers like the ZX Spectrum or Commodore 64? You watch the video above and, at first, it doesn’t look all that bad. Then you get to the actual “in-game footage” and realize you just dodged a bulletbigtime! God, I feel sorry for kids who had to play on one of those because they didn’t have an NES....

June 30, 2025 · 1 min · 155 words · Kim Hanson

Namco toying with pay-per-time model in Japanese arcades

It might be a much-needed catalyst for a declining scene Arcades in America are little more than a distant memory. In Japan, they’re faring better, but are still in decline. Namco Bandai is playing around with an idea that might help rejuvenate the relevancy of Japanese arcades. Sankei Bizreports that Namco Bandai is considering ditching the pay-per-play model, and moving to a pay-per-time structure. Right now, one play costs approximately 100 yen ($1)....

June 30, 2025 · 1 min · 124 words · Alexander Hudson

North Korea’s Hunting Yankee is a game about sniping US soldiers

Getting back for Homefront Hunting Yankeeis a new game out of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea that’s sure to rankle US nationalists just three weeks after president Donald Trump threatened the DPRK with “fire and fury like the world has never seen.” “The 3D-amusement entertainment programHunting Yankeeis a fighting game of shooting and knocking down Yankees with a sniper gun… behind enemy lines,” according to DPRK outletArirang-Meari, as translated byNK News....

June 30, 2025 · 2 min · 352 words · Jeffrey Silva

PAX Prime 2012: Everything you need to know!

Holy shit!PAX Primeis just around the corner! PAX may be billed as one of the few chances every year for non-gaming press to preview new games and meet their favorite developers and industry giants, but for me it’s all about the community! In less than three weeks, Dtoiders from across the globe will be swarming the streets of Seattle like so many headless chickens, wondering where to go and what to do....

June 30, 2025 · 3 min · 447 words · Taylor Foster

PlayStation Vita sells 321,407 units in its first week

The estimates we gave this morningfor the PlayStation Vita sell-through were about right. Enterbrain’s numbers show that 321,407 Vita systems were sold the first launch week. Considering that the system launched on December 17, and the end of the week was December 18, that’s a pretty impressive number. Famitsudid not give a total shipped number for launch, but I’m sure we’ll hear more on that soon. Original numbers put the first shipment at 500,000, but some reports say that Sony was able to add 200,000 more units to meet launch demand....

June 30, 2025 · 1 min · 121 words · Samuel Simon

Something special is in some of the Nintendo Switch Binding of Isaac boxes

Let the speculation begin There’s no getting around it. We can’t finish this post without it happening, so let’s just get it out of the way up front. [extremely Brad Pitt inSe7envoice] What’s in the box? What’s in the fucking box?! Binding of Isaacis a game that has always been shrouded in mystery — like thelengthy ARGthat sent fans eventually digging holes in California. Why would its debut on the Nintendo Switch be any different?...

June 30, 2025 · 1 min · 157 words · Brandon Klein

Sonic, Pokemon, and the power of pixels with Paul Veer

Get to know the people that make great videogames Last week on Sup Holmes (nowon iTunes) we welcomed passionate pixel pusher Paul Veer to the program. Paul loves videogames, so naturally, the art and design of theKirby,Pokemon, andSonicfranchises were irresistible subjects to his wonder mind. After playingSonicgames off and on for 20 years, I’d never fully understood the long lasting appeal of the series. It always felt like the Poochie of 2D platformers to Mario and Mega Man’s Itchy and Scratchy....

June 30, 2025 · 2 min · 258 words · Christopher Porter

Splatoon 2’s weekly weapon is the heavy-hitting H-3 Nozzlenose D

Semi-auto shooter returns It wasrecently revealedby Nintendo that onceSplatoon 2gets its 3.0 update, the weekly weapon may be ditched in favour of monthly batches of weapons instead. For now though, it’s business as usual, and a new weapon joins the arena-shooter’s arsenal tonight. The H-3 Nozzlenose D is this week’s tool of the trade. It is a variant on the L-3 Nozzlenose, instead substituting speed for attack power. It has good range and fires in stacatto, three-round bursts, capable of splatting an opponent in fast order....

June 30, 2025 · 1 min · 182 words · Nancy Brown

Square Enix is holding a poll asking if you want a NieR edition PS4 console

Okay Platinum Games has had their hands full lately. Some would say that’s a bad thing, but I enjoyedKorra, Transformers,Star Fox Zero, and evenTurtlesto an extent (though less so than the others). The next game they have on their plate though isNieR: Automata, which will debut in February in Japan, under the banner of Square Enix. Now, the publisher wants to know if people would be down for aNieRPS4 console, popping the questionwith an online poll(which still has an hour left bu the way at the time of this writing, and includes the options “I would buy it, I would buy two, I would buy one and a Pro, I wouldn’t ‘not] buy it” from top to bottom)....

June 30, 2025 · 1 min · 185 words · Vincent Logan