http://auth.gamespot.com/ Gamespot's Everything Feed! News, Reviews, Videos. Exploding with content? You bet. en-us Mon, 30 Jun 2014 05:41:39 -0700 http://www.gamespot.com/articles/the-last-of-us-ps4-at-60fps-is-a-transformative-experience-dev-says/1100-6420815/ <div data-embed-type="video" data-ref-id="2300-6419609" data-width="100%" data-height="100%"><iframe src="/videos/embed/6419609/" width="100%" height="100%" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe></div><p style=""> </p><p dir="ltr" style=""><a href="/the-last-of-us/" data-ref-id="false">The Last of Us Remastered</a>, the upcoming PlayStation 4 version of 2013's acclaimed PlayStation 3 title, will run at 60fps, developer Naughty Dog has strongly suggested.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">"Played some #TLOU at 60 fps tonight for the first time (60fps cutscenes and all). Transformitive [sic]. I'm a believer. Don't think I can go back," Naughty Dog designer Kurt Margenau <a href="https://twitter.com/kurtmargenau/status/479899683221819392" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">said in a tweet </a>that was re-tweeted by creative director Neil Druckmann.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">In addition, The Last of Us Remastered co-director Bruce Straley<a href="https://twitter.com/bruce_straley/status/482547931933708289" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false"> said</a>, "I had a dream in 60fps last night. #TLOUremastered." Druckmann<a href="https://twitter.com/Neil_Druckmann/status/482557846995738625" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false"> replied</a> by saying, "What if I told you that was no dream? #believe."</p><p dir="ltr" style="">The Last of Us Remastered <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/articles/the-last-of-us-for-ps4-runs-in-1080p-has-dlc-and-director-s-commentary-retailers-list-it-for-60/1100-6418878/" data-ref-id="1100-6418878">runs in 1080p</a>. Frame rate, however, doesn't sound like it's final yet. Druckmann's hashtag "believe" makes it sound like frame rate is not locked down. And while Margenau may have played a build of the game at 60fps, it's possible that it was a non-final version of the game.</p><p style="">We're still waiting a final confirmation on the game's frame rate, but we'll know one way or the other soon, as The Last of Us Remastered officially launches for PS4 on <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/articles/e3-2014-the-last-of-us-ps4-launching-july-29/1100-6420290/" data-ref-id="1100-6420290">July 29</a>. In Europe, you'll also be able to buy a<a href="http://www.gamespot.com/articles/the-last-of-us-ps4-bundle-confirmed-for-europe-but-what-about-the-us/1100-6420774/" data-ref-id="1100-6420774"> special The Last of Us Remastered PS4 bundle</a>.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">The Last of Us Remastered also features higher resolution character models, as well as improved shadows and lighting. The bundle includes DLC, director's commentary, and special interviews with voice actors Troy Baker (Joel) and Ashley Johnson (Ellie). The game was originally expected to sell for $60, but Sony just recently <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/articles/sony-drops-the-last-of-us-ps4-price-by-10-will-refund-difference-on-pre-orders/1100-6420656/" data-ref-id="1100-6420656">announced a $10 price drop</a>. If you already preordered, <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/articles/sony-drops-the-last-of-us-ps4-price-by-10-will-refund-difference-on-pre-orders/1100-6420656/" data-ref-id="1100-6420656">you can get a refund</a>.</p><table data-max-width="true"><thead><tr><th scope="col"><em>Eddie Makuch is a news editor at GameSpot, and you can follow him on<a href="https://twitter.com/EddieMakuch" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false"> Twitter @EddieMakuch</a></em></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong><em>Got a news tip or want to contact us directly? Email <a href="mailto:news@gamespot.com" rel="nofollow">news@gamespot.com</a></em></strong></td></tr></tbody></table> Mon, 30 Jun 2014 05:00:00 -0700 http://www.gamespot.com/articles/the-last-of-us-ps4-at-60fps-is-a-transformative-experience-dev-says/1100-6420815/ http://www.gamespot.com/articles/steam-reaches-8-million-concurrent-users-up-from-7-6-million-six-months-ago/1100-6420814/ <figure data-align="center" data-size="large" data-img-src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1179/11799911/2581157-steamlogo.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2581157" data-resize-url="" data-resized="" data-embed-type="image"><a href="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1179/11799911/2581157-steamlogo.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2581157"><img src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/ignore_jpg_scale_super/1179/11799911/2581157-steamlogo.jpg"></a></figure><p style=""> </p><p dir="ltr" style="">Valve's digital gaming platform Steam continues to grow. Yesterday, June 29, at 11:44 a.m., a total of <a href="http://store.steampowered.com/stats/" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">8,020,700 people</a> were logged into the service at the same time. That's a record for concurrent usage, up from <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/articles/steam-reaches-7-6-million-concurrent-users/1100-6416858/" data-ref-id="1100-6416858">7.6 million six months ago</a>. The surge in popularity recently likely had something to do with Steam's ongoing Summer Sale, which sees <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/articles/our-steam-summer-sale-pick-of-the-day/1100-6420612/" data-ref-id="1100-6420612">hefty markdowns on great games</a>.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">Currently, Steam has 5.5 million concurrent users. While Valve is known to openly share user data for Steam, platform holders like Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo are less forthcoming about concurrent player levels. This makes it tricky to make a direct comparison between Steam and console online networks like Xbox Live, PlayStation Network, or Nintendo's online services.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">The most popular game on Steam right now, based on the current player count, is free-to-play juggernaut <a href="/dota-2/" data-ref-id="false">Dota 2</a> with 566,568 people playing the game at present. Dota 2 is by far the top Steam game, as the second most popular game on the platform right now is <a href="/counter-strike-global-offensive/" data-ref-id="false">Counter-Strike: Global Offensive</a>, which has 94,732 total players right now. Of course, Dota 2 is free and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is a paid game.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">In all, Steam has <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/articles/steam-boasts-10-million-new-users-in-the-last-three-months/1100-6417163/" data-ref-id="1100-6417163">more than 75 million users</a>. More Steam statistics are available on the<a href="http://store.steampowered.com/stats/" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false"> Steam Stats page</a>.</p><p style="">The annual Steam Summer Sale ends today, June 30. Check back later today to see what our "<a href="http://www.gamespot.com/articles/our-steam-summer-sale-pick-of-the-day/1100-6420612/" data-ref-id="1100-6420612">Pick of the Day</a>" is. You can also <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/articles/our-steam-summer-sale-pick-of-the-day/1100-6420612/" data-ref-id="1100-6420612">check out this post</a> for a roundup of all the games marked down during Steam's Summer Sale.</p><table data-max-width="true"><thead><tr><th scope="col"><em>Eddie Makuch is a news editor at GameSpot, and you can follow him on<a href="https://twitter.com/EddieMakuch" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false"> Twitter @EddieMakuch</a></em></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong><em>Got a news tip or want to contact us directly? Email <a href="mailto:news@gamespot.com" rel="nofollow">news@gamespot.com</a></em></strong></td></tr></tbody></table> Mon, 30 Jun 2014 04:38:00 -0700 http://www.gamespot.com/articles/steam-reaches-8-million-concurrent-users-up-from-7-6-million-six-months-ago/1100-6420814/ http://www.gamespot.com/videos/the-forest-house-of-horrors/2300-6419991/ Zorine and Ed chop up limbs, chop down trees, chop up native wildlife, build log cabins and fly through the air in the Steam Early Access Alpha of open-world survival-horror game, The Forest. Mon, 30 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.gamespot.com/videos/the-forest-house-of-horrors/2300-6419991/ http://www.gamespot.com/articles/support-reading-rainbow-kickstarter-by-buying-special-edition-ouya/1100-6420812/ <figure data-align="center" data-size="large" data-img-src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1535/15354745/2580900-5908632833-ouyaS.png" data-ref-id="1300-2580900" data-resize-url="" data-resized="" data-embed-type="image"><a href="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1535/15354745/2580900-5908632833-ouyaS.png" data-ref-id="1300-2580900"><img src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/ignore_jpg_scale_super/1535/15354745/2580900-5908632833-ouyaS.png"></a></figure><p dir="ltr" style=""><a href="http://www.gamespot.com/articles/levar-burton-wants-to-bring-reading-rainbow-to-xbox-and-playstation/1100-6419997/">Actor LeVar Burton's Reading Rainbow Kickstarter</a> has hit its $1 million funding goal and then some. At the time of writing, the Kickstarter is closing in on $4.5 million from more than 90,000 backers, but with only a few days until the campaign ends, Burton hopes new rewards from Kickstarter's most successful projects, including the Ouya, will garner even more support.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">By pledging $250, backers can get a limited edition, "Butterfly-in-the-Sky Blue" Ouya console and controller hand-signed by Burton. According to the <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/readingrainbow/bring-reading-rainbow-back-for-every-child-everywh/posts" rel="nofollow">Kickstarter page</a>, this reward should ship in December 2014. You can also get an unsigned Reading Rainbow Ouya as an add-on reward with any package for $175, or donate one to a classroom of your choice for $150.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">Burton previously said that he wants the Reading Rainbow project to come to new platforms, including gaming consoles like Xbox and PlayStation systems, but in order for that to happen the Kickstarter campaign needs to reach $5 million.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">In addition to the unspecified Xbox and PlayStation consoles, if the $5 million stretch goal is met, the new Reading Rainbow program will be released for mobile devices, as well as over-the-top boxes like AppleTV, Roku, and Kindle Fire TV.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">The other successful Kickstarter projects that are offering limited rewards in support of Reading Rainbow come from the Pebble smartwatch, Pono Music audio player, and the Veronica Mars movie.</p><p style="">Reading Rainbow went off the air in 2009. It originally aired on PBS and Burton was its host and producer.</p><table data-max-width="true"><thead><tr><th scope="col"><em>Emanuel Maiberg is a freelance writer. You can follow him on <a href="https://twitter.com/emanuelmaiberg" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">Twitter @emanuelmaiberg</a> and <a href="https://plus.google.com/116710591398405257934/" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">Google+</a>.<br /></em></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p style=""><strong><em>Got a news tip or want to contact us directly? Email <a href="mailto:news@gamespot.com" rel="nofollow">news@gamespot.com</a></em></strong></p><p style=""> </p></td></tr></tbody></table> Sun, 29 Jun 2014 16:38:00 -0700 http://www.gamespot.com/articles/support-reading-rainbow-kickstarter-by-buying-special-edition-ouya/1100-6420812/ http://www.gamespot.com/articles/mmo-warhammer-40-000-eternal-crusade-launches-founder-program-releases-alpha-gameplay-footage/1100-6420811/ <div data-embed-type="video" data-src="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqwQD_FwZgM" data-width="100%" data-height="100%"><iframe src="//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FhqwQD_FwZgM%3Fwmode%3Dopaque%26feature%3Doembed&wmode=opaque&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DhqwQD_FwZgM&image=http%3A%2F%2Fi1.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FhqwQD_FwZgM%2Fhqdefault.jpg&key=6efca6e5ad9640f180f14146a0bc1392&type=text%2Fhtml&schema=youtube" width="100%" height="100%" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe></div><p dir="ltr" style=""><a href="http://www.gamespot.com/articles/e3-2014-warhammer-40k-eternal-crusade-is-coming-and-you-can-spend-money-on-it-soon/1100-6420410/">We went to see</a> MMO <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/warhammer-40-000-eternal-crusade/">Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade</a> at E3 2014, but developer Behavior Interactive only talked about its plans for the game without showing any in-game footage.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">Earlier this week, Behavior launched its Founder Program, and with it posted a number of videos of Eternal Crusade's alpha gameplay. You've likely heard the terms "alpha," "beta," and "early access," a lot lately, and might have even been impressed with the early state of games like <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/battlefield-hardline/">Battlefield Hardline</a> and <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/destiny/">Destiny</a>.</p><p style="">The footage below, however, is from a truly early build of the game, which is most obvious because of the textureless grayboxes you can see everywhere. Otherwise, the gameplay itself looks very much like the multiplayer mode from Relic Entertainment's Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine released in 2011, only you can pilot vehicles as well. That also matches with Behavior's description of Eternal Crusade as mix between <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/warhammer-40-000-space-marine/">Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine</a> and <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/planetside-2/">PlanetSide 2</a>.</p><div data-embed-type="video" data-src="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z1lTYwNCjY" data-width="100%" data-height="100%"><iframe src="//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2F4z1lTYwNCjY%3Fwmode%3Dopaque%26feature%3Doembed&wmode=opaque&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D4z1lTYwNCjY&image=http%3A%2F%2Fi1.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2F4z1lTYwNCjY%2Fhqdefault.jpg&key=6efca6e5ad9640f180f14146a0bc1392&type=text%2Fhtml&schema=youtube" width="100%" height="100%" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe></div><div data-embed-type="video" data-src="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aHZn4gKFpo" data-width="100%" data-height="100%"><iframe src="//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2F-aHZn4gKFpo%3Fwmode%3Dopaque%26feature%3Doembed&wmode=opaque&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D-aHZn4gKFpo&image=http%3A%2F%2Fi1.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2F-aHZn4gKFpo%2Fhqdefault.jpg&key=6efca6e5ad9640f180f14146a0bc1392&type=text%2Fhtml&schema=youtube" width="100%" height="100%" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe></div><div data-embed-type="video" data-src="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tDfnhx4cxQ" data-width="100%" data-height="100%"><iframe src="//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2F8tDfnhx4cxQ%3Fwmode%3Dopaque%26feature%3Doembed&wmode=opaque&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D8tDfnhx4cxQ&image=http%3A%2F%2Fi1.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2F8tDfnhx4cxQ%2Fhqdefault.jpg&key=6efca6e5ad9640f180f14146a0bc1392&type=text%2Fhtml&schema=youtube" width="100%" height="100%" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe></div><p dir="ltr" style="">Buying into the Eternal Crusade founder's program gets you a copy of the full game when it's released and access to various game modules as they are developed. You can find a tentative timeline of when those modules will be released on <a href="https://www.eternalcrusade.com/faq#EarlyGameModule_Question" rel="nofollow">Behavior's website</a>. The most expensive package, selling at $120, earns you access to all four of the game's factions, and points you can use to purchase other items in the game.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">The game itself is currently scheduled to be released at the end of 2015.</p><table data-max-width="true"><thead><tr><th scope="col"><em>Emanuel Maiberg is a freelance writer. You can follow him on <a href="https://twitter.com/emanuelmaiberg" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">Twitter @emanuelmaiberg</a> and <a href="https://plus.google.com/116710591398405257934/" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">Google+</a>.<br /></em></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p style=""><strong><em>Got a news tip or want to contact us directly? Email <a href="mailto:news@gamespot.com" rel="nofollow">news@gamespot.com</a></em></strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table> Sun, 29 Jun 2014 15:37:00 -0700 http://www.gamespot.com/articles/mmo-warhammer-40-000-eternal-crusade-launches-founder-program-releases-alpha-gameplay-footage/1100-6420811/ http://www.gamespot.com/articles/destiny-could-sell-10-15-million-copies-more-than-call-of-duty-advanced-warfare-analyst-says/1100-6420810/ <figure data-align="center" data-size="large" data-img-src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1535/15354745/2580868-1234.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2580868" data-resize-url="" data-resized="" data-embed-type="image"><a href="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1535/15354745/2580868-1234.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2580868"><img src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/ignore_jpg_scale_super/1535/15354745/2580868-1234.jpg"></a></figure><p dir="ltr" style="">Activision is making a huge bet on <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/destiny/">Destiny</a>, and according to one analyst it's likely to pay off to the tune of 10 to 15 million copies sold, or an estimated $600 to $900 million.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">In comparison, Nintendo's <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/mario-kart-wii/">Mario Kart Wii</a>--one of the best-selling games in history--has <a href="http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/sales/software/wii.html" rel="nofollow">sold-through more than 35.5 million copies life-to-date</a>, and Rockstar's <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/grand-theft-auto-v/">Grand Theft Auto V</a> has shipped (not sold) 33 million copies to date.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">According to a report from Cowen and Company analyst Doug Creutz that was published by <a href="http://venturebeat.com/2014/06/27/preorder-analysis-suggests-destiny-could-be-the-biggest-game-of-the-year-with-10-15m-units-sold/" rel="nofollow">VentureBeat</a>, Destiny could become the best-selling game of 2014. Creutz' projection is based on "Cowen's Ordometer," which estimates how many copies a game will sell based on the number of pre-orders and data from Amazon and the NPD Group's reports on physical game sales.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">According to Creutz, Destiny has the highest Ordometer score in the last four years, and is poised to outsell Activision's other huge first-person shooter, <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/call-of-duty-advanced-warfare/">Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare</a>. The Cowen 2014 Video Game Ordometer current top five games are:</p><ol><li dir="ltr">Destiny</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.gamespot.com/the-master-chief-collection/">Halo: The Master Chief Collection</a></li><li dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.gamespot.com/assassins-creed-unity/">Assassin's Creed Unity</a></li><li dir="ltr">Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.gamespot.com/far-cry-4/">Far Cry 4</a></li></ol><p dir="ltr" style="">A projection based on pre-orders might be skewed in Destiny's favor because Bungie and Activision have been advertising the fact that players can get into its beta by pre-ordering the game. You can certainly pre-order the other games on the list, but one could argue that there isn't as strong as an incentive to do so.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">Activision's Chief Executive Officer Bobby Kotick previously suggested that the publisher will invest $500 million in Destiny (which according to Cowen's estimate means it would still turn a profit), but developer Bungie has since said that the game's budget is <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/articles/destiny-budget-nowhere-near-500-million-bungie-says/1100-6420802/">nowhere near that figure</a>.</p><p style="">Destiny launches for Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation 4 on September 9. We thought that <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/articles/e3-2014-our-first-hands-on-with-the-destiny-alpha/1100-6420314/">the game looked promising</a> when we got our hands on the alpha build earlier this month.</p><table data-max-width="true"><thead><tr><th scope="col"><em>Emanuel Maiberg is a freelance writer. You can follow him on <a href="https://twitter.com/emanuelmaiberg" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">Twitter @emanuelmaiberg</a> and <a href="https://plus.google.com/116710591398405257934/" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">Google+</a>.<br /></em></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p style=""><strong><em>Got a news tip or want to contact us directly? Email <a href="mailto:news@gamespot.com" rel="nofollow">news@gamespot.com</a></em></strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table> Sun, 29 Jun 2014 14:16:00 -0700 http://www.gamespot.com/articles/destiny-could-sell-10-15-million-copies-more-than-call-of-duty-advanced-warfare-analyst-says/1100-6420810/ http://www.gamespot.com/articles/miyamoto-for-a-lot-of-us-at-nintendo-it-s-difficult-to-decide-what-cool-is/1100-6420809/ <figure data-align="right" data-size="small" data-img-src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1535/15354745/2580826-2049429379-shige.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2580826" data-resize-url="" data-resized="" data-embed-type="image"><a href="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1535/15354745/2580826-2049429379-shige.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2580826"><img src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/ignore_jpg_scale_small/1535/15354745/2580826-2049429379-shige.jpg"></a></figure><p dir="ltr" style="">Nintendo's legendary designer Shigeru Miyamoto thinks that the company's games don't fit neatly into any of the existing game genres popular in the market today.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">"Nintendo isn't one simple element of an overall gaming industry," Miyamoto told the <a href="http://herocomplex.latimes.com/games/nintendo-keeps-the-video-game-industry-weird/" rel="nofollow">Los Angeles Times</a> in an interview at E3 2014. "I really think there needs to be a Nintendo genre, that's almost its own entity."</p><p dir="ltr" style="">As Miyamoto explained it, one of the big differences between Nintendo and other game publishers and developers is that Nintendo isn't always trying to take its games very seriously.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">"It's not that I don't like serious stories or that I couldn't make one, but currently in the video game industry you see a lot of game designers who are working really hard to make their games seem really cool," he said. "For a lot of us at Nintendo, it's difficult to decide what cool is. In fact, it's a lot easier for us to laugh at ourselves. It's almost as if we're performers. Our way of performing is by creating these fun, odd and goofy things."</p><p dir="ltr" style="">Nintendo's Wii U has been struggling since it launched, but its "odd and goofy" games are starting to turn things around, <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/articles/nintendo-wii-u-on-the-brink-of-success-no-plans-to-drop-the-gamepad/1100-6420610/">according to Nintendo of America marketing executive Scott Moffitt</a>. For example, <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/mario-kart-8/">Mario Kart 8</a> is off to solid start, <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/articles/wii-u-racer-mario-kart-8-sells-2-million-units-in-under-a-month/1100-6420770/">selling 2 million units worldwide</a> since it launched on May 30.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">GameSpot Editor Carolyn Petit also thought that <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/articles/why-nintendo-won-e3-2014/1100-6420391/">Nintendo won E3 2014</a> by having a little light-hearted fun instead of trying to go toe-to-toe with Sony and Microsoft.</p><p style=""><em>Do you think the industry could use some more odd and goofy games? Let us know in the comments below.</em></p><table data-max-width="true"><thead><tr><th scope="col"><em>Emanuel Maiberg is a freelance writer. You can follow him on <a href="https://twitter.com/emanuelmaiberg" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">Twitter @emanuelmaiberg</a> and <a href="https://plus.google.com/116710591398405257934/" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">Google+</a>.<br /></em></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p style=""><strong><em>Got a news tip or want to contact us directly? Email <a href="mailto:news@gamespot.com" rel="nofollow">news@gamespot.com</a></em></strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table> Sun, 29 Jun 2014 12:17:00 -0700 http://www.gamespot.com/articles/miyamoto-for-a-lot-of-us-at-nintendo-it-s-difficult-to-decide-what-cool-is/1100-6420809/ http://www.gamespot.com/articles/how-the-order-1886-brings-its-werewolves-to-life/1100-6420808/ <div data-embed-type="video" data-src="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI0nLoMIvK8" data-width="854" data-height="480"><iframe src="//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FCI0nLoMIvK8%3Fwmode%3Dopaque%26feature%3Doembed&wmode=opaque&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DCI0nLoMIvK8&image=http%3A%2F%2Fi1.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FCI0nLoMIvK8%2Fhqdefault.jpg&key=6efca6e5ad9640f180f14146a0bc1392&type=text%2Fhtml&schema=youtube" width="100%" height="100%" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe></div><p dir="ltr" style="">During its E3 2014 presentation, Sony showed off <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/articles/e3-2014-sony-shows-a-spookier-side-to-the-order-1886/1100-6420286/">the spookier side</a> of their upcoming exclusive third-person shooter, <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/the-order-1886/">The Order: 1886</a>. The quick demo set in the bottom of a hospital below Whitechapel showed protagonist Galahad being hunted by a werewolf, or lycan. In a recent post to the <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/2014/06/26/the-order-1886-unveils-the-lycans/" rel="nofollow">PlayStation Blog</a>, developer Ready At Dawn Studios explained how it created one of the game's most fearsome enemies.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">"We knew that one of the pillars of the game is that we not just have lycans, but the ability to transforms a human into a lycan or vice versa," Technology Director Garrett Foster said. "We wanted no cheats. We wanted continuous, no cut shots of this happening, and what that means is actually transforming the anatomy."</p><p dir="ltr" style="">Nathan Phail-Liff, the game's Art Director, said that the team "tried to capture the right balance of the human-lupine anatomy and that level of imperfection that makes it not feel like this kind of action-y comic book creature, and much more like a creature that could have existed that we just haven't seen yet."</p><p dir="ltr" style="">"I think to me the most terrifying thing is that we try to basically always have some degree of a performance in them that carries a level of intelligence," Game Director Dana Jan said. "They are smart. That to me is the scariest thing about them."</p><p dir="ltr" style="">For more on how Ready At Dawn created its werewolves, check out the video above, or <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/articles/e3-2014-the-order-1886-s-werewolves-are-a-constant-threat/1100-6420347/">GameSpot Editor Maxwell McGee's extended look at the scene shown off at Sony's E3 2014 presentation</a>.</p><p style="">The Order: 1886 launches exclusively on PlayStation 4 on February 20, 2015.</p><table data-max-width="true"><thead><tr><th scope="col"><em>Emanuel Maiberg is a freelance writer. You can follow him on <a href="https://twitter.com/emanuelmaiberg" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">Twitter @emanuelmaiberg</a> and <a href="https://plus.google.com/116710591398405257934/" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">Google+</a>.<br /></em></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p style=""><strong><em>Got a news tip or want to contact us directly? Email <a href="mailto:news@gamespot.com" rel="nofollow">news@gamespot.com</a></em></strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table> Sun, 29 Jun 2014 11:17:00 -0700 http://www.gamespot.com/articles/how-the-order-1886-brings-its-werewolves-to-life/1100-6420808/ http://www.gamespot.com/articles/our-steam-summer-sale-pick-of-the-day/1100-6420612/ <p style="">Got some spare cash you're desperate to offload? Do you have wads of bills just spilling out from your overflowing pockets? Then the <a href="http://store.steampowered.com/" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">Steam Summer Sale</a> is here to help you get rid of that pesky excess cash. With so many games on offer, it gets tough to figure out which ones to buy, so we're here to help that decision making process easier. Every day during the Steam Summer Sale--which runs from June 19 to June 30--we'll highlight our top pick from Steam's Daily Deals. Make sure to check back regularly to see which games you should get!</p><figure data-align="center" data-size="large" data-img-src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1534/15343359/2580772-terr.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2580772" data-resize-url="" data-resized="" data-embed-type="image"><a href="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1534/15343359/2580772-terr.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2580772"><img src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/ignore_jpg_scale_super/1534/15343359/2580772-terr.jpg"></a></figure><p style=""> </p><table data-max-width="true"><thead><tr><th scope="col">Day 11: June 29, 2014</th><th scope="col"> </th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p style="">Our pick: <a href="/terraria/" data-ref-id="false">Terraria </a>-- $1.99 (-80%)</p></td></tr></tbody></table><div data-embed-type="html"><div><p dir="ltr" style="">The Steam sale is drawing to a close, and that means the Summer Adventure is over as well. There are a lot of deals from earlier in the week live now, so if you missed out before, now's your time to go back and score some discounted games.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">And be sure to <a href="http://www.gog.com/" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">check out GOG.com for their sales</a> on classic PC games as well. You can get some great titles that are completely DRM-free for ridiculously low prices (including <a href="http://www.gog.com/promo/summer_bullfrog_bundle_240614" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">every Bullfrog game for 85% off -- $9.79</a>).</p></div><div><strong><a href="http://www.gamespot.com/reviews/terraria-review/1900-6316247/" data-ref-id="1900-6316247">Read our Terraria review.</a> And then check it out on <a href="http://store.steampowered.com/" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">Steam</a>.</strong></div><div> </div><div id="livefyre-app-custom-1401497831589"><strong>Other Daily Deals today:</strong></div><div><ul><li dir="ltr"><a href="/the-lego-movie-videogame/" data-ref-id="false">The Lego Movie Videogame</a> -- $7.49 (-75%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/xcom-enemy-unknown/" data-ref-id="false">XCOM: Enemy Unknown</a> -- $8.49 (-83%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/fallout-new-vegas-ultimate-edition/" data-ref-id="false">Fallout New Vegas Ultimate Edition</a> -- $6.79 (-66%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/7-days-to-die/" data-ref-id="false">7 Days to Die </a>-- $13.74 (-45%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/total-war-rome-ii/" data-ref-id="false">Total War Rome II </a>-- $20.37 (-66%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/battleblock-theater/" data-ref-id="false">Battleblock Theater </a>-- $3.74 (-75%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/divinity-original-sin/" data-ref-id="false">Divinity Original Sin</a> -- $31.99 (-20%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/brothers-a-tale-of-two-sons/" data-ref-id="false">Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons </a>-- $2.99 (-80%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/sid-meiers-civilization-v/" data-ref-id="false">Civilization V</a> -- $7.49 (-75%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim/" data-ref-id="false">The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim</a> -- $4.99 (-75%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/dynasty-warriors-3-xtreme-legends/" data-ref-id="false">Xtreme Legends Dynasty Warriors 3 Complete Edition</a> -- $24.99 (-50%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/age-of-wonders-iii/" data-ref-id="false">Age of Wonders III</a> -- $19.99 (-50%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/saints-row-iv/" data-ref-id="false">Saints Row IV</a> -- $9.99 (-75%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/arma-iii/" data-ref-id="false">Arma III</a> -- $29.99 (-50%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/the-stanley-parable/" data-ref-id="false">The Stanley Parable</a> -- $5.99 (-60%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/wasteland-2/" data-ref-id="false">Wasteland 2</a> -- $40.19 (-33%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/metal-gear-rising-revengeance/" data-ref-id="false">Metal Gear Rising Revengeance</a> -- $14.99 (-50%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/the-wolf-among-us/" data-ref-id="false">The Wolf Among Us</a> - $8.49 (-66%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/banished/" data-ref-id="false">Banished</a> -- $9.99 (-50%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/the-walking-dead-season-two/" data-ref-id="false">The Walking Dead Season Two</a> -- $12.49 (-50%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/space-engineers/" data-ref-id="false">Space Engineers </a>-- $13.99 (-33%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/bioshock-infinite/" data-ref-id="false">BioShock Infinite</a> -- $7.49 (-75%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/grand-theft-auto-iv-the-complete-edition/" data-ref-id="false">Grand Theft Auto IV Complete Edition</a> -- $5.99 (-80%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/metro-last-light/" data-ref-id="false">Metro Last Light Complete Edition</a> -- $6.79 (-66%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/dishonored/" data-ref-id="false">Dishonored </a>-- $4.99 (-75%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/state-of-decay/" data-ref-id="false">State of Decay</a> -- $4.99 (-75%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/borderlands-2/" data-ref-id="false">Borderlands 2</a> -- $4.99 (-75%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/the-witcher-2-assassins-of-kings/" data-ref-id="false">The Witcher 2</a> -- $3.99 (-80%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/south-park-the-stick-of-truth/" data-ref-id="false">South Park: The Stick of Truth</a> -- $40.19 (-33%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/assassins-creed-iv-black-flag/" data-ref-id="false">Assassins's Creed IV: Black Flag</a> -- $19.99 (-50%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/payday-2/" data-ref-id="false">Payday 2</a> -- $9.89 (-67%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/dragon-age-origins-ultimate-edition/" data-ref-id="false">Dragon Age Origins Ultimate Edition</a> -- $7.49 (-75%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/planetary-annihilation/" data-ref-id="false">Planetary Annihilation Galactic War Update</a> -- $16.99 (-66%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/counter-strike-global-offensive/" data-ref-id="false">Counter-Strike Global Offensive</a> -- $7.49 (-50%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/dark-souls-prepare-to-die-edition/" data-ref-id="false">Dark Souls Prepare to Die Edition </a>-- $4.99 (-75%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/kerbal-space-program/" data-ref-id="false">Kerbal Space Program </a>-- $16.19 (-40%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/far-cry-3/" data-ref-id="false">Far Cry 3</a> -- $7.49 (-75%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/tomb-raider/" data-ref-id="false">Tomb Raider</a> -- $4.99 (-75%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/batman-arkham-origins/" data-ref-id="false">Batman: Arkham Origins</a> -- $7.49 (-75%)</li></ul></div></div><p style=""> </p><figure data-align="center" data-size="large" data-img-src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1534/15343359/2580408-portal2.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2580408" data-resize-url="" data-resized="" data-embed-type="image"><a href="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1534/15343359/2580408-portal2.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2580408"><img src="http://static2.gamespot.com/uploads/ignore_jpg_scale_super/1534/15343359/2580408-portal2.jpg"></a></figure><p style=""> </p><table data-max-width="true"><thead><tr><th scope="col">Day 10: June 28, 2014</th><th scope="col"> </th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p style="">Our pick: <a href="/portal-2/" data-ref-id="false">Portal 2</a> -- $4.99 (-75%)</p></td></tr></tbody></table><div data-embed-type="html"><div><p dir="ltr" style="">How do you follow up one of the greatest PC games of all time? With a sequel that's even more brilliant, hilarious, and ingenious than the original. Portal 2 picks up where the original ended adding in new test chambers with devious but thrilling new mechanics. The game also introduces a co-op mode, so you should probably pick up an extra copy for one of your friends. Portal 2 two packs are selling for $8.74, or you can go for the game plus Portal 1 for $6.24 in case you haven't played the first one yet.</p></div><div><strong><a href="http://www.gamespot.com/reviews/portal-2-review/1900-6309270/" data-ref-id="1900-6309270">Read our review.</a> And then check it out on <a href="http://store.steampowered.com/" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">Steam</a>.</strong></div><div> </div><div id="livefyre-app-custom-1401497831589"><strong>Other Daily Deals today:</strong></div><div><ul><li dir="ltr"><a href="/shadowrun-returns/" data-ref-id="false">Shadowrun Returns</a> -- $3.74 (-75%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/wolfenstein-the-new-order/" data-ref-id="false">Wolfenstein: The New Order</a> -- $29.99 (-50%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/garrys-mod/" data-ref-id="false">Garry's Mod</a> -- $2.49 (-75%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/thief/" data-ref-id="false">Thief </a>-- $14.99 (-50%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/football-manager-2014/" data-ref-id="false">Football Manager 2014</a> -- $12.49 (-75%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/goat-simulator/" data-ref-id="false">Goat Simulator</a> -- $5.99 (-40%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/baldurs-gate-ii-enhanced-edition/" data-ref-id="false">Baldur's Gate II</a> -- $6.24 (-75%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/chivalry-medieval-warfare/" data-ref-id="false">Chivalry: Medieval Warfare </a>-- $4.99 (-80%)</li></ul></div></div><p style=""> </p><figure data-align="center" data-size="large" data-img-src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1406/14063904/2579950-payday2.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2579950" data-resize-url="" data-resized="" data-embed-type="image"><a href="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1406/14063904/2579950-payday2.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2579950"><img src="http://static3.gamespot.com/uploads/ignore_jpg_scale_super/1406/14063904/2579950-payday2.jpg"></a></figure><table data-max-width="true"><thead><tr><th scope="col">Day 9: June 27, 2014</th><th scope="col"> </th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p style=""><strong>Our pick: <a href="/payday-2/" data-ref-id="false">Payday 2</a> -- $5.99 (-80%)</strong></p><div data-embed-type="html"><div><p dir="ltr" style="">Payday 2 is a riotous co-op heist-fest where you and three of your friends gang up for a crime spree around Washington D.C., and whether you make a scot-free getaway, or the s*** hits the fan while you're holed up in a bank vault, there are plenty of opportunities for drama and hilarity within. For the next 48 hours, Payday 2 is a steal on Steam at only $5.99. Or, if you want to make sure that you've got a full crew to ride with, you can pick up a four-pack, which includes four Payday 2 licenses, for $17.99, which is just over half of the game's normal price of $29.99.</p></div><div><strong><a href="/reviews/payday-2-review/1900-6413620/" data-ref-id="1900-6413620">Read our review.</a> And then check it out on <a href="http://store.steampowered.com/" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">Steam</a>.</strong></div><div> </div><div id="livefyre-app-custom-1401497831589"><strong>Other Daily Deals today:</strong></div><div><ul><li dir="ltr"><a href="/wargame-red-dragon/" data-ref-id="false">Wargame: Red Dragon</a> -- $23.99 (-40%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/deus-ex-human-revolution-directors-cut/" data-ref-id="false">Deus Ex: Human Revolution Director's Cut</a> -- $4.99 (-75%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/transistor/" data-ref-id="false">Transistor</a> -- $14.99 (-25%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/tropico-4/" data-ref-id="false">Tropico 4: Steam Special Edition</a> -- $2.99 (-85%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/grand-theft-auto-iv-episodes-from-liberty-city/" data-ref-id="false">Grand Theft Auto IV & Episodes from Liberty City</a> -- $5.99 (-80%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/assetto-corsa/" data-ref-id="false">Assetto Corsa</a> -- $19.99 (-50%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/age-of-mythology-extended-edition/" data-ref-id="false">Age of Mythology Extended Edition</a> -- $17.99 (-40%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/space-engineers/" data-ref-id="false">Space Engineers</a> -- $13.39 (-33%)</li></ul></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><figure data-align="center" data-size="large" data-img-src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/225/2256286/2579236-dishonored.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2579236" data-resize-url="" data-resized="" data-embed-type="image"><a href="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/225/2256286/2579236-dishonored.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2579236"><img src="http://static4.gamespot.com/uploads/ignore_jpg_scale_super/225/2256286/2579236-dishonored.jpg"></a></figure><table data-max-width="true"><thead><tr><th scope="col">Day 8: June 26, 2014</th><th scope="col"> </th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p style="">Our pick: <a href="/dishonored/" data-ref-id="false">Dishonored</a> -- $4.99 (-75%)</p><div data-embed-type="html"><div><p dir="ltr" style="">Great stealth games are few and far between, so it was no surprise that Dishonored was celebrated when it was first released in 2012. Not only did the game feature rock solid stealth mechanics, it also gave us a compelling fictional world in which to revel in. At $4.99, Dishonored is a great bargain, and is certainly a must-buy if you've never experienced the adventures of Corvo before.</p></div><div><strong><a href="/reviews/dishonored-review/1900-6397799/" data-ref-id="1900-6397799">Read our review.</a> And then check it out on <a href="http://store.steampowered.com/" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">Steam</a>.</strong></div><div> </div><div id="livefyre-app-custom-1401497831589"><strong>Other Daily Deals today:</strong></div><div><ul><li dir="ltr"><a href="/sid-meiers-civilization-v/" data-ref-id="false">Civilization V</a>: $7.49 (-75%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/banished/" data-ref-id="false">Banished</a>: $9.99 (-50%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/assassins-creed-iv-black-flag/" data-ref-id="false">Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag</a>: $19.99 (-50%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/train-simulator-2014/" data-ref-id="false">Train Simulator 2014</a>: $8.24 (-85%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/total-war-rome-ii/" data-ref-id="false">Total War Rome II</a>: $20.37 (-66%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/left-4-dead-2/" data-ref-id="false">Left 4 Dead 2</a>: $4.99 (-75%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/europa-universalis-iv/" data-ref-id="false">Europa Universalis IV</a>: $9.99 (-75%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/reviews/resident-evil-4-hd-edition-review/1900-6415680/" data-ref-id="1900-6415680">Resident Evil 4 HD Edition</a>: $11.99 (-40%)</li></ul></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><figure data-align="center" data-size="large" data-img-src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/225/2256286/2578151-bioshocki.png" data-ref-id="1300-2578151" data-resize-url="" data-resized="" data-embed-type="image"><a href="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/225/2256286/2578151-bioshocki.png" data-ref-id="1300-2578151"><img src="http://static5.gamespot.com/uploads/ignore_jpg_scale_super/225/2256286/2578151-bioshocki.png"></a></figure><table data-max-width="true"><thead><tr><th scope="col">Day 7: June 25, 2014</th><th scope="col"> </th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p style="">Our pick: <a href="/bioshock-infinite/" data-ref-id="false">Bioshock Infinite</a> -- $7.49 (-75%)</p><div data-embed-type="html"><div><p dir="ltr" style="">If you haven't yet had a chance to experience one of the most intriguing shooters released in recent years, then now's your opportunity to do it on the cheap. Bioshock Infinite released to critical acclaim in March 2013, and is both an engaging shooter and a compelling narrative, two hallmarks of the much-lauded Bioshock series. At $7.49, Bioshock Infinite is already a bargain, but if you a few more extra dollars, then Steam is also selling a <a href="http://store.steampowered.com/app/8870/" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">Bioshock triple pack</a> (which includes the previous two games as well as Infinite) for $10.19.</p></div><div><strong><a href="/bioshock-infinite/" data-ref-id="false">Read our review</a>. And then check it out on <a href="http://store.steampowered.com/" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">Steam</a>.</strong></div><div> </div><div id="livefyre-app-custom-1401497831589"><strong>Other Daily Deals today:</strong></div><ul><li><a href="/endless-space/" data-ref-id="false">Endless Space Emperor Edition</a>: $7.49 (-75%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/kerbal-space-program/" data-ref-id="false">Kerbal Space Program</a>: $16.19 (-40%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/company-of-heroes-2/" data-ref-id="false">Company of Heroes 2</a>: $9.99 (-75%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/the-banner-saga/" data-ref-id="false">The Banner Saga</a>: $12.49 (-50%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/counter-strike-global-offensive/" data-ref-id="false">Counter Strike: Global Offensive</a>: $7.49 ($14.99)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/child-of-light/" data-ref-id="false">Child of Light</a>: $11.24 (-25%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/final-fantasy-xiv-online/" data-ref-id="false">Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn</a>: $14.99 (-50%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/batman-arkham-origins/" data-ref-id="false">Batman: Arkham Origins</a>: $7.49 (-75%)</li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table><figure data-align="center" data-size="large" data-img-src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1534/15343359/2577220-brothers.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2577220" data-resize-url="" data-resized="" data-embed-type="image"><a href="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1534/15343359/2577220-brothers.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2577220"><img src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/ignore_jpg_scale_super/1534/15343359/2577220-brothers.jpg"></a></figure><table data-max-width="true"><thead><tr><th scope="col">Day 6: June 24, 2014</th><th scope="col"> </th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p style="">Our pick: <a href="/brothers-a-tale-of-two-sons/" data-ref-id="false">Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons</a> -- $2.99 (-80%)</p><div data-embed-type="html"><div><p style="">Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, takes a unique control scheme and turns it into part of the story. Your left control stick controls one brother, and youe right stick the other as you explore the fantastical--and at times terrifying--world these siblings inhabit. It's essentially single-player co-op, and the story is as moving and emotional as its gameplay is original.</p></div><div><strong><a href="http://www.gamespot.com/reviews/brothers-a-tale-of-two-sons-review/1900-6412546/" data-ref-id="1900-6412546">Read our review</a>. And then check it out on <a href="http://store.steampowered.com/" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">Steam</a>.</strong></div><div> </div><div id="livefyre-app-custom-1401497831589"><strong>Other Daily Deals today:</strong></div><div><ul><li><a href="/metro-last-light/" data-ref-id="false">Metro Last Light: Complete Editio</a>n -- $6.79</li><li><a href="/tom-clancys-splinter-cell-blacklist/" data-ref-id="false">Splinter Cell: Blacklist</a> -- $7.49</li><li><a href="/fallout-new-vegas-ultimate-edition/" data-ref-id="false">Fallout: New Vegas: Ultimate Edition</a> -- $6.79</li><li><a href="/call-of-duty-ghosts/" data-ref-id="false">Call of Duty: Ghosts</a>: $29.99</li><li><a href="/torchlight-ii/" data-ref-id="false">Torchlight II</a> -- $4.99</li><li><a href="/murdered-soul-suspect/" data-ref-id="false">Murdered: Soul Suspect</a> -- $33.49</li><li><a href="/age-of-wonders-iii/" data-ref-id="false">Age of Wonders III</a> -- $19.99</li><li><a href="/blackguards/" data-ref-id="false">Blackguards</a> -- $13.59</li></ul></div></div></td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><figure data-align="center" data-size="large" data-img-src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1534/15343359/2576740-ftl4.png" data-ref-id="1300-2576740" data-resize-url="" data-resized="" data-embed-type="image"><a href="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1534/15343359/2576740-ftl4.png" data-ref-id="1300-2576740"><img src="http://static2.gamespot.com/uploads/ignore_jpg_scale_super/1534/15343359/2576740-ftl4.png"></a></figure><table data-max-width="true"><thead><tr><th scope="col">Day 5: June 23, 2014</th><th scope="col"> </th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p style="">Our pick: <a href="/ftl-faster-than-light/" data-ref-id="false">FTL: Faster Than Light</a> -- $3.99 (-60%)</p><div data-embed-type="html"><div><p style="">Almost two years after the game’s initial release, our Twitter feeds still erupt with <a href="/ftl-faster-than-light/" data-ref-id="false">FTL</a>-related curses from time to time, with my friends venting their triumphs and frustrations when facing a particularly adamant set of foes. This space sim/roguelike hybrid is special--simple to look at yet teeming with strategic possibilities and nail-biting encounters. Missing out on FTL would be a disaster of galactic proportions.</p></div><div><strong><a href="http://www.gamespot.com/ftl-faster-than-light/reviews/" data-ref-id="false">Read our review</a>. And then check it out on <a href="http://store.steampowered.com/" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">Steam</a>.</strong></div><div> </div><div id="livefyre-app-custom-1401497831589"><strong>Other Daily Deals today:</strong></div><div><ul><li><a href="/dark-souls-prepare-to-die-edition/" data-ref-id="false">Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition</a>: $4.99</li><li><a href="/surgeon-simulator-2013/" data-ref-id="false">Surgeon Simulator 2013</a>: $2.49</li><li><a href="/arma-iii/" data-ref-id="false">Arma III</a>: $29.99</li><li><a href="/rogue-legacy/" data-ref-id="false">Rogue Legacy</a>: $3.74</li><li><a href="/insurgency/" data-ref-id="false">Insurgency</a>: $6.74</li><li><a href="/saints-row-iv/" data-ref-id="false">Saints Row IV</a>: $9.99</li><li><a href="/the-lego-movie-videogame/" data-ref-id="false">The Lego Movie Videogame</a>: $7.49</li><li><a href="/nether/" data-ref-id="false">Nether</a>: $2.99</li></ul></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><figure data-align="center" data-size="large" data-img-src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1534/15343359/2574881-tomb-raider-gets-important-1-0-722-3-steam-patch-2.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2574881" data-resize-url="" data-resized="" data-embed-type="image"><a href="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1534/15343359/2574881-tomb-raider-gets-important-1-0-722-3-steam-patch-2.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2574881"><img src="http://static3.gamespot.com/uploads/ignore_jpg_scale_super/1534/15343359/2574881-tomb-raider-gets-important-1-0-722-3-steam-patch-2.jpg"></a></figure><table data-max-width="true"><thead><tr><th scope="col">Day 4: June 22, 2014</th><th scope="col"> </th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p style="">Our pick: <a href="/tomb-raider/" data-ref-id="false">Tomb Raider</a> -- $4.99 (-75%)</p><p style="">Tomb Raider's sequel, <a href="/rise-of-the-tomb-raider/" data-ref-id="false">Rise of the Tomb Raider</a>, was announced at E3 earlier this month, and there's also the great co-op action game <a href="/lara-croft-and-the-temple-of-osiris/" data-ref-id="false">Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris</a>, but if you still haven't given it a try, this is the game to play while you wait. The gritty series reboot tells the story of Lara's origins and how she became the hardened adventurer we know her as today.</p><div data-embed-type="html"><div><strong><a href="http://www.gamespot.com/tomb-raider/reviews/" data-ref-id="false">Read our review</a>. And then check it out on <a href="http://store.steampowered.com/" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">Steam</a>.</strong></div><div> </div><div id="livefyre-app-custom-1401497831589"><strong>Other Daily Deals today:</strong></div><div><ul><li><a href="/battleblock-theater/" data-ref-id="false">BattleBlock Theater:</a> $3.74</li><li><a href="/borderlands-2/" data-ref-id="false">Borderlands 2</a>: $4.99</li><li><a href="/kingdoms-of-amalur-reckoning/" data-ref-id="false">Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning</a>: $4.99</li><li><a href="/outlast/" data-ref-id="false">Outlast</a>: $4.99</li><li><a href="/planetary-annihilation/" data-ref-id="false">Planetary Annihilation: Galactic War Update</a>: $16.99</li><li><a href="/south-park-the-stick-of-truth/" data-ref-id="false">South Park: The Stick of Truth</a>: $40.19</li><li><a href="/the-wolf-among-us/" data-ref-id="false">The Wolf Among Us</a>: $8.49</li><li><a href="/metal-gear-rising-revengeance/" data-ref-id="false">Metal Gear Rising Revengeance</a>: $14.99</li></ul></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><figure data-align="center" data-size="large" data-img-src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1534/15343359/2574464-steamworkshop_webupload_previewfile_221572497_preview.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2574464" data-resize-url="" data-resized="" data-embed-type="image"><a href="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1534/15343359/2574464-steamworkshop_webupload_previewfile_221572497_preview.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2574464"><img src="http://static4.gamespot.com/uploads/ignore_jpg_scale_super/1534/15343359/2574464-steamworkshop_webupload_previewfile_221572497_preview.jpg"></a></figure><table data-max-width="true"><thead><tr><th scope="col">Day 3: June 21, 2014</th><th scope="col"> </th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p style="">Our pick: <a href="/the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim/" data-ref-id="false">The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim</a> -- $4.99 (-75%)</p><div data-embed-type="html"><div><p style=""><a href="http://www.gamespot.com/amnesia-a-machine-for-pigs/" target="_blank">T</a>he epic fantasy RPG has seen deep discounts before, but there's no better time than now to pick it up if you've been waiting. Explore the open-world of Skyrim, customize your character and playstyle, and maybe even fight some dragons. You can also get the Legendary Edition of the game, complete with all the DLC expansions, for just $13.59.</p></div><div><strong><a href="http://www.gamespot.com/reviews/the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-review/1900-6344618/" data-ref-id="1900-6344618">Read our review</a>. And then check it out on <a href="http://store.steampowered.com/app/72850/" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">Steam</a>.</strong></div><div> </div><div id="livefyre-app-custom-1401497831589"><strong>Other Daily Deals today:</strong></div><div><ul><li><a href="/7-days-to-die/" data-ref-id="false">7 Days to Die</a>: $13.74</li><li><a href="/the-stanley-parable/" data-ref-id="false">The Stanley Parable</a>: $5.99</li><li><a href="/age-of-empires-ii-hd-edition/" data-ref-id="false">Age of Empires II: HD Edition</a>: $4.99</li><li><a href="/project-zomboid/" data-ref-id="false">Project Zomboid</a>: $10.04</li><li><a href="/wasteland-2/" data-ref-id="false">Wasteland 2</a>: $40.19</li><li><a href="/contagion/" data-ref-id="false">Contagion</a>: $4.99</li><li><a href="/dragon-age-origins-ultimate-edition/" data-ref-id="false">Dragon Age Origins Ultimate Edition</a>: $7.49</li><li><a href="/terraria/" data-ref-id="false">Terraria</a>: $1.99</li></ul></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><figure data-align="center" data-size="large" data-img-src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/225/2256286/2573520-amnesia.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2573520" data-resize-url="" data-resized="" data-embed-type="image"><a href="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/225/2256286/2573520-amnesia.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2573520"><img src="http://static5.gamespot.com/uploads/ignore_jpg_scale_super/225/2256286/2573520-amnesia.jpg"></a></figure><table data-max-width="true"><thead><tr><th scope="col">Day 2: June 20, 2014</th><th scope="col"> </th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p style="">Our pick: <a href="/amnesia-a-machine-for-pigs/" data-ref-id="false">Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs</a>--$4.99 (-75%)</p><div data-embed-type="html"><div><p style=""><a href="http://www.gamespot.com/amnesia-a-machine-for-pigs/" target="_blank">Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs</a>, the follow-up to the genuinely frightening <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/amnesia-the-dark-descent/" target="_blank">Amnesia: The Dark Descent</a>, is a steal on the Steam Summer sale today at 75% off. Machine for Pigs is set in the same universe as the original, but it follows a new story and cast of characters, so it's a great place to start if you're looking for a horror fix on a budget (though the original is also currently going for 80% off and you can get <a href="http://store.steampowered.com/sub/36631/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">both games together for only $6.99</a>).</p></div><div><strong><a href="/amnesia-a-machine-for-pigs/" data-ref-id="false">Read our review</a>. And then check it out on <a href="http://store.steampowered.com/" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">Steam</a>.</strong></div><div> </div><div id="livefyre-app-custom-1401497831589"><strong>Other Daily Deals today:</strong></div><div><ul><li><a href="/bound-by-flame/" data-ref-id="false">Bound By Flame</a>: $23.99</li><li><a href="/shin-sangoku-musou-7-musouden/" data-ref-id="false">Dynasty Warriors 8 Xtreme Legends</a>: $24.99</li><li><a href="/game-dev-tycoon/" data-ref-id="false">Game Dev Tycoon</a>: $3.99</li><li><a href="/plague-inc-evolved/" data-ref-id="false">Plague Inc Evolved</a>: $10.04</li><li><a href="/prison-architect/" data-ref-id="false">Prison Architect</a>: $10.19</li><li><a href="/rpg-maker-vx-ace/" data-ref-id="false">RPG Maker VX Ace</a>: $17.49</li><li><a href="/the-walking-dead-season-two/" data-ref-id="false">The Walking Dead Season Two</a>: $12.49</li><li><a href="/state-of-decay/" data-ref-id="false">State of Decay</a>: $4.99</li></ul></div></div></td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><figure data-align="center" data-size="large" data-img-src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/225/2256286/2573522-farcry3.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2573522" data-resize-url="" data-resized="" data-embed-type="image"><a href="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/225/2256286/2573522-farcry3.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2573522"><img src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/ignore_jpg_scale_super/225/2256286/2573522-farcry3.jpg"></a></figure><table data-max-width="true"><thead><tr><th scope="col">Day 1: June 19, 2014</th><th scope="col"> </th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p style=""><strong>Our pick: <a href="/far-cry-3/" data-ref-id="false">Far Cry 3</a>--$7.49 (-75%)</strong></p><p style="">The Far Cry series has always been ambitious, and it culminated with the sprawling, enthralling, and sometimes narratively challenging Far Cry 3. If you're looking for a shooter that eschews the military feel most others in the genre embrace, then you can't go wrong with this outstanding game. Plus, with <a href="/far-cry-4/" data-ref-id="false">Far Cry 4</a> coming out later this year, now's a great time to catch up on the last game in this intriguing series.</p><p style=""><a href="/reviews/far-cry-3-review/1900-6400893/" data-ref-id="1900-6400893">Read our review.</a> And then check it out on <a href="http://store.steampowered.com/" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">Steam</a>.</p><p style=""><strong>Other Daily Deals today:</strong></p><ul><li><a href="/dead-rising-3/" data-ref-id="false">Dead Rising 3</a> pre-purchase: $37.49</li><li><a href="/sins-of-a-solar-empire/" data-ref-id="false">Sins of a Solar Empire</a>: $7.99</li><li><a href="/divinity-original-sin/" data-ref-id="false">Divinity: Original Sin</a>: $31.99</li><li><a href="/democracy-3/" data-ref-id="false">Democracy 3</a>: $8.49</li><li><a href="/xcom-enemy-unknown/" data-ref-id="false">XCOM: Enemy Unknown</a>: $7.49</li><li><a href="/dont-starve/" data-ref-id="false">Don't Starve</a>: $3.74</li><li><a href="/the-witcher-2-assassins-of-kings/" data-ref-id="false">The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings</a> Enhanced Edition: $3.99</li><li><a href="/dayz/" data-ref-id="false">DayZ</a>: $25.49</li></ul></td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><p style=""><em>Check back tomorrow to see our newest pick from the <a href="http://store.steampowered.com/" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">Steam Summer Sale Daily Deals</a>!</em></p> Sun, 29 Jun 2014 10:34:00 -0700 http://www.gamespot.com/articles/our-steam-summer-sale-pick-of-the-day/1100-6420612/ http://www.gamespot.com/articles/what-other-horror-games-lie-inside-the-evil-within/1100-6420739/ <p style="">With the upcoming horror game <a href="/the-evil-within/" data-ref-id="false">The Evil Within</a>, director Shinji Mikami is aiming to return to the roots of the survival horror genre. If there is anyone who has the qualifications to do that, it's Mikami, the father of the <a href="/resident-evil/" data-ref-id="false">Resident Evil </a>series.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">The series was one of the first to establish the survival horror formula. The old-school survival horror games which frightened me did so by punctuating lengthy moments of tension with sparing but frantic bursts of action. The horror games of that bygone era did not hold my hand; they threw me blindly into fear-triggering scenarios with a single goal in mind: survival. To progress, I needed to move past my fear. By comparison, modern horror games typically feature linear objectives and rely more heavily on quick jump scares and checkpoints, taking the challenge away from the survival element of the genre.</p><figure data-align="center" data-size="large" data-img-src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/280/2802776/2578939-tew1.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2578939" data-resize-url="" data-resized="" data-embed-type="image"><a href="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/280/2802776/2578939-tew1.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2578939"><img src="http://static3.gamespot.com/uploads/ignore_jpg_scale_super/280/2802776/2578939-tew1.jpg"></a></figure><p dir="ltr" style="">Mikami feels that things have grown bleak for fans of the genre, and has gone so far as to say that there are "<a href="http://www.gamespot.com/articles/sequels-a-big-problem-for-horror-genre-says-mikami/1100-6411736/" data-ref-id="1100-6411736">no real survival horror games</a>" currently available. Now at the head of Tango Gameworks, he is confident the studio's debut game, The Evil Within, addresses this. "I want to return to survival horror's roots. We've strayed from that. I want to explore fear again, and that sense of overcoming fear, one that's unique to games," Mikami said.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">Mikami left the Resident Evil series after its fourth instalment, which began to move the series into action-heavy territory. Its most recent instalment,<a href="/resident-evil-6/" data-ref-id="false"> Resident Evil 6</a>, played more like an action blockbuster, leaving a void which indie horror games have attempted to fill. But these smaller, shorter games lack the scope and ambition of the heavyweights which defined the genre.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">Given his promises, I expected Mikami's direction of The Evil Within to elicit feelings reminiscent of the older Resident Evil games. But the preview build I played for two hours exhibited more noticeable influences from more recent horror games.</p><h2 dir="ltr"><a href="/resident-evil-4/" data-ref-id="false">RESIDENT EVIL 4</a></h2><p dir="ltr" style="">The protagonist of Resident Evil 4, Leon Kennedy, shares many traits with The Evil Within's Sebastian Castellanos. Both characters know how to handle themselves in a dangerous situation, both are suddenly beset by occult forces, and both retain a collected demeanor while in combat.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">Both characters carry knives, which can be used to slash at destructible crates and containers to search for more supplies. When put to use in The Evil Within, the mechanic bears an uncanny visual resemblance to its RE4 counterpart.</p><figure data-embed-type="comparison" data-img-src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/280/2802776/2578948-leonkennedy.jpg,http://static2.gamespot.com/uploads/original/280/2802776/2578949-tew2rs.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2578948,1300-2578949" data-size="large" data-resize-urls="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/scale_super/280/2802776/2578948-leonkennedy.jpg,http://static2.gamespot.com/uploads/scale_super/280/2802776/2578949-tew2rs.jpg" data-resized="" data-resize-url=""><a href="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/280/2802776/2578948-leonkennedy.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2578948" ><img src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/scale_super/280/2802776/2578948-leonkennedy.jpg"></a><a href="http://static2.gamespot.com/uploads/original/280/2802776/2578949-tew2rs.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2578949" ><img src="http://static2.gamespot.com/uploads/scale_super/280/2802776/2578949-tew2rs.jpg"></a><figcaption>Leon and Sebastian share many similar traits.</figcaption></figure><p dir="ltr" style="">As in RE4, shooting with pinpoint accuracy can take time, but lining up a headshot helps to conserve ammo, which aids survival. Ammo appears to be plentiful; I never ran dry and always had a gun available. However, raising a weapon and aiming it does not limit Sebastian's movement as it did for Leon.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">Even some of the scripted moments in The Evil Within struck me as nearly identical to those in RE4. A particular scenario which saw a mysterious antagonist lock Sebastian in an area and suddenly swarmed by humanlike monstrosities, unable to escape until all attackers were slain, triggered memories of a similar moment in RE4. Both games overwhelm you with enemies that move erratically by switching from shuffling slowly to lashing out with a sudden burst of speed.</p><h2 dir="ltr"><a href="/resident-evil/" data-ref-id="false">RESIDENT EVIL (GAMECUBE REMAKE)</a></h2><p dir="ltr" style="">It's common for the survival aspect of horror games to incorporate stealth when you're moving about. The Evil Within is no exception, emphasising the benefit of remaining out of sight by granting the ability to execute stealth kills when hidden. Sneaking up to enemies allows Sebastian to snap their necks or slash their throats, which quickly and quietly downs them.</p><figure data-align="right" data-size="medium" data-img-src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/280/2802776/2578946-tew3.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2578946" data-resize-url="" data-resized="" data-embed-type="image"><a href="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/280/2802776/2578946-tew3.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2578946"><img src="http://static4.gamespot.com/uploads/ignore_jpg_scale_medium/280/2802776/2578946-tew3.jpg"></a><figcaption>The dead do not stay dead.</figcaption></figure><p dir="ltr" style="">The dead do not stay dead, however, as enemies can rise again and resume their creeping after a period of time has passed. To combat this, Sebastian can set bodies on fire to permanently dispose of them after they have been downed.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">A limited number of matches can be carried, but more can be found to replenish the supply. This rising-undead mechanic is used to great effect in the GameCube remake of Resident Evil, which features zombies that don't disappear after being killed but instead mutate over a period of time. These mutated zombies, known as crimson heads, are faster and tougher, which makes them substantially harder to kill when they rise again.</p><h2 dir="ltr"><a href="/outlast/" data-ref-id="false">OUTLAST</a></h2><p dir="ltr" style="">Avoiding enemies is also an option, with Sebastian able to hide in cupboards and under beds. While hiding may sometimes provide an alternative to direct combat, the mechanic serves as the only means of safety in last year's indie horror game Outlast. Sebastian can peek out from his hiding places to keep an eye on the threat. Looking around corners and observing enemy patrol routes is also required at certain points in both games.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">In Outlast, though, enemies are more prone to looking into potential hiding places to root you out. Throughout my time with The Evil Within, I was not discovered once, although that could be attributed to random luck.</p><figure data-align="center" data-size="large" data-img-src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/280/2802776/2578956-outlast3.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2578956" data-resize-url="" data-resized="" data-embed-type="image"><a href="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/280/2802776/2578956-outlast3.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2578956"><img src="http://static5.gamespot.com/uploads/ignore_jpg_scale_super/280/2802776/2578956-outlast3.jpg"></a><figcaption>Hiding is paramount to survival in Outlast.</figcaption></figure><h2 dir="ltr"><a href="/the-last-of-us/" data-ref-id="false">THE LAST OF US</a></h2><p dir="ltr" style="">Tripwire traps are featured in The Last of Us, acting as a means of controlling the pace of the action by forcing you to slow down and scrutinise your surroundings.</p><figure data-ref-id="1300-2579002" data-img-src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/280/2802776/2579002-the+last+of+us.jpeg" data-size="medium" data-align="left" data-resize-url="" data-resized="" data-embed-type="image"><a href="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/280/2802776/2579002-the+last+of+us.jpeg" data-ref-id="1300-2579002"><img src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/ignore_jpg_scale_medium/280/2802776/2579002-the+last+of+us.jpeg"></a><figcaption>The Last of Us contains many hazardous environments.</figcaption></figure><p dir="ltr" style="">Creeping around in The Evil Within is not without its own environmental hazards, because the game's eerie mansions and blood-soaked sewers are sometimes littered with traps.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">Disarming them is a gamble; you need a degree of dexterity to dismantle them without setting them off.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">Like in The Last of Us, successfully disarming traps in The Evil Within grants an item which can be used in crafting. Crafting is also a challenge in and of itself, because bringing up the inventory menu in both games does not pause time, although The Evil Within does slow down time slightly.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">While Mikami intends for The Evil Within to embrace the elements which traditionally defined old-school survival horror, this preview build left me scrambling to identify where Mikami's promises have been fulfilled. Headed by a gun-toting action hero protagonist who has no qualms about taking down hordes of otherworldly creatures, The Evil Within displays notable influence from the more recent, action-heavy games of the genre, but not the roots of survival horror which Mikami spoke of.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">Perhaps once I've had a chance to complete the full game, it will prove itself as the unique survival horror experience that has been promised. Though I did experience moments of tension while playing The Evil Within, they were the consequence of scripted scenes which felt linear and fleeting, and not the result of a carefully crafted formula created to induce persistent fear.</p> Sun, 29 Jun 2014 10:00:00 -0700 http://www.gamespot.com/articles/what-other-horror-games-lie-inside-the-evil-within/1100-6420739/ http://www.gamespot.com/articles/gta-producer-to-buy-church-for-edinburgh-community/1100-6420807/ <figure data-align="right" data-size="small" data-img-src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1535/15354745/2580763-2134231604-640px.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2580763" data-resize-url="" data-resized="" data-embed-type="image"><a href="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1535/15354745/2580763-2134231604-640px.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2580763"><img src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/ignore_jpg_scale_small/1535/15354745/2580763-2134231604-640px.jpg"></a></figure><p dir="ltr" style="">President of Grand Theft Auto developer Rockstar North Leslie Benzies will buy Edinburgh's St. Stephen's Church to save it for the community, the <a href="http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/rockstar-north-chief-buys-st-stephen-s-church-1-3458879" rel="nofollow">Edinburgh Evening News</a> reports.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">A spokesperson for Benzies said that the church, which is believed to cost well over £500,000, is "an entirely philanthropic purchase" to preserve St. Stephen's and keep it open to community use.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">Dating back to the 1820s, the church has an 800-capacity venue that hosts live music, dance, and theater performances, and has been used as a local community center for the past two decades.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">Benzies, a Scotland native, has lived in Edinburgh for more than a decade, where Rockstar North has developed every Grand Theft Auto game since <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/grand-theft-auto-iii/">Grand Theft Auto III</a>.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">According to the Edinburgh Evening News, Benzies' undisclosed bid for the church beat more than 50 potential buyers who intended to turn it into private apartments or businesses.</p><p style="">Benzies' spokesperson said that he recognized the building's importance to the community. "My client looks forward to completing the sale imminently to secure the plans for the church's ongoing use. We will engage with the community as the plans progress and look forward to welcoming local residents and groups back to the center in the very near future."</p><table data-max-width="true"><thead><tr><th scope="col"><em>Emanuel Maiberg is a freelance writer. You can follow him on <a href="https://twitter.com/emanuelmaiberg" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">Twitter @emanuelmaiberg</a> and <a href="https://plus.google.com/116710591398405257934/" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">Google+</a>.<br /></em></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p style=""><strong><em>Got a news tip or want to contact us directly? Email <a href="mailto:news@gamespot.com" rel="nofollow">news@gamespot.com</a></em></strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table> Sun, 29 Jun 2014 09:37:00 -0700 http://www.gamespot.com/articles/gta-producer-to-buy-church-for-edinburgh-community/1100-6420807/ http://www.gamespot.com/videos/child-of-light-vita-new-guacamelee-gundam-reborn-n/2300-6419990/ This week we get Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition, Child of Light on the Vita, Dynasty Warriors: Gundam Reborn and Ship Simulator: Maritime Search and Rescue. Sun, 29 Jun 2014 09:00:00 -0700 http://www.gamespot.com/videos/child-of-light-vita-new-guacamelee-gundam-reborn-n/2300-6419990/ http://www.gamespot.com/articles/rust-developer-was-prototyping-open-world-hitman-type-game/1100-6420806/ <figure data-align="center" data-size="large" data-img-src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1535/15354745/2580723-4694237344-24149.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2580723" data-resize-url="" data-resized="" data-embed-type="image"><a href="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1535/15354745/2580723-4694237344-24149.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2580723"><img src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/ignore_jpg_scale_super/1535/15354745/2580723-4694237344-24149.jpg"></a></figure><p dir="ltr" style="">Rust developer and Facepunch Studios founder Garry Newman said that prior to Rust, he was working on an online, Hitman-type game set in an open world similar to Grand Theft Auto.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">The codebase for the prototype, called Cash4kills, eventually became Rust, the survival game which <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/articles/rust-already-made-more-than-garry-s-mod-s-30-million/1100-6417907/">became immensely successful while still in Early Access</a>. But Cash4kills was going to be very different.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">"The one thing we don't like about the latest Hitman games is that the game seems to be about finding out what the level designer wants you to do, rather than just working out the best place to kill a guy," Newman told <a href="http://www.pcgamesn.com/rust/rust-rebooting-heres-why" rel="nofollow">PCGamesN</a> in an interview. "We wanted it to be all free-form, with bullet entry stats, bonuses for clean kills and for being unspotted, shareable replays, then cash rewards in a backend that you could use to buy new weapons, etc. So you'd only get one chance at a kill and if you f****d it up you couldn't replay, you'd have to wait for the next contract via your real email."</p><p dir="ltr" style="">That sounds pretty cool, but the fact that Rust was based on a prototype with very different ambitions has created a lot of trouble for Facepunch.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">If you launch Rust right now, you'll be prompted to choose between "Play Rust," and "Try Experimental." The first option will lead to the game you're familiar with that's based on the prototype, and the second will take you to the experimental version, where Facepunch is changing "pretty much everything" with regular updates.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">"There were a lot of stupid decisions made in the old codebase," Newman said. "That's probably unfair. There were a lot of decisions made when we didn't know what game we were making... There's a lot of systems that are integral to Rust, that are 3,000 lines long, that could be 100 lines long."</p><p dir="ltr" style="">Newman said he isn't getting rid of the old version of Rust, but that all the team's efforts are going into the experimental build, which will get more servers and become more stable as it grows.</p><p style="">For more on Rust, check out <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/rust/news/">GameSpot's previous coverage</a>.</p><table data-max-width="true"><thead><tr><th scope="col"><em>Emanuel Maiberg is a freelance writer. You can follow him on <a href="https://twitter.com/emanuelmaiberg" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">Twitter @emanuelmaiberg</a> and <a href="https://plus.google.com/116710591398405257934/" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">Google+</a>.<br /></em></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p style=""><strong><em>Got a news tip or want to contact us directly? Email <a href="mailto:news@gamespot.com" rel="nofollow">news@gamespot.com</a></em></strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table> Sun, 29 Jun 2014 07:51:00 -0700 http://www.gamespot.com/articles/rust-developer-was-prototyping-open-world-hitman-type-game/1100-6420806/ http://www.gamespot.com/articles/the-banner-saga-could-come-to-consoles-ps-vita-after-tablet-release/1100-6420805/ <figure data-align="center" data-size="large" data-img-src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1535/15354745/2580712-4187594088-24216.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2580712" data-resize-url="" data-resized="" data-embed-type="image"><a href="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1535/15354745/2580712-4187594088-24216.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2580712"><img src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/ignore_jpg_scale_super/1535/15354745/2580712-4187594088-24216.jpg"></a></figure><p dir="ltr" style="">Last week, developer Stoic Games announced that its tactical role-playing game <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/the-banner-saga/">The Banner Saga</a> will release on iPad, Android, and Windows tablets this summer, and console players might get a chance to play the game eventually as well.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">Speaking with <a href="http://www.digitalspy.com/gaming/news/a580573/the-banner-saga-coming-to-ipad-and-android-this-summer-consoles-planned.html#~oIr5X9CuxzTv10" rel="nofollow">Digital Spy</a>, programmer John Watson said that Stoic has been working on the iOS and Android editions of the game since The Banner Saga was released on PC in January. Now that those version are on the way, Stoic hopes to release the game on consoles too.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">"The ideal would be to get some console ports out before the end of the year," Watson said. "Whether we can make that happen or not, I don't know. Some things are easier than others. I think the game would be great on Vita, but I think that would come after other consoles. It's a path of least resistance thing; there's three of us."</p><p dir="ltr" style="">Watson also said that he'd rather see the game on the PlayStation 4 before the PlayStation Vita because Stoic might need to make some changes to the game to take advantage of the PS Vita's controls, which can use touch and button at the same time.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">Earlier this year <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/articles/candy-crush-saga-dev-says-it-s-trying-to-fend-off-copycats-not-stop-the-banner-saga-update/1100-6417275/">Stoic was involved in a trademark dispute with Candy Crush Saga developer King</a>, which claimed The Banner Saga is "confusingly and deceptively similar" to Candy Crush Saga. In March, <a href="http://stoicstudio.com/stoic-update" rel="nofollow">Stoic announced</a> it reached an agreement with King that enables both parties to protect their respective trademarks.</p><p style="">For more on The Banner Saga, be sure to read <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/reviews/the-banner-saga-review/1900-6415626/">GameSpot's review</a>.</p><table data-max-width="true"><thead><tr><th scope="col"><em>Emanuel Maiberg is a freelance writer. You can follow him on <a href="https://twitter.com/emanuelmaiberg" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">Twitter @emanuelmaiberg</a> and <a href="https://plus.google.com/116710591398405257934/" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">Google+</a>.<br /></em></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p style=""><strong><em>Got a news tip or want to contact us directly? Email <a href="mailto:news@gamespot.com" rel="nofollow">news@gamespot.com</a></em></strong></p><p style=""> </p></td></tr></tbody></table> Sun, 29 Jun 2014 06:24:00 -0700 http://www.gamespot.com/articles/the-banner-saga-could-come-to-consoles-ps-vita-after-tablet-release/1100-6420805/ http://www.gamespot.com/articles/former-xbox-live-head-banhammer-joins-microsoft-s-gears-of-war-team/1100-6420804/ <figure data-align="right" data-size="small" data-img-src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1535/15354745/2580553-9904949216-220px.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2580553" data-resize-url="" data-resized="" data-embed-type="image"><a href="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1535/15354745/2580553-9904949216-220px.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2580553"><img src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/ignore_jpg_scale_small/1535/15354745/2580553-9904949216-220px.jpg"></a></figure><p dir="ltr" style="">Stephen "Stepto" Toulouse, the former Director of Policy and Enforcement for Microsoft's Xbox Live service, is rejoining the company as the Director of Community Engagement at Black Tusk Studios, the Microsoft-owned studio currently working on the next Gears of War project.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">Jokingly known as the the "Head Banhammer," as Director of Policy and Enforcement Toulouse was in charge developing and implementing policy for Xbox Live, as well as working with developers, press, and customers.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">Toulouse explained that his new role will be key in coordinating gamer feedback into future titles as well as keeping things fun and exciting with existing games.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">"I've been shadowing the Gears forums and looking at people's thoughts," Toulouse said on <a href="http://www.stepto.com/2014/06/everything-old-is-new-again/" rel="nofollow">his personal blog</a>. "I don't just want us to make the best next generation Gears of War game ever, I want to make sure that everyone playing the game today feels just as good today and down the road in their investment into our amazing world as we do. There's a Gears nation out there. I'm a part of it and it's amazing."</p><p style="">You can hear more about Toulouse's return to Microsoft and what he'll be doing in his new role on the latest <a href="http://majornelson.com/cast/2014/06/27/mnr-516-we-finally-catch-up-after-e3-2014/" rel="nofollow">Major Nelson podcast</a>.</p><table data-max-width="true"><thead><tr><th scope="col"><em>Emanuel Maiberg is a freelance writer. You can follow him on <a href="https://twitter.com/emanuelmaiberg" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">Twitter @emanuelmaiberg</a> and <a href="https://plus.google.com/116710591398405257934/" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">Google+</a>.<br /></em></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p style=""><strong><em>Got a news tip or want to contact us directly? Email <a href="mailto:news@gamespot.com" rel="nofollow">news@gamespot.com</a></em></strong></p><p style=""> </p></td></tr></tbody></table> Sat, 28 Jun 2014 17:30:00 -0700 http://www.gamespot.com/articles/former-xbox-live-head-banhammer-joins-microsoft-s-gears-of-war-team/1100-6420804/
http://auth.gamespot.com/ Gamespot's Everything Feed! News, Reviews, Videos. Exploding with content? You bet. en-us Mon, 30 Jun 2014 05:41:39 -0700 http://www.gamespot.com/articles/the-last-of-us-ps4-at-60fps-is-a-transformative-experience-dev-says/1100-6420815/ <div data-embed-type="video" data-ref-id="2300-6419609" data-width="100%" data-height="100%"><iframe src="/videos/embed/6419609/" width="100%" height="100%" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe></div><p style=""> </p><p dir="ltr" style=""><a href="/the-last-of-us/" data-ref-id="false">The Last of Us Remastered</a>, the upcoming PlayStation 4 version of 2013's acclaimed PlayStation 3 title, will run at 60fps, developer Naughty Dog has strongly suggested.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">"Played some #TLOU at 60 fps tonight for the first time (60fps cutscenes and all). Transformitive [sic]. I'm a believer. Don't think I can go back," Naughty Dog designer Kurt Margenau <a href="https://twitter.com/kurtmargenau/status/479899683221819392" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">said in a tweet </a>that was re-tweeted by creative director Neil Druckmann.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">In addition, The Last of Us Remastered co-director Bruce Straley<a href="https://twitter.com/bruce_straley/status/482547931933708289" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false"> said</a>, "I had a dream in 60fps last night. #TLOUremastered." Druckmann<a href="https://twitter.com/Neil_Druckmann/status/482557846995738625" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false"> replied</a> by saying, "What if I told you that was no dream? #believe."</p><p dir="ltr" style="">The Last of Us Remastered <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/articles/the-last-of-us-for-ps4-runs-in-1080p-has-dlc-and-director-s-commentary-retailers-list-it-for-60/1100-6418878/" data-ref-id="1100-6418878">runs in 1080p</a>. Frame rate, however, doesn't sound like it's final yet. Druckmann's hashtag "believe" makes it sound like frame rate is not locked down. And while Margenau may have played a build of the game at 60fps, it's possible that it was a non-final version of the game.</p><p style="">We're still waiting a final confirmation on the game's frame rate, but we'll know one way or the other soon, as The Last of Us Remastered officially launches for PS4 on <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/articles/e3-2014-the-last-of-us-ps4-launching-july-29/1100-6420290/" data-ref-id="1100-6420290">July 29</a>. In Europe, you'll also be able to buy a<a href="http://www.gamespot.com/articles/the-last-of-us-ps4-bundle-confirmed-for-europe-but-what-about-the-us/1100-6420774/" data-ref-id="1100-6420774"> special The Last of Us Remastered PS4 bundle</a>.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">The Last of Us Remastered also features higher resolution character models, as well as improved shadows and lighting. The bundle includes DLC, director's commentary, and special interviews with voice actors Troy Baker (Joel) and Ashley Johnson (Ellie). The game was originally expected to sell for $60, but Sony just recently <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/articles/sony-drops-the-last-of-us-ps4-price-by-10-will-refund-difference-on-pre-orders/1100-6420656/" data-ref-id="1100-6420656">announced a $10 price drop</a>. If you already preordered, <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/articles/sony-drops-the-last-of-us-ps4-price-by-10-will-refund-difference-on-pre-orders/1100-6420656/" data-ref-id="1100-6420656">you can get a refund</a>.</p><table data-max-width="true"><thead><tr><th scope="col"><em>Eddie Makuch is a news editor at GameSpot, and you can follow him on<a href="https://twitter.com/EddieMakuch" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false"> Twitter @EddieMakuch</a></em></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong><em>Got a news tip or want to contact us directly? Email <a href="mailto:news@gamespot.com" rel="nofollow">news@gamespot.com</a></em></strong></td></tr></tbody></table> Mon, 30 Jun 2014 05:00:00 -0700 http://www.gamespot.com/articles/the-last-of-us-ps4-at-60fps-is-a-transformative-experience-dev-says/1100-6420815/ http://www.gamespot.com/articles/steam-reaches-8-million-concurrent-users-up-from-7-6-million-six-months-ago/1100-6420814/ <figure data-align="center" data-size="large" data-img-src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1179/11799911/2581157-steamlogo.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2581157" data-resize-url="" data-resized="" data-embed-type="image"><a href="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1179/11799911/2581157-steamlogo.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2581157"><img src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/ignore_jpg_scale_super/1179/11799911/2581157-steamlogo.jpg"></a></figure><p style=""> </p><p dir="ltr" style="">Valve's digital gaming platform Steam continues to grow. Yesterday, June 29, at 11:44 a.m., a total of <a href="http://store.steampowered.com/stats/" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">8,020,700 people</a> were logged into the service at the same time. That's a record for concurrent usage, up from <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/articles/steam-reaches-7-6-million-concurrent-users/1100-6416858/" data-ref-id="1100-6416858">7.6 million six months ago</a>. The surge in popularity recently likely had something to do with Steam's ongoing Summer Sale, which sees <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/articles/our-steam-summer-sale-pick-of-the-day/1100-6420612/" data-ref-id="1100-6420612">hefty markdowns on great games</a>.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">Currently, Steam has 5.5 million concurrent users. While Valve is known to openly share user data for Steam, platform holders like Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo are less forthcoming about concurrent player levels. This makes it tricky to make a direct comparison between Steam and console online networks like Xbox Live, PlayStation Network, or Nintendo's online services.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">The most popular game on Steam right now, based on the current player count, is free-to-play juggernaut <a href="/dota-2/" data-ref-id="false">Dota 2</a> with 566,568 people playing the game at present. Dota 2 is by far the top Steam game, as the second most popular game on the platform right now is <a href="/counter-strike-global-offensive/" data-ref-id="false">Counter-Strike: Global Offensive</a>, which has 94,732 total players right now. Of course, Dota 2 is free and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is a paid game.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">In all, Steam has <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/articles/steam-boasts-10-million-new-users-in-the-last-three-months/1100-6417163/" data-ref-id="1100-6417163">more than 75 million users</a>. More Steam statistics are available on the<a href="http://store.steampowered.com/stats/" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false"> Steam Stats page</a>.</p><p style="">The annual Steam Summer Sale ends today, June 30. Check back later today to see what our "<a href="http://www.gamespot.com/articles/our-steam-summer-sale-pick-of-the-day/1100-6420612/" data-ref-id="1100-6420612">Pick of the Day</a>" is. You can also <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/articles/our-steam-summer-sale-pick-of-the-day/1100-6420612/" data-ref-id="1100-6420612">check out this post</a> for a roundup of all the games marked down during Steam's Summer Sale.</p><table data-max-width="true"><thead><tr><th scope="col"><em>Eddie Makuch is a news editor at GameSpot, and you can follow him on<a href="https://twitter.com/EddieMakuch" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false"> Twitter @EddieMakuch</a></em></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong><em>Got a news tip or want to contact us directly? Email <a href="mailto:news@gamespot.com" rel="nofollow">news@gamespot.com</a></em></strong></td></tr></tbody></table> Mon, 30 Jun 2014 04:38:00 -0700 http://www.gamespot.com/articles/steam-reaches-8-million-concurrent-users-up-from-7-6-million-six-months-ago/1100-6420814/ http://www.gamespot.com/videos/the-forest-house-of-horrors/2300-6419991/ Zorine and Ed chop up limbs, chop down trees, chop up native wildlife, build log cabins and fly through the air in the Steam Early Access Alpha of open-world survival-horror game, The Forest. Mon, 30 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.gamespot.com/videos/the-forest-house-of-horrors/2300-6419991/ http://www.gamespot.com/articles/support-reading-rainbow-kickstarter-by-buying-special-edition-ouya/1100-6420812/ <figure data-align="center" data-size="large" data-img-src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1535/15354745/2580900-5908632833-ouyaS.png" data-ref-id="1300-2580900" data-resize-url="" data-resized="" data-embed-type="image"><a href="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1535/15354745/2580900-5908632833-ouyaS.png" data-ref-id="1300-2580900"><img src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/ignore_jpg_scale_super/1535/15354745/2580900-5908632833-ouyaS.png"></a></figure><p dir="ltr" style=""><a href="http://www.gamespot.com/articles/levar-burton-wants-to-bring-reading-rainbow-to-xbox-and-playstation/1100-6419997/">Actor LeVar Burton's Reading Rainbow Kickstarter</a> has hit its $1 million funding goal and then some. At the time of writing, the Kickstarter is closing in on $4.5 million from more than 90,000 backers, but with only a few days until the campaign ends, Burton hopes new rewards from Kickstarter's most successful projects, including the Ouya, will garner even more support.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">By pledging $250, backers can get a limited edition, "Butterfly-in-the-Sky Blue" Ouya console and controller hand-signed by Burton. According to the <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/readingrainbow/bring-reading-rainbow-back-for-every-child-everywh/posts" rel="nofollow">Kickstarter page</a>, this reward should ship in December 2014. You can also get an unsigned Reading Rainbow Ouya as an add-on reward with any package for $175, or donate one to a classroom of your choice for $150.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">Burton previously said that he wants the Reading Rainbow project to come to new platforms, including gaming consoles like Xbox and PlayStation systems, but in order for that to happen the Kickstarter campaign needs to reach $5 million.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">In addition to the unspecified Xbox and PlayStation consoles, if the $5 million stretch goal is met, the new Reading Rainbow program will be released for mobile devices, as well as over-the-top boxes like AppleTV, Roku, and Kindle Fire TV.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">The other successful Kickstarter projects that are offering limited rewards in support of Reading Rainbow come from the Pebble smartwatch, Pono Music audio player, and the Veronica Mars movie.</p><p style="">Reading Rainbow went off the air in 2009. It originally aired on PBS and Burton was its host and producer.</p><table data-max-width="true"><thead><tr><th scope="col"><em>Emanuel Maiberg is a freelance writer. You can follow him on <a href="https://twitter.com/emanuelmaiberg" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">Twitter @emanuelmaiberg</a> and <a href="https://plus.google.com/116710591398405257934/" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">Google+</a>.<br /></em></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p style=""><strong><em>Got a news tip or want to contact us directly? Email <a href="mailto:news@gamespot.com" rel="nofollow">news@gamespot.com</a></em></strong></p><p style=""> </p></td></tr></tbody></table> Sun, 29 Jun 2014 16:38:00 -0700 http://www.gamespot.com/articles/support-reading-rainbow-kickstarter-by-buying-special-edition-ouya/1100-6420812/ http://www.gamespot.com/articles/mmo-warhammer-40-000-eternal-crusade-launches-founder-program-releases-alpha-gameplay-footage/1100-6420811/ <div data-embed-type="video" data-src="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqwQD_FwZgM" data-width="100%" data-height="100%"><iframe src="//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FhqwQD_FwZgM%3Fwmode%3Dopaque%26feature%3Doembed&wmode=opaque&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DhqwQD_FwZgM&image=http%3A%2F%2Fi1.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FhqwQD_FwZgM%2Fhqdefault.jpg&key=6efca6e5ad9640f180f14146a0bc1392&type=text%2Fhtml&schema=youtube" width="100%" height="100%" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe></div><p dir="ltr" style=""><a href="http://www.gamespot.com/articles/e3-2014-warhammer-40k-eternal-crusade-is-coming-and-you-can-spend-money-on-it-soon/1100-6420410/">We went to see</a> MMO <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/warhammer-40-000-eternal-crusade/">Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade</a> at E3 2014, but developer Behavior Interactive only talked about its plans for the game without showing any in-game footage.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">Earlier this week, Behavior launched its Founder Program, and with it posted a number of videos of Eternal Crusade's alpha gameplay. You've likely heard the terms "alpha," "beta," and "early access," a lot lately, and might have even been impressed with the early state of games like <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/battlefield-hardline/">Battlefield Hardline</a> and <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/destiny/">Destiny</a>.</p><p style="">The footage below, however, is from a truly early build of the game, which is most obvious because of the textureless grayboxes you can see everywhere. Otherwise, the gameplay itself looks very much like the multiplayer mode from Relic Entertainment's Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine released in 2011, only you can pilot vehicles as well. That also matches with Behavior's description of Eternal Crusade as mix between <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/warhammer-40-000-space-marine/">Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine</a> and <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/planetside-2/">PlanetSide 2</a>.</p><div data-embed-type="video" data-src="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z1lTYwNCjY" data-width="100%" data-height="100%"><iframe src="//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2F4z1lTYwNCjY%3Fwmode%3Dopaque%26feature%3Doembed&wmode=opaque&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D4z1lTYwNCjY&image=http%3A%2F%2Fi1.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2F4z1lTYwNCjY%2Fhqdefault.jpg&key=6efca6e5ad9640f180f14146a0bc1392&type=text%2Fhtml&schema=youtube" width="100%" height="100%" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe></div><div data-embed-type="video" data-src="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aHZn4gKFpo" data-width="100%" data-height="100%"><iframe src="//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2F-aHZn4gKFpo%3Fwmode%3Dopaque%26feature%3Doembed&wmode=opaque&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D-aHZn4gKFpo&image=http%3A%2F%2Fi1.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2F-aHZn4gKFpo%2Fhqdefault.jpg&key=6efca6e5ad9640f180f14146a0bc1392&type=text%2Fhtml&schema=youtube" width="100%" height="100%" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe></div><div data-embed-type="video" data-src="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tDfnhx4cxQ" data-width="100%" data-height="100%"><iframe src="//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2F8tDfnhx4cxQ%3Fwmode%3Dopaque%26feature%3Doembed&wmode=opaque&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D8tDfnhx4cxQ&image=http%3A%2F%2Fi1.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2F8tDfnhx4cxQ%2Fhqdefault.jpg&key=6efca6e5ad9640f180f14146a0bc1392&type=text%2Fhtml&schema=youtube" width="100%" height="100%" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe></div><p dir="ltr" style="">Buying into the Eternal Crusade founder's program gets you a copy of the full game when it's released and access to various game modules as they are developed. You can find a tentative timeline of when those modules will be released on <a href="https://www.eternalcrusade.com/faq#EarlyGameModule_Question" rel="nofollow">Behavior's website</a>. The most expensive package, selling at $120, earns you access to all four of the game's factions, and points you can use to purchase other items in the game.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">The game itself is currently scheduled to be released at the end of 2015.</p><table data-max-width="true"><thead><tr><th scope="col"><em>Emanuel Maiberg is a freelance writer. You can follow him on <a href="https://twitter.com/emanuelmaiberg" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">Twitter @emanuelmaiberg</a> and <a href="https://plus.google.com/116710591398405257934/" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">Google+</a>.<br /></em></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p style=""><strong><em>Got a news tip or want to contact us directly? Email <a href="mailto:news@gamespot.com" rel="nofollow">news@gamespot.com</a></em></strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table> Sun, 29 Jun 2014 15:37:00 -0700 http://www.gamespot.com/articles/mmo-warhammer-40-000-eternal-crusade-launches-founder-program-releases-alpha-gameplay-footage/1100-6420811/ http://www.gamespot.com/articles/destiny-could-sell-10-15-million-copies-more-than-call-of-duty-advanced-warfare-analyst-says/1100-6420810/ <figure data-align="center" data-size="large" data-img-src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1535/15354745/2580868-1234.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2580868" data-resize-url="" data-resized="" data-embed-type="image"><a href="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1535/15354745/2580868-1234.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2580868"><img src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/ignore_jpg_scale_super/1535/15354745/2580868-1234.jpg"></a></figure><p dir="ltr" style="">Activision is making a huge bet on <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/destiny/">Destiny</a>, and according to one analyst it's likely to pay off to the tune of 10 to 15 million copies sold, or an estimated $600 to $900 million.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">In comparison, Nintendo's <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/mario-kart-wii/">Mario Kart Wii</a>--one of the best-selling games in history--has <a href="http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/sales/software/wii.html" rel="nofollow">sold-through more than 35.5 million copies life-to-date</a>, and Rockstar's <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/grand-theft-auto-v/">Grand Theft Auto V</a> has shipped (not sold) 33 million copies to date.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">According to a report from Cowen and Company analyst Doug Creutz that was published by <a href="http://venturebeat.com/2014/06/27/preorder-analysis-suggests-destiny-could-be-the-biggest-game-of-the-year-with-10-15m-units-sold/" rel="nofollow">VentureBeat</a>, Destiny could become the best-selling game of 2014. Creutz' projection is based on "Cowen's Ordometer," which estimates how many copies a game will sell based on the number of pre-orders and data from Amazon and the NPD Group's reports on physical game sales.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">According to Creutz, Destiny has the highest Ordometer score in the last four years, and is poised to outsell Activision's other huge first-person shooter, <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/call-of-duty-advanced-warfare/">Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare</a>. The Cowen 2014 Video Game Ordometer current top five games are:</p><ol><li dir="ltr">Destiny</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.gamespot.com/the-master-chief-collection/">Halo: The Master Chief Collection</a></li><li dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.gamespot.com/assassins-creed-unity/">Assassin's Creed Unity</a></li><li dir="ltr">Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.gamespot.com/far-cry-4/">Far Cry 4</a></li></ol><p dir="ltr" style="">A projection based on pre-orders might be skewed in Destiny's favor because Bungie and Activision have been advertising the fact that players can get into its beta by pre-ordering the game. You can certainly pre-order the other games on the list, but one could argue that there isn't as strong as an incentive to do so.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">Activision's Chief Executive Officer Bobby Kotick previously suggested that the publisher will invest $500 million in Destiny (which according to Cowen's estimate means it would still turn a profit), but developer Bungie has since said that the game's budget is <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/articles/destiny-budget-nowhere-near-500-million-bungie-says/1100-6420802/">nowhere near that figure</a>.</p><p style="">Destiny launches for Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation 4 on September 9. We thought that <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/articles/e3-2014-our-first-hands-on-with-the-destiny-alpha/1100-6420314/">the game looked promising</a> when we got our hands on the alpha build earlier this month.</p><table data-max-width="true"><thead><tr><th scope="col"><em>Emanuel Maiberg is a freelance writer. You can follow him on <a href="https://twitter.com/emanuelmaiberg" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">Twitter @emanuelmaiberg</a> and <a href="https://plus.google.com/116710591398405257934/" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">Google+</a>.<br /></em></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p style=""><strong><em>Got a news tip or want to contact us directly? Email <a href="mailto:news@gamespot.com" rel="nofollow">news@gamespot.com</a></em></strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table> Sun, 29 Jun 2014 14:16:00 -0700 http://www.gamespot.com/articles/destiny-could-sell-10-15-million-copies-more-than-call-of-duty-advanced-warfare-analyst-says/1100-6420810/ http://www.gamespot.com/articles/miyamoto-for-a-lot-of-us-at-nintendo-it-s-difficult-to-decide-what-cool-is/1100-6420809/ <figure data-align="right" data-size="small" data-img-src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1535/15354745/2580826-2049429379-shige.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2580826" data-resize-url="" data-resized="" data-embed-type="image"><a href="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1535/15354745/2580826-2049429379-shige.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2580826"><img src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/ignore_jpg_scale_small/1535/15354745/2580826-2049429379-shige.jpg"></a></figure><p dir="ltr" style="">Nintendo's legendary designer Shigeru Miyamoto thinks that the company's games don't fit neatly into any of the existing game genres popular in the market today.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">"Nintendo isn't one simple element of an overall gaming industry," Miyamoto told the <a href="http://herocomplex.latimes.com/games/nintendo-keeps-the-video-game-industry-weird/" rel="nofollow">Los Angeles Times</a> in an interview at E3 2014. "I really think there needs to be a Nintendo genre, that's almost its own entity."</p><p dir="ltr" style="">As Miyamoto explained it, one of the big differences between Nintendo and other game publishers and developers is that Nintendo isn't always trying to take its games very seriously.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">"It's not that I don't like serious stories or that I couldn't make one, but currently in the video game industry you see a lot of game designers who are working really hard to make their games seem really cool," he said. "For a lot of us at Nintendo, it's difficult to decide what cool is. In fact, it's a lot easier for us to laugh at ourselves. It's almost as if we're performers. Our way of performing is by creating these fun, odd and goofy things."</p><p dir="ltr" style="">Nintendo's Wii U has been struggling since it launched, but its "odd and goofy" games are starting to turn things around, <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/articles/nintendo-wii-u-on-the-brink-of-success-no-plans-to-drop-the-gamepad/1100-6420610/">according to Nintendo of America marketing executive Scott Moffitt</a>. For example, <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/mario-kart-8/">Mario Kart 8</a> is off to solid start, <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/articles/wii-u-racer-mario-kart-8-sells-2-million-units-in-under-a-month/1100-6420770/">selling 2 million units worldwide</a> since it launched on May 30.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">GameSpot Editor Carolyn Petit also thought that <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/articles/why-nintendo-won-e3-2014/1100-6420391/">Nintendo won E3 2014</a> by having a little light-hearted fun instead of trying to go toe-to-toe with Sony and Microsoft.</p><p style=""><em>Do you think the industry could use some more odd and goofy games? Let us know in the comments below.</em></p><table data-max-width="true"><thead><tr><th scope="col"><em>Emanuel Maiberg is a freelance writer. You can follow him on <a href="https://twitter.com/emanuelmaiberg" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">Twitter @emanuelmaiberg</a> and <a href="https://plus.google.com/116710591398405257934/" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">Google+</a>.<br /></em></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p style=""><strong><em>Got a news tip or want to contact us directly? Email <a href="mailto:news@gamespot.com" rel="nofollow">news@gamespot.com</a></em></strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table> Sun, 29 Jun 2014 12:17:00 -0700 http://www.gamespot.com/articles/miyamoto-for-a-lot-of-us-at-nintendo-it-s-difficult-to-decide-what-cool-is/1100-6420809/ http://www.gamespot.com/articles/how-the-order-1886-brings-its-werewolves-to-life/1100-6420808/ <div data-embed-type="video" data-src="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI0nLoMIvK8" data-width="854" data-height="480"><iframe src="//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FCI0nLoMIvK8%3Fwmode%3Dopaque%26feature%3Doembed&wmode=opaque&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DCI0nLoMIvK8&image=http%3A%2F%2Fi1.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FCI0nLoMIvK8%2Fhqdefault.jpg&key=6efca6e5ad9640f180f14146a0bc1392&type=text%2Fhtml&schema=youtube" width="100%" height="100%" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe></div><p dir="ltr" style="">During its E3 2014 presentation, Sony showed off <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/articles/e3-2014-sony-shows-a-spookier-side-to-the-order-1886/1100-6420286/">the spookier side</a> of their upcoming exclusive third-person shooter, <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/the-order-1886/">The Order: 1886</a>. The quick demo set in the bottom of a hospital below Whitechapel showed protagonist Galahad being hunted by a werewolf, or lycan. In a recent post to the <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/2014/06/26/the-order-1886-unveils-the-lycans/" rel="nofollow">PlayStation Blog</a>, developer Ready At Dawn Studios explained how it created one of the game's most fearsome enemies.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">"We knew that one of the pillars of the game is that we not just have lycans, but the ability to transforms a human into a lycan or vice versa," Technology Director Garrett Foster said. "We wanted no cheats. We wanted continuous, no cut shots of this happening, and what that means is actually transforming the anatomy."</p><p dir="ltr" style="">Nathan Phail-Liff, the game's Art Director, said that the team "tried to capture the right balance of the human-lupine anatomy and that level of imperfection that makes it not feel like this kind of action-y comic book creature, and much more like a creature that could have existed that we just haven't seen yet."</p><p dir="ltr" style="">"I think to me the most terrifying thing is that we try to basically always have some degree of a performance in them that carries a level of intelligence," Game Director Dana Jan said. "They are smart. That to me is the scariest thing about them."</p><p dir="ltr" style="">For more on how Ready At Dawn created its werewolves, check out the video above, or <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/articles/e3-2014-the-order-1886-s-werewolves-are-a-constant-threat/1100-6420347/">GameSpot Editor Maxwell McGee's extended look at the scene shown off at Sony's E3 2014 presentation</a>.</p><p style="">The Order: 1886 launches exclusively on PlayStation 4 on February 20, 2015.</p><table data-max-width="true"><thead><tr><th scope="col"><em>Emanuel Maiberg is a freelance writer. You can follow him on <a href="https://twitter.com/emanuelmaiberg" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">Twitter @emanuelmaiberg</a> and <a href="https://plus.google.com/116710591398405257934/" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">Google+</a>.<br /></em></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p style=""><strong><em>Got a news tip or want to contact us directly? Email <a href="mailto:news@gamespot.com" rel="nofollow">news@gamespot.com</a></em></strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table> Sun, 29 Jun 2014 11:17:00 -0700 http://www.gamespot.com/articles/how-the-order-1886-brings-its-werewolves-to-life/1100-6420808/ http://www.gamespot.com/articles/our-steam-summer-sale-pick-of-the-day/1100-6420612/ <p style="">Got some spare cash you're desperate to offload? Do you have wads of bills just spilling out from your overflowing pockets? Then the <a href="http://store.steampowered.com/" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">Steam Summer Sale</a> is here to help you get rid of that pesky excess cash. With so many games on offer, it gets tough to figure out which ones to buy, so we're here to help that decision making process easier. Every day during the Steam Summer Sale--which runs from June 19 to June 30--we'll highlight our top pick from Steam's Daily Deals. Make sure to check back regularly to see which games you should get!</p><figure data-align="center" data-size="large" data-img-src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1534/15343359/2580772-terr.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2580772" data-resize-url="" data-resized="" data-embed-type="image"><a href="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1534/15343359/2580772-terr.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2580772"><img src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/ignore_jpg_scale_super/1534/15343359/2580772-terr.jpg"></a></figure><p style=""> </p><table data-max-width="true"><thead><tr><th scope="col">Day 11: June 29, 2014</th><th scope="col"> </th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p style="">Our pick: <a href="/terraria/" data-ref-id="false">Terraria </a>-- $1.99 (-80%)</p></td></tr></tbody></table><div data-embed-type="html"><div><p dir="ltr" style="">The Steam sale is drawing to a close, and that means the Summer Adventure is over as well. There are a lot of deals from earlier in the week live now, so if you missed out before, now's your time to go back and score some discounted games.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">And be sure to <a href="http://www.gog.com/" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">check out GOG.com for their sales</a> on classic PC games as well. You can get some great titles that are completely DRM-free for ridiculously low prices (including <a href="http://www.gog.com/promo/summer_bullfrog_bundle_240614" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">every Bullfrog game for 85% off -- $9.79</a>).</p></div><div><strong><a href="http://www.gamespot.com/reviews/terraria-review/1900-6316247/" data-ref-id="1900-6316247">Read our Terraria review.</a> And then check it out on <a href="http://store.steampowered.com/" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">Steam</a>.</strong></div><div> </div><div id="livefyre-app-custom-1401497831589"><strong>Other Daily Deals today:</strong></div><div><ul><li dir="ltr"><a href="/the-lego-movie-videogame/" data-ref-id="false">The Lego Movie Videogame</a> -- $7.49 (-75%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/xcom-enemy-unknown/" data-ref-id="false">XCOM: Enemy Unknown</a> -- $8.49 (-83%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/fallout-new-vegas-ultimate-edition/" data-ref-id="false">Fallout New Vegas Ultimate Edition</a> -- $6.79 (-66%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/7-days-to-die/" data-ref-id="false">7 Days to Die </a>-- $13.74 (-45%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/total-war-rome-ii/" data-ref-id="false">Total War Rome II </a>-- $20.37 (-66%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/battleblock-theater/" data-ref-id="false">Battleblock Theater </a>-- $3.74 (-75%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/divinity-original-sin/" data-ref-id="false">Divinity Original Sin</a> -- $31.99 (-20%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/brothers-a-tale-of-two-sons/" data-ref-id="false">Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons </a>-- $2.99 (-80%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/sid-meiers-civilization-v/" data-ref-id="false">Civilization V</a> -- $7.49 (-75%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim/" data-ref-id="false">The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim</a> -- $4.99 (-75%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/dynasty-warriors-3-xtreme-legends/" data-ref-id="false">Xtreme Legends Dynasty Warriors 3 Complete Edition</a> -- $24.99 (-50%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/age-of-wonders-iii/" data-ref-id="false">Age of Wonders III</a> -- $19.99 (-50%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/saints-row-iv/" data-ref-id="false">Saints Row IV</a> -- $9.99 (-75%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/arma-iii/" data-ref-id="false">Arma III</a> -- $29.99 (-50%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/the-stanley-parable/" data-ref-id="false">The Stanley Parable</a> -- $5.99 (-60%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/wasteland-2/" data-ref-id="false">Wasteland 2</a> -- $40.19 (-33%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/metal-gear-rising-revengeance/" data-ref-id="false">Metal Gear Rising Revengeance</a> -- $14.99 (-50%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/the-wolf-among-us/" data-ref-id="false">The Wolf Among Us</a> - $8.49 (-66%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/banished/" data-ref-id="false">Banished</a> -- $9.99 (-50%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/the-walking-dead-season-two/" data-ref-id="false">The Walking Dead Season Two</a> -- $12.49 (-50%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/space-engineers/" data-ref-id="false">Space Engineers </a>-- $13.99 (-33%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/bioshock-infinite/" data-ref-id="false">BioShock Infinite</a> -- $7.49 (-75%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/grand-theft-auto-iv-the-complete-edition/" data-ref-id="false">Grand Theft Auto IV Complete Edition</a> -- $5.99 (-80%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/metro-last-light/" data-ref-id="false">Metro Last Light Complete Edition</a> -- $6.79 (-66%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/dishonored/" data-ref-id="false">Dishonored </a>-- $4.99 (-75%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/state-of-decay/" data-ref-id="false">State of Decay</a> -- $4.99 (-75%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/borderlands-2/" data-ref-id="false">Borderlands 2</a> -- $4.99 (-75%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/the-witcher-2-assassins-of-kings/" data-ref-id="false">The Witcher 2</a> -- $3.99 (-80%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/south-park-the-stick-of-truth/" data-ref-id="false">South Park: The Stick of Truth</a> -- $40.19 (-33%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/assassins-creed-iv-black-flag/" data-ref-id="false">Assassins's Creed IV: Black Flag</a> -- $19.99 (-50%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/payday-2/" data-ref-id="false">Payday 2</a> -- $9.89 (-67%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/dragon-age-origins-ultimate-edition/" data-ref-id="false">Dragon Age Origins Ultimate Edition</a> -- $7.49 (-75%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/planetary-annihilation/" data-ref-id="false">Planetary Annihilation Galactic War Update</a> -- $16.99 (-66%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/counter-strike-global-offensive/" data-ref-id="false">Counter-Strike Global Offensive</a> -- $7.49 (-50%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/dark-souls-prepare-to-die-edition/" data-ref-id="false">Dark Souls Prepare to Die Edition </a>-- $4.99 (-75%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/kerbal-space-program/" data-ref-id="false">Kerbal Space Program </a>-- $16.19 (-40%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/far-cry-3/" data-ref-id="false">Far Cry 3</a> -- $7.49 (-75%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/tomb-raider/" data-ref-id="false">Tomb Raider</a> -- $4.99 (-75%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/batman-arkham-origins/" data-ref-id="false">Batman: Arkham Origins</a> -- $7.49 (-75%)</li></ul></div></div><p style=""> </p><figure data-align="center" data-size="large" data-img-src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1534/15343359/2580408-portal2.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2580408" data-resize-url="" data-resized="" data-embed-type="image"><a href="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1534/15343359/2580408-portal2.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2580408"><img src="http://static2.gamespot.com/uploads/ignore_jpg_scale_super/1534/15343359/2580408-portal2.jpg"></a></figure><p style=""> </p><table data-max-width="true"><thead><tr><th scope="col">Day 10: June 28, 2014</th><th scope="col"> </th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p style="">Our pick: <a href="/portal-2/" data-ref-id="false">Portal 2</a> -- $4.99 (-75%)</p></td></tr></tbody></table><div data-embed-type="html"><div><p dir="ltr" style="">How do you follow up one of the greatest PC games of all time? With a sequel that's even more brilliant, hilarious, and ingenious than the original. Portal 2 picks up where the original ended adding in new test chambers with devious but thrilling new mechanics. The game also introduces a co-op mode, so you should probably pick up an extra copy for one of your friends. Portal 2 two packs are selling for $8.74, or you can go for the game plus Portal 1 for $6.24 in case you haven't played the first one yet.</p></div><div><strong><a href="http://www.gamespot.com/reviews/portal-2-review/1900-6309270/" data-ref-id="1900-6309270">Read our review.</a> And then check it out on <a href="http://store.steampowered.com/" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">Steam</a>.</strong></div><div> </div><div id="livefyre-app-custom-1401497831589"><strong>Other Daily Deals today:</strong></div><div><ul><li dir="ltr"><a href="/shadowrun-returns/" data-ref-id="false">Shadowrun Returns</a> -- $3.74 (-75%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/wolfenstein-the-new-order/" data-ref-id="false">Wolfenstein: The New Order</a> -- $29.99 (-50%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/garrys-mod/" data-ref-id="false">Garry's Mod</a> -- $2.49 (-75%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/thief/" data-ref-id="false">Thief </a>-- $14.99 (-50%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/football-manager-2014/" data-ref-id="false">Football Manager 2014</a> -- $12.49 (-75%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/goat-simulator/" data-ref-id="false">Goat Simulator</a> -- $5.99 (-40%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/baldurs-gate-ii-enhanced-edition/" data-ref-id="false">Baldur's Gate II</a> -- $6.24 (-75%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/chivalry-medieval-warfare/" data-ref-id="false">Chivalry: Medieval Warfare </a>-- $4.99 (-80%)</li></ul></div></div><p style=""> </p><figure data-align="center" data-size="large" data-img-src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1406/14063904/2579950-payday2.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2579950" data-resize-url="" data-resized="" data-embed-type="image"><a href="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1406/14063904/2579950-payday2.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2579950"><img src="http://static3.gamespot.com/uploads/ignore_jpg_scale_super/1406/14063904/2579950-payday2.jpg"></a></figure><table data-max-width="true"><thead><tr><th scope="col">Day 9: June 27, 2014</th><th scope="col"> </th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p style=""><strong>Our pick: <a href="/payday-2/" data-ref-id="false">Payday 2</a> -- $5.99 (-80%)</strong></p><div data-embed-type="html"><div><p dir="ltr" style="">Payday 2 is a riotous co-op heist-fest where you and three of your friends gang up for a crime spree around Washington D.C., and whether you make a scot-free getaway, or the s*** hits the fan while you're holed up in a bank vault, there are plenty of opportunities for drama and hilarity within. For the next 48 hours, Payday 2 is a steal on Steam at only $5.99. Or, if you want to make sure that you've got a full crew to ride with, you can pick up a four-pack, which includes four Payday 2 licenses, for $17.99, which is just over half of the game's normal price of $29.99.</p></div><div><strong><a href="/reviews/payday-2-review/1900-6413620/" data-ref-id="1900-6413620">Read our review.</a> And then check it out on <a href="http://store.steampowered.com/" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">Steam</a>.</strong></div><div> </div><div id="livefyre-app-custom-1401497831589"><strong>Other Daily Deals today:</strong></div><div><ul><li dir="ltr"><a href="/wargame-red-dragon/" data-ref-id="false">Wargame: Red Dragon</a> -- $23.99 (-40%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/deus-ex-human-revolution-directors-cut/" data-ref-id="false">Deus Ex: Human Revolution Director's Cut</a> -- $4.99 (-75%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/transistor/" data-ref-id="false">Transistor</a> -- $14.99 (-25%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/tropico-4/" data-ref-id="false">Tropico 4: Steam Special Edition</a> -- $2.99 (-85%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/grand-theft-auto-iv-episodes-from-liberty-city/" data-ref-id="false">Grand Theft Auto IV & Episodes from Liberty City</a> -- $5.99 (-80%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/assetto-corsa/" data-ref-id="false">Assetto Corsa</a> -- $19.99 (-50%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/age-of-mythology-extended-edition/" data-ref-id="false">Age of Mythology Extended Edition</a> -- $17.99 (-40%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/space-engineers/" data-ref-id="false">Space Engineers</a> -- $13.39 (-33%)</li></ul></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><figure data-align="center" data-size="large" data-img-src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/225/2256286/2579236-dishonored.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2579236" data-resize-url="" data-resized="" data-embed-type="image"><a href="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/225/2256286/2579236-dishonored.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2579236"><img src="http://static4.gamespot.com/uploads/ignore_jpg_scale_super/225/2256286/2579236-dishonored.jpg"></a></figure><table data-max-width="true"><thead><tr><th scope="col">Day 8: June 26, 2014</th><th scope="col"> </th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p style="">Our pick: <a href="/dishonored/" data-ref-id="false">Dishonored</a> -- $4.99 (-75%)</p><div data-embed-type="html"><div><p dir="ltr" style="">Great stealth games are few and far between, so it was no surprise that Dishonored was celebrated when it was first released in 2012. Not only did the game feature rock solid stealth mechanics, it also gave us a compelling fictional world in which to revel in. At $4.99, Dishonored is a great bargain, and is certainly a must-buy if you've never experienced the adventures of Corvo before.</p></div><div><strong><a href="/reviews/dishonored-review/1900-6397799/" data-ref-id="1900-6397799">Read our review.</a> And then check it out on <a href="http://store.steampowered.com/" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">Steam</a>.</strong></div><div> </div><div id="livefyre-app-custom-1401497831589"><strong>Other Daily Deals today:</strong></div><div><ul><li dir="ltr"><a href="/sid-meiers-civilization-v/" data-ref-id="false">Civilization V</a>: $7.49 (-75%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/banished/" data-ref-id="false">Banished</a>: $9.99 (-50%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/assassins-creed-iv-black-flag/" data-ref-id="false">Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag</a>: $19.99 (-50%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/train-simulator-2014/" data-ref-id="false">Train Simulator 2014</a>: $8.24 (-85%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/total-war-rome-ii/" data-ref-id="false">Total War Rome II</a>: $20.37 (-66%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/left-4-dead-2/" data-ref-id="false">Left 4 Dead 2</a>: $4.99 (-75%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/europa-universalis-iv/" data-ref-id="false">Europa Universalis IV</a>: $9.99 (-75%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/reviews/resident-evil-4-hd-edition-review/1900-6415680/" data-ref-id="1900-6415680">Resident Evil 4 HD Edition</a>: $11.99 (-40%)</li></ul></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><figure data-align="center" data-size="large" data-img-src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/225/2256286/2578151-bioshocki.png" data-ref-id="1300-2578151" data-resize-url="" data-resized="" data-embed-type="image"><a href="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/225/2256286/2578151-bioshocki.png" data-ref-id="1300-2578151"><img src="http://static5.gamespot.com/uploads/ignore_jpg_scale_super/225/2256286/2578151-bioshocki.png"></a></figure><table data-max-width="true"><thead><tr><th scope="col">Day 7: June 25, 2014</th><th scope="col"> </th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p style="">Our pick: <a href="/bioshock-infinite/" data-ref-id="false">Bioshock Infinite</a> -- $7.49 (-75%)</p><div data-embed-type="html"><div><p dir="ltr" style="">If you haven't yet had a chance to experience one of the most intriguing shooters released in recent years, then now's your opportunity to do it on the cheap. Bioshock Infinite released to critical acclaim in March 2013, and is both an engaging shooter and a compelling narrative, two hallmarks of the much-lauded Bioshock series. At $7.49, Bioshock Infinite is already a bargain, but if you a few more extra dollars, then Steam is also selling a <a href="http://store.steampowered.com/app/8870/" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">Bioshock triple pack</a> (which includes the previous two games as well as Infinite) for $10.19.</p></div><div><strong><a href="/bioshock-infinite/" data-ref-id="false">Read our review</a>. And then check it out on <a href="http://store.steampowered.com/" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">Steam</a>.</strong></div><div> </div><div id="livefyre-app-custom-1401497831589"><strong>Other Daily Deals today:</strong></div><ul><li><a href="/endless-space/" data-ref-id="false">Endless Space Emperor Edition</a>: $7.49 (-75%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/kerbal-space-program/" data-ref-id="false">Kerbal Space Program</a>: $16.19 (-40%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/company-of-heroes-2/" data-ref-id="false">Company of Heroes 2</a>: $9.99 (-75%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/the-banner-saga/" data-ref-id="false">The Banner Saga</a>: $12.49 (-50%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/counter-strike-global-offensive/" data-ref-id="false">Counter Strike: Global Offensive</a>: $7.49 ($14.99)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/child-of-light/" data-ref-id="false">Child of Light</a>: $11.24 (-25%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/final-fantasy-xiv-online/" data-ref-id="false">Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn</a>: $14.99 (-50%)</li><li dir="ltr"><a href="/batman-arkham-origins/" data-ref-id="false">Batman: Arkham Origins</a>: $7.49 (-75%)</li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table><figure data-align="center" data-size="large" data-img-src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1534/15343359/2577220-brothers.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2577220" data-resize-url="" data-resized="" data-embed-type="image"><a href="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1534/15343359/2577220-brothers.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2577220"><img src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/ignore_jpg_scale_super/1534/15343359/2577220-brothers.jpg"></a></figure><table data-max-width="true"><thead><tr><th scope="col">Day 6: June 24, 2014</th><th scope="col"> </th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p style="">Our pick: <a href="/brothers-a-tale-of-two-sons/" data-ref-id="false">Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons</a> -- $2.99 (-80%)</p><div data-embed-type="html"><div><p style="">Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, takes a unique control scheme and turns it into part of the story. Your left control stick controls one brother, and youe right stick the other as you explore the fantastical--and at times terrifying--world these siblings inhabit. It's essentially single-player co-op, and the story is as moving and emotional as its gameplay is original.</p></div><div><strong><a href="http://www.gamespot.com/reviews/brothers-a-tale-of-two-sons-review/1900-6412546/" data-ref-id="1900-6412546">Read our review</a>. And then check it out on <a href="http://store.steampowered.com/" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">Steam</a>.</strong></div><div> </div><div id="livefyre-app-custom-1401497831589"><strong>Other Daily Deals today:</strong></div><div><ul><li><a href="/metro-last-light/" data-ref-id="false">Metro Last Light: Complete Editio</a>n -- $6.79</li><li><a href="/tom-clancys-splinter-cell-blacklist/" data-ref-id="false">Splinter Cell: Blacklist</a> -- $7.49</li><li><a href="/fallout-new-vegas-ultimate-edition/" data-ref-id="false">Fallout: New Vegas: Ultimate Edition</a> -- $6.79</li><li><a href="/call-of-duty-ghosts/" data-ref-id="false">Call of Duty: Ghosts</a>: $29.99</li><li><a href="/torchlight-ii/" data-ref-id="false">Torchlight II</a> -- $4.99</li><li><a href="/murdered-soul-suspect/" data-ref-id="false">Murdered: Soul Suspect</a> -- $33.49</li><li><a href="/age-of-wonders-iii/" data-ref-id="false">Age of Wonders III</a> -- $19.99</li><li><a href="/blackguards/" data-ref-id="false">Blackguards</a> -- $13.59</li></ul></div></div></td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><figure data-align="center" data-size="large" data-img-src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1534/15343359/2576740-ftl4.png" data-ref-id="1300-2576740" data-resize-url="" data-resized="" data-embed-type="image"><a href="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1534/15343359/2576740-ftl4.png" data-ref-id="1300-2576740"><img src="http://static2.gamespot.com/uploads/ignore_jpg_scale_super/1534/15343359/2576740-ftl4.png"></a></figure><table data-max-width="true"><thead><tr><th scope="col">Day 5: June 23, 2014</th><th scope="col"> </th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p style="">Our pick: <a href="/ftl-faster-than-light/" data-ref-id="false">FTL: Faster Than Light</a> -- $3.99 (-60%)</p><div data-embed-type="html"><div><p style="">Almost two years after the game’s initial release, our Twitter feeds still erupt with <a href="/ftl-faster-than-light/" data-ref-id="false">FTL</a>-related curses from time to time, with my friends venting their triumphs and frustrations when facing a particularly adamant set of foes. This space sim/roguelike hybrid is special--simple to look at yet teeming with strategic possibilities and nail-biting encounters. Missing out on FTL would be a disaster of galactic proportions.</p></div><div><strong><a href="http://www.gamespot.com/ftl-faster-than-light/reviews/" data-ref-id="false">Read our review</a>. And then check it out on <a href="http://store.steampowered.com/" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">Steam</a>.</strong></div><div> </div><div id="livefyre-app-custom-1401497831589"><strong>Other Daily Deals today:</strong></div><div><ul><li><a href="/dark-souls-prepare-to-die-edition/" data-ref-id="false">Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition</a>: $4.99</li><li><a href="/surgeon-simulator-2013/" data-ref-id="false">Surgeon Simulator 2013</a>: $2.49</li><li><a href="/arma-iii/" data-ref-id="false">Arma III</a>: $29.99</li><li><a href="/rogue-legacy/" data-ref-id="false">Rogue Legacy</a>: $3.74</li><li><a href="/insurgency/" data-ref-id="false">Insurgency</a>: $6.74</li><li><a href="/saints-row-iv/" data-ref-id="false">Saints Row IV</a>: $9.99</li><li><a href="/the-lego-movie-videogame/" data-ref-id="false">The Lego Movie Videogame</a>: $7.49</li><li><a href="/nether/" data-ref-id="false">Nether</a>: $2.99</li></ul></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><figure data-align="center" data-size="large" data-img-src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1534/15343359/2574881-tomb-raider-gets-important-1-0-722-3-steam-patch-2.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2574881" data-resize-url="" data-resized="" data-embed-type="image"><a href="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1534/15343359/2574881-tomb-raider-gets-important-1-0-722-3-steam-patch-2.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2574881"><img src="http://static3.gamespot.com/uploads/ignore_jpg_scale_super/1534/15343359/2574881-tomb-raider-gets-important-1-0-722-3-steam-patch-2.jpg"></a></figure><table data-max-width="true"><thead><tr><th scope="col">Day 4: June 22, 2014</th><th scope="col"> </th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p style="">Our pick: <a href="/tomb-raider/" data-ref-id="false">Tomb Raider</a> -- $4.99 (-75%)</p><p style="">Tomb Raider's sequel, <a href="/rise-of-the-tomb-raider/" data-ref-id="false">Rise of the Tomb Raider</a>, was announced at E3 earlier this month, and there's also the great co-op action game <a href="/lara-croft-and-the-temple-of-osiris/" data-ref-id="false">Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris</a>, but if you still haven't given it a try, this is the game to play while you wait. The gritty series reboot tells the story of Lara's origins and how she became the hardened adventurer we know her as today.</p><div data-embed-type="html"><div><strong><a href="http://www.gamespot.com/tomb-raider/reviews/" data-ref-id="false">Read our review</a>. And then check it out on <a href="http://store.steampowered.com/" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">Steam</a>.</strong></div><div> </div><div id="livefyre-app-custom-1401497831589"><strong>Other Daily Deals today:</strong></div><div><ul><li><a href="/battleblock-theater/" data-ref-id="false">BattleBlock Theater:</a> $3.74</li><li><a href="/borderlands-2/" data-ref-id="false">Borderlands 2</a>: $4.99</li><li><a href="/kingdoms-of-amalur-reckoning/" data-ref-id="false">Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning</a>: $4.99</li><li><a href="/outlast/" data-ref-id="false">Outlast</a>: $4.99</li><li><a href="/planetary-annihilation/" data-ref-id="false">Planetary Annihilation: Galactic War Update</a>: $16.99</li><li><a href="/south-park-the-stick-of-truth/" data-ref-id="false">South Park: The Stick of Truth</a>: $40.19</li><li><a href="/the-wolf-among-us/" data-ref-id="false">The Wolf Among Us</a>: $8.49</li><li><a href="/metal-gear-rising-revengeance/" data-ref-id="false">Metal Gear Rising Revengeance</a>: $14.99</li></ul></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><figure data-align="center" data-size="large" data-img-src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1534/15343359/2574464-steamworkshop_webupload_previewfile_221572497_preview.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2574464" data-resize-url="" data-resized="" data-embed-type="image"><a href="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1534/15343359/2574464-steamworkshop_webupload_previewfile_221572497_preview.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2574464"><img src="http://static4.gamespot.com/uploads/ignore_jpg_scale_super/1534/15343359/2574464-steamworkshop_webupload_previewfile_221572497_preview.jpg"></a></figure><table data-max-width="true"><thead><tr><th scope="col">Day 3: June 21, 2014</th><th scope="col"> </th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p style="">Our pick: <a href="/the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim/" data-ref-id="false">The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim</a> -- $4.99 (-75%)</p><div data-embed-type="html"><div><p style=""><a href="http://www.gamespot.com/amnesia-a-machine-for-pigs/" target="_blank">T</a>he epic fantasy RPG has seen deep discounts before, but there's no better time than now to pick it up if you've been waiting. Explore the open-world of Skyrim, customize your character and playstyle, and maybe even fight some dragons. You can also get the Legendary Edition of the game, complete with all the DLC expansions, for just $13.59.</p></div><div><strong><a href="http://www.gamespot.com/reviews/the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-review/1900-6344618/" data-ref-id="1900-6344618">Read our review</a>. And then check it out on <a href="http://store.steampowered.com/app/72850/" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">Steam</a>.</strong></div><div> </div><div id="livefyre-app-custom-1401497831589"><strong>Other Daily Deals today:</strong></div><div><ul><li><a href="/7-days-to-die/" data-ref-id="false">7 Days to Die</a>: $13.74</li><li><a href="/the-stanley-parable/" data-ref-id="false">The Stanley Parable</a>: $5.99</li><li><a href="/age-of-empires-ii-hd-edition/" data-ref-id="false">Age of Empires II: HD Edition</a>: $4.99</li><li><a href="/project-zomboid/" data-ref-id="false">Project Zomboid</a>: $10.04</li><li><a href="/wasteland-2/" data-ref-id="false">Wasteland 2</a>: $40.19</li><li><a href="/contagion/" data-ref-id="false">Contagion</a>: $4.99</li><li><a href="/dragon-age-origins-ultimate-edition/" data-ref-id="false">Dragon Age Origins Ultimate Edition</a>: $7.49</li><li><a href="/terraria/" data-ref-id="false">Terraria</a>: $1.99</li></ul></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><figure data-align="center" data-size="large" data-img-src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/225/2256286/2573520-amnesia.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2573520" data-resize-url="" data-resized="" data-embed-type="image"><a href="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/225/2256286/2573520-amnesia.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2573520"><img src="http://static5.gamespot.com/uploads/ignore_jpg_scale_super/225/2256286/2573520-amnesia.jpg"></a></figure><table data-max-width="true"><thead><tr><th scope="col">Day 2: June 20, 2014</th><th scope="col"> </th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p style="">Our pick: <a href="/amnesia-a-machine-for-pigs/" data-ref-id="false">Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs</a>--$4.99 (-75%)</p><div data-embed-type="html"><div><p style=""><a href="http://www.gamespot.com/amnesia-a-machine-for-pigs/" target="_blank">Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs</a>, the follow-up to the genuinely frightening <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/amnesia-the-dark-descent/" target="_blank">Amnesia: The Dark Descent</a>, is a steal on the Steam Summer sale today at 75% off. Machine for Pigs is set in the same universe as the original, but it follows a new story and cast of characters, so it's a great place to start if you're looking for a horror fix on a budget (though the original is also currently going for 80% off and you can get <a href="http://store.steampowered.com/sub/36631/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">both games together for only $6.99</a>).</p></div><div><strong><a href="/amnesia-a-machine-for-pigs/" data-ref-id="false">Read our review</a>. And then check it out on <a href="http://store.steampowered.com/" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">Steam</a>.</strong></div><div> </div><div id="livefyre-app-custom-1401497831589"><strong>Other Daily Deals today:</strong></div><div><ul><li><a href="/bound-by-flame/" data-ref-id="false">Bound By Flame</a>: $23.99</li><li><a href="/shin-sangoku-musou-7-musouden/" data-ref-id="false">Dynasty Warriors 8 Xtreme Legends</a>: $24.99</li><li><a href="/game-dev-tycoon/" data-ref-id="false">Game Dev Tycoon</a>: $3.99</li><li><a href="/plague-inc-evolved/" data-ref-id="false">Plague Inc Evolved</a>: $10.04</li><li><a href="/prison-architect/" data-ref-id="false">Prison Architect</a>: $10.19</li><li><a href="/rpg-maker-vx-ace/" data-ref-id="false">RPG Maker VX Ace</a>: $17.49</li><li><a href="/the-walking-dead-season-two/" data-ref-id="false">The Walking Dead Season Two</a>: $12.49</li><li><a href="/state-of-decay/" data-ref-id="false">State of Decay</a>: $4.99</li></ul></div></div></td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><figure data-align="center" data-size="large" data-img-src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/225/2256286/2573522-farcry3.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2573522" data-resize-url="" data-resized="" data-embed-type="image"><a href="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/225/2256286/2573522-farcry3.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2573522"><img src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/ignore_jpg_scale_super/225/2256286/2573522-farcry3.jpg"></a></figure><table data-max-width="true"><thead><tr><th scope="col">Day 1: June 19, 2014</th><th scope="col"> </th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p style=""><strong>Our pick: <a href="/far-cry-3/" data-ref-id="false">Far Cry 3</a>--$7.49 (-75%)</strong></p><p style="">The Far Cry series has always been ambitious, and it culminated with the sprawling, enthralling, and sometimes narratively challenging Far Cry 3. If you're looking for a shooter that eschews the military feel most others in the genre embrace, then you can't go wrong with this outstanding game. Plus, with <a href="/far-cry-4/" data-ref-id="false">Far Cry 4</a> coming out later this year, now's a great time to catch up on the last game in this intriguing series.</p><p style=""><a href="/reviews/far-cry-3-review/1900-6400893/" data-ref-id="1900-6400893">Read our review.</a> And then check it out on <a href="http://store.steampowered.com/" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">Steam</a>.</p><p style=""><strong>Other Daily Deals today:</strong></p><ul><li><a href="/dead-rising-3/" data-ref-id="false">Dead Rising 3</a> pre-purchase: $37.49</li><li><a href="/sins-of-a-solar-empire/" data-ref-id="false">Sins of a Solar Empire</a>: $7.99</li><li><a href="/divinity-original-sin/" data-ref-id="false">Divinity: Original Sin</a>: $31.99</li><li><a href="/democracy-3/" data-ref-id="false">Democracy 3</a>: $8.49</li><li><a href="/xcom-enemy-unknown/" data-ref-id="false">XCOM: Enemy Unknown</a>: $7.49</li><li><a href="/dont-starve/" data-ref-id="false">Don't Starve</a>: $3.74</li><li><a href="/the-witcher-2-assassins-of-kings/" data-ref-id="false">The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings</a> Enhanced Edition: $3.99</li><li><a href="/dayz/" data-ref-id="false">DayZ</a>: $25.49</li></ul></td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><p style=""><em>Check back tomorrow to see our newest pick from the <a href="http://store.steampowered.com/" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">Steam Summer Sale Daily Deals</a>!</em></p> Sun, 29 Jun 2014 10:34:00 -0700 http://www.gamespot.com/articles/our-steam-summer-sale-pick-of-the-day/1100-6420612/ http://www.gamespot.com/articles/what-other-horror-games-lie-inside-the-evil-within/1100-6420739/ <p style="">With the upcoming horror game <a href="/the-evil-within/" data-ref-id="false">The Evil Within</a>, director Shinji Mikami is aiming to return to the roots of the survival horror genre. If there is anyone who has the qualifications to do that, it's Mikami, the father of the <a href="/resident-evil/" data-ref-id="false">Resident Evil </a>series.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">The series was one of the first to establish the survival horror formula. The old-school survival horror games which frightened me did so by punctuating lengthy moments of tension with sparing but frantic bursts of action. The horror games of that bygone era did not hold my hand; they threw me blindly into fear-triggering scenarios with a single goal in mind: survival. To progress, I needed to move past my fear. By comparison, modern horror games typically feature linear objectives and rely more heavily on quick jump scares and checkpoints, taking the challenge away from the survival element of the genre.</p><figure data-align="center" data-size="large" data-img-src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/280/2802776/2578939-tew1.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2578939" data-resize-url="" data-resized="" data-embed-type="image"><a href="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/280/2802776/2578939-tew1.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2578939"><img src="http://static3.gamespot.com/uploads/ignore_jpg_scale_super/280/2802776/2578939-tew1.jpg"></a></figure><p dir="ltr" style="">Mikami feels that things have grown bleak for fans of the genre, and has gone so far as to say that there are "<a href="http://www.gamespot.com/articles/sequels-a-big-problem-for-horror-genre-says-mikami/1100-6411736/" data-ref-id="1100-6411736">no real survival horror games</a>" currently available. Now at the head of Tango Gameworks, he is confident the studio's debut game, The Evil Within, addresses this. "I want to return to survival horror's roots. We've strayed from that. I want to explore fear again, and that sense of overcoming fear, one that's unique to games," Mikami said.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">Mikami left the Resident Evil series after its fourth instalment, which began to move the series into action-heavy territory. Its most recent instalment,<a href="/resident-evil-6/" data-ref-id="false"> Resident Evil 6</a>, played more like an action blockbuster, leaving a void which indie horror games have attempted to fill. But these smaller, shorter games lack the scope and ambition of the heavyweights which defined the genre.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">Given his promises, I expected Mikami's direction of The Evil Within to elicit feelings reminiscent of the older Resident Evil games. But the preview build I played for two hours exhibited more noticeable influences from more recent horror games.</p><h2 dir="ltr"><a href="/resident-evil-4/" data-ref-id="false">RESIDENT EVIL 4</a></h2><p dir="ltr" style="">The protagonist of Resident Evil 4, Leon Kennedy, shares many traits with The Evil Within's Sebastian Castellanos. Both characters know how to handle themselves in a dangerous situation, both are suddenly beset by occult forces, and both retain a collected demeanor while in combat.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">Both characters carry knives, which can be used to slash at destructible crates and containers to search for more supplies. When put to use in The Evil Within, the mechanic bears an uncanny visual resemblance to its RE4 counterpart.</p><figure data-embed-type="comparison" data-img-src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/280/2802776/2578948-leonkennedy.jpg,http://static2.gamespot.com/uploads/original/280/2802776/2578949-tew2rs.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2578948,1300-2578949" data-size="large" data-resize-urls="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/scale_super/280/2802776/2578948-leonkennedy.jpg,http://static2.gamespot.com/uploads/scale_super/280/2802776/2578949-tew2rs.jpg" data-resized="" data-resize-url=""><a href="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/280/2802776/2578948-leonkennedy.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2578948" ><img src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/scale_super/280/2802776/2578948-leonkennedy.jpg"></a><a href="http://static2.gamespot.com/uploads/original/280/2802776/2578949-tew2rs.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2578949" ><img src="http://static2.gamespot.com/uploads/scale_super/280/2802776/2578949-tew2rs.jpg"></a><figcaption>Leon and Sebastian share many similar traits.</figcaption></figure><p dir="ltr" style="">As in RE4, shooting with pinpoint accuracy can take time, but lining up a headshot helps to conserve ammo, which aids survival. Ammo appears to be plentiful; I never ran dry and always had a gun available. However, raising a weapon and aiming it does not limit Sebastian's movement as it did for Leon.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">Even some of the scripted moments in The Evil Within struck me as nearly identical to those in RE4. A particular scenario which saw a mysterious antagonist lock Sebastian in an area and suddenly swarmed by humanlike monstrosities, unable to escape until all attackers were slain, triggered memories of a similar moment in RE4. Both games overwhelm you with enemies that move erratically by switching from shuffling slowly to lashing out with a sudden burst of speed.</p><h2 dir="ltr"><a href="/resident-evil/" data-ref-id="false">RESIDENT EVIL (GAMECUBE REMAKE)</a></h2><p dir="ltr" style="">It's common for the survival aspect of horror games to incorporate stealth when you're moving about. The Evil Within is no exception, emphasising the benefit of remaining out of sight by granting the ability to execute stealth kills when hidden. Sneaking up to enemies allows Sebastian to snap their necks or slash their throats, which quickly and quietly downs them.</p><figure data-align="right" data-size="medium" data-img-src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/280/2802776/2578946-tew3.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2578946" data-resize-url="" data-resized="" data-embed-type="image"><a href="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/280/2802776/2578946-tew3.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2578946"><img src="http://static4.gamespot.com/uploads/ignore_jpg_scale_medium/280/2802776/2578946-tew3.jpg"></a><figcaption>The dead do not stay dead.</figcaption></figure><p dir="ltr" style="">The dead do not stay dead, however, as enemies can rise again and resume their creeping after a period of time has passed. To combat this, Sebastian can set bodies on fire to permanently dispose of them after they have been downed.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">A limited number of matches can be carried, but more can be found to replenish the supply. This rising-undead mechanic is used to great effect in the GameCube remake of Resident Evil, which features zombies that don't disappear after being killed but instead mutate over a period of time. These mutated zombies, known as crimson heads, are faster and tougher, which makes them substantially harder to kill when they rise again.</p><h2 dir="ltr"><a href="/outlast/" data-ref-id="false">OUTLAST</a></h2><p dir="ltr" style="">Avoiding enemies is also an option, with Sebastian able to hide in cupboards and under beds. While hiding may sometimes provide an alternative to direct combat, the mechanic serves as the only means of safety in last year's indie horror game Outlast. Sebastian can peek out from his hiding places to keep an eye on the threat. Looking around corners and observing enemy patrol routes is also required at certain points in both games.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">In Outlast, though, enemies are more prone to looking into potential hiding places to root you out. Throughout my time with The Evil Within, I was not discovered once, although that could be attributed to random luck.</p><figure data-align="center" data-size="large" data-img-src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/280/2802776/2578956-outlast3.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2578956" data-resize-url="" data-resized="" data-embed-type="image"><a href="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/280/2802776/2578956-outlast3.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2578956"><img src="http://static5.gamespot.com/uploads/ignore_jpg_scale_super/280/2802776/2578956-outlast3.jpg"></a><figcaption>Hiding is paramount to survival in Outlast.</figcaption></figure><h2 dir="ltr"><a href="/the-last-of-us/" data-ref-id="false">THE LAST OF US</a></h2><p dir="ltr" style="">Tripwire traps are featured in The Last of Us, acting as a means of controlling the pace of the action by forcing you to slow down and scrutinise your surroundings.</p><figure data-ref-id="1300-2579002" data-img-src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/280/2802776/2579002-the+last+of+us.jpeg" data-size="medium" data-align="left" data-resize-url="" data-resized="" data-embed-type="image"><a href="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/280/2802776/2579002-the+last+of+us.jpeg" data-ref-id="1300-2579002"><img src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/ignore_jpg_scale_medium/280/2802776/2579002-the+last+of+us.jpeg"></a><figcaption>The Last of Us contains many hazardous environments.</figcaption></figure><p dir="ltr" style="">Creeping around in The Evil Within is not without its own environmental hazards, because the game's eerie mansions and blood-soaked sewers are sometimes littered with traps.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">Disarming them is a gamble; you need a degree of dexterity to dismantle them without setting them off.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">Like in The Last of Us, successfully disarming traps in The Evil Within grants an item which can be used in crafting. Crafting is also a challenge in and of itself, because bringing up the inventory menu in both games does not pause time, although The Evil Within does slow down time slightly.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">While Mikami intends for The Evil Within to embrace the elements which traditionally defined old-school survival horror, this preview build left me scrambling to identify where Mikami's promises have been fulfilled. Headed by a gun-toting action hero protagonist who has no qualms about taking down hordes of otherworldly creatures, The Evil Within displays notable influence from the more recent, action-heavy games of the genre, but not the roots of survival horror which Mikami spoke of.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">Perhaps once I've had a chance to complete the full game, it will prove itself as the unique survival horror experience that has been promised. Though I did experience moments of tension while playing The Evil Within, they were the consequence of scripted scenes which felt linear and fleeting, and not the result of a carefully crafted formula created to induce persistent fear.</p> Sun, 29 Jun 2014 10:00:00 -0700 http://www.gamespot.com/articles/what-other-horror-games-lie-inside-the-evil-within/1100-6420739/ http://www.gamespot.com/articles/gta-producer-to-buy-church-for-edinburgh-community/1100-6420807/ <figure data-align="right" data-size="small" data-img-src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1535/15354745/2580763-2134231604-640px.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2580763" data-resize-url="" data-resized="" data-embed-type="image"><a href="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1535/15354745/2580763-2134231604-640px.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2580763"><img src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/ignore_jpg_scale_small/1535/15354745/2580763-2134231604-640px.jpg"></a></figure><p dir="ltr" style="">President of Grand Theft Auto developer Rockstar North Leslie Benzies will buy Edinburgh's St. Stephen's Church to save it for the community, the <a href="http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/rockstar-north-chief-buys-st-stephen-s-church-1-3458879" rel="nofollow">Edinburgh Evening News</a> reports.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">A spokesperson for Benzies said that the church, which is believed to cost well over £500,000, is "an entirely philanthropic purchase" to preserve St. Stephen's and keep it open to community use.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">Dating back to the 1820s, the church has an 800-capacity venue that hosts live music, dance, and theater performances, and has been used as a local community center for the past two decades.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">Benzies, a Scotland native, has lived in Edinburgh for more than a decade, where Rockstar North has developed every Grand Theft Auto game since <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/grand-theft-auto-iii/">Grand Theft Auto III</a>.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">According to the Edinburgh Evening News, Benzies' undisclosed bid for the church beat more than 50 potential buyers who intended to turn it into private apartments or businesses.</p><p style="">Benzies' spokesperson said that he recognized the building's importance to the community. "My client looks forward to completing the sale imminently to secure the plans for the church's ongoing use. We will engage with the community as the plans progress and look forward to welcoming local residents and groups back to the center in the very near future."</p><table data-max-width="true"><thead><tr><th scope="col"><em>Emanuel Maiberg is a freelance writer. You can follow him on <a href="https://twitter.com/emanuelmaiberg" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">Twitter @emanuelmaiberg</a> and <a href="https://plus.google.com/116710591398405257934/" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">Google+</a>.<br /></em></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p style=""><strong><em>Got a news tip or want to contact us directly? Email <a href="mailto:news@gamespot.com" rel="nofollow">news@gamespot.com</a></em></strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table> Sun, 29 Jun 2014 09:37:00 -0700 http://www.gamespot.com/articles/gta-producer-to-buy-church-for-edinburgh-community/1100-6420807/ http://www.gamespot.com/videos/child-of-light-vita-new-guacamelee-gundam-reborn-n/2300-6419990/ This week we get Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition, Child of Light on the Vita, Dynasty Warriors: Gundam Reborn and Ship Simulator: Maritime Search and Rescue. Sun, 29 Jun 2014 09:00:00 -0700 http://www.gamespot.com/videos/child-of-light-vita-new-guacamelee-gundam-reborn-n/2300-6419990/ http://www.gamespot.com/articles/rust-developer-was-prototyping-open-world-hitman-type-game/1100-6420806/ <figure data-align="center" data-size="large" data-img-src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1535/15354745/2580723-4694237344-24149.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2580723" data-resize-url="" data-resized="" data-embed-type="image"><a href="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1535/15354745/2580723-4694237344-24149.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2580723"><img src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/ignore_jpg_scale_super/1535/15354745/2580723-4694237344-24149.jpg"></a></figure><p dir="ltr" style="">Rust developer and Facepunch Studios founder Garry Newman said that prior to Rust, he was working on an online, Hitman-type game set in an open world similar to Grand Theft Auto.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">The codebase for the prototype, called Cash4kills, eventually became Rust, the survival game which <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/articles/rust-already-made-more-than-garry-s-mod-s-30-million/1100-6417907/">became immensely successful while still in Early Access</a>. But Cash4kills was going to be very different.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">"The one thing we don't like about the latest Hitman games is that the game seems to be about finding out what the level designer wants you to do, rather than just working out the best place to kill a guy," Newman told <a href="http://www.pcgamesn.com/rust/rust-rebooting-heres-why" rel="nofollow">PCGamesN</a> in an interview. "We wanted it to be all free-form, with bullet entry stats, bonuses for clean kills and for being unspotted, shareable replays, then cash rewards in a backend that you could use to buy new weapons, etc. So you'd only get one chance at a kill and if you f****d it up you couldn't replay, you'd have to wait for the next contract via your real email."</p><p dir="ltr" style="">That sounds pretty cool, but the fact that Rust was based on a prototype with very different ambitions has created a lot of trouble for Facepunch.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">If you launch Rust right now, you'll be prompted to choose between "Play Rust," and "Try Experimental." The first option will lead to the game you're familiar with that's based on the prototype, and the second will take you to the experimental version, where Facepunch is changing "pretty much everything" with regular updates.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">"There were a lot of stupid decisions made in the old codebase," Newman said. "That's probably unfair. There were a lot of decisions made when we didn't know what game we were making... There's a lot of systems that are integral to Rust, that are 3,000 lines long, that could be 100 lines long."</p><p dir="ltr" style="">Newman said he isn't getting rid of the old version of Rust, but that all the team's efforts are going into the experimental build, which will get more servers and become more stable as it grows.</p><p style="">For more on Rust, check out <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/rust/news/">GameSpot's previous coverage</a>.</p><table data-max-width="true"><thead><tr><th scope="col"><em>Emanuel Maiberg is a freelance writer. You can follow him on <a href="https://twitter.com/emanuelmaiberg" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">Twitter @emanuelmaiberg</a> and <a href="https://plus.google.com/116710591398405257934/" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">Google+</a>.<br /></em></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p style=""><strong><em>Got a news tip or want to contact us directly? Email <a href="mailto:news@gamespot.com" rel="nofollow">news@gamespot.com</a></em></strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table> Sun, 29 Jun 2014 07:51:00 -0700 http://www.gamespot.com/articles/rust-developer-was-prototyping-open-world-hitman-type-game/1100-6420806/ http://www.gamespot.com/articles/the-banner-saga-could-come-to-consoles-ps-vita-after-tablet-release/1100-6420805/ <figure data-align="center" data-size="large" data-img-src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1535/15354745/2580712-4187594088-24216.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2580712" data-resize-url="" data-resized="" data-embed-type="image"><a href="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1535/15354745/2580712-4187594088-24216.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2580712"><img src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/ignore_jpg_scale_super/1535/15354745/2580712-4187594088-24216.jpg"></a></figure><p dir="ltr" style="">Last week, developer Stoic Games announced that its tactical role-playing game <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/the-banner-saga/">The Banner Saga</a> will release on iPad, Android, and Windows tablets this summer, and console players might get a chance to play the game eventually as well.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">Speaking with <a href="http://www.digitalspy.com/gaming/news/a580573/the-banner-saga-coming-to-ipad-and-android-this-summer-consoles-planned.html#~oIr5X9CuxzTv10" rel="nofollow">Digital Spy</a>, programmer John Watson said that Stoic has been working on the iOS and Android editions of the game since The Banner Saga was released on PC in January. Now that those version are on the way, Stoic hopes to release the game on consoles too.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">"The ideal would be to get some console ports out before the end of the year," Watson said. "Whether we can make that happen or not, I don't know. Some things are easier than others. I think the game would be great on Vita, but I think that would come after other consoles. It's a path of least resistance thing; there's three of us."</p><p dir="ltr" style="">Watson also said that he'd rather see the game on the PlayStation 4 before the PlayStation Vita because Stoic might need to make some changes to the game to take advantage of the PS Vita's controls, which can use touch and button at the same time.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">Earlier this year <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/articles/candy-crush-saga-dev-says-it-s-trying-to-fend-off-copycats-not-stop-the-banner-saga-update/1100-6417275/">Stoic was involved in a trademark dispute with Candy Crush Saga developer King</a>, which claimed The Banner Saga is "confusingly and deceptively similar" to Candy Crush Saga. In March, <a href="http://stoicstudio.com/stoic-update" rel="nofollow">Stoic announced</a> it reached an agreement with King that enables both parties to protect their respective trademarks.</p><p style="">For more on The Banner Saga, be sure to read <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/reviews/the-banner-saga-review/1900-6415626/">GameSpot's review</a>.</p><table data-max-width="true"><thead><tr><th scope="col"><em>Emanuel Maiberg is a freelance writer. You can follow him on <a href="https://twitter.com/emanuelmaiberg" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">Twitter @emanuelmaiberg</a> and <a href="https://plus.google.com/116710591398405257934/" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">Google+</a>.<br /></em></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p style=""><strong><em>Got a news tip or want to contact us directly? Email <a href="mailto:news@gamespot.com" rel="nofollow">news@gamespot.com</a></em></strong></p><p style=""> </p></td></tr></tbody></table> Sun, 29 Jun 2014 06:24:00 -0700 http://www.gamespot.com/articles/the-banner-saga-could-come-to-consoles-ps-vita-after-tablet-release/1100-6420805/ http://www.gamespot.com/articles/former-xbox-live-head-banhammer-joins-microsoft-s-gears-of-war-team/1100-6420804/ <figure data-align="right" data-size="small" data-img-src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1535/15354745/2580553-9904949216-220px.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2580553" data-resize-url="" data-resized="" data-embed-type="image"><a href="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1535/15354745/2580553-9904949216-220px.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2580553"><img src="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/ignore_jpg_scale_small/1535/15354745/2580553-9904949216-220px.jpg"></a></figure><p dir="ltr" style="">Stephen "Stepto" Toulouse, the former Director of Policy and Enforcement for Microsoft's Xbox Live service, is rejoining the company as the Director of Community Engagement at Black Tusk Studios, the Microsoft-owned studio currently working on the next Gears of War project.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">Jokingly known as the the "Head Banhammer," as Director of Policy and Enforcement Toulouse was in charge developing and implementing policy for Xbox Live, as well as working with developers, press, and customers.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">Toulouse explained that his new role will be key in coordinating gamer feedback into future titles as well as keeping things fun and exciting with existing games.</p><p dir="ltr" style="">"I've been shadowing the Gears forums and looking at people's thoughts," Toulouse said on <a href="http://www.stepto.com/2014/06/everything-old-is-new-again/" rel="nofollow">his personal blog</a>. "I don't just want us to make the best next generation Gears of War game ever, I want to make sure that everyone playing the game today feels just as good today and down the road in their investment into our amazing world as we do. There's a Gears nation out there. I'm a part of it and it's amazing."</p><p style="">You can hear more about Toulouse's return to Microsoft and what he'll be doing in his new role on the latest <a href="http://majornelson.com/cast/2014/06/27/mnr-516-we-finally-catch-up-after-e3-2014/" rel="nofollow">Major Nelson podcast</a>.</p><table data-max-width="true"><thead><tr><th scope="col"><em>Emanuel Maiberg is a freelance writer. You can follow him on <a href="https://twitter.com/emanuelmaiberg" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">Twitter @emanuelmaiberg</a> and <a href="https://plus.google.com/116710591398405257934/" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">Google+</a>.<br /></em></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p style=""><strong><em>Got a news tip or want to contact us directly? Email <a href="mailto:news@gamespot.com" rel="nofollow">news@gamespot.com</a></em></strong></p><p style=""> </p></td></tr></tbody></table> Sat, 28 Jun 2014 17:30:00 -0700 http://www.gamespot.com/articles/former-xbox-live-head-banhammer-joins-microsoft-s-gears-of-war-team/1100-6420804/
