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Obsidian will help with Wasteland 2 if Kickstarter reaches $2.1 million
Brian Fargo’s Wasteland 2 Kickstarter, having already surpassed two funding goals, has laid out a third one that will ensnare Obsidian Chief…
EA explains why UEFA Soccer is now FIFA 12 DLC
Every four years, EA releases a soccer game based on the UEFA championship. EA renewed the license for the franchise long enough…
Sony confirms Zipper Interactive closure
Today has been a rough one for the games industry. Following massive layoffs at Sega today, Sony has confirmed Zipper Interactive’s closure…
Pre-order Dragon’s Dogma, get dress-up Bobble Budd
Character customization is an important part of Dragon’s Dogma, both for your character and for the AI-controlled “pawns” you can summon and…
Sony quiet on SOCOM dev closure rumour
UPDATE: Sony has finally confirmed that Zipper Interactive is no more. A statement from the platform holder handed to Game Informer explained…
Mass Effect 3 update: Cupcakes for hungry kids, because Mass Effect
If there's one thing that Bioware and aggrieved Mass Effect 3 players can agree on, it's that someone, somewhere deserves to eat…
Harmonix To Reveal A New Game On April 3rd, Only On X-Play
Harmonix, the makers of the amazing Rock Band series of music games, will be debuting a new title on X-Play next week….
Devil May Cry HD Collection may be out now at your local brick-and-mortar
The Devil May Cry HD Collection has an official launch date of April 3, but brick-and-mortar stores such as GameStop are selling…
Awesomenauts: Fake nostalgia, real action
For a solid day or so, I could have sworn that Froggy G was a real character I remembered from my childhood….
What Is ‘XboxFL’ And Why Is Microsoft Registering Domains For It?
Microsoft still isn’t talking about its future consoles, but the company has registered two intriguing new web domains, XboxFL.net and XboxFL.com….
Zipper Interactive, Unit 13/SOCOM developer, has closure confirmed by Sony
SOCOM and Unit 13 developer Zipper Interactive has been shut down by Sony, the publisher confirmed today. What does this mean for…
Ask Gamasutra: How to annoy a games journalist with a press release
Ask Gamasutra is a monthly column that takes issues from within the video game industry, and poses them as a question to…
Behind the musical bosses of Lollipop Chainsaw
For everyone who looks at a punk rock zombie or a heavy metal Viking and thinks, “I wonder what inspired his taste…
The Joystiq Show – 030: Ken Levine and Tim Schafer
Filed under: Podcasts The Joystiq Show is charting a new course, and this week we take a first step towards a totally…
‘Final Freeway 2R’ Review – The ‘OutRun’ Homage that We’ve Been Waiting For
Way back in the summer of 2010 (wow, where does the time go?), I was very pleasantly surprised with Oyatsukai’s Final Freeway…
Halo 4 ‘Warhouse’ multiplayer map concept art and info deployed
Warhouse is a massive mining ship, one of the multiplayer maps available in Halo 4 when it ships later this year. On…
Sniper Elite V2 demo coming next month
Sniper Elite V2 publisher 505 Games has told Joystiq that a demo for Rebellion’s upcoming reboot is scheduled to arrive in April,…
An all new episode of Alan Wake’s Night Springs: ‘Doomed Samaritan’
Last week, Joystiq featured the six original episodes of Night Springs — the Twilight Zone-inspired series featured in Remedy Entertainment’s Alan Wake….