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February 17, 2012

The creepiest dad ever comes home in this Prototype 2 trailer

Here’s a secret about your beloved Joystiq: we’re easily frightened. This Prototype 2 trailer is super scary to our meek, ever-fearful eyes….

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Gears of War 3 ‘Forces of Nature’ DLC emerges March 27

Here we were thinking the battle for humanity was wrapped up in the Gears of War universe and Epic Games goes and…

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How Turn 10 sources cars for (dis)play in Forza

The Forza 4 devs at Turn 10 pride themselves on their obsessive attitude about car modeling. If you ever wonder where they…

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The Joystiq Indie Pitch: DLC Quest

Indie developers are the starving artists of the video-game world, often brilliant and innovative, but also misunderstood, underfunded and more prone to…

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Why We Love Video Games: The Movie

The 1UP Editors discuss their personal favorite reasons to love our hobby….

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Halo 4 to feature one heavy Master Chief

When we all saw the teaser for Halo 4, our first question was: “What is up with that armor?” Last time we…

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February 16, 2012

New DLC brings afros and bikinis to Final Fantasy XIII-2

Final Fantasy XIII-2 players will have a little more afro in their lives come February 28, when Square Enix releases its latest…

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PSA: Xbox Live color playback issue patched

Xbox users may have noticed a mandatory patch preempting their power-up procedures today, the effects of which were either immediately apparent or…

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Early Mass Effect 3 Copies To Be Sent To Space And Back

This is the greatest publicity stunt that has ever been undertaken in gaming history — To hype the release of Mass Effect…

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Three Reasons Zenimax Would Cancel Prey 2 GDC Talks

Not everything publishers do is nefarious and evil….

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Mass Effect 3 Launches Into Space… Literally

In one of the more bizarre publicity stunts in recent memory, Electronic Arts is launching several copies of Mass Effect 3 into…

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Razer’s Mass Effect 3 peripherals include game DLC

Razer is releasing a series of Mass Effect 3-branded peripherals, and you’d better believe every single thing in the product line comes…

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Marketing zenith reached: Early copies of Mass Effect 3 on weather balloons

You guys know about Mass Effect 3, right? EA really wants you to know that Mass Effect 3 exists. Like, so bad….

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Alan Wake’s final dev diary before American Nightmare

If you’ve been trying to avoid story details about Alan Wake’s American Nightmare, we’d strongly recommend skipping this developer diary. In it,…

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Wheels of Destruction Coming to PSN

Few things are as universal as the lust to drive fast and destroy expensive machinery. Everyone likes driving and crushing things, so…

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Guild Wars 2 Coming To Consoles…Eventually

NCSoft and ArenaNet plan on bringing Guild Wars 2 to the consoles, eventually. A NCSoft rep confirmed the console version was in…

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Modern Warfare 3 multiplayer free on Steam this weekend

Did you know the weekend technically starts now? According to Steam it does, anyway. Don’t even bother showing up to work tomorrow….

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Max Payne 3 staying true to its roots, but will be uprooted for mobile

The Max Payne series, originally created by Alan Wake’s Remedy Entertainment, follows a few traditions — no driving, no brawling, and an…

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