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Minecraft XBLA bug extermination adds Golden Apples, Pumpkin Seeds
Minecraft XBLA’s Adventure Update 1.8.2 is live and kicking, probably because it’s fending off nasty, blocky bugs. The 1.8.2 Bug Fix Title…
Cardboard Children: Venice, Gone
AN EXCERPT FROM THE WRITINGS OF LAURENCE LUKE-BAZA And in Venice, the game ended….
Elite: Dangerous Kickstarter gets video and concept art
Frontier Developments updated its Kickstarter page for Elite: Dangerous with a few pieces of concept art and a video. The video shows…
Weekly Webcomic Wrapup is boring
When you’re short on time and have an enormous, stinky backlog of games to catch up on (hello, Fallout 3), do you…
Target’s Black Friday deals include 360, PS3, Wii, Vita and 3DS bundles, various discounted miscellany
Look, we’re not your parents. We’re not going to sit here, high upon our internet throne and tell you what you can…
Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing Transformed trailer gets a grip on the Wii U GamePad
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed may have dropped the “Sega” from the title and added Wreck-It Ralph to the racing roster, but…
Ubisoft wants full games on Wii U eShop ‘as soon as it’s possible’
Though no concrete plans have been outlined, Ubisoft’s intention to join Nintendo’s push towards more digitally available retail games on its new…
Uncharted Vita postmortem details Sony Bend’s struggles with writing a female lead
Writer and Director John Garvin of Sony Bend recently discussed the development of Uncharted: Golden Abyss in a postmortem on Gamasutra. One…
‘The Making of Call of Duty: Black Ops 2’ hits DirecTV tomorrow night
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 won’t be blowing up living rooms until Tuesday, but an explosive methadone comes to DirecTV tomorrow…
Blizzard faces class action suit over account authenticators
Blizzard Entertainment is facing a class action lawsuit over the sale of its Battle.net authenticators, which are used to provide security for…
Joystiq Weekly: Let’s joust, Chief!
It’s officially that time of year where so much is going on, it disappears from the front page almost as quickly as…
PSN Community Spotlight – Giving Back
According to all the stores, it’s time to get in the holiday spirit! Coincidentally, it’s also time for the PSN Community Spotlight….
Wii U games pre-ordered from Amazon begin shipping
Okay so, we’ve got some good news and some bad news for people who pre-ordered their Wii U games from Amazon. The…
Richard Garfield’s strategies for game balancing
This weekend at New York University, an intimate audience had the opportunity to hear game balancing strategies from a master — veteran…
PSA: Skylanders Lost Islands takes to the skies on iOS
Skylanders: Lost Islands, a free-to-play resource management game from Activision’s mobile division, is out now for iOS devices on the App Store….
Chrono Disfunglement Takes Braid, Adds Dimensions
I still don’t know what disfunglement means (it sounds rather painful), but I must admit to being quite impressed after playing a…
DmC: Devil May Cry actors play around with absolute power
While the cast of DmC: Devil May Cry is fictional, their realization is brought to life through the skills of actors like…
‘A Slower Speed of Light’ is an open-source game on special relativity from MIT Game Lab
The behavior of light may seem static and uninteresting (it’s bright and fast, we get it), but there’s actually an incredible amount…