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Valve’s solution for Steam Greenlight’s noise: A $100 fee
Those hoping to get their games voted into a distribution deal on Steam via the recently-launched Steam Greenlight initiative were dismayed to…
BMW and Thermaltake made this weird-lookin’ gaming mouse (just look at it!)
Gaming mice aren’t normally our jam here on Joystiq, but we’ll make exceptions when something really interesting comes along. Take, for instance,…
Now Playing: September 3-9, 2012
Up your kill score this week with Modern Warfare 3 – Collection 4: Final Assault DLC expansion… Choose your platform to jump…
Mass Effect anime ‘Paragon Lost’ delayed until Dec. 28
Paragon Lost, Funimation’s DVD and Blu-ray James Vega vehicle, set in the Mass Effect universe, has had its November 13 release date…
Final Fantasy XIV: A Franchise Reborn
How Square Enix is turning to its past in FFVII to ensure a future for FFXIV….
Back-To-School Gaming Ideas From X-Play
Aside from pencils and notebooks, X-Play’s back-to-school list include games like Madden NFL 13, StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty, and Team Fortress…
Total War: Rome 2 Preview Video — Improving The Total War Franchise One Battle At A Time
Total War: Rome 2 aims to improve every aspect of the Total War series. We spoke with Lead Designer James Russell about…
Breaking free with your own IP: Insomniac’s CEO on what’s next (besides Ratchet & Clank)
There’s a big craze these days with independent developers, though the idea isn’t all that crazy. Developers, as it turns out, like…
OP-ED: Everyone Should Want Dark Souls to Have an Easy Mode
If the existing difficulty setting is left intact, what's the harm?…
Watch Us Discuss Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes
1UP editors Jeremy Parish and Jose Otero chat about Kojima Productions' latest demo of the Fox Engine….
‘Pizza Boy’ Gets Game Center Support, New Lite Version Released
For the first couple of years of the App Store, it seemed like virtual controls would never be up to snuff enough…
The Walking Dead Episode 3 review: The importance of high fives
It’s becoming difficult to write about Telltale’s The Walking Dead. We’re on episode three of five now and the story is climbing…
The appeal of a console with no future
Welcome to Living in the Past, a weekly column about what’s new in old games. Now get off our lawn. A new…
StarCraft 2: Heart Of The Swarm Video — A Look At Single And Multiplayer
Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm is the first expansion for Blizzard’s incredibly popular StarCraft 2. We recently got the chance to…
Hackers Claim To Have Stolen 12 Million Apple IDs
Nefarious hacker group AntiSec says it has boosted over 12 million Apple UDIDs from an FBI agent’s laptop. The group claims it…
TA Plays: ‘Zombie Stomp’ – An Infinite Zombie… Stomping Game
We get a surprising amount of e-mails that are, like, “Hey, guys, I’m doing [X] or at [X] a lot, so I…
Transformers: Fall of Cybertron multiplayer faces Dinobot Destructor Pack next week
More robots will meet the eye in Transformers: Fall of Cybertron multiplayer next week. Game director Matt Tieger told Polygon that a…
Gearbox confirms Aliens: Colonial Marines has female characters
The cast of Gearbox Software’s upcoming xenophobia sim, Aliens: Colonial Marines, won’t be entirely male, the developer announced during a panel at…