Defiant Development, creators of the deck-building/rouge-like/RPG/brawler hybrid Hand of Fate, has been celebrating the holiday season with free DLC updates to the game.  The fourth and final of these updates, Descent into the Underworld, was recently released on Steam.  This update adds a new set of missions to shuffle into your campaigns based on journeying into…

Seven more sleeps until Christmas day is upon us once again. This wonderful day brings so much joy around the world. What it also brings is a lot of disappointment when gamers wake up to realise they have been gifted Devil's Third or even the unthinkable Tony Hawks Pro Skater 5.So, if you are still…

Nintendo has released its final video presentation for Super Smash Bros for Wii U and Nintendo 3DS, detailing the last of the DLC content that will be released for the games.  Tonight, the previously announced Final Fantasy VII DLC will release and include Cloud as a playable character, a Midgar stage, a Chocobo hat for…

Jeff Kaplan, the director of Blizzard's upcoming FPS Overwatch, released a video on the official Overwatch Youtube channel addressing several community concerns and detailing their plans for addressing these issues.  First and foremost was the matter of new maps and playable characters being added to the game over time.  This has been the greatest concern…

First and foremost, no, this game does not involve Nintendo, Sega, or Creative Assembly at all.  Hyrule: Total War is a fan-made, total-conversion mod for Medieval II: Total War based on The Legend of Zelda series.  A recent attempt to put the mod through Steam's Greenlight program not only didn't involve the owners of The…

Xenoblade Chronicles X, the cleverly-named sequel to one of the Wii's best games, Xenoblade Chronicles, is coming out in a few days. For those of us who are riding the hype train and need something to calm the nerves, Nintendo has released another episode in the insightful 'Survival Guide' series based around several aspects of…

Sony, like every other business entity, is chiming in on Black Friday and this week's holidays with a nice sale. The theme this time is Co-Op, so grab some buddies and get playing... after you utilize the 10% code they've also included for a limited time.Here are some of my favourites from the sale. As always,…

The next section of Hearthstone's ongoing adventure expansion, The League of Explorers, will be delayed one week.  The third wing, The Ruined City, was originally going to release on November 26th in the Americas and November 27th in Europe and Asia.  Instead, it will now launch on December 3rd in the Americas and December 4th in Europe…

Bubsy the Bobcat may very well be the single most infamous video game character in existence.  Of all the mascot characters that sprang up in the 90's in the hopes of following the success of Mario and Sonic, Bubsy has been branded as the most decried of the bunch.  It may not be entirely warranted…

Today, Nintendo held its first Nintendo Direct since the passing of Satoru Iwata earlier this year and it closed with the shocking announcement that Cloud Strife, the main protagonist of Final Fantasy VII, will be joining the playable roster of Super Smash Bros for Wii U and Super Smash Bros for Nintendo 3DS.  There was…