Square Enix and Eidos-Montréal sparked a great deal of controversy when they announced what they called the Augment Your Pre-Order system for the upcoming Deus Ex: Mankind Divided.  The system claimed to allow customers a choice over the preorder rewards they would receive and would unlock additional rewards as more preorders were placed, including the…

With the recent announcement of Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue, a collection of games with possibly the worst name of all time, talk of release dates and additional info keeps coming up.While we have no release date, Square Enix has sent out an e-mail whereby you can pre-order Kingdom Hearts 2.8 on the PS4. Whether this…

Twitch.tv has been a fascinating new form of entertainment.  The idea that watching people playing video games, and not even just the highest level players, has grown into something that rivals Youtube is a concept I never would have thought possible just a few years ago.  Not only has it become an entertainment enterprise all…

It's no wonder that Conker the Squirrel drinks as much as he does given the amount of bad luck he's had.  After debuting in the cult classic Conker's Bad Fur Day at the tail-end of the Nintendo 64's lifespan and having it remade for the original Xbox as Conker: Live and Reloaded, things have only gone…

In an interview with WhatCulture, art director Scott Mitchell revealed that there would be no single-player campaign in the upcoming Rainbow Six title.He attempts to justify this notion with a statement about player vs. AI modes as seen below.“There is no story mode per se. You go through training, where you get to experience different…

Meow. This statue does look purr-dy. Now that we have the obligatory cat puns out of the way,high-end makers of quality statues First4Figures have revealed their latest creation. Here we have Cat Mario straight out of 2013's Super Mario 3D World. When Mario grabs one of the super bell power-ups, he instantly gains the power…

The closed beta for the newest instalment in the critically acclaimed first-person tactical shooter series starts today.Developer Ubisoft Montreal are aiming to bring to the table a polished product when Rainbow Six Siege releases later this year and further beta tests will ensure that the game’s servers are able to handle the load come…

If there's one thing that Blizzard's upcoming team-based, first-person shooter Overwatch is missing, it's more villainous characters for its playable roster.  Of the 16 previously revealed playable characters, only two are unambiguously bad guys and having two teams of heroes regularly going at each other just seems off.  That imbalance has become a little more…

The developers behind Rocket league, the game that predecessed the 2008 Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars, announced that this year’s huge hit, Rocket League, will be receiving na entirely new DLC, simply known as Revenge of the Battle-Cars, an homage to its predecessor).The Revenge of the Battle-Cars DLC will bring new car -Scarab and Zippy –…

Tip of the Hats, the annual charity stream run by the community of popular first-person shooter Team Fortress 2, is already off to a great start with well over $125,000 raised for the One Step Camp charity.  Since its founding in 2013 by Sean "seanbud" Stradley, Tip of the Hats gathers several notable TF2 players…