If you’ve undertaken the Shared FATE grind inFinal Fantasy XIVand just finished up the thirdDawntrailarea ofYak T’el, it’s time to don your cowboy hat. We’re off to Shaaloani next, and there are some new rewards up for grabs. For completing the 66 FATEs needed to complete Rank 3 in Shaaloani, you’ll be rewarded with the opportunity to swap your Bicolor Gems for Turali Barding, among other things. How to shared FATEs work in Dawntrail?...

WhenI saw the new installmentin thePixelJunkseries last month, it was as yet unnamed. Opting to hold a contest among gamers to name the new game, the team received over 10,000 suggestions and their servers buckled underneath the load of rabid fans out to see the new trailer. Today, over atPlayStation Blog, Q-Games’ Dylan Cuthbert revealed the winning name:PixelJunk Shooter. It makes sense, since it’s a simple name and, yes, you shoot things but I can’t help feeling a little disappointed....

Game director Gavin Moore showed off his newly announced PS3 titlePuppeteerat gamescom this morning in a closed session. If you saw thedebut traileryou’d have some idea how beautiful this game is, but screenshots and videos do no justice to seeing it in person. What you may have missed from the announcement is just how strangePuppeteeris. Moore explained both sides fully this morning in his presentation. Moore has been working out of Tokyo, Japan at Sony’s Worldwide Studios for the last decade now, but the inspiration forPuppeteerdidn’t come from a workplace brainstorm....

Anniversary Edition coming to PC Aug. 24 Grandia IImay be pretty good, but it is not pretty. Not even the recently-announced “HD Edition,” which (based on these screenshots) looks hardly any better than did the original Dreamcast version. Perhaps cognizant of this, GungHo has “chosen to retitle the game for PC toGrandia II Anniversary Editionin order to properly celebrateGrandia II‘s 15th anniversary,” says CEO Kazuki Morishita. Kudos to the clever person in the marketing department who decided to de-emphasize the lackluster graphics and instead refocus attention on honoring developer Game Arts andGrandia II‘s legacy....

Castorice in Honkai Star Rail is a 5-star Quantum character who follows the Path of Remembrance. She is a strong DPS unit that deals AoE DMG and is pretty F2P-friendly. If you plan to build her, here’s a guide covering all the materials you will need to level up Castorice and where to farm them. Castorice’s ascension and Trace materials Here is a list of all the materials you will need to max ascend Castorice:...

Murder and get murdered on Sony consoles It’s been interesting to witness the rise of games that have a love/hate relationship with violence.Spec Ops: The LineandMetal Gear Rising: Revengeanceare two high-profile examples. Less well known, but just as effective, is the arcade-style action titleHotline Miami. After racking up over 300,000 sales on PC and multiple awards, the little sociopathic symphony is headed to the PlayStation 3 and PS Vita later this year as a single-purchase cross-buy title....

Finally I can yell at you all to play Offworld Trading Company Deep breath. 👏 Buy 👏 this 👏 bundle 👏 so 👏 you 👏 can 👏 get 👏Offworld 👏 Trading 👏 Company. 👏 Read it again. Did you do it? Good. Now let’s look at all the other games you got when you purchased this bundle shall we? Pay $1 or more: Beat the average price: Pay $15 or more:...

And he kicked my ass A year in hiding seems to have done wonders forAssassin’s Creed. Ubisoft stepping away from its flagship franchise was unexpected, but that time away hasAssassin’s Creed: Originsfeeling like a game that’s familiar but still different enough to have my attention. It has been a while sinceAssassin’s Creedstruck that same balance with a new installment. It seem as if, at least partially, Ubisoft borrowed from elsewhere to improveAssassin’s Creed: Origins....

A 52-year-old man recently broke into a house in Palm Coast, Florida, armed with a pipe. He then threatened the residents with it, demanding that they turn over their Xbox 360 lest they face the wrath of his improvised weapon. Apparently, 52-year-old men armed with pipes aren’t very scary, and Allen M Crosswell was forced out of the house by how own victims, who locked the door and called the police....

Everything must go These days, helicopters have become something of a nuisance. We’ve surely all fought one head on — or thirty, depending on whether or not you’ve played50 Cent: Blood on the Sand. I don’t believe I’m alone in thinking that once again making these flying vehicles of utter destruction the star of the show would bea path worth taking. You hear that,Thunder Wolves? That’s your cue! This arcade-action title from Most Wanted Entertainment and bitComposer Games looks completely straightforward, but then again, that’s probably the point....

Free!? With little to no fanfare, Konami releasedPixel Puzzle Collectionon mobile devices today. Taking advantage of the company’s large franchise portfolio, the game has players going through Picross puzzles featuring iconic gaming characters. FromGradiustoCastlevaniatoBomberman, the amount represented is staggering. What makes the whole deal sweeter however is that the game is entirely free. Yes, that’s right, unlike most publishers including Nintendo, this whole thing is free with none of the usual free-to-play mechanics included....

Best golf game debut since Lee Carvello’s Putting Challenge Nintendo is back at the top of the UK Charts this week, as brand new Switch releaseMario Golf: Super Rushdebuts straight in at number one, usurping Insomniac Games’ excellent ‘toon adventureRatchet & Clank: Rift Apart, which slips to number three after spending two weeks in the top spot. Also debuting in the Top Ten is Bandai Namco’s alien-busting, brain-eating adventureScarlet Nexus, which jumps in at number eight — an impressive physical debut for a relatively niche mainstream release....

It’s still really neat, but I ruined it. The first major disagreement I ever remember having with my first girlfriend wasn’t about jealousy, it wasn’t about a missed anniversary, it wasn’t even about sex. Instead, it was about a person’s natural ability to draw. She was an artist (still is, to the best of my knowledge), and she took some measure of offense to my idea for some kind of device that would allow people to overcome whatever barriers stood between their hands and the image in their head; to draw whatever they wanted at will....