The launch of both the Xbox One and Playstation 4 have come to pass. With the Wii U already launched, we are officially in the next generation of gaming. Apparently gamers all over the world were ready and willing to jump head first into the new generation. Last Friday, November 15th, the Playstation 4 took center stage in the world of gaming. Within the first 24 hours of the Playstation’s 4 launch, it had sold one million consoles. This is an absolutely insane number...
Sony has issued the First to Greatness challenge. 64 challenges over the span of their launch titles including, Blacklight: Retribution, Contrast, Knack, Killzone: Shadowfall and many others. Theses challenges are bigger than just trophies, as the shared gameplay of these player accomplishments will be used in a new version of the “Perfect Day” commercial. Players can get the list of challenges from the First to Greatness site. Players must share the footage of...
Blackguards is a new turn-based tactical RPG from Daedalic Entertainment, most known for their point and click adventure games. Blackguards takes place in the pen and paper universe of The Dark Eye. The story begins with either your girlfriend (if you play as a male) or your close friend (if you play as a female), the princess being killed. During a cutscene you see that it was a wolf that took the princess’ life, but you are now being blamed for it. Even after that...
The Xbox One launch day fun is only hours from beginning first in New Zealand and continue for the next 24 hours. Each nation will open their retailer doors to the public at the stroke of 12:01 am in their country. Starting first with New Zealand and then in order of official launch times; Australia, Austria, France, Germany, Spain, Ireland, Italy, United Kingdom, South America and finally, North America. An hour before the launch happens in North America, Spike...
Call of Duty: Ghosts is the best selling game on the PS4 in North America. Not only has Ghosts taken the top selling spot on the PS4, it has also become the most pre-ordered game on the Xbox One. With Black Friday right around the corner, it will probably keep that lead as well. “Call of Duty: Ghosts is the No. 1 best-selling game on PS4 in North America at Best Buy, GameStop, Target and Walmart, and also the No. 1 pre-ordered Xbox One title inNorth America at...
We’re finally doing podcasts again and hopefully this time nothing will go wrong. This is the first episode of This Game Is Broken, our new “now playing” podcast. I’m joined by Taryn and Matt. In this first episode we go over Matt’s new shiny PS4 and what games he’s currently playing on it. We then go hard into GTA V Online as Taryn tells us her insurance woes. I finally pop in with Adventure Park and Blackguards. Since this a new feed...
What Microsoft started earlier this year, its Games with Gold Xbox Live Gold Member bonus will continue with the launch of the Xbox One. Originally intended for the Xbox 360, Microsoft had to have seen the obvious need to compete with Sony’s PS+. The difference so far with both services, is that while Games with Gold has offered older games to their gold members. Playstation Plus has offered much newer and much bigger titles. Not to mention that Sony’s awesome...
Austin stumbled across news on Reddit not long ago that Bungie was probably planning a Destiny Beta on PS4 and he was right. The Playstation Blog has confirmed that the Destiny beta is coming to both the PS4 and PS3 first. Players can gain access to the beta by simply pre-ordering Destiny at any available retailer. So while you’re out picking up your PS4 tonight, why don’t you pre-order Destiny as well? Enjoy the in-game footage below.
Last week we told you about players being able to get early access to Blackguards on Steam. This early access would come to players chapter by chapter as each part is uploaded to Steam. Early access players will also be getting a little bit of extra content along the way. This first piece of content is not in-game content but still neat if you’re a fan of Daedalic Entertainment‘s adventure titles. It explores how the team was able to take a new look at The Dark...
A new companion app for Assassin’s Creed IV will now give you a second screen using a tablet. The companion app will help the player to keep track of waypoints and even set waypoints on the app, then they appear immediately in-game. Players will be able to keep track of all of their treasure map, pull them up and inspect them more thoroughly with the companion app. Not only does the app allow you better tracking of side missions and other progress bars you can even use...
