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We've got 25 premium double-passes and Call of Duty: Ghosts Onslaught DLC codes to give away!

Rockstar's games are no strangers to mystery and intrigue, but there's a puzzle at the heart of Grand Theft Auto V that's been keeping people guessing for months. Read more...

Katsucon is one of the biggest conventions on the cosplay circuit, and this year's show went down over the weekend in Maryland. Needless to say, there was excellent cosplay on show.Read more...

- new class is called the Item Master
- includes a fishing mini-game with sharks
- cooking can now include use of a cooking guild
- more housing furniture
- Item Master is able to enhance items used in comba
- it can also control some minions
- command machine and material family-type monsters
- Item Master will benefit from a rise in skill levels to 130 (up from 100)
- this adds new limit breaks like the Super Falcon Sword skill or casting more powerful spells such as Kaboomle
- now includes slot machines

- over 200 songs and more than 60 characters
- versus mode along with the return of “Quest Medley mode”
- take on various quests to add more Final Fantasy allies to your group
- “Critical Hit Trigger” can be used to perform a critical hit for more damage
- hitting this can also give you a chance of acquiring items
- “Daily Feature” track that will show a new track every day
- clearing the daily feature track will give you x1.5 the average Rhythm Points
- acquire more Rhythm Points by clearing stages without missing
- these points can then be used to add bonuses to selected characters
- EX Burst Gauge gets filled by hitting the notes on beat
- once it’s full, you’ll be able to choose from nine different EX Burst skills
- one of these is Stoic Judge, where you’ll make all of your opponents’ notes be ruled as “bad”, except for their critical notes
- Fat Chocobos appear at random and will give you all kinds of different treasures
- Museum feature that displays various records, music, videos, and “CollectaCards”
- more cards to collect, and they’ll all have their own rarity ranks
- short, medium, and long quests
- these have you taking on different maps and fighting bosses in Quest Medley mode
- you'll be rewarded for defeating bosses
- completed maps can also be shared with other players through StreetPass

Steam is making a strong case for a mini-staycation this weekend. Festivities kick off today with the Ubisoft Publisher Sale, which lasts until February 24 and offers discounts of up to 75% across just about every Ubisoft game on Steam. Daily deals, additional discounts on select games, will further add to the temptation to spend.

Don't want to spend any cash? Steam thought of that. Both Orion: Dino Horde, a multiplayer shooter that pits man against dinosaur, and Call of Duty: Ghosts, a game that pits Riley the dog against helicopters, are free to play this weekend. Should you wish to buy after you try, Orion is available for $1 and Ghosts is reduced to $30.

Finally, Bohemia Interactive's military sandbox game Arma 3 is 40% off this weekend and available for $36. The game features a variety of single-player and multiplayer operations, and allows active personnel to edit certain gameplay scenarios and employ custom mods. [Image: Activision]

Dota Store
- Increased speed/responsiveness of the store
- Added Loading Screens to the store
- Added new Tournament and HUD/Loading Screen sections to the Featured page

Time To Despair: you should read this excellent Gamasutra interview with a couple of producers on Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc. In it, they talk about Japanese culture, the idea behind some of the characters and themes in the game, and more.Read more...

The Metroid Mod is an impressive recreation of Nintendo's NES classic within punishing roguelike, Spelunky. The mod isn't out yet, but that can't stop you from watching Samus Aran explore Zebes-inspired caverns and avoid giant Metroids, speedy Skrees and even Ridley.

Hey, it's Johnny Lee! You might remember Johnny from his pioneering motion work with the Wii Remote, which got him hired by Microsoft to help build Kinect. Well, Johnny's now with Google, and his new project is even cooler.Read more...

A child's innocence is near impossible to preserve in the zombie apocalypse. So it should come as no surprise that adolescent protagonist Clementine has no problem battling the undead in these screens for The Walking Dead's next episode, "A House Divided."

New city-builder Banished is the most fun you'll have simulating famine all year.

In other massively multiplayer online role-playing games, blacksmithing involves find a forge in town and clicking about a bit. In The Elder Scrolls Online, you've got to kill some tigers first. Read more...

This comes from Toys R' Us, but it doesn't seem to be tied to the store specifically.



Thanks to Reggie for the heads up!

- coming from TreeFall Studios
- Action/Platformer
- RPG in terms of combat taking place in a full 3D world
- massive sized world with various locations, quests, characters, towns and shops

A portion of a Game Informer review...

Depending on how often puzzles stump you, Tengami can be completed in a few hours. I enjoyed my time with the game when I was making steady progress and taking in the wonderful ambient soundtrack by David Wise (Donkey Kong Country, GoldenEye). It’s a beautiful, original concept that falls just shy of something special.

Full review here

Today we want to reveal some of the refinements in the basic animations of the plant, which was one of the graphic updates that we promised to implement.

Most of them are remade, showing more fluid and detailed sequences and smoothing the transition between them. As you can see, now the leaves of the head have more movement and the roots display bigger waves, adding volume to the overall look of each posture. Also, we added a wider mass on some stances (like crouch) to perform a coherent jump from one animation to another.

We hope you appreciate this improvements and help make Paradise Lost the best game we can offer to all of you!

Thanks to Matt for the heads up!

Forget Twitch plays Pokemon. Watch Twitch play Adam Sessler. It's almost as silly.Read more...

Jeff Gerstmann returns to tell you that he can't stop watching tens of thousands of people attempting to play Pokemon Red at the same time.

01/01. [PS3] Persona 5 (Atlus, Winter 2014) – 562 votes
02/03. [Wii U] Mario Kart 8 (Nintendo, 05/29/14) – 549 votes
03/02. [PS4] Final Fantasy XV (Square Enix, TBA) – 470 votes
04/04. [PS3] Samurai Warriors 4 (Tecmo Koei, 03/20/14) – 371 votes
05/05. [PS4] Kingdom Hearts III (Square Enix, TBA) – 272 votes
06/15. [PS4] Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Konami, TBA) – 257 votes
07/06. [3DS] Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth (Atlus, 06/05/14) – 244 votes
08/08. [PS3] 3rd Super Robot Wars Z Jigoku-Hen (Namco Bandai, 04/10/14) – 242 votes
09/16. [Wii U] Hyrule Warriors (Nintendo, 2014) – 236 votes
10/09. [PS3] The Evil Within (Bethesda Softworks, 2014) – 228 votes
11/27. [3DS] Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate (Capcom, Fall 2014) – 215 votes
12/07. [PS3] Tales of Zestiria (Namco Bandai, TBA) – 205 votes
13/12. [Wii U] Super Smash Bros. for Wii U (Nintendo, 2014) – 184 votes
14/24. [3DS] New Love Plus+ (Konami, 03/27/14) – 183 votes
15/28. [3DS] Game Center CX 3-Chome no Arino (Namco Banai, 03/20/14) – 175 votes
16/10. [PS3] Yakuza: Ishin (Sega, 02/22/14) – 173 votes
17/11. [PS3] Dark Souls II (From Software, 03/13/14) – 172 votes
18/17. [PSV] Freedom Wars (SCEJ, Summer 2014) – 171 votes
19/19. [PS4] Watch Dogs (Ubisoft, 2014) – 167 votes
20/22. [3DS] Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS (Nintendo, 2014) – 166 votes
21/21. [PS3] The Last Remnant (Square Enix, lolnever) – 159 votes
22/13. [3DS] Harvest Moon: Tsunagaru Shin Tenchi (Marvelous AQL, 02/27/14) – 146 votes
23/18. [PS4] The Evil Within (Bethesda Softworks, 2014) – 141 votes
24/23. [PS4] Yakuza: Ishin (Sega, 02/22/14) – 136 votes
25/26. [3DS] Senran Kagura 2: Deep Crimson (Marvelous AQL, 08/07/14) – 135 votes
26/20. [3DS] Bravely Second (Square Enix, TBA) – 127 votes
27/29. [PS3] The Last Guardian (SCEJ, TBA) – 120 votes
28/25. [PSV] Soul Sacrifice Delta (SCEJ, 03/06/14) – 103 votes
29/14. [PSV] Hatsune Miku Project Diva F 2nd (Sega, 03/27/14) – 98 votes
30/—. [PSV] Over My Dead Body 2 (SCEJ, Summer 2014) – 97 votes

When thousands of people try to control a single character at once, like in the 'Twitch Plays Pokémon' stream, things can look a little...erratic. No matter what he tries to do or where he tries to go, the main character, Red, practically looks drunk. Obviously, Twitch players should never have control of a real person.Read more...

Microsoft won't rush Gears of War onto Xbox One & Fox sets Fantastic Four reboot cast. Plus, A Next-Gen release date round-up & where's Bioshock Vita?

Well, that's it. Maingear's ultra-thin Pulse 17 has sealed my fate — I am completely ruined for thicker gaming laptops. Read more...