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Epic Mickey director takes a dump on The New Order Wolfenstein: The New Orderwas announced only this morning, but game creator Warren Spector has selected it as the ambassador of all he hates in the industry. Questioning the need for its existence, Spector has expressed dismay at yet another shooter. “Did the world really need anotherWolfensteingame?” heasked on Facebook. “Did we need a generically dark, monochromatic, FPS, kill-the-Nazi-giant-robot game? Uh. No....

Pick the class that’s right for you! So you just downloadedFinal Fantasy XIV. Congratulations! Eorzea is a massive world filled with quests to complete and monsters to defeat. Though you’ll start by learning the basics of adventuring, you’ll be slaying dragons and god-like beings before you know it. That said, before you can do anything inFinal Fantasy XIV, you’ll need to pick your starting class. For those of you new to MMORPGs,Final Fantasy XIVseparates its classes into three essential roles....

Have at it I still haven’t really dug intoGwent: The Witcher Card Game, but I can rectify that soon now that it’s in public beta on PC, PS4, and Xbox One (I mean, Ikindahave since I played it in the series proper). While it was available for testing in closed form for months, everyone can pick it up and give it a go.The official sitehas a nice rundown of how to play if you’ve never touched aWitchergame before....

Max Paycheck It’s always suspect when a publisher claims that a not-yet-released game is going to be a success. They have a vested interest in the game selling well, so it behooves them to drum up even more excitement. Xbox is speculating thatQuantum Breakmight be wildly popular, but at least it has good reason for those projections. On theTXR Podcast(and as reported byGameSpot), Xbox marketing executive Aaron Greenberg talked about the pre-release reception toQuantum Break....

Sega’sYakuzaseries has often been likened toGrand Theft Auto, since both games involve gangland dirty work in the big city. Despite the similarities between the two games, however, franchise designer Toshihiro Nagoshi seemsquite unimpressedwith Rockstar’s legendary series, referring to it predominantly as a game in which you “kill people or do whatever.” “I thought one day someone is going to have to make something like this,” he explains. “Personally, because I think you must think about the influence games have on people, I would never think about wanting to make a game like this....

The Wii is on it’s way out. Sure, with an install base of over 80 million, chances are that smaller developers will be making Wii games for a while, but when it comes to being Nintendo’s primary home console, the little white demon’s days are numbered. Sadly, the console’s last year in the marquee spotlight is looking pretty weak for exclusives and must-have titles. We’ve gotKirby Wii,The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword,Bit....

Price hike? Not today Update 8/23: Groupon is out of stock. Best deal right now isNeoGames for $46.99. Tucked away in its late-July post, Sony made anunpleasant announcementthat PlayStation Plus pricing will increase to $59.99 per year. Because, you know, money. This switch-over won’t happen until September 22, so before you go gangbusters on picking up PlayStation Plus membership cards at your local GameStop, there is a good deal at Groupon to consider....

Special weekends are special. Activision has announced theGuitar Hero III: Legends of Rockweekend, which begins Friday, November 2. Over the course of 72 hours, gamers 13 years or older can “participate in a number of exciting activities online,” where every hour Activision will give away fancy prizes. Winners packages include a limited edition guitar faceplate signed by Slash, which you can promptly sell on eBay for twice what you paid for it....

To build a champion team inMadden 25‘s Franchise mode, you’ll have to pay plenty of attention to player tags and motivations. Tags and motivations will play a part in both the development of a player and how long they will continue on your team. While EA Sports has made some changes in this year’s Franchise mode, I have discovered the same tags and motivations so far. Let’s take a look at all of them and their respective roles in Franchise mode....

Developer Ronimo Games has released a new trailer for its upcoming title,Awesomenauts, highlighting one Sheriff Lonestar. I’m not going to go into much detail about the character himself here. I’ll leave that to Ronimo, who sent us a full bio and some info on his attacks. I normally don’t do this, but I’m going to go ahead and paste it below in full. Because with details like “a wealthy Bovinion visionary opened up a park where visitors would come to see a genetically re-engineered cowboy in action,” clearly Ronimo thought this through....

That basketball logo! Haha! At first, I thought this trailer forBarkley 2was just Tale of Game’s Studios cooking up something weird. It isrealweird. But it’s also an incredible spoof of theFinal Fantasy VIIremake trailer. The Kickstarted project is coming along, which is good to hear. Warms my heart to know that a game calledThe Magical Realms of Tír na nÓg: Escape from Necron 7 – Revenge of Cuchulainn: The Official Game of the Movie – Chapter 2 of the Hoopz Barkley SaGais coming to market....

‘Currently exploring’ options The Xbox One X isout in the wildand to those of you with data caps, godspeed. It can already be a tricky balancing act with how large game file sizes have grown and how frequent updates have become, but add in the possibility of 4K assets, and yikes. Suddenly I’m finding myself re-reading my ISP’s fine print and re-checking my data usage for the month. It’s now permanently on the back of my mind....

Take all of my Greenlight upvotes Running through the list of bullet points forChasm, it’s hard not to freak out. A 2D action-RPG platformer that’s set up like a Metroidvania with procedural dungeons and loot drops is too much to take in all at once. Then your eyes catch that this also features a permadeath mode, to say absolutely nothing of its art direction. And just look at that inventory screen — oh my goodness....