Kentucky Route Zero developer tells all Last time on Sup Holmes (now oniTunes) we welcomed Jake Elliott of Cardboard Computer (Kentucky Route Zero) to the program. Immediately after the show was over, I felt terrible. I was so in awe of Jake’s brain that I couldn’t help but talk about how weird I think it is. If you’ve playedKentucky Route Zero, you may have an idea what inspired my awe. Like the game he helped create, Jake seemed so casual and unaware of his surreal brilliance, like he didn’t notice that he was surreal or brilliant....

Someone doesn’t like that we ran. Or maybe it was something we said about them. Somehow our article is “engaged in other unauthorized activities relating to copyrighted works published by Microsoft.” According to our “SECOND Demand for Immediate Take-Down,” the ads are the copyrighted works, and somehow we’re making them available for copying, through downloading, by showing them to you. Or something. Come on, now. These videos are on YouTube and everywhere else....

Last Epochleft early access on February 21, resulting in a sudden influx of players checking out thefull release. How many players? On the dayLast Epochofficially launched,SteamDBrecorded a peak of over 152,000 concurrent players. One day later, the figure has grown to more than 176,000 players, and it’s not even a weekend. With so many gamers clamoring to play online, theDiablo-like’s servers have been stretched to their limits. I tried to play co-op with a friend on launch day, and while we were able to play together, we definitely felt the servers straining under the load....

Strangereal, here we come! It took them a while, but Project Aces and Bandai Namco are finally ready to tell joystick-grippers when they can break out their flight controllers for anotherAce Combatgame: July 19, 2025 is the confirmed worldwide release date forAce Combat 7: Skies Unknown. Skies Unknownwill be the firstAce Combatentry for the current console generation. Its PC release, second after the misfire that wasAce Combat: Assault Horizon,will be available on February 1st....

Place bets on how often Phil and I die I don’t often recommend that you take Phil and my crazy antics and base drinking games off of them, but if you have to do it sometime: today is the day. Now, we aren’t exactly bad at games — between the two of us we can muddle our way through pretty much anything that is thrown at us. That said,Dark Souls IIis going to test our mettle....

An eighteen-year-old man is sitting in a jail cell today after attempting to rob a copy ofCall of Duty: Modern Warfare 3at gunpoint. The would-be attacker followed a 27-year-old midnight launch attendee from GameStop to his home. Once the victim parked his car, the attacker pulled up and boxed him in, before pulling out a gun and demanding the game. The game’s owner refused to part with his copy, shouted an unknown expletive, and began to wrestle for control of the firearm....

For those just digging intoMarvel’s Spider-Man 2(like me), you may hear some familiar voices. From voice-acting legends to up-and-comers, here’s who’s in the cast of Insomniac’s newest entry in theSpider-Manuniverse. This list will cover already-confirmed characters, so don’t expect any unrevealed characters that haven’t been in the trailers. We will update the list at a later date with those so new players can get to enjoy the game without being spoiled....

Last year, Spicy Horse (the Shanghai-based development studio founded by American McGee in 2007) began to focus on developing casual, free-to-play titles for social platforms. Now, the fruits of that labor are starting to manifest andBig Head Bash, one of three projects the studio is currently working on, is shaping up to be rather interesting. InBig Head Bash, players are transported to a virtual toy store where the toys just can’t seem to get along....

You’ve probably heard by now that Studio Liverpool, the lovely developers of theWipEoutseries,closed up shop last month. Liverpool calls it the “end of an era,” and millions of fans across the globe are inclined to agree — which begs the question — what is going to happen to theWipEoutseries? Well, even the studio doesn’t know for sure, but they did put out a message on Facebook that confirmed the continuation of online play, as well as “plenty of community events, giveaways and goodies....

Streaming gaming, no consoles needed LG andOnLiveannounced this morning that the LG Smart TV with Google TV built in will now see integration from OnLive’s streaming gaming service. This means instant cloud gaming, straight from the television, with no console needed. They say that their latest model, the S2, supports OnLive, and future LG Google TV models will also include this feature. All new S2 series TVs will already have OnLive preinstalled....

The Destructoid Show really needs you tonight Holy moly, you guys, it’s been a long week, and we had lots of news out of GDC to cover on today’s Destructoid Show. For starters, EA showed off seventeen full minutes ofBattlefield 4, which looks very pretty, albeit exactly how you’d expect the follow-up toBattlefield 3to look. Plus, hey, Bonnie Tyler’s playing in it, so there’s that. Meanwhile, Bungie still doesn’t wanna show us whatDestinylooks like in action, but they did talk about theinspirationsfor it, and put up a nice little video showing character models in motion....

Wii U’s first Pokemon game Pika-CHUUUUU! I just said something dirty to you in Pikachu-ese and you’ll never know what I said. Ha! Pokemon Rumblegoes Wii U with the newly revealedPokemon Scramble U(the Japanese name). A scan we found onBulbaNews, from Japan’s CoroCoro magazine, says that the Wii U eShop will see this title’s release this spring. Just like the WiiWare game, this version will have up to four players going at it with 100 Pokemon clobbering each other at one time....

Enjoying myself, but barely Fallout 76has a haunting isolation about it. There are no non-playable characters in this game. There are no dialogue choices to make. There’s no right or wrong. The towns are all deserted. It’s just you, your thoughts, a million miles of West Virginia Wasteland, and a never-ending onslaught of horrifying monsters. Kind of ironic given thatFallout 76is the one billed as a social game. Fallout 76(PC, PS4, Xbox One [reviewed])Developer: Bethesda Game StudiosPublisher: Bethesda SoftworksMSRP: $59....