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Evil Within’s First DLC Hits Next Year

The first of three expansion packs for Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami’s The Evil Within will be released in early 2015, publisher Bethesda has announced in a blog post. It’s called “The Assignment,” and it focuses on The Evil Within protagonist Sebastian Castellanos’ partner, Juli Kidman. In fact, you get to play as Kidman (voiced […]

PS4 Getting Friend Notifications, Video Suggests

Sony on Thursday released a new PlayStation 4 video that suggests online friend notifications, a much-requested system feature, might be coming to the console soon. At the 10-second mark in the video below you can see a friend notification appear in the top right corner of the screen during a Destiny mission. We weren’t the […]

Latest Halo: Master Chief Collection Update Brings Back SWAT

The SWAT playlist for Halo: The Master Chief Collection‘s matchmaking mode has returned. No need to download and install an update to hop in, however, as 343 Industries has re-introduced the playlist via a server-side update. Just fire up the Xbox One title and you’ll see SWAT as the game’s featured playlist. Currently, SWAT is […]

Water-Themed Tropico 5 Expansion Launching Next Week, Watch Teaser Now

The first major expansion pack for city simulation game Tropico 5 has been announced, and you won’t need to wait long to play it. The expansion is called Waterborne, and it arrives for PC on December 17. As its name suggests, the Waterborne expansion for Tropico 5 features a range of water-based mechanics, a first […]

Last Guardian Making Progress Under "Completely New Conditions"

Sony’s long-in-development adventure game The Last Guardian was nowhere to be seen last weekend during PlayStation Experience, and that might be due to a recent development for the title. Director Fumito Ueda spoke about The Last Guardian in this week’s issue of Dengeki PlayStation (translated by Kotaku), saying the game is now moving forward under […]

Mortal Kombat Dev Making a WWE Game

WWE and Warner Bros. Interactive today announced WWE Immortals, a free-to-play mobile game developed by Mortal Kombat studio NetherRealm in association with Phosphor Game Studios. Due to launch worldwide in 2015, WWE Immortals is coming to iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch and Android devices. Unfortunately, WWE and Warner Bros. aren’t sharing many details about the game. […]

Report: New Destiny Multiplayer Mode Drops Radar and Supers

A new multiplayer mode could soon be implemented into Destiny which removes super abilities, the radar, and weapon bonuses. As reported on VG247, a Reddit user picked up a Grimoire card that cites a mode named “Inferno” According to the post on Reddit, the card describes “Inferno” mode as a “modified variant of multiple Crucible […]

"No Full Nudity" Option for Indie Hit Papers, Please on iPad

The developer of Papers, Please has announced the iPad launch of the game via Twitter. Lucas Pope tweeted a photo of the game appearing on an iPad with the words, “December 12th.” Pope noted that the iPad version of the game will not contain the full nudity option for the search scanner photos, citing Apple’s […]

The Crew Review

The Crew tries to be a driving game with something for everyone. You can team up with a group of friends for an epic road trip filled with fast-paced illegal activities, and seamlessly explore a massive map of the U.S., from the tip of Maine, all the way down to Miami, over to Los Angeles […]

GameSpot AU Competition – WIN a PS4 20th Anniversary Edition

The PlayStation turns 20 years old this year and thanks to Sony, GameSpot Australia is giving away an exclusive 20th Anniversary Edition PlayStation 4. Only 12,300 were made, and each console is individually numbered. Packaged in a special commemorative box, the custom PS4 sports a familiar silver/grey finish. The DualShock 4 controller is coloured in […]