Everything in Halo 5: Guardians‘ new REQ system can be earned through traditional gameplay. But if you’d like to get going faster, you will be able to pay real-world money for that convenience. In a blog post, 343 Industries revealed pricing details for the game’s various REQ Packs and talked more about how they work. […]

Following his recent comments about how the Xbox One may never outsell the rival PlayStation 4, Xbox boss Phil Spencer has again broached the subject of Microsoft’s vision for the Xbox platform and how this is affected by the competition. In short, he says it’s not. Read on for Spencer’s new take on the subject. […]

Today at CitizenCon, the annual fan event dedicated to PC space game Star Citizen, developer Cloud Imperium Games announced a celebrity cast for the game’s single-player campaign. Actors appearing in the campaign, Squadron 42, include Gary Oldman, Mark Hamill, John Rhys-Davies, and Gillian Anderson. Oldman plays a character named Admiral Bishop; take a look at […]

Nostalgia can be a cruel and misleading force. The part of our brain that wants desperately to relive our past experiences can sometimes trick us into eagerly consuming games and books and movies that ultimately turn out to be crassly recycled garbage merely masquerading as the thing we once loved. Thankfully, Transformers: Devastation spares us […]

Although a final determination has yet to be made, Electronic Arts is hoping its upcoming sci-fi shooter Star Wars Battlefront will receive a T-for-Teen rating from the Entertainment Software Rating Board. “Star Wars Battlefront is still rated ‘RP’ (Rating Pending) but we’re targeting a rating of ‘T’ for Teen,” the developer said through the game’s […]

Streaming star Jordan Maron, known to the millions of people who watch him play Minecraft as “CaptainSparklez,” has purchased a new Los Angeles home for $4.5 million. Variety reports that the 23-year-old’s new, 4,100 square-foot house sits on a hillside above Sunset Strip–and it looks amazing. As you can see in the image above, the […]

Rapper, producer, fashionista, and potential future president of the United States of America, Kanye West, has a message for developers that include in-app purchases in their mobile games: “Just allow [kids] to have fun and give the parents a break for Christ sake.” Posting on Twitter, Yeezus made his opinions Cristal clear: Fuck any game […]

PS4 horror game Until Dawn has exceeded sales expectations and a sequel is being discussed. Executive producer Pete Samuels says in a new interview with PlayStation Lifestyle, “It’s definitely surpassed expectations,” though a specific sales figure for the game has not been announced. Back in September, PS4 boss Shuhei Yoshida said he was surprised by […]

THE BIG STUFF: PS4 Price Drop: Big news for the PlayStation 4 this week, as the console got a $50 price cut, bringing the starting cost down to $350. That’s the same price as the base model Xbox One. Far Cry Primal Announced: A Far Cry game set in 10,000 BC? Sounds cool to me. […]

As discovered by the Steam Database Twitter, a recent update to Dota 2 included a number of files that reference things like an RPG, ziplines, and procedural spawning. The most intriguing file with obvious half-life implications is titled hl3.txt, which has lines like: “Attribute.prop_zipline.max_ride_speed” “NPCs that are in the same squad (i.e. have matching squad […]