[Update:The gameplay video has been pulled. We got a nice little picture of Dan out of it though!] Sir Daniel Fortesque, the jaw-less hero of theMedievilseries, andHeavenly Sword‘s Nariko have both been confirmed forPlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale. A new gameplay video from GameSpot revealed the characters. Raiden fromMetal Gear Solidand Evil Cole are also shown off in the footage. Fortesque is one character I really wanted, as along-time fan ofMedievil, so I’m pretty damn excited about that!...

Anyone who was even remotely excited about Namco Bandai bringingMr. Driller Onlineto Xbox LIVE Arcade got a huge shock when the game was released last month — it was broken. Really, really broken. Sure, you could play the game offline without a hitch, but actually taking the game online was another story. And for a game that actually has the word “online” in its title, that’s a huge issue. Players reported that the game suffered from so much lag that it was virtually unplayable; some even were able toget refunds....

Plus a girl playing keytar on a Dance Dance Revolution machine We’ve been following the production of Ackk Studios’ newEarthBound-inspired gameforsome time now. Today, it got a new trailer and a new name:Y2K: A Post-Modern RPG. We get to see quite a bit of gameplay in this trailer, with turn-based combat, puzzle-solving, and exploration segments. Not to mention all the wonderful modern quirkiness, as the main character runs through record stores, pizza shops, and crazy psychedelic landscapes while wielding vinyl records, throwing cats to hit levers, and dropping pandas to activate switches....

Please understand! The 3DS stumbled out the gate, and only recently has it broken into a decent stride on a worldwide scale. The Wii U, on the other hand, is still languishing as Nintendo places its future prospects on the shoulders of its first-party Fall lineup. In their frustration, fans and shareholders alike have been calling for a change in management, starting with Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata. Earlier this year, there was a story in Japanese news outlet ITmedia about how Iwata “implied” that he would resign if Nintendo failed to achieve a ¥100 billion (~$1 billion) operating income in the coming fiscal year....

Nintendo precludes ‘developers located in Japan at this time’ Nintendo has spent much of this year reversing its previous, nose-upturned stance on independent developers. You may remember a couple years ago that Nintendo of America’s Reggie Fils-Aimestated, “we are not looking to do business today with the garage developer. In our view, that’s not a business we want to pursue.” Things have changed, however, with Nintendo removing some of WiiWare’s logistical nightmares — development office building requirements, payments that are withheld until certain sales thresholds are met — for amore inclusive and streamlinedsystem....

Get eight games on both Origin and Steam for less that $5 Over the last few months, we’ve seen more and more major publishers sell their games via the always popular Humble Bundle. Now it’s the turn of maybe the biggest dog in the pound, EA, to get involved. The newHumble Origin Bundleincludes games plus some selected extras. Interestingly enough, there are Steam codes available for some of the titles....

Brief video of new stage I want to cosplay as Capcom’s Yoshinori Ono cosplaying as Blanka. Or as Zombie Yoshinori Ono Cosplaying As Blanka after Capcomfinally kills him. Ono showed off a little bit ofStreet Fighter V‘s Brazil stage in this video. “But wait…if we have a Brazilian stage in the game that means…THAT MEANS…Everyone might have already guessed it, but please look forward to the Brazil Game Show.” Expect Blanka to be revealed in October....

Clarifies the company’s not in danger, but its glory days may be over Following yesterday’s angry protests from Nintendo fans, industry analyst Michael “Fishy Sunday” Pachtertook to NeoGAFto clarify his statements.There was uproar when Pachter saidthe Wii U was a mistakeNintendo may never recover from, so he attempted to calm nerves by saying yet more things that will probably infuriate Wii U enthusiasts. “My comment about the Wii U being a ‘mistake’ from which the company ‘may not recover’ was intended to say that if Wii U sales don’t materially improve, Nintendo is unlikely to be profitable,” he said....

PS3 now the primary development platform Sony and Netflix have informed us that the PS3 is the world’s most popular device for the streaming Netflix service. Wait, didn’t the Wii have that on lock not too long ago? Well, not anymore, it seems. “PS3 is our largest TV-connected platform in terms of Netflix viewing, and this year, at times, even surpassed the PC in hours of Netflix enjoyment to become our No....

Well, the art is great On a few separate occasions this year, I’ve been reminded thatRezexists and felt a flood of guilt after recalling how long it’s been since I last played thisridiculously cool sequence(too long). A newRez, orRez HDon current-gen systems, would be heavenly. Some of you Tetsuya Mizuguchi fans are calling for moreLuminesorMeteos(!!!), and we’re at least getting the formeron phones. The designer is also working on a “mysterious puzzle game” called18that’s releasing worldwide for mobile....

Tied to your Steam ID Steam Early Access survival gameRustis no stranger to controversy — having madeplayers’ in-game penis size based on their Steam ID— and it looks like there is about to be another one. In the latest update,Rusthas made gender assignment tied to your Steam ID, meaning players have no choice in the matter of whether they are male or female. Some vocal players are upset by this change, but everything about the player’s character has always been randomly generated, perhaps to simulate being born into the real world....

New classes, zones, and mechanics teased Today, live at theFinal Fantasy XIVFanfest event in Las Vegas, series producer Naoki Yoshida (Yoshi-P) took to the main stage in the opening keynote to announceStormblood, the next expansion in theXIVseries. It’ll debut in “early summer” 2017, and will complete the game’s transition to 4.0, following the 2.0A Realm Rebornreboot and the 3.0Heavenswardexpansion. From now until 4.0 arrives, the story will flow seamlessly intoStormbloodwith future patches, just likeHeavenswarddid....

Another day, another Kickstarter ThatSystemShock Remasterwe told you about it?It’s heading to Kickstarter next month. A “teaser” video — which just shows an animated logo screen for 15 seconds — popped up onFacebookovernight, accompanied by a note stating the game was “coming to a Kickstarter near you 06.29.16”. “After two decades, we are remastering and re-imagining the original System Shock,” states a blurb on thewebsite. “We will keep the new game true to the classic experience, keeping all the things you loved, while updating the user interface and graphics to use a modern day engine (Unity)....