Rock Band 3: A bunch of Country music

I’ve always wondered why Country music is called Country music. Saying the name twice in one sentence already makes it sound weird, but if you think about it any more it completely stops making sense. See? It does make sense that Harmonix would pump a bunch of country hits into the DLC offerings forRock Band 3. Like it or not, Country is huge. Artists Sugarland, Shania Twain, Reba Mcntire, Keith Urban, Lady Antebellum, Jason Aldean, Merle Haggard and more are included in the new offerings....

July 21, 2025 · 2 min · 308 words · Dawn Coffey

ScourgeBringer leads the August Xbox Games with Gold lineup

Calico, Saint’s Row 2, and Monaco round out the list Do you recognize these games? For once, I knew them all. Calicois a community life sim game centered on a cat cafe, which is a cute premise. On the flip side, we’ve gotScourgeBringer, a frantic action roguelite game that I’d recommend playing if you aren’t too burnt out on the genre — it’s fun for a bit. Due to its balanced tone,Saint’s Row 2is the fan-favorite entry depending on who you ask, andMonacois a still-pretty-unique co-op heist gamethat’s getting a sequelall these years later....

July 21, 2025 · 2 min · 219 words · Harry Morris

Second wave of Gravity Rush DLC seen in the wild

Later this year, you can salute more thanjust your shorts—Gravity Rush‘s Kat will be getting a new special forces uniform, among other bonuses. The second wave of paidGravity RushDLC has been unveiled, and along with a new costume, the pack includes two races and two extra side missions. As previously reported, it looks like Sony isplanning three waves of DLC, so there’s one more mystery get-up to go. It may not be a complete mystery however, as Japanese gamers have already stated that based on trophy listings, it’s titled “The Maid Pack”....

July 21, 2025 · 1 min · 101 words · Lonnie Bennett

Sega is planning a big stream to reveal Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis details

Where else but Tokyo Game Show Sega’s giving us more news next week aboutPhantasy Star Online 2‘s glow-up. What better place than Tokyo Game Show? Next Friday, there’s a bigPhantasy Star Online 2: New Genesisstream where Sega will show the first gameplay of this remadePSO2. It kicks off on September 25 at 5am Pacific. If you missedthe announcementback in July,New Genesisis a complete overhaul ofPSO2. New engine, improved visuals, new mechanics, a more detailed character creation system,the characters’ fingers move now— it’s a major undertaking....

July 21, 2025 · 1 min · 176 words · Cody Brown

Starfield Review Round Up: Should You Buy it?

The embargo forStarfieldhit earlier today, prompting a plethora ofStarfieldreviews to become available. At the time of this post, reviews are mostly positive. OnOpenCritic,Starfieldcurrently has an average score of 88/100, and a 94% critic recommendation rating. OnMetaCritic,Starfieldis sitting at 88/100 Metascore and generally favorable reviews. Of course, let’s start with our own review.We gaveStarfielda 10/10. “I wasn’t sure if it could be done, but Bethesda has managed to raise the bar for sandbox games even higher....

July 21, 2025 · 3 min · 459 words · Chad Hopkins

Steam analyst claims 1.2 million people owned Fallout 4 at launch

No info on actual launch sales Sergey Galyonkin, the man behind Steam analytics site SteamSpy, recently published some initial thoughts onFallout 4‘s PC launchvia Twitter. Galyonkin acknowledged the unreliability inherent to the way the site pulls in data, reminding his followers that the initial figure was not perfect. That said, SteamSpy currently hasFallout 4at 1,287,128 copies sold as of November 10, give or take about 28,000, including pre-orders sold before launch....

July 21, 2025 · 2 min · 244 words · Rachel Fowler

Super Time Force screenshots to pass the time

All dinosaurs should spit acid while skateboarding I’ve run out of fresh things to say about the time-rewinding run-and-gun gameSuper Time Force, so apologies if this all sounds familiar and you find that bothersome. It still looks great! Capy doesn’t have a clear release date yet — it’s sounding like May or June for Xbox 360 and Xbox One — but the studiodoeshave screenshots to share. You’ll want to see those in full resolution....

July 21, 2025 · 1 min · 105 words · Robert Griffin

Telltale Games’ Poker Night 2 screenshots leak out

Features Claptrap, Brock Samson, Sam, GlaDOS, and Ashley Williams Telltale Games hasa teaser siterunning right now referring to a “key party,” and showing an image of a dish which has seen the addition of various sets of keys over the last few days, with the promise that all will be revealed on April 1st. The cat may have escaped this particular bag, as theinternet sleuths at NeoGAFhave discovered screenshots and box art in the Xbox Live Marketplace asset repository, revealing the game to beTelltale Games’ Poker Night 2, a followup to the 2010 release,Poker Night at the Inventory....

July 21, 2025 · 2 min · 250 words · Christina Baker

Telltale’s Batman Episode 2 appears to show image of real assassination victim

Murdered Russian Ambassador’s corpse appears in-game The second episode of Telltale Game’sBatmanseries launched this week, but it was recently spotted by Twitter user BroTeamPill that the actual corpse of a murdered Russian diplomat featured in a still image, appearing briefly during the new episode’s narrative. You may remember the assassination of Russia’s Turkish ambassadorAndrei Karlov, who was shot dead last December during the opening of an art gallery in Ankara, a shocking event that was captured by the media in attendance....

July 21, 2025 · 1 min · 198 words · Matthew Brown

The Bureau: XCOM Declassified is free on Humble right now

Maybe you’ll like what you see The black sheep of theXCOMfamily isThe Bureau: XCOM Declassified, at least ever since the series relaunched back in 2012. It’s a third-person shooter in a sea of turn-based strategy games, and it was off enough to be largely disregarded. Itstroubled developmentdidn’t help matters. All of those sorta-unflattering things aside, you can ownThe Bureauat no cost right now.Humble’s giving it away for freeuntil December 2. All you have to do is add it to your cart, go through the checkout process, and then redeem your Steam key....

July 21, 2025 · 1 min · 163 words · Jennifer Bell

The Predators can pick their powers, and the humans don’t stand a chance

Coming April 24 to PS4 and PC The kill count in the Predators versus people battle is already heavily skewed toward the Yautja’s favor. No matter how every movie ends — usually with a Predator finally dead, but having put up one hell of a struggle — it’s the humans that see far more casualties. They don’t need any help. Predator: Hunting Groundsgives them some help. Theasymmetric multiplayerPredatorfrom IllFonic lets players choose their predatory playstyle....

July 21, 2025 · 1 min · 177 words · James Dudley

The rest of the Jak and Daxter games will be hitting PS4 next week

Say goodnight, Jak Months ago, Sony released a PS2 classic version ofJak and Daxteron the PS4 with intentions to complete the series at some point. Whatever the reason for the delay, Naughty Dog’s PS2 series will finally reach its conclusion next week. On December 6, theJak II,Jak 3andJak X Combat Racingwill be available for download on your PS4. You can nab each game individually or together as a bundle. I’m not sure if that bundle includes the first game or not, but at least you can finally put the series to bed....

July 21, 2025 · 1 min · 104 words · Charles Perkins

There’s a Skyrim-lookin’ dude in Fable Legends

Shout, shout, let it all out Are you intoFable Legends? There’s some kind of neat stuff in there. And, it’s free-to-play, so you can keep your wallet in your back pocket (even though that’s bad for you and tilts the axis of your pelvis). This trailer has all that hot pelvis-tilting action. But, there’s also a Dovahkiin-lookin’ dude hangin’ out. His horns go up, though. Maybe that means he’s happy. Maybe it means he isn’t shouting all the time....

July 21, 2025 · 1 min · 79 words · Xavier Cortez