Justin has been a gamer since the Intellivision days back in the early 80′s. He started writing about and covering the video game industry in 2008. In his spare time he is also a bit of a gun-nut and Star Wars nerd.
Sony has announced the July 2013 PlayStation Plus preview for North America, revealing that DICE's Battlefield 3 will kick off another stellar month of additions to the free Instant Game Collection when the PS Store updates later today.
In a surprise announcement yesterday Microsoft confirmed that Interactive Entertainment Business President, Don Mattrick, has left the company to become the new CEO of the struggling social game company, Zynga. We have now learned that Mattrick's position will not be immediately filled but will instead be temporally handed over to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who has directed all management in the Xbox division to report directly to himself.
Most of us were expecting Telltale Games' downloadable content for the first season of The Walking Dead, The Walking Dead: 400 Days, to launch sometime during the tail end of July, but the developer surprised us all today by revealing that the DLC will start to roll out tomorrow.
Ride to Hell: Retribution is a shameful and pathetic excuse for a video game. Deep Silver and Euthechnyx should be utterly embarrassed to have their names associated with this piece of trash, and the fact that they are charging $30 for it shows what little respect they have for their customers.
Kenneth McCulloch, a long time Silicon Knights employee and a founding member of Precursor Games (the company behind the recently suspended Shadow of the Eternals crowdfunding campaign), has been arrested and is facing multiple child pornography charges.
PlayStation Plus reached an important milestone this week, as it was exactly one year ago that Sony transformed the premium service by launching the Instant Game Collection -- a long-term rental service that gives Plus subscribers unlimited access to an ever expanding library of digital games.
Last week a Kotaku tipster discovered two phone numbers on a bulletin board in the Pittsburgh section of The Last of Us. In-game the phone numbers were said to belong to a pest control service, but after calling them he discovered that both led to working phone-sex hotlines. Naughty Dog has since apologized for the phone numbers, and promised to remove them from the game.
According to a Eurogamer report, earlier this year Microsoft decided to stop charging developers upwards of "tens of thousands of dollars" to issue patches for their Xbox 360 games.
Last week's 4.45 firmware update for the PlayStation 3 left a "small number" of console owners unable to use their system after it caused the XMB to simply vanish from their screen. As promised, Sony has released the 4.46 update today and detailed how users with bricked PS3 consoles can restore functionality.
One of the most notable things seen on-stage at the May 21st reveal of the Xbox One's expansive lineup of Live TV features was a small image of a Crackdown orb inserted into the console's Dashboard interface. Microsoft failed to talk about a potential sequel to the franchise at E3, but we are now hearing that the orb on the Dashboard was anything but an accident.