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.
Precursor Games has announced that they will be "temporarily" shutting down both the Kickstarter campaign and their own crowdfunding effort for Shadow of the Eternals on June 6th, and will re-launch a new Kickstarter for the game in the coming weeks.
Over the last couple of days Eidos Montreal has been tossing out the name Deus Ex: The Fall, with the suggesting that the studio will announce the title as the next installment in the Deus Ex franchise sometime tomorrow.
Shortly after Microsoft concluded the Kinect-powered, Live TV segment of their Xbox One reveal last month, company representatives began offering conflicting statements in regards to how the next-gen console would handle used games. Eventually, Microsoft's PR department began dodging the pre-owned question altogether by using a "we will tell you about it later" response, but that statement was quickly overshadowed by a disturbing report from MCV.
Deep Silver has released another trailer for Ride to Hell: Retribution, giving us one more Grindhouse-style cinematic look before the game's release later this month.
The E3 website E3Insider has included a PlayStation 3 listing for Team Ico's slightly overdue bird-dog simulator, The Last Guardian, indicating that we might finally see the long delayed title on the show floor next week.
Sony announced the June 2013 PlayStation Plus preview for North America this morning, revealing that Deus Ex: Human Revolution will kick off an impressive month of additions to the free Instant Game Collection.
Early reports after Sony's February PlayStation 4 event stated that the new Eye camera would be bundled with the system, making it a standard part of the next-gen console's hardware. While these reports dovetailed with pre-announcement PS4 rumors, a new discovery in Sony's DualShock 4 video seems to indicate that the camera is not bundled with the console but is actually "sold separately."
Citing an anonymous source, The examiner is reporting that Ubisoft Reflections (the developer behind the Driver franchise) is currently working on a new racing game called The Crew.
Earlier this month the benevolent executives at Electronic Arts decided that the time was right to finally pay attention to three years of customer complaints, and drop their controversial Online Pass system from all their future games. Today, EA has taken the next step in that process and confirmed that they will also be removing the program in their existing titles over the coming weeks.