Author: Rae Michelle Richards
June 2016 Games With Gold: Super Meat Boy, The Crew & More
Major Nelson has revealed the latest titles that will be given to subscribers free of charge next month on Xbox Live. With E3 coming in just a few weeks fan’s expectations are of course pretty high and MS has secured two AAA titles for next month’s freebies. Xbox One owners will get be able to […]
Humble Ubisoft Encore Bundle Now Live
French publisher Ubisoft has joined with the Humble Bundle to bring charitable donations and discount games to PC gamers for the next two weeks. The $1 tier features an older first person shooter, an indie darling from last year and a platformer that is considered a modern classic. The BTA price takes players on an […]
First Benchmark Results For Polaris Powered AMD R9 480 Appear Online
The first benchmarks have been posted for the upcoming Radeon R9 480 thanks to a chart that appeared thanks to data obtained from software benchmark maker Futuremark. These benchmarks may have used unreleased or even older drivers so these results shouldn’t be taken as final representation of the yet unannounced performance, but they do give […]
Welcome To BrokenJoysticks 3.0
I’d like to welcome all of our readers, editors, past writers and future visitors to the third major version of Broken Joysticks! It’s hard for me to imagine that this site has been going strong for over four years now – It seems like only a little while ago that our founding staff (myself included) […]
Nacon’s New E-Sports Focused Controller Aims To Bring Precision To Players
Competitive E-Sports are dominated by the use of the classic Keyboard and Mouse even at the highest levels of play. Naccon hopes to change this with their PC-centric, E-sports focused Nacon GC-400ES controller. A crowd funding campaign to make this peripheral a reality, a crowdfunding campaign will be launched on Indiegogo on Monday morning. What […]
Oculus Driver V1.4 Breaks Popular Cross Platform Game Solution ‘RIVIVE’
A new update to the Oculus Home platform, driver version 1.4, breaks the community created cross-platform enabling RIVIVE modification. RIVIVE allowed owners of the HTC Vive to play Oculus home exclusive titles like EVE: Valkyrie and Lucky’s Tale without owning an Oculus device. It appears, according to CrossVR’s research as posted to Reddit, that the […]
Indie VR Spotlight: Fox VR
Virtual Reality is all the rage right now in the PC space and sure big titles like Elite Dangerous, Eurotruck Simulator and EVE: Valkyrie have proven that VR can be as immersive as we imagined, there is a lot of interesting stuff out there released by independent developers. Enter FoxVR, a small indie title developed […]
Gran Tourism Sport Coming Out For PS4 This November
Yesterday Sony revealed brand new details for its upcoming racer Gran Turismo Sport including a new trailer, a release date and new gameplay features. Polyphony Digital is positioning the game for a North American launch on November 15th – the same day that Japan will get the racing title. Fans in the United Kingdom will […]
Parker Quinn’s Charge Card Actually Has A Use In Fallout 4’s New DLC
When Fallout 4 launched last November players quickly came across an NPC named Parker Quinn who offered to sell the player a “charge card” in exchange for caps. That is all well & good but the damn thing didn’t really do much, as one of our former editor’s found out in his lengthy impressions of […]
Mod ‘The Center’ Officially Jones ARK: Survival Evolved On Xbox / PC
As announced at PAX East last month, popular ARK: Survival Evolved mod The Center has made its way into the official version of the game for both Windows PC and Xbox One. The Center is a user created mod map set in a Tolkien-esque fantasy map providing players with 70 square kilometers of explorable terrain, […]
Humble Deep Silver Bundle 2 Offers Up Zombies, Crime Sprees & Pirate Adventures
The latest Humble Bundle collects titles from publisher Deep Silver and invites potential owners to go on multiple crime spree in Stillwater, slay zombies on a tropical island, go on a high seas adventure and more. Featuring multiple titles from the Saints Row series, the Risen franchise and Suda 51’s The Killer Is Dead there […]
BloodBowl 2 Mac Version Released
Blood Bowl 2, the hyper violent football fantasy game based upon Games Workshop’s Warhammer universe is now available on OSX thanks to Cyanide Studios. BloodBowl 2 combines the familiar fantasy aesthetic that players have known for decades now from the Warhammer property and combines it with the ruleset from American Football. Add in a good […]
Internal SEGA USA “Trainumentary” Is The Most 90s Thing Ever
The 1990s were a magical time when Jolt Cola was still readily available, Bill Clinton was President, SEGA & Sonic the Hedgehog rivaled Nintendo & Mario in popularity and you could totally get away with wearing a beanie to work! Prepare yourselves for possibly one of the most 90s videos you’ve ever seen courtesy of […]
Early DOOM Campaign Impressions: “Absolutely Brutal”
I’ve been following id Software’s revival of the granddaddy of First Person Shooters, DOOM, since it was announced over two years ago. After the rather bland looking E3 campaign demos from last year, there was relative silence about the single player content right up until a few weeks before the game’s release. After spending 3 […]
Final Fantasy X/X-2 Remaster Now Available On Steam
Square Enix has released their 2014 re-masters of two classic RPGs – Final Fantasy X & Final Fantasy X-2 on Steam for Windows PC. These updated versions boast improved visuals for their transition to high definition, a completely re-mastered background music soundtrack, a new auto-save function, debug like “no encounters” & game-play speed increases and […]