Category: News
Turtle Beach announces Elite Pro headset at E3 2016
I don’t usually consider the thing that sits on my head while I am gaming a premium piece of hardware. Usually it’s just whatever headphones I use for editing video or audio. Turtle beach wants to change that with their newest set of headphones, the Elite Pro headset. The Elite Pro sells for $200USD and […]
VIZ Media to parther with OverDrive to provide digital manga titles at participating libraries in the U.S. and Canada.
lovers of manga who were alive in the 90s and early 00’s, will remember when you could walk in to a Barns and Nobel, or a Borders, and find shelves and shelves of manga. Most of this manga was readable in store. I can remember spending long hours waiting in the stacks of those book […]
CliffyB Compares Overwatch To Digital “Rock, Paper, Scissors”
Team-based, hero focused first person shooters are all the rage right now and the undisputed king is Blizzard’s Overwatch. In an interview, CliffyB compared Blizzard’s latest success to a digital game of Rock, Paper, Scissors. Our comrades at Eurogamer had a chance to sit down with CliffyB at E3 last week about his new game, Lawbreakers. Comparisons to […]
Civilization 6 E3 walk through finally gets to the public
Well the private walk through I saw at the amazing 2K booth at E3 is finally live to public. Look at its pretty cartoony graphics. Look at how much new things you can do. Personally I dislike the new cartoony style, but the new mechanics may offset that enough to get me to purchase this […]
Sekai Project Heats Things Up With Steam Summer Sale
Steams summer sale is upon us! Each year in the summer Steam teams up with all the bets developers including our own beloved Sekai, to bring all the best in games, for the lowest prices. Seaki’s entire catalog is basically on sale! I can recommend my beloved Nekopara, as well Clannad from exepreience! Titles prices […]
Trials of Cold Steel II Coming To Europe This Fall For PS3 / PS Vita
The Legend of Heroes: Trials of Cold Steel II will be coming to PlayStation 4 and PS Vita in Europe thanks to Nippon Inchi Software. This sequel to the 2013 original (JPN release) sees the fate of Erebonia hang in the balance as the narrative picks up just one month after the conclusion of the first […]
It Looks Like The Latest Resident Evil Spin-Off Should Have Stayed Buried
Capcom’s take the team based competitive FPS, set in the Resident Evil universe, Umbrella Corps, has only been available for a little more than 24 hours and it seems like overall response from the community can be summed up as a collective “meh”. Over on the Steam user reviews section Umbrella Corps has been met with 67% […]
VRDC Announces Standalone Conference Slated For November
VRDC (Virtual Reality Developer Conference) was a successful addition to the 2016 Games Developer Conference this past March and now the organizers behind VRDC have announced a standalone two day conference to take place in San Francisco this November. Slated for November 2nd and 3rd this iteration of VRDC is poised to not only feature the latest […]
All of Titan Fall 2’s DLC will be free
It is all too easy to lose sight of news post E3 and just talk about all of the amazing games you played, things you saw, and stuff you did. However something as important as this shouldn’t be ignored. Titan Fall was a good shooter, its lack of campaign kept it back from being great, […]
The Third Party E3 2016 Booths In Pictures
There were absolutely dozens upon dozens of booths with hundreds of interactive experiences for attendees to try. Fionna and I tried to see as many booths as we could and play as many games as humanly possible with only six hours of floor time per day. Here is a visual rundown of some of the 3rd party […]
Space Marines arrive in Battlefleet Gothic Armada
Battle Fleet Gothic is near and dear to our hearts here at Brokenjoysticks. I have about 40 hours in the game our number one streamer Rob has a ton more even than that, so you know we love the game. Right now your coming up on the end of the early adopter period where you can get […]
Mafia III is looking very strong | E3 Preview
E3 is about half hands on demos, and half theater’s showing hands off demos, so I wasn’t surprised that this year 2K brought their much anticipated Mafia III game to the convention, with a huge booth, complete with a french quarter and a live band and free beer. Unfortunately (at least for us) they did […]
E3 2016: Lucid Sound Heaphones Ears-On
Lucid is hoping to change the landscape of affordable gaming focused headsets that were the focus of the companies’ E3 2016 offerings. Consisting of the readily available LS30 headphones and the upcoming LS40 & LS50 headsets, LiquidSound is poised to offer a range of headsets whose features rival their competition. Don’t count out LiquidSound just […]
Forget Sports Managers, Here’s A Management RPG
While I enjoy sports here and there, I never quite understood the draw of sports management games. Now that I’ve seen Epic Tavern, I can understand the appeal: recruit, manage and reap the rewards from your own heroes. Enjoy their victories, work against their failures and quirks. It just so happens that my heroes swing swords […]