Category: News
Super Mario Maker Updates Adds Captain Toad & Birdo Costumes For Europe
Just in time for the Christmas holidays Nintendo Europe has unveiled a brand new update for Super Mario Maker that brings three brand new costumes to the level building title. If you boot up Super Mario Maker on Christmas Day you can score yourself a pretty sweet costume featuring everyone’s favorite adventuring fungus, Captain Toad. […]
Playstation Store Holiday Sale Week 3 Deals Now Live
Sony has updated the PlaySation Store with brand new deals for week three of their holiday sale. These deals are good until December 28th when presumably the last set of discounts will go live. Here’s a partial list – all prices in Canadian Dollars as I am based in Canada: PS4 Deals Until Dawn – […]
Steam Sale Day 1 is live
Steam is notorious for its twice (and sometimes three time) annual sales. The sale always features deep discounts on popular titles as well as indie games you may never have known existed. This years first day of Holiday sale Features Skyrim for 19.99 and The Witcher Franchise for both of which are new and a great value. […]
Nyko’s Data Bank Hard Drive for Xbox One Now Available
Leading console accessories manufacturer Nyko today announced on twitter the release of the Data Bank for Xbox One, a sleek, streamlined hard drive enclosure that affixes to the top of the console and expands data storage with any 3.5” hard drive. Current enclosures on the market are less visually appealing and are detached from the […]
Final Rift hardware and SDK 1.0 shipping to devs
ITS HAPPENING Occulus has officially annoucned that the first copies of the final rift hardware are “Imminently shipping”. This basically means this week, From the Occulus Rift website “If you’re shipping a Rift title in Q1, you’ll need early access to Rift hardware and new platform features to finalize your game or application. The Rift SDK […]
Staff Bio: Renee Gittins
Hello dear readers, today we are going to do something a little different. The first in a new series of staff profiles of our writers and editors, Renee Gittins, Creative Director, CEO at Stumbling Cat and Onsite Reporter for Brokenjoysticks.net. F: So Renee, what got you started on gaming, first system and first game? R: […]
Here Are The Free Xbox Live Gold Games For January 2016
It might not even be 2016 yet but Xbox’s Major Nelson has taken the wraps off of the free games that Xbox Live subscribers will gain access to at the beginning of next year. On the Xbox One front – Owners of Mircrosoft’s Xbox One can go for broke in an all out brawl with […]
Tales of Berseria Announced For PS4 and PC North American Release
In news that is sure to delight fans of the long running Tales of series, such as myself, Bandai Namco has confirmed via a brand new trailer that the latest entry Tales of Berseria will be releasing sometime in the west for PlayStation 4 and Windows PC. In their announcement blog post the publisher briefly […]
God Eater 2: Rage Burst & God Eater: Resurrection Confirmed for NA In New Trailer
A brand new title in the God Eater franchise – God Eater 2: Rage Burst – alongside an enhanced remake of the original have been announced for PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and Windows PC to be published by the folks at Bandai Namco Games. In a brief announcement trailer we see cuts of garbled, possibly […]
BrokenCast Episode #8: Game of the Year 2015
It’s that time of the year – the time when we reflect on all of the great games that have been released over the last twelve months. The year kicked off with major releases like The Order: 1886 and Bloodborne. By mid-year we saw the release of Blizzard’s Heroes of the Storm and CD Projekt […]
Microsoft Says Xbox One Cloud Tech Available to Any Game, Including PS4 Exclusives
In a move that most people would call confusing, Phil Spencer said yesterday that Microsoft will not prevent anyone from using its Azure platform for cloud computing for gaming. DualShockers is reporting that a fan asked on twitter about Titanfall 2 and how they would “hate to see the franchise lose out on Azure Cloud computing and servers.” Spencer […]
Rise of The Tomb Raider Demo Now Available On Xbox One
Microsoft and Creative Dynamics have released a demo version of Rise of the Tomb Raider for Xbox One. Spotted by an eagle-eyed Neogaf user this demo version of the appeared on the Xbox Live web-store this evening. It’s unknown as of press time what the demo contains in terms of content or how large the […]
Nintendo Unveils The Miiverse’s Top 3 Games For Wii U / 3DS
Nintendo has unveiled the most popular games as measured via traffic on their Miiverse social media website / Wii U application. This year didn’t feature the two big marquee releases for Wii U – Star Fox: Zero and The Legend of Zelda Wii U, as both of those games got delayed into 2016. However, it […]
Xbox Boss: Killer Instinct & Gears Ultimate Coming To PC In Early 2016
Earlier this year at E3 Microsoft announced that both Killer Instinct and Gears of War: Ultimate would be making the jump from the Xbox One to Windows PC. Since then PC gamers have been waiting to find out when they can dig into these currently Xbox One exclusive titles. One fan in particular, @brycethatoneguy on […]