Monthly Archives: December 2011

On January 1, 2012, Microsoft will remove firearm props it deems unsuitable for Xbox Avatars. What does that entail? Your guess as good as ours, since our request for a comprehensive list is still working its way through the machine. … Continue reading →

WayForward's downloadable 3DS title is just what the eShop needed.

Sega is still intent on releasing the next Sonic 4 episode in 2012.

If you’re feeling like reading some legal tea leaves this afternoon, put the kettle on and try this on for size: We just got news that Peter Hirschberg’s Vector Tanks and Vector Tanks Extreme have been pulled from the App … Continue reading →

After getting together to pick our official best games of 2011, we also had our writers take a look back at the last year and compile lists of their personal favorites along with their reasons why. 2011. What a year. … Continue reading →

Filed under: Podcasts This is it; the final Joystiq Show of the year, and the last round of Game of the Year personal picks from the final group of Joystiq editors. Mike, Steven, Jess, and Jordan join Richard to hit … Continue reading →

In Haunt, Parappa the Rapper developer Nana-OnSha’s upcoming Xbox Live Arcade game, players will use Kinect to direct a main character voiced by Tim Schafer around a spooky, and somewhat goofy, haunted house — that much we knew. And in … Continue reading →

Next up from the dusty annals of prehistoric RPS is a 2008 barnstormer of a tale from our all-too-quickly-departed gentleman caller Quintin Smith, and probably the best thing you’ll ever read about the one-time greatest videogame in the history of … Continue reading →

The video above contains some NSFW language The Internet was set ablaze yesterday as an email chain between a disgruntled customers, a PR rep doing customer service, and Penny Arcade’s Mike Krahulik was published on the webcomic’s website. In it, … Continue reading →

This is not a review of Uncharted: Golden Abyss, though it could well be. The Japanese version of the game, which shipped with the PS Vita at launch, offers full English-language support, including dialogue, menus, and even Trophies. But this … Continue reading →