Cowering tactically I’m hiding in a bush. It’s a nice bush, all green and… bushy. I feel safe here. Unfortunately, I’m drawn out of my verdant sanctuary by the crackling of my radio, and then an authoritarian voice starts shouting at me. There are men, men with guns, and they are running down a hill, shooting at my bush. The bastards. Crawling out of the protective shell of leaves and twigs, I’m treated to a stunning vista....

October’s Only on PlayStation Network promotion will bring a month’s worth of great new exclusive games to gamers, but it will also dig up some rare PlayStation classics. If you’re like me, you’ll be all over some of these older exclusives, many of which you’ll remember from the PS2 days. Confirmed titles: God Hand! I love that crazy game! These titles will appear on the PlayStation Store throughout the Only On PlayStation Network promotion, beginning October 4....

Relinquishing control, in a way Remedy is finally breaking free of the linear narrative formula that it has damn near perfected over the past 20+ years. For its seventh game,Control, it’s wading into the waters of the open-world genre. We were shown a 20-some-minute hands-off demo that elaborated upon how exactlyControlis structured. The most notable takeaway is that it’s open-world, or at least open-ended. There’s a large(ish) environment that you can move about freely, eventually revisiting places and accessing new areas thanks to some abilities that are acquired further on in the story....

Pre-orders open August 14 That purveyor of physical media, Limited Run Games,has announced a slick Collector’s Editionfor Adult Swim Games’ upcoming adventureSamurai Jack: Battle Through Time, which launches on PC and consoles later this month. The Collector’s Edition will include a boxed copy of the game on either PS4 or Nintendo Switch, a soundtrack CD, a selection of art cards, a double-sided poster, and a letter opener styled after Jack’s trusty katana....

Sadly Remember when Sega games came to the Wii Virtual Console en masse? Pepperidge Farm remembers. It was a childhood dream come true, seeing Sega and Nintendo unite in such a fashion, but the match doesn’t seem to be right on the Wii U. When asked why Sega favorites haven’t yet made their way over to Wii U, producer Yosuke Okunari simply replied “there is no such plan.” The publisher has been hard at work making 3DS Classics like madmen, but the Wii U side seems to be left in the cold for now....

It’ll be extremely limited While all platforms will have access to the Closed Network Test from July 28th at 10AM until July 31st at 9AM CEST, Playstation 5 participants only will get an extra weekend from July 21st at 10AM until July 24th at 9AM CEST.Those playing on a console will not require an online subscription service(like PlayStation Plus or Xbox Live Gold) to participate in the test. In anticipation of the test, Bandai Namco released a new trailer If you were lucky enough to play in the closed alpha tests in March, you will notice an all-new “Heat” battle system has been implemented based on feedback from the alpha....

It’s chilly over here The Snowfield Stable inTears of the Kingdomis one of the least busy in the game. That may be because it’s horrendously cold in this area. You’ll need the right gear to get to this spot in the game. Here’s where to find the Snowfield Stable inTears of the Kingdom. How to find Snowfield Stable in Tears of the Kingdom The Snowfield Stable is locatedwest of the Great Hyrule Forestandnortheast of the Rito Village....

Go Pearl or Go Home After a few days of ink-flinging online mayhem, the horror that is Nintendo’s latest splatfest, which took place globally onSplatoon 2, has finally come to its conclusion. It was close, real close, but now that the ink has dried in North America, Europe and Japan, the scores have been tallied and we can see that Pearl’s Team Squid beat out Marina’s Team Octopus 2-1. All three points were very close, with Octopus bagging 55% of the vote, and Squid pulling back Team and Solo points by a mere 1-3%....

Culinary Clothing… Cuestions Nintendo has dropped the topics for the next two splatfests, which are currently preparing for battle in online Switch shooterSplatoon 2. The next team-based brawl has two different topics, dependent on your territory. Japan has once again turned to the topic of food for their face-off, asking players whether they prefer their delicious red-bean soup filled with boiled Azuka beans (Tsubuan) or smooth, with pureed Azuka beans (Koshi-An) Pearl will be going chunky whilst her pal Marina will be keeping things smooth like Santana....

It’s a start, I guess Star Wars The Old Republicupdate 2.1, dubbed the “Customization” update, now has a new trailer that shows off a significant addition to the fray — the Cathar race (rememberJuhanifromKnights of the Old Republic?). This is the first major patch after the 2.0 build of the game, which launched withthe Hutt Cartel expansion. For non-Star Warsfans, the Cathar are a feline species who can be pretty temperamental, yet loyal and proud....

Alternate headline: The Witness is cheap, go buy The Witness It’s far from a Christmas miracle, more of a Christmas expectation really.Steam has started its Winter Sale today, right around the same time the Winter Sale has started for the better part of a decade now. It’s practically tradition at this point. So go buy yourself some cheap PC games if you want. Some things that caught our eye areThe Witnessfor $20;Doomfor $20;Undertalefor $5;The Witnessfor $20;Downwellfor $1;Brother – A Tale of Two Sonsfor $2;Deus Ex: Mankind Dividedfor $20; the recentResident Evil 4,5and6re-releases for $7 each; andThe Witnessfor $20....

Missed the first installments? Here’spart oneandpart two. Like everything Suda51 does, his answers here are open to interpretation. I basically ask the guy if he’s going to break my heart and change his plan to bringNo More Heroes 3to the Wii U. His response is “Of course! I won’t break your heart…” and then goes into an explanation that I’m still trying to understand. Is he saying that he’s planning on a new lead for theNo More Heroesseries?...

Vladimir gluten-free I learned a little about quarks this week. Quarks are small constituents of matter that make up the things that make up atoms and they’re acted upon by all four important forces. Did you know there are six types of quarks, known as flavors: up, down, strange, charm, bottom, and top? I didn’t. I learned this because I wanted tomake a joke: “hahaha trying to argue for a constituent of matter model w/ elementary particle being acted upon by FIVE forces?...