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New mixes cover chiptune, electronica, metal, and more A year ago, chiptune artist C-jeff produced a very spiffy chip album entitledPreschtale. The seven-track release was inspired by several progressive rock bands, and the result was very “space-y,” for lack of a better word. The album has inspired a bunch of other musicians in turn in the form ofPreschtale Variations. A much more expansive 16 tracks in length,Preschtale Variationsfeatures many guests reworking C-jeff’s original material in a variety of styles like acoustic and electronica....

4K LG UHDTV starts at $380 Thinking about a new TV for some eventual 4K gaming? LG’s UHDTVs are gettingbig price cut dealsthis weekend. High Dynmaic Range (HDR) is all the rage in the world of HDTVs this year. If the better brightness and color accuracy is what you want but you’ve been waiting on a sale, the timing of discounts might be unexpected. This weekend, BeachCamera and PC Richard have dropped several LG models to historic lows as they look to clear out 2017 models....

iOS port report It’s interesting how much your life can change when you simply don’t have time to do anything. I work full time, have a three-hour commute each day, and somehow manage to pop out shitty articles for this website on a semi-regular basis. My life is completely full. Compare that to two years ago. I was still writing for Destructoid and had a full-time job, but my commute was a measly 30 minutes each day....

A track from Mitsuda’s non-game work Every Christmas season composer Yasunori Mitsuda streams a holiday arrangement on his Procyon Studio home page. In past years we’ve heard arrangements of everything fromChrono Cross’s“Dimension Break” (recently mentioned in ourtop ten listfor songs to listen to during the holidays) to a track from his work onLime Odyssey. This year we get a lovely arrangement from the amazingkiRitealbum, a body of work that Mitsuda wrote to accompany an original story book by Masato Kato, the scenario and script writer forChrono TriggerandChrono Cross....

Vincent is coming out of his coffin. Announced at theFinal Fantasy VII Rebirthvoice cast panel at New York Comic-Con, the voice actor for the gun-toting ex-Turk has been officially confirmed: Matt Mercer. This comes after fans claimed the prolific voice actor was the character when he appeared in the latest State of Play. It’s official!Matt Mercer (@matthewmercer) is the voice of Vincent Valentine in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth.#FF7Rpic.twitter.com/8dKq3E6EXj Disturbing Vincent Valentine’s slumber As host, Matt Mercer brings up his background work inFFVII Remakeafter introducing the cast....

Ground Zeroes + The Phantom Pain = MGSV [Update:Those sexy bastards atRev3 Gamesuploaded the gameplay demo which you can find below.] Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Painis an open world sequel for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, Hideo Kojima said at a GDC panel. However, the FOX Engine-powered gameplay and trailer shown ran off a PC. The new trailer, which carried scenes from previousPhantom PainandGround Zeroestrailers, showed Snake recovering from a coma....

Props to Kojima Hideo Kojima’sMetal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Painhas shipped over six million copies, the company who formerly employed Kojima announced. This comes by way of their fiscal quarter report, which specifically boasts numbers forMetal Gear Solid V, in addition to their typical health, mobile (bolstered by 19 millionJikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyūdownloads), and pachinko/pachislot earnings. Another big takeway from this report is that the publisher only has two major releases slated for localization — twoYu-Gi-Ohtitles....

Coming soon to Nintendo Switch, PS4, PC, and Xbox One Moving Outhas slipped into the overlooked recesses of my Switch library, but the Moving In update – coming soon to PC and consoles – will likely bump the co-op game to the front of my home screen. Up until now,Moving Outhas been about haphazardly clearing out rooms and throwing people’s stuff onto a moving truck by any means necessary. With this update, a dozen of the original levels will be playable in reverse....

Because we care Assassin’s Creedis my favorite franchise of the Xbox 360/PS3 era. I know that’s an increasingly unpopular opinion, but this series gripped me from the very outset. The wonderful combination of conspiracy theory intertwined with historical events, all wrapped around an open-world experience that encourages exploration is what enticed me in the beginning, and it’s what keeps me coming back for more. That being said, I don’t view theAssassin’s Creedgames through rose-tinted glasses....

As well as ability to play non-Origin games Remember when I told you about my childhood dream of people being able to watch me play videogames just by clicking on my name whenTwitchintegration wasadded toPlanetSide 2the other day? Well, it looks like we’reevencloser to that dream now, as Origin is adding Twitch streaming within their in-game overlay via the next update (which is being pushed in the next few days)....

PlayStation has announced the games coming to PlayStation Plus in April. Alongside cards and outlaws, there’s also a heads-up that one game will be leaving another part of the service in May.Persona 5is leaving the PlayStation Plus Collection on May 11. In an addendum on thePlayStation Blog, Sony says that adding the game to your library before May 11 will allow users to still have access, as long as they have an active Plus subscription....

Pirates — the swashbuckling sort — are pretty great. Videogames are pretty great too; the good ones, anyway. For some unfathomable reason, these two things don’t come together as frequently as I would like. Fortunately, Piranha Bytes, creator of theGothicfranchise, is aiming to rectify this oversight. Risen 2: Dark Watersmaintains the team’s lineage of traditional, PC RPGs, but eschews the traditional fantasy fare in favor of something far more piratical, and, perhaps, a bit more accessible, without sacrificing the depth and skill trees associated with the genre....

Pillars of Eternity Project Eternity, Obsidian’s old-school PC role-playing game that was Kickstarted last year, is now calledPillars of Eternity. Along with getting an actual name, Obsidian released the first gameplay trailer, and opened up a new backer’s portal. This portal lets you join the other backers by pledging at least $35 towards development in exchange for a digital copy of the finished game. Obsidian haven’t set an exact date yet, but they are hoping for a release later next year....