Jessica Conditt
Senior Reporter - jess@joystiq.com
Jess is a professional nerd, specializing in gaming, comics, journalism, rum and writing. Native to Arizona, she has had plenty of time to sit indoors, out of the extreme desert heat, and play a variety of tan-obliterating games -- and then write bitter, pale reviews on them. Jess has written for online gaming outlets since 2008 and graduated from ASU's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism in 2011 with a degree specializing in digital media, which she plans to completely ignore while writing stories for Joystiq.
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Konami pre-E3 show gives the scoop on MGS5, Castlevania on June 6
Konami's third annual pre-E3 show is penciled in for June 6 at 1 p.m. ET, streaming live online via Konami's events site, on Gamespot and via the Xbox Live Gamespot app. For the second year in a row, Konami will show off a new trailer for Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2, which was announced during ...
Steam is king in service wars, Humble Store a sleeping giant, indies say
Twenty-one randomly selected indie developers walk into a digital room and ponder the question, "Which online distribution system has been the most effective for your games?" If this were the set-up to a joke, the punchline would probably be, "Facebook." But for many indie developers, the ...
The Novelist takes 'ghostwriting' to a new, emotional level
The Novelist stars three characters: Dan Kaplan, a father attempting to finish writing the most important book of his career; Dan's wife and their young son – and you won't play as any of these people. Instead, players control an omniscient presence in the family's summer cabin, able to ...
Steam weekly deals: Hitman: Absolution, Hydrophobia, Anodyne
This week on Steam, Agent 47 takes more than a few lives – he knocks 50 percent off the price of Hitman: Absolution, bringing it down to $12.50. Also on sale for up to 75 percent off on Steam is the moody, 16-bit adventure Anodyne, Dark Energy Digital's Hydrophobia: Prophecy, 2002 strategy ...
Shadow of the Eternals gets a secondary Kickstarter campaign
Precursor Games has launched a second, simultaneous crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter for Shadow of the Eternals, the episodic horror game serving as a spiritual successor to Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem. This is a supplement to the crowdfunding project that Precursor launched on its own ...
WWE 2K14 throws down at retailers on October 29
WWE 2K14 is scheduled to launch on October 29 for Xbox 360 and PS3, Take-Two Interactive confirmed in its fiscal year 2013 financial report. Take-Two snagged the rights to the WWE franchise in February, through a deal that went down before THQ's public bankruptcy auction in January. The deal gives ...
32 indie games show off in a super sale for five more days
For the next five days, Show Me the Games is hosting a super sale on 32 indie games, with all of the money going straight to the developers, no middle man and no cuts. Games on sale for up to 75 percent off include Offspring Fling, Voxatron, Gratuitous Space Battles, Revenge of the Titans, And Yet ...
Rumor: 'PS4 E3' video shows the console in the eyes of the beholder [Update: It's fake]
This could be the first glimpse of Sony's PlayStation 4 console and a look at the next generation of designer contact lens trends. This video contains the correct amount of blaring electronica for an E3 presentation, but we've reached out to Sony to clarify if it is, in fact, legitimate. ...
Pokemon X and Y gets four new characters of various types
Four new Pokemon for Pokemon X and Y grace the pages of CoroCoro magazine, spotted and captured on film by Serebii.net. The fresh faces are a Fighting-type panda, Yanchamu; a rideable Grass-type, Gogoat; a Normal, Flying-type bird, Yayakoma; and an Electric-type, floppy-eared lizard creature. ...
Half-Life 2 on the Oculus Rift looks like double the trouble, fun
Oculus Rift owner and YouTuber Vaecon recorded a 15-minute session of Half-Life 2 on Oculus Rift, and the entire experience can be summed up in a few words, spoken less than two minutes into his gameplay demo: "Whoa. This is really cool." Valve launched official support for Half-Life 2 on ...
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Call of Duty's Xbox DLC exclusivity continues with Call of Duty: Ghosts
Posted on May 21st 2013 1:55PM