Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: Ueziel runs down his progress on his personal backlog, which includes Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts And E1SALVADOR writes about Code:Breakers and all the other anime he’s been watching. And you can always go join the voices talking about video games and life in TAY Classic…
Why play as Rico Rodriguez in Just Cause 2 when you can be the Punisher? If there’s one huge advantage that PC releases of multi-platform titles have over their console brethren, it’s the modding community that bends, twists and re-configures them into different shapes. Superhero fans from all over have figured out ways to put…
Some game-makers want you to feel empowered when you play their creations. Other would love it if you felt wonderment. Matt Lopresti gets excited if the people playing his experimental puzzle game Split Tree argue with each other or get embarrassed. I interviewed Lopresti—who’s currently at Telltale Games after having previously worked on pretty/snarky portable…
If you liked 2010’s excellent, emotional action RPG Bastion, then listen to Amir Rao—co-founder of dev studio Supergiant Games—talk about the art of level design on the Critical Path Project
Don’t get your hopes up for seeing the next game from influential designer Patrice Desilets—a mysterious project called 1666—anytime soon. The latest update on 1666’s fate came today during a Ubisoft investor call when company president Yves Guillemot said the following: “So, for Patrice, after more than two months of discussions with him, we couldn’t…
That Angry Birds movie that’s coming out in three years will be distributed by Sony Pictures, according to Deadline Hollywood. Somewhere, Nathan Drake is yelling into a phone wondering what the hell is going on with HIS movie.
The newest trailer for this year’s Assassin’s Creed game explains why Edward Kenway’s prowling the Caribbean with vengeance on his mind. Kenway’s cranky voiceover carries much more personality than anything we saw from ACIII‘s Connor. Maybe Ubisoft listened when people complained that Connor was too bland. The clip gives a peek at the tropical environments…
Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: Part II of Zarynx’s Pokemon photo essay is up . And Odin lets the anime flock know which shows that he TAY anime Club will be watching and talking about for it first cycle. And you can always go join the voices talking about video…
Last time we saw anything from Vector Sigma Creations’ Weaselhammer, he’d made a weapon from the future in the form of the M-12 Locust submachine gun from the Mass Effect games. This time, he goes back into the past and crafts a swell looking machine gun from BioShock Infinite. The Triple R Repeater wasn’t my…
This cool interactive journal for Remember Me pulls you through the life of the guy who invented the game’s memory digitization technology. It reminds me a bit of the Daft Punk cover story on Pitchfork that everyone’s been talking about today. Turns out the game’s fiction all started on Facebook. Sort of.
Of all the games that I played at New York University’s No Quarter exhibition, the one I most wanted to take home and play with a friend was There Shall Be Lancing. Granted, Killer Queen and Bennet Foddy’s Speed Chess are a little too unwieldy to play in my small New York City apartment, But,…
This batch of screens and artwork is the first real sight we’re getting of the newly reimagined world of the Wolfenstein franchise. So what’s going in them? Oh, just a sassy septuagenarian officer, Nazi robot dogs and hints that the Third Reich wants to conquer space. You also get a good look at B.J. Blazkowicz’s…
Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: Pokemon toys battle in a attractive photo essay by Zarynx And GiantBoyDetective offers his thoughts on S’mores-flavored soda. And you can always go join the voices talking about video games and life in TAY Classic and in the TAY: Open Forum
You might have somebody in your life who doesn’t get video games. And you may have tried putting them in front of a classic title like Shadow of the Colossus, Braid or World of Goo. But, games might still feel like a foreign experience to them, despite your best efforts. A new documentary wants to…
Greg Rucka doesn’t seem like somebody who needs help making his dreams come true. This is, after all, a man who wrote Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman comics all at the same time. He’s also managed to craft incredibly tense dramas in creator-owned series like Queen & Country, Whiteout and Stumptown. But the best-selling novelist…
Whoever made this clip wants you to believe it’s the first look at the PlayStation 4 hardware. But, Sony tells me it’s a fake. Too bad. Nevertheless, I wouldn’t blame someone just wandering over onto the Internet for guessing it wasn’t. Let’s consider the footage, shall we? Sure, E3 is right around the corner and…
Sure, you’re going to play as a pirate in the next Assassin’s Creed but it’s not exactly clear why. If you’re wondering what motivated the swashbuckling terrors of the seven seas to live life the way they did, then watch the newest promo clip for Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag Pirates as symbols of freedom?…
Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: A retro review of Chrono Trigger from Sloshy, who wonders if the classic JRPG still deserves all of that love. Another review—this one by PyramidHeadCrab—says that Alpha Protocol is an unjustly maligned classic . If you’re an anime lover, you need to know about AniTAY,…
Whether it’s a PC monitor or a smartphone display, indie game-makers tend to thrive on smaller screens. But when Josh DeBonis and Nik Mikros worked up the idea for their co-operative strategy/platformer hybrid Killer Queen, they went really big. So big they had to make their own unique stand-up machine for it. But, don’t worry:…
For a brief few seconds while playing through a 30-minute slice of 2K Games’ upcoming XCOM game, I thought I was in 2010. Now, you might say, ‘waitaminnit, The Bureau‘s set in 1962, isn’t it?’ You’d be right. But, there’s an unmistakable whiff of Mass Effect—specifically ME2, when the series became much more combat-centric—around The…
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