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Here’s Your First Look at Cyberpunk 2077, The Next Game from the Makers of The Witcher
Details have been scarce on Cyberpunk 2077 since the adaptation of the cult pen-and-paper RPG was announced last May. Now, CD Projekt—best known for their hit fantasy action Witcher franchise—is revealing a first look at the futuristic dystopia of their next game. The clip appears to be showing the two factions from the upcoming game,…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 10, 2013 -
Skulls of the Shogun—Microsoft Surface’s Best Hope for a Good Video Game—Comes Out January 30th
If you’ve got a device with a Microsoft logo on it, you’ll be able to play 17-Bit’s action/strategy title, Skulls of the Shogun. The long-brewing game—playable on Xbox 360, PC, Surface and Windows Phone, complete with asynchronous turns—will be out at the end of the month. Come for the great music and fun character designs.…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 10, 2013 -
Cats Live Like Humans and Dinosaurs Make Great Pets in This Week’s Nintendo Download
You like to live on the edge of urban animal husbandry. No domesticated felines or canines for you. It’s all ferrets, dingoes and boa constrictors in your often-raided abode. But even those species of barely tame fauna aren’t enough. You want to laugh in extinction’s face. You need… dinosaurs. One of the weirder games in…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 10, 2013 -
The Daily Show Calls Out Scapegoat Artists In The Video Games And Gun Control Debate
Ever since the awful Sandy Hook Shootings happened, there have been attempts—some earnest, some misguided—to link the deaths there to violent video games. And, yes, there is a conversation to be had about the way that pop culture glorifies violence and displays of power. But, as Jon Stewart points out in this stinging and funny…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 9, 2013 -
Microsoft’s IllumiRoom Concept Turns Your Entire Room into a Video Game Level
Microsoft and Samsung apparently think that your TV—no matter how big it is—isn’t big enough. That’s the only possible explanation for the two companies’ partnership on the IllumiRoom project, which projects images and colors across the space that you’re playing video games in. Shown off at CES during Samsung’s keynote today, IllumiRoom pairs up a…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 9, 2013 -
Some Guys Who Worked on LittleBigPlanet Want You to Spread the Plague in Death Inc.
What do you do after helping craft some of the cuddliest, most heartwarming games of this past generation? If you’re the guys at Ambient Studios—some of whom worked at Media Molecule on the big-hearted LittleBigPlanet games—it’s making a game about Death and the horrors of the bubonic plague. Death Inc. imagines shuffling off the mortal…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 9, 2013 -
The plan to collect and destroy violent video games in Southington, Conn has been cancelled
By Evan Narcisse Published January 9, 2013 -
The Moon Sneezes Its Way into Your Heart in This Little-Kid Version of the Universe
My two-year-old daughter doesn’t think of stars as huge bodies of flaming gas millions of miles away. She thinks of them as little five-pointed symbols that live inside books and on top of Christmas trees. In similar fashion, she knows that there’s a moon in the sky but also thinks the glowing circles formed by…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 9, 2013 -
Tera Goes Free-to-Play, Says It Won’t Be “Some Watered-Down Trial Version”
Guess it was only a matter of time, huh, Tera? En Masse Entertainment’s online fantasy game joins Star Wars: The Old Republic and DC Universe Online on the roster of big-deal MMO titles that are ditching subscriptions. Starting in February, subscriptions will no longer be required to play Tera New players who join after the…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 9, 2013 -
You’ll Finally Be Able to Get Those Super-Fancy Final Fantasy Art Books
Maybe you were lucky and got a copy of the boxed set for The Sky: The Art of Final Fantasy by renowned artist and living legend Yoshitaka Amano. Or maybe you were out of luck like thousands of other poor sods and couldn’t grab one before they sold out. Well, buck up, poor sods. You’re…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 8, 2013 -
The Best Comics You Read in 2012
2012 was a weird but mostly good year to be a comics fan. If you didn’t buy into the big superhero crossover events, there were still lots of different flavors of illustrated fiction to enjoy. I read a lot of comics last year but these few were the ones that stayed with me. Please share…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 8, 2013 -
Women’s Pro Golf Gets Its Career Mode in This Year’s Tiger Woods Game
Player-created female athletes aren’t anything new to EA Sports’ Tiger Woods PGA Tour games. But, while those avatars have been able to compete in the sport’s most storied tournaments, there hasn’t been any virtual representation of the LPGA Tour in the golf games. That all changes this year, with the inclusion of a new LPGA…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 8, 2013 -
YouTube Shuts Down Popular Angry Video Game Nerd Channel [Update: It’s Back!]
As of this morning, it appears that all of the videos on the well-liked Angry Video Game Nerd webseries have been removed from YouTube. Text on the landing page cites severe violations of YouTube terms of service, which seems to indicate that this wasn’t a voluntary move on Rolfe’s part. Chatter on NeoGAF and Facebook…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 8, 2013 -
Here’s How To Play Most of the Top Nominees From the Independent Games Festival Right Now
You know the Independent Games Festival, right? Happens every year during the Game Developers’ Conference and rounds up a slew of amazing games made by smaller entities? Usually winds up blowing your mind with how awesome the nominated games are? Yeah, that’s the one. The finalists for the 2013 IGF represent some of the most…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 7, 2013 -
This Is Probably What Blur 2 Would Have Looked Like. Too Bad You’ll Never Play It.
Bizarre Creations—who made Project Gotham Racing and The Club—met an unfortunate end more than a year ago, after putting out combat-enhanced racer Blur. The Liverpool dev collective were working on another racing game when Activision pulled the plug on the studio. On his personal Tumblr, former art director Chris Davie (now at developer Lucid) shows…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 7, 2013 -
Take a Dramatic Look at the Assembly of Nvidia’s New Gaming Handheld
So far, the biggest gaming surprise of CES 2013 is the totally unheralded reveal of Project Shield, the new handheld from Nvidia. Some of the functionality was run down in last night’s reports but if you want to know what’s inside the thing, then you might get some clues from this very-impressed-with-itself reveal video. Look…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 7, 2013 -
Evan’s Top Ten Games of 2012
Like my colleagues, I had to come to grips with a lot of games this year. Some of them made me feel like video games as a medium did a significant amount of evolving in the last twelve months. But this list—in no particular order—assembles the games that captivated me while playing them and that…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 4, 2013 -
Evil is everywhere—in the soda, under the ground and in the banks—in this new DmC trailer.
By Evan Narcisse Published January 4, 2013
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