Scott lives two floors above me. He says he doesn’t really identify as a gamer. But, there he was, throwing cash at an indie game studio on Kickstarter a few months ago. Sure, he could’ve saved his money but this project… this one was special. It was White Whale Games that managed to pry Scott’s…
Isaac Clarke’s return to consoles may have co-op missions waiting for players when Dead Space 3 comes out next year. But EA still wants us to think that the third entry in their sci-fi horror franchise is going to be a frightening experience. Hence, these screens. I don’t know if shivers are running down your…
Mortal Kombat creator Ed Boon confirmed reports that the Joker and Green Lantern will be in Injustice: Gods Among Us
Somebody needs to get the President, Mitt Romney and the Joint Chiefs of Staff in a room and show them the next game from the creator of Wing Commander. Because the awesomeness on display in Star Citizen is a brilliant argument for why mankind needs to be in space. Star Citizen isn’t anywhere near done…
If you’re here in the Panel Discussion programming block, you might be a lapsed comics reader, trying to find a way back to the JLA Satellite. Or you might someone killing time until you pick up your weekly Wednesday pull list. Or maybe you’ve said goodbye to dozens of longboxes to embrace the promise of…
I should know better than to ever be surprised by any cosplay creativity. The people dedicated to dressing up as their favorite fictional characters keep on raising the bar for ingenuity. Still: there are people dressed as MiniMates. MiniMates! Spotted on the Distractotron YouTube Channel, this video parades hundreds of DC Comics characters in front…
This is the way things work in superhero comics: trauma explodes and its aftermath is only good for shuffling the status quo. Grief gets its 15 minutes, sure, but cataclysmic happenings are really just about getting readers interested in coming back for new chunks of story. That’s not always a bad thing, but it’s annoying…
Lots of reviews have compared Dishonored to Valve’s classic Half-Life 2. Both titles enjoy richly-drawn gameworlds with play mechanics that let you get creative. And they’ve both got lead characters who don’t talk. So, you’d figure that Gordon Freeman served as a model for Dishonored‘s Corvo, right? Not exactly. “I hate what Valve does with…
There’s been glimpses of Crysis 3‘s competitive online modes out there already, but this latest video gives a bit more detail on what’s in store for the sc-fi threequel. The invisible predator aspect of Hunter Mode looks fun but it looks like the mech-jacking in the Crash Site Mode might be one of the more…
There’s a reason most indie games come out digitally. All that printing and packing and shipping costs a whole lot of money. And while the convenience of downloadable titles is nice, sometimes you want a physical memento of a game you really love. Edmund McMillen knows how you feel. The game-maker’s The Binding of Isaac…
It’s been a long road to the presidential election, which is less than a month away at this point. In case you’ve forgotten how tense and occasionally absurd the talking points and the personas of this political cycle have been, news website Slate has been recapping 2012’s highs and lows with a series of fighting-game-inspired…
What would a Halo movie look like? For years, that’s been a question that Hollywood and Microsoft have been trying to answer to no avail. The long and winding road of making a live-action Master Chief adaption is full of stumbles but, today, Microsoft’s 343 Industries begins the rollout of a new webseries set in…
When you combine the incendiary oomph of the Mushroom Kingdom’s fireflowers and the myriad talents of the various Angry Birds, green pig flesh explodes all over the screen. The video above—made by amateur filmmakers CC Megaproductions—isn’t quite as gory as all that. But it does imagine what might happen if Nintendo’s mascot found himself in…
Square Enix, along with many other game publishers, will be descending on the Big Apple next week for New York Comic-Con. And when NYCC starts next Thursday, the company will be letting folks shoot arrows at a target in imitation of the newly-rebooted Lara Croft. If the following is to be believed, these will be…
Wonderful indie platformer Thomas Was Alone is 50% off today. Everyone needs to play Mike Bithell’s game so go get it.
Tyler Kirkham already spends lots of time in giant fantasy worlds. The comics illustrator has worked on Green Lantern, Transformers and The Darkness series in recent years, with contributions to game-centric adaptations like Tomb Raider and Legacy of Kain But all that drawing was apparently not enough to satiate Kirkham’s geeky desires. So he built…
This year marks 50 years of James Bond movies. Activision’s upcoming 007 Legends game will be weaving together several of the iconic super-spy’s cinematic adventures into one playable experience. The video above is 007 Legends’s opening credit sequence, which channels the vibe—and gold-dipped love interest—of Goldfinger. There’s some modern electro touches to the classic Goldfinger…
When I see a video like this focusing on the special moves made possible by Tekken Tag Tournament 2‘s customization items, it just makes me want to grind even harder to earn more points. That Lei baseball pitch is awesome.
We’ve already seen how the creepy cosmic symbiotes from the Halo games will come back in 343 Industries’ upcoming release. These new screenshots offer added detail as to how they engage with Spartan soldiers in Halo 4‘s multiplayer Flood mode. Previous visual interpretations of the Flood never really gave me the shivers but this new…
Ubisoft released a new trailer for Assassin’s Creed III today. In the American version that you’ll see below, it looks like Connor killed one American soldier. But in the UK version of the trailer above, it’s clear that he’s ending the lives of many American revolutionary rebels. There’s a 30-second difference in the runtime of…
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