You know, people focus on Altair and Ezio and Connor as the faces of Assassin’s Creed, but Ubisoft’s historical action series is really Desmond Miles’ story. So it’s a bit weird that we haven’t seen what the Assassin descendant looks like in Assassin’s Creed III’s new Anvil engine. The screens here come from Assassin’s Creed…
For the second time in less than a month, Microsoft’s online service for the Xbox 360 appears to be experiencing problems affecting a broad swath of users. Here’s what the official Xbox Live status page says: Members will experience difficulties attempting to login to Xbox LIVE. Our engineers are hard at work to find and…
This teaser for Assassin’s Creed III is different from the blitz of video we’ve been getting as the threequel nears release. In the clip, you see a bit of Connor’s life from before he became an Assassin. The scenes of him running through the forest look beautiful but get harshly contrasted when he comes home…
Used to be that Nintendo and downloadable content were two terms that you almost never saw together. But that changes in a big way this week as the company rolls out the first wave of add-on coin packs for New Super Mario Bros 2 on the 3DS There’s also Pokémon Dream Radar, a downloadable augmented…
If you’re all excited about EA’s upcoming multinational FPS, then tomorrow’s your lucky day. The open beta for Medal of Honor Warfighter comes exclusively to Xbox 360 tomorrow, bringing with it a new game mode called Hotspot. Hotspot requires co-op teams to scurry back and forth across the map to defend or lay siege to…
… was be visible. “So what,” you might say. “Isn’t that part of his job?” Actually, it isn’t. In his role as Design Director at Epic Games, all the man sometimes known as Dude Huge really had to do was work on the developer’s games. He could have brainstormed, play-tested and guided the Unreal, Gears…
Lots of people have been lavishing love onto Telltale Games’ adaptation of the Walking Dead. The terror of the zombie apocalypse—first imagined in Robert Kirkman’s comics work—comes across as deeply personal in the episodic video game series. People have cried playing these games. But another, angrier emotional response has been bubbling up, too, generated not…
I loved Conan comics as a kid. Every swordfight the Cimmerian had with another warrior ratcheted up an incredible amount of tension in my teenage heart. It’s not that I ever thought about Conan losing. Rather, it was the idea that so much depended on the steel and sinews of Robert E. Howard’s famous barbarian.…
The next game from the folks who once made the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. titles won’t be out for a while, but they already know that people will be trying to exploit it. They’ve got plans to stop those ne’er-do-wells. In the video above, you’ll get a look at how Survarium is coming along, with info on the…
Most crowdfunding projects for video games work one way: you front some cash and get a game that someone else makes. Sure, you get warm fuzzies from helping achieve their dream and you might get a shout-out in the credits but it doesn’t get you closer to bringing your own game idea to life if…
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…
Nobody really gets scared of mermaids. I mean, yeah, there are much more frightening things underneath the surface of the sea, like sharks, octopi or stingrays. But that doesn’t let mermaids off the hook. (Why, yes, that pun IS intentional.) When you get down to it, they’re a slightly disturbing myth. We may be pretty…
Microsoft’s official site for their game console has been known to let things slip out before they’ve been publically announced. Like that one time it outed Halo 4 before last year’s E3 Jordan Mechner has talked about the re-imagination of his classic kung-fu adventure before but no release date has ever been mentioned by the…
The old dread isn’t coming back. You remember it, don’t you? The shock of terror when you stumbled in on a zombie chomping on a corpse in the first Resident Evil. Or when the undead dogs jumped through the window? Those are signature moments—along with the compulsive hoarding of typewriter ribbon—that anyone who’s played the…
As of this August, we had only seen one screen of the HD remake of cult favorite Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee. But Oddworld Inhabitants unveiled pre-alpha footage of the work-in-progress at Eurogamer Expo this weekend. Along with a look at the game, it was announced that the remake’s official name is Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee – New…
Treyarch has made cool-looking stuff in the Call of Duty video games, including the introduction of the series’ fan-favorite Zombie modes. You wouldn’t know it, though, for how boring their offices looked. But, thanks to art collective IAm8Bit, visitors can now tell that these folks really know the undead. The video above gives a look…
Note: This review originally ran on Tuesday, 09-25-12. Forget The Jetsons, DC Comics’ Legion of Superheroes or any other shiny, happy vision of the future. The decades ahead of us aren’t guaranteed to get much better than the present. Truth is, everybody makes bad decisions that trap us into lives we don’t see coming. That…
Let’s say you’re someone who put up their hard earned money to back the Ouya. You already believed in the hack-friendly Android-based game console enough to help it become one of Kickstarter’s biggest success stories. But you might be wondering just how many developers are going to be making games for the thing. Well, in…
Listen, CNBC, I understand that there’s a lot of complex data flying all over the global economics maps at any given time. And anything that a TV producer can do to make all that parsing and projection seem even a little bit fun or plugged into pop culture must feel almost like an obligation. But,…
This sizable chunk of gameplay footage highlights Hitman: Absolution’s user-generated content feature. In the new Contracts Mode, players can craft and distribute specific missions for each other within the single-player levels. The walkthrough shows off a Contract mission and how to create one. With the ability to have nearly any character in the game, Contracts…
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