Jordan Mechner jumped and kicked his way into gamers’ hearts with Prince of Persia and Karateka, two seminal releases that expanded the possibilities of what games could be and how they could tell stories. But it was The Last Express that proved to be the most ambitious title of Mechner’s game-making career. The period-drama point-and-click…
There’s lots of crazy, over-the-top elements in the just-released Dead or Alive 5. Clown cannons, giant elevators of death and tanks blasting away in he background… all these things happen while the brawlers of Team Ninja’s latest fighting game are vying for victory. And you can’t win all the martial arts matches all the time.…
You know Starbreeze. They’ve made sturdy, sometimes spectacular shooters like The Darkness, the Chronicles of Riddick games and this year’s Syndicate. Usually, when the Swedish dev studio announces a new game, you usually expect highly stylized sci-fi violence and clever, satisfying gunplay. Their newest game doesn’t have any of that. And it looks wonderful. Brothers:…
There are a lot of paintings depicting the Revolutionary War in this new Assassin’s Creed III trailer, which hints that Connor plays a secret yet crucial role in the Boston Tea Party. Yet, I can name none of them. I should have paid attention in art class. Connor only appears briefly in this history lesson…
Look, folks, tablet makers are going to keep trying to seduce you. Armed with numbers that you don’t necessarily care about—like these stats about the rise in mobile gaming--they’re going to dangle assorted games, controllers and accessories that try to convince you that playing on a phone or tablet can be as fulfilling as doing…
EA has announced all three Mass Effect games will be available for the price of one when EA releases the Mass Effect Trilogy compilation on November 6th, 2012 for Xbox 360 and PC. The collection marks the first time that the original Mass Effect—which was released as an Xbox 360 exclusive—will be playable on the…
By the gods, this first glimpse of the the battles between the ancient empire of Rome and Carthage looks amazing. The video above is purportedly cut from in-game footage and this clip—coupled with the screens we saw during the summer—sure make it seem like Creative Assembly’s next strategy opus is going to be a visual…
This statue pictured above will be coming with the collector’s edition of Injustice: Gods Among Us, the fighting game that pits DC Comics’ most popular super heroes against each other. (Don’t worry; they fight villains, too.) The sculpture shows just how much the relationships must have deteriorated between the members of the Justice League, what…
I haven’t read Shakespeare since high school. But Prince of Cats makes me want to go back to 10th grade English class and actually pay attention. Was Romeo a grafitti artist when the Bard of Avon first created him? Of course he wasn’t. But that change and the rest of the updating that writer/artist Ronald…
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…
Don’t go in expecting E. Honda or Ganryu-style throwdowns in this new graphic novel about sumo wrestlers. Giant near-naked men do slap each around in Sumo, but the true pain comes from one transplanted quarterback’s broken dreams. Like a string of haiku, Sumo captures moments in time, remarking on the power that comes from their…
These sure look like the first screenshots of Black Ops II‘s zombies. Go look at the rest over at Charlie Intel.
Social networking, I choose you! Pokémon finally has official accounts on Facebook and Twitter. What took so long?
Boy, was the Lizard ever annoying to fight in this summer’s Spider-Man movie tie-in game. You, like me, may have wondered what it might be like to have all that reptilian power at your disposal. New DLC packs will let play as Spider-Man’s arch-villain and his co-creator, too. Four separate packs will hit today, including…
This contraption looks like an alternate-reality version of the arcade game that pretty much saved Nintendo. No pixels are present in engineer Martin Raynsford’s laser-cut re-creation of Donkey Kong but you do control Mario via an NES hooked up to servo motors. This first attempt only lets you jump as Mario but Raynsford writes that…
Matt Siegfried wanted to be first. So, the championship gamer—who’s already notched #1 rankings in various titles—got Borderlands 2 as soon as he could at a midnight launch and started playing right away. Less than two days later, Siegfried (who plays under the name “Blitz”) set a time record for hitting the level cap of…
I always felt like Microsoft’s mega-hit Halo franchise let me travel, taking me to thrilling, never-before-seen vistas at crucial moments. Adventure-as-travel is a standard conceit within genre fiction but the imposing beauty of Combat Evolved‘s battlegrounds, the horror of various Flood-infested environments and shock of a ravaged, futuristic Earth stood out as high points on…
If you’ve seen artist Olly Moss’ work, then you’ve gone out and learned his name. Over the last few years, Moss has won a loyal following with his impressively designed homages to geekdom’s sacred texts, as well as cinematic classics. His posters for The Dark Knight Rises, Source Code, Moon and Rocky create visual puns…
Kickstarter’s new rules say simulations and renderings for hardware projects are no longer allowed.
Usually, when a new form factor existing video game hardware debuts, there’s a corresponding change in the asking price. But the upcoming re-design of the PlayStation 3 seem to buck that trend, with the 250 GB bundle announced this week set to go for $270. Prices on older models—a 160 GB version starts at $250…
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