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This Week’s Nintendo Download Travels Back in Time For A Classic Version of Prince of Persia. Also: Goat-Stacking.
Listen, I love Prince of Persia. With all that lovely animation and derring-do, Jordan Mechner’s adventure games are well-loved for good reason. For those wanting to re-visit PoP’s charms, the Wii Virtual Console get the 1992 SNES version. But, guys: this Crazy Hunter game that appears in this week’s Nintendo Download looks absolutely bizarre. Apparently…
By Evan Narcisse Published September 6, 2012 -
EA Says They’re Not Killing Single-Player Games
Pop quiz: name the video game company leader that said the following: “I have not green lit one game to be developed as a single-player experience. Today, all of our games include online applications and digital services that make them live 24/7/365.” That’s EA Games President Frank Gibeau. His remarks—culled from promotional materials for an…
By Evan Narcisse Published September 5, 2012 -
Marvel’s Avengers Initiative Is Almost The Strongest Portable Game There Is
So, maybe Marvel’s console game portfolio is a collection of hits and misses. But Avengers Initiative sure makes it seem like the House of Ideas wants their portable releases to be a different story. Avengers Initiative will be very familiar to anyone who has played Chair Entertainment’s Infinity Blade title. Players will be controlling the…
By Evan Narcisse Published September 5, 2012 -
Three Comics That Open Up New Worlds This Week
< 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…
By Evan Narcisse Published September 4, 2012 -
The New Avengers Looks a Lot Like the Old Avengers
Die-hard comics fans know that Marvel has a universe-shuffling reboot coming up in a few weeks. We’ve already gotten a glimpse at Uncanny Avengers and how Marvel Now’s flagship book will fuse the X-Men and Avengers characters into one unit. Now comes a look at the relaunch of the Avengers, which does that to a…
By Evan Narcisse Published September 4, 2012 -
The Marvel Comics Series Where You Never Knew Who Would Die Needs to Be a Video Game
Comic books become TV shows that turn into movies that get spun off into games. Or the whole thing happens in reverse. Ideas from all these media feed off of each other—or they should. Source Material will take an occasional look at how elements from great comics, games, movies or TV shows show up in…
By Evan Narcisse Published September 4, 2012 -
That’s Not A Cosplayer, That’s Actually Commander Shepard!
Picture it: You’re at DragonCon, enjoying the cosplay during a sunny break away from the con floor. Then yet another guy in a Commander Shepard outfit struts by. There’s something different about him, though. He looks familiar. Kinda. Wait, that’s the guy who actually plays the male version of Commander Shepard’s Voice in Mass Effect…
By Evan Narcisse Published September 4, 2012 -
Their Last Games Were Cute as Heck. This One Looks Scary as Hell.
The last thing I was expecting from the creators behind cutesy platformer Bumpy Road and funky rhythm/stealth hybrid Beat Sneak Bandit was a gothic scare-fest. But it sure looks like that what their next game is going to be. Due out next winter from indie dev studio Simogo, Year Walk is a first-person iOS game…
By Evan Narcisse Published September 4, 2012 -
Video Game Controllers Are Art
The debate as to video games are art is tired. Either you think they are or that they’re not. Turns out the controllers used to engage with games can become sublime, too. Who knew decades-old wired video game controllers could be so beautiful? The lines of insulated copper and aluminum—is that what they were made…
By Evan Narcisse Published September 4, 2012 -
See The Room That Ate Ms. Pac-Man and Three Other One-of-a-Kind Video Game Experiences Right Here
Proof that video games are art isn’t just on the screen. Sometimes it can be right in front of you, in the form of an arcade classic that swallows a whole room or tricked-out gloves that let you throw a Street Fighter fireball. The video game art that viewers saw at the recent Babycastles Summit—along…
By Evan Narcisse Published September 3, 2012 -
Minecraft Helped Inspire Skyrim‘s Newest DLC
When the rumors started circulating about a new DLC called Hearthfire for Skyrim, people started excitedly speculating as to what new powers you’d go on in the expansion. Dawnguard brought vampire abilities to Bethesda’s hit RPG so Hearthfire would bring what? Magma-flinging? Dovahkiin sidequests involving arson? No one was really expecting house-building and adoption In…
By Evan Narcisse Published August 31, 2012 -
Dishonored’s Rat Assassination iPhone Game Reminds Me That I’m Surrounded by Rodents at All Times
Let’s not beat around the bush: Dishonored‘s iOS spinoff game owes a whole lot to Fruit Ninja, with a few clever tweaks. There’s on big difference, though. At the end of a game of Fruit Ninja, you may feel like getting a smoothie. At the end of Rat Assassin, you may feel like throwing up.…
By Evan Narcisse Published August 31, 2012 -
Splinter Cell Blacklist Hasn’t Abandoned Stealth. Take a Look.
After Blacklist reared its head at this year’s E3, many Splinter Cell fans feared that the renowned action game would be cutting back on its exacting stealth gameplay. There might be hope, guys. This new playthrough of the same level shown at E3 shows a sneakier take on Sam Fisher’s infiltration of a terrorist cell…
By Evan Narcisse Published August 31, 2012 -
Xbox Live Games Are Coming to Windows 8 This October
On October 26th, your Windows PC will become an Xbox. Sort of. The integration between Microsoft’s game console and its newest PC operating system will be getting a whole lot tighter, as Windows 8 users will be getting access to select Xbox Live games like Fruit Ninja, Angry Birds Space and BlazBlue Calamity Trigger Full…
By Evan Narcisse Published August 31, 2012 -
This New ZombiU Trailer Does Terrible Things to Buckingham Palace
I’ve never been to Buckingham Palace. Hopefully, when I get there, the Windsor family home won’t be infested with the undead like it is in this new trailer for ZombiU. You’ll see a variety of uses for the WiiU GamePad here, including inventory management and environmental scanning. And, hey, soldier zombie wearing a helmet and…
By Evan Narcisse Published August 31, 2012 -
Check out Assassin’s Creed III’s Brutal New Combat in This New Video
Back in the 18th Century, armies had all kinds of polite rules about how they waged war. The American Revolution was won, in part, by breaking those rules with what we know call guerilla warfare. Ubisoft’s developers took inspiration from those old-timey hit-and-run tactics to develop an all-new fighting style for Assassin’s Creed III. The…
By Evan Narcisse Published August 30, 2012
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