The newest Resident Evil game definitely falls into the Survival Action category of things, per the chart seen here. We get a chance to see what kind of action will be on tap in the clip above. There’s running, gunning, explosions and a few familiar faces, too. You’ll get your chance to visit Resident Evil’s…
Mortal Kombat made a bloody and triumphant return to consoles last year, giving gamers updated versions of classic Kombatants like Sub-Zero and Johnny Cage and an all-new engine that offered more depth than ever before. The game also mined the fighting franchise’s long history to offer a drip-feed of DLC that rolled out skins and…
I did not like the first Prototype. Radical’s open-world action title put you into the mutated skin of a super-cannibal that ate people in his quest for vengeance. Playing as aggrieved scientist Alex Mercer made me feel creepy, as I generally am not interested in eating people. The story and the reasons it gave for…
At first blush, the environs and first-person perspective of puzzle platformer Q.U.B.E. might look familiar. The game tasks you with manipulating a series of colored three-dimensional cubes that have various effects on the environment. It looks to me like living inside a Rubik’s Cube and Stephen Totilo liked it when he laid eyes on it…
Klei Entertainment’s sequel to the stylish stab-em-up I—and many others—loved is scheduled for an early 2012 release. The clip above shows off new enemies and moves but the game still looks like the bloodiest Saturday morning cartoon never made.
Sony’s official rundown of titles had Ninja Gaiden Sigma Plus as a launch window game for PlayStation Vita but Tecmo Koei’s announced today that the action title will be available on the same day as the new handheld. And Ryu Hayabusa’s notoriously difficult PS3 game will be getting a bit of makeover when Tecmo Koei…
Batman’s a character often portrayed as the ultimate loner, but giving Bruce Wayne an actual, biological son has been the best thing to happen to him in recent years. A few years ago, writer Grant Morrison introduced the character of Damian Wayne—the result of the dysfunctional romance between Batman and Talia, daughter of archenemy Ra’s…
Some good may be coming out of the “Ocean Stratagy”/Paul Christoforo customer service debacle. N-Control, the company that makes the Avenger controller formerly repped by Christoforo, announced that they’d be making a large donation to Child’s Play. Child’s Play is, of course, is the charity organized by Penny Arcade, the popular video game website where…
Borne out of mishmash of Eastern European fairytales, pop art and fatherhood, Nathan Jurevicius’ Scarygirl‘s one of those indie art success stories that manages to warm the coldest of hearts. Scarygirl started off as cartoon strips chronicling the the adventures of a monstrously adorable girl who washes up on a remote peninsula as she tries…
The game may’ve met with a lukewarm reception when it hit last year, but the one thing that Splash Damage’s Brink had going for it was an amazing art style. Laurens Corijn, an artist at the British dev studio, brought that look into the real world by modding a standard Nerf Stampede into an amazing…
Everyone hates pre-order exclusives. Yes, everyone. I’ve never heard a person say “I’m so glad I plunked down $5 before Game X came out, so I could get Different Colored Gun and/or Different Ability That Really Doesn’t Change the Experience That Much.” One of the realities of this kind of thing is that retailers drive…
Maybe you’re a fan of the original X-Com and met today’s news of the upcoming XCom: Enemy Unknown strategy title with great joy. Maybe you don’t know anything about the X-Com legacy and don’t know what the hubbub about either game is about. Which XCom is for you, then? 2K Games says both of them.…
Noby Noby Boy‘s Latest Achievement Comes From Reaching Uranus Keita Takahashi’s Noby Noby Boy was weird. The 2009 PS3 release from the creator of Katamari Damacy involved an elastic quadroped quadruped character that players could floppily stretch along the game’s environment. All the elongation of the game’s players gets aggregated to help Girl, Boy’s counterpart…
It’s long been a subject of fan speculation as to how much Rockstar Games changed Grand Theft Auto III in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. In the decade-plus since GTA III came out, rumors have abounded: cut sequences where planes hit buildings, a supposedly removed pair of Twin Towers-style skyscrapers and the erasure of…
Legion of old-school X-Com fans groaned in frustration when 2K Games revealed that their upcoming re-imagination of the beloved strategy game would be a first-person shooter. But now, the publisher’s revealed a second title that goes back to the franchise’s roots. Per Game Informer, X-Com: Enemy Unknown will be a turn-based strategy game developed by…
Picking the best games of the year always boils down to opinion, which always leads to dissension over subjectivity and bias. So, while Kotaku‘s staffers rallied around Portal 2 as the site’s GOTY, readers held their own damn awards and anointed Skyrim as their standout title for 2011. Gamefly subscribers, however, came down differently than…
It’s 2012, which means that it’s not even The Legend of Zelda‘s 25th Anniversary any more. But that’s not stopping Nintendo from extending the tour that celebrates the music of their long-lived adventure RPG franchise. Eleven more dates have been added in the U.S. and Canada for The Legend of Zelda concert series and audiences…
The World’s Finest team-up that’s been rumored and then teased in advertising for months finally gets announced as Warner Bros. Interactive reveals Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes today. Aside from Batman, Robin and Superman, the game will also feature Wonder Woman and Green Lantern. The miniature Superfriends gather together to stop Lex Luthor and…
Fighting games thrive on competition. And trash talk. Especially trash talk. For fans of video game brawling, the biggest—yet most respectful—competition is the annual EVO series, which brings fight-stick masters from around the world to fireball their way to ultimate supremacy. The promotion’s organizers have just announced the games that’ll be featured in this year’s…
Thanks to previous mini-series, Mass Effect fans have been able to learn more about characters like The Illusive Man and Aria T’Loak. Now the fauxhawked soldier who’ll be running alongside your Commander Shepard gets the spotlight in the first issue of the new Mass Effect: Homeworlds series. You can take an exclusive look at issue…
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