Back when Mass Effect 2 was a single-player only experience, fancy armor and special weapons didn’t count for very much. Sure, they helped you in the game’s campaign mode but that was a finite, non-competitive experience. But, now that co-op multiplayer’s coming to BioWare’s sci-fi threequel, the usual slate of pre-order bonuses may give you…
Some of the previous looks at Rockstar’s upcoming hard-boiled shooter showed off series hero Max Payne out in the sunny environs of Sao Paulo, vacation shirts and all. But these new screens put the night back in the franchise’s signature noir look, even if Max sports a Hawaiian shirt. You’ll see the former NYPD officer…
When you think back to Pitfall, the lead character in the classic Activision game didn’t seem like he was in that much of a hurry. Granted, the Atari 2600 didn’t create speedy animations but it seemed like Pitfall Harry was straight-up leisurely. I distinctly remember taking the time to line up jumps from alligator head…
Once the province of sailors and other burly he-man types, skin art’s gone mainstream. Even BioWare’s Greg Zeschuk got an Old Republic tat and that’s guy’s not edgy at all. Tattoos now get seen as just another component of personal style, albeit one that’ll be with you once you get wrinkled and cranky. So it…
The latest glimpse at EA’s corporate warfare shooter introduces the characters you’ll be playing as, and teases a few more multiplayer details, too. It says that nine missions from the original Syndicate will be available to play in the upcoming reboot, so that might comfort those who pine away for the 1993 version. Starbreeze’s take…
Xbox 3, Xbox 720, NextBox… whatever you call it, lots of rumors are being floated about Microsoft’s next home console. Some say it’ll output Avatar-level visuals while others say it’ll lean heavily on cloud architecture. But the latest hint as to Microsoft’s gaming future point to their ever-increasing ambition to fuse TV, film and gaming…
Way before dumb-ass pundits called it a “terrorist fist jab”, the act of greeting a homie by touching clenched hands was called dap. (We’ll also accept ‘giving a pound’ as appropriate terminology.) Characters from the worlds of film, comics and video games give each other dap—or, don’t in the case of Darkseid and Orion—over at…
We know that the next game from Will Wright wants to create a unique gaming experience powered by data about how you live your life. Apparently, gamers, your lives include roughage in the bedroom and lots of booze-filled brony love. Now, the world’s seen neither hide nor hair of Hivemind yet but that’s not stopping…
Gruesome things have been happening in the recently rebooted Detective Comics. How gruesome, you ask? [Spoilers if you haven’t been reading.] The Joker’s had his his face removed. Hapless citizens of Gotham have gotten cut to pieces and sewn back together, courtesy of a new villain called The Dollmaker. It’s been a grotesquely violent run…
Nintendo tipped the world off to its coming software line-up last month, but it seems like they left a few aces up their sleeves as far as what’s coming to the 3DS. In an announcement crowing about the 4 million 3DS units the company’s sold in the United States since launch, Nintendo also declared that…
It’s been an incredible year for Mojang’s sandbox construction game, with mobile versions out in the wild, an ever-growing fanbase and their very own convention. To top all of that off, Notch and crew had Minecraft deemed as the past year’s best game by one of the world’s oldest newsmagazines. Time Magazine--with some help from…
What do you do after founding and retiring from one of video games’ most successful development houses? If you’re Naughty Dog co-founder Andy Gavin, you write books. The first of said books is The Darkening Dream, a shadowy fantasy novel about a young girl caught up in a battle that pits ancient supernatural forces like…
Most game developments projects soliciting funding on Kickstarter make contributors into producers, fronting money to help creators achieve their vision. The guys at Adanac Entertainment are configuring the fund-raising efforts for their in-development RPG Runes of Ashmore a little differently. Runes of Ashmore will feature turn-based, tactical combat and the player’s actions will affect the…
It’s no secret that today’s soldiers train on all manner of video game-style simulators. In the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defense, British servicemen use Virtual Battlepace 2 as part of their regimen. VBS2 is a product of Bohemia Interactive, who also made the first Operation Flashpoint game and now produce the ultra-realistic ArmA shooter sims…
What Valve did this year seemed impossible: they improved on the perfection that was the first Portal. That feat was accomplished, surprisingly, by making everything about players’ return to Aperture Science less perfect. We got a scuffed-up, messier experience that resonated more deeply than any other game this year. Can Portal 2 open a rift…
So, you’ve got a 3DS and quickly availed yourself of its relatively new stereoscopic video recording capabilities. The work you’ve filmed with Nintendo’s little gaming handheld will melt faces. You’re sure of that. But you need an audience. A global audience, bigger than the other 3DS owners who you can already share with. Now, you…
Those of us that remember them still miss the arcade emporiums of yore, even is they reeked of cigarette smoke and too much body odor in too small a space. That era’s long gone but the American Classic Arcade Museum, located in New Hampshire’s Funspot arcade, remains one place where folks can lay hands on…
When we last saw the upcoming game from Jonathan Blow this summer, The Witness already looked like an intriguing experience. The way that Blow’s game design interwove puzzles and environmental cues created a hypnotic level of immersion where you had to pay attention to a gameworld like never before. As a result of updated designs…
Keiji Inafune gave us Mega Man, one of gaming’s immortal heroes and mascot for Japanese publisher Capcom. But then Inafune had a seemingly tense break with his longtime employer over creative differences. News of his new companies Comcept and Intercept followed his departure and the first new game from Inafune just went live for iOS…
Casual games make money. The L.A. Times needs money. So, the L.A. Times is adding casual games to its website. That seems to be the logic at work in a new partnership announced today between the newspaper and casual gaming company Arkadium, which makes Facebook games Mahjongg Dimensions and Solitaire Heaven Visitors to latimes.com will…
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