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Should You Buy Infamous: Festival of Blood? Yes.
One of the PS3’s best franchises gets an infusion if fresh blood this week with the Infamous: Festival of Blood DLC. The standalone add-on changes things up considerably for Cole McGrath, turning the lightning-throwing hero into a bloodsucking vampire. This individual offering doesn’t tie back into the main game, so is the Festival of Blood…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 26, 2011 -
The Longer You Wait, The More Expensive These Indie Games Will Be
No matter how many previews, gut check and reviews you load up with, buying any game comes down to taking a risk with your hard-earned money. Mainstream games can tell you that they’re chock full of content by citing hours of playtime, DLC plans or multiplayer features. But indie games, either because of their smaller…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 26, 2011 -
The Best Way to Get Around in Infamous 2 Started Out As a Bug
I’m in the middle of playing the new Infamous: Festival of Blood DLC, which gives series hero Cole McGrath all sorts of new powers by virtue of his getting in turned into a vampire. I talked a bit about the Shadow Swarm flying ability in my hands-on preview and when I was demoing the game,…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 26, 2011 -
Here’s Nightwing in Action in Batman: Arkham City
Feast your eyes on the grown-up laughing young daredevil as he throws down on the thugs of Arkham City. The clip highlights his specialized weaponry and shows off his acrobatic fighting style, too. You’ll be able to start playing as Dick Grayson in new Wayne Manor and Main Hall challenge maps next week. You can…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 26, 2011 -
Fuze Lets You Play Around With Throbbing Bombs and Premature Explosions
Bombs. They’re always around in pop culture, getting thrown by people, set to timers and self-destructing secret lairs. Getting them to not blow up continuously gets put across as a complicated venture requiring coolants, special scissors and special knowledge of red, black, blue or green wires. Fuze does away with all of that. The iOS…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 26, 2011 -
Super T.I.M.E. Force Coming Next from Sword & Sworcery Developer
There’s nothing like creating a straight-up phenomenon to generate a frothy appetite for more, more, more. Ever since Capybara Games’ hit IOS game Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP rocketed to the top of the App Store earlier this year, folks have been wondering when they’d announce something new. The retro-styled indie title captured the hearts…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 26, 2011 -
Battlefield 3 trailer + Minecraft = Minefield
Maybe you can’t afford a PC capable of maxing out Battlefield 3. Don’t worry, there’s always Minecraft. I like the weirdly downscaled music in the clip and the hilariously tense moment of the enemy in the sniper scope lens. Also: Derp Avenue, where noobs come to die. You can contact Evan Narcisse, the author of…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 25, 2011 -
NVIDIA Offers Guides to Building A PC Worthy of Battlefield 3
One thing that’s becoming clear from the reviews coming in about Battlefield 3 is that a person’s satisfaction might vary greatly depending on whether you play it on console or PC. If you want to experience the make-your-eyes-tear-up peak experience supposedly offered by DICE’s Frostbite 2 engine but don’t know where to start, then Nvidia’s…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 25, 2011 -
Here’s Who You’ll Be Swinging With in Grand Slam Tennis 2
Last week, I reported on how EA’s going to be handling the debut of their Grand Slam Tennis series on the Xbox 360 and PS3. During my hands-on time, I only got to see Roger Federer and Maria Sharapova in action but this new trailer shows off the other racket-wielding pros you’ll be controlling in…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 25, 2011 -
Warp’s Teleportation Lets You Distract Bad Dudes with Decoys, Then Tear Them Apart From the Inside
With the genius exhibited by Valve’s Portal games, it wouldn’t be entirely unfair to think that there’s a conceptual no-fly zone around the use teleporting as a game mechanic. At the very least, if you’re going to use the ability to pop in and out of reality in your game, then you need to make…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 25, 2011 -
Microsoft Bans—and Un-Bans—13-Year-Old Boy from Xbox Live Due to ‘Glitch’
Sure, it’s a given that a big conglomerate like Microsoft can giveth and taketh away. But the part that rankles is when the lockout of an XBLA account happens with no explanation, especially when it appears that there’s been no wrongdoing on the part of a particular user. Take this one 13-year-old, for example. As…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 25, 2011 -
Batman: Arkham City Shipped 4.6 Million Copies in Its First Week
From the earliest announcements of its existence, Batman: Arkham City stood out as one of the most anticipated titles of 2011. But, in a year with Battlefield 3 and Modern Warfare 3 on the way, no one knew just how many units all that anticipation would move. Well, as of this morning, Warner Bros. is…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 25, 2011 -
Get All the Dance Central Tracks on the Cheap
There may be some debate about what the best Kinect game is. Some may say Fruit Ninja Kinect, others will cast votes for Child of Eden and Twisted Pixel’s The Gunstringer made a strong debut on the motion-sensing camera a few months ago. But the best franchise on Kinect? That’s without a doubt the Dance…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 25, 2011 -
The Newest Dreamcast/Neo-Geo Game Mashes Metroid with a Commodore 64 Classic
It’s been out of production for years but garage coders and hardcore fans of the Dreamcast have been keeping it alive with fresh content and inventive hacks. The latest example of the former comes from German studio NG:DEV.TEAM in the form of Gunlord. The side-scrolling shooter appears to show the influence of the old-school Commodore…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 24, 2011 -
Uncharted 3 Video Shows the Best Way to Punch Your Way to Victory in Multiplayer
The video of Harrison Ford playing Uncharted 3 last week was clearly meant to communicate some kind of blessing from Indiana Jones to Nathan Drake. And Indy’s a professor who taught lessons with his fists. This video features Naughty Dog’s Robert Cogburn talking about how you can do the same in the studio’s hotly anticipated…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 24, 2011 -
GE Brings Good Things to Life in Minecraft with Recreation of Edison Memorial Tower
Say what you want about their loophole-happy tax practices, but General Electric’s a company that understands invention. And the making of things. So, it’s kind of a natural fit that the company’s GE Show would do an episode featuring the world’s most successful alpha release. You’ll see Minecraft used to recreate the Edison Memorial Tower,…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 24, 2011 -
The New Gameplay Trailer for Inversion Makes Things Topsy-Turvy
I’m the kind of guy who’ll always give games that muck with the core precepts of spacetime at least a gander. Rewinding and freezing time, opening up wormholes and otherwise bending the forces of the universe spices up otherwise ordinary gameplay. That’s the thinking behind Namco Bandai’s upcoming shooter Inversion, which lets you reverse gravity…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 24, 2011 -
FIFA Street’s Most Interesting Mode Brings Horde Mode to the Pitch
When EA Sports previously did Street versions of established sports, the interpretations usually focused on creating a cartoony cousin to the experience players already knew. So, NBA Street got four-point gamebreakers, NFL Street had its wall-running and previous iterations of FIFA Street featured outrageous juggles and beat tricks. The 2012 edition of FIFA Street‘s being…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 24, 2011 -
FIFA on PlayStation Vita Uses Touch Panel Control Makes Ball Handling Literal
It’s no surprise that EA’s making its PlayStation Vita debut with a portable version of the FIFA franchise. Association football’s the world’s most popular sport and recent years have seen EA make strong strides in its rivalry with Konami’s Pro Evolution Soccer series. They’re looking to take that resurgence to Sony’s new handheld and will…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 24, 2011 -
Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3’s Changes, Through the Eyes of a Pro
So, we know that Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3‘s going to have more, well, everything. More backgrounds, more modes, more new characters. But, part of how Capcom’s been positioning this update has been to talk about the tweaks and changes that will make UMvC3 a better more ultimate game than its predecessor. This video by…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 24, 2011
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