It’s no accident that Telltale’s The Walking Dead game refers to its five-episode run as a “season.” The whole thing is structured quite a bit like a season of television, with the accompanying peaks and valleys. And so it’s perhaps not a huge surprise after the operatic highs of the spectacular third episode, episode four,…
Even I, a person who has never seen Simon & Simon a single time, got a kick out of this incredibly elaborate shot-for-shot remake of the opening credits. Created as a goof for Adult Swim, it stars Paul Rudd, Mad Men‘s Jon Hamm and Parks & Recreation‘s Adam Scott, and, well… it’s kind of hard…
In a season of outstanding PC ports, each new game has begun to arrive accompanied by the same question: Will this one kick ass on PC, as well? Arkane’s Dishonored is fantastic. It’s also rooted in what some would call a holy triumvirate of of PC gaming: Deus Ex, Thief and Half-Life 2. It stands…
Actually, the full name of this game is Dudebro™ – My Shit Is Fucked Up So I Got to Shoot/Slice You II: It’s Straight-Up Dawg Time. Yes. It’s a PC game that’s been in development for some time by some folks from NeoGAF as well as Grimoire Assembly Forge. It’s a parody of all the…
Two more developers have left Irrational Games, makers of BioShock Infinite. According to LinkedIn, Artificial intelligence lead Don Norbury and combat design director Clint Bundrick are the latest to depart the Boston-based company. The changes to their LinkedIn pages were first spotted by Superannuation. (Who, incidentally, shares a lot of that kind of scoopery in…
I haven’t been to London in a long time, but from the looks of this latest gameplay video, it seems like Ubisoft’s upcoming ZombiU will let me refresh my memory of the city’s famous locations. Virtual tourism never looked so bloody and zombie-laden.
While the internet has seen no shortage of goofy fan-made zombie and Resident Evil homages, this one still made me chuckle. It comes to us from the mad folks at Rocket Jump—it was directed by Des Dolly and sports some damned impressive production values. “Where’s the helicopter key?” “We don’t know. Like I literally have…
You’re at comic con. You think you see a cool cosplayer, off in the distance. You can’t quite tell if it’s supposed to be a Velociraptor or a T-Rex. You move closer, cautiously, not wanting to alert him to your presence. Then suddenly, to your right, you hear a sound. You look over and the…
Have I mentioned that I’m excited about Persona 4 Golden? Honestly, it’s the one reason I’m thrilled to have a Vita, and one of the games I’m most looking forward to this fall. And would you look at that? Atlus has dropped a ton of new videos of the game on their YouTube channel I’ve…
Microsoft is saying that the interactive polling during the Xbox Live VP Debate stream currently isn’t working.
Forget graphics—for my money, audio is the most vital aspect of a video game. It’s the thing that makes me get lost in a game’s world, that makes my pulse pound and sucks me in. But in order for a game to sound good, you’ve got to have the right equipment. So much video game…
I’ve been going through my iPhone’s greatest gaming hits recently, rediscovering the old classics I used to play and checking out some new ones. I just have to say, the theme music from Halfbrick’s Jetpack Joyride just kills. I could clean my entire apartment to this music, and in fact, I would do so with…
When I played Far Cry 3 last week, I was impressed by a lot of things—but chief among them was the audacity of the in-game drug sequences. Not many games have your character straight-up take hallucinogens, but why the heck not? As games like Alan Wake and Batman: Arkham Asylum demonstrated, it’s possible to creatively…
I hate Mutons. If you play XCOM: Enemy Unknown, you probably hate them too. The big, green, ape-like aliens are the shock troopers of the invasion, and they will make you cry. They’ll flank and shellack your team, lob grenades into places you thought were safe, and cut down your most beloved veterans in a…
I’ve got a golden ticket! I’ve got a golden chance to make my way! When Charlie Bucket opened up that golden ticket, he probably wasn’t thinking that Willy Wonka was going to give him a sweet-ass sniper rifle, or a shield that generates ammo. And yet, in Borderlands 2, a similar golden key can give…
As I edited together my video preview of Far Cry 3, something struck me. More accurately, something stabbed me. You sure are going to kill a lot of people (and animals!) using a machete in this game! I edited the initial preview video while on a plane, and I started to feel a bit self-conscious…
I sincerely hope you guys are all playing XCOM: Enemy Unknown right now. Yeah, Dishonored is great. But XCOM, man… this game has been keeping me up until 3 in the morning night after night. It’s amazing. As we noted in our tips for playing the game, one of the best things about the game…
I kinda tuned out on the first big Presidential Debate. But I’m glad that the mad genius behind “Bad Lip Reading” didn’t—this video, wherein he re-interprets what the candidates may have been saying, is easily the best thing to come out of the debate. Ha! Do you want a big, spunky Irish Labradoodle puppy? Do…
In my big honkin’ video preview of Far Cry 3, one very funny part kinda stood out. Well more accurately, it jumped out. It happened about ten minutes into the video, so I didn’t want anyone who didn’t have time to watch the whole thing to miss it. So, I pulled it out and made…
There’s no question that the classic PC stealth game Thief: The Dark Project was a big influence on Arkane’s masterful new game Dishonored The folks at Gamefront are up to their usual tricks tracking down easter eggs and references, and have found this just lovely Thief reference in one of Dishonored‘s later levels. I don’t…
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