One can already make a great deal of comparisons between the dark fantasy world of The Witcher and the arguably darker fantasy world of Game of Thrones. Now there’s one more. Actor Charles Dance, best known for his outstanding work as the cruel, calculating ruler Tywin Lannister on HBO’s Game of Thrones, will be joining…
The art for Telltale’s upcoming The Wolf Among Us, based on Bill Willingham’s Fables comics, looked great from the start. Thankfully, turns out the game looks just as good in action. IGN‘s got an exclusive first trailer for The Wolf Among Us, which shows some bits of Bigby Wolf’s adventure in action—the confidence of Telltale’s…
Ah, Dragon’s Dogma. The massive RPG that I’ve never had a chance to play, that proved so divisive among readers and critics, and that really does have a loopy enough narrative setup to get me intrigued. I tell myself that one day, I’ll go play it. But I don’t know. There are too many games,…
Between Patricia’s review and this nifty launch trailer, I sure do find myself wanting to play Payday 2. Even if the game itself isn’t in super-slow-mo.
When I hear the phrase “Medieval Warfare,” I mostly think of dark colors, grey armor, and black blood spraying upon ramparts. I don’t really think of pretty colors. But to celebrate their game’s runaway success (it sold a not-too-shabby 1.2 million copies since its launch 9 months ago), the people who make Chivalry: Medieval Warfare…
Aperture Science, man. The only abandoned, robot-infested lab I’d ever want to visit more than once. This video is part of “Other Places,” a series from Ultrabrilliant detailing the unattended motion and stillness of unattended video game backdrops. It’s super cool. As it happens, I’ve been returning to Portal 2 a bit lately, and remain…
Stealth. Long has it been the bugbear of the Assassin’s Creed series. The more swashbuckling, pirate-ship helm-ing and tree-climbing Ubisoft adds, the less they seem to mind that the stealth in their stealth game just isn’t that fun. Might that change this time around? Maybe? Hmm. IGN has posted a new walkthrough video in which…
The people making the upcoming sandbox military sim Arma 3 recently did a big livestream in which they demoed a number of the game’s features. Give it a watch, and see what’s got Luke so excited (h/t PC Gamer)
Ah, Chrono Cross. A game with a uniquely beautiful soundtrack And here, Yasunori Mitsuda’s “Radical Dreamers” is brought to life by two performers in two places—songwriter/composer Laura Shigihara and the members of the Japanese band Meine Meinung
The Breaking Bad premiere was pretty great across the board, but one scene in particular stood out. That scene, of course, being Badger’s bananas Star Trek script, which involved a bored Enterprise crew holding a pie-eating contest… that goes horribly wrong Vulture has, amazingly enough, already created an animated version of Badger’s script: Ha! THey…
If you haven’t been keeping up with screenshot superstar Dead End Thrills, head on over and see what’s new. He’s got some great stuff from Skyrim (like the one up top), as well as some excellent shots that capture the striking look of DMC I dug this one:
Would you watch an animated series based on Metroid? I sure would. We’ve featured the work of the super talented artist Dave Rapoza in the past, and now he’s taking a shot at animation. This re-imagining of Super Metroid may not be long, but it’s pretty darn cool. When’s the next Metroid game coming out,…
Now here’s a pairing I didn’t see coming. I am neither a big reader of the manga High School of the Dead or player of the action-RPG Mount & Blade, but I remain surprised that someone has modded the game to include the general setup of H.S.O.T.D. And yet that’s what this intrepid modder appears…
In case you missed the livestream demonstration of Microsoft’s game-making toolkit Project Spark last week, you can watch a video of the whole thing right here.
Long live the Star Wars theme music, may it take us on ever more nostalgic, heroic adventures. Here’s the latest from violinist Lindsey Stirling (of Zelda and Assassin’s Creed III renown) and vocalist Peter Hollens (known for Game of Thrones and Skyrim renditions), who together capped off the week last Friday with this rousing (and…
Video games are perfect for exploring our dreams, aren’t they? After all, games are already awfully dream-like—a new, stranger reality with different rules than our own, which we explore for a time before waking. So I’m very intrigued by Dream, a game that was greenlit on Steam about a year ago, but which I finally…
Good news: Microsoft’s Xbox Live online service is going to undergo some noteworthy changes for the Xbox One, and will do away with at least one of the current system’s more annoying limitations. If you’ve ever tried to play a “Games for Windows Live” PC game while your roommate watches Netflix on your Xbox 360,…
Edge has a very cool new feature about the making of Cart Life, Richard Hofmeier’s groundbreaking, award-winning life sim.
It looks as though X Rebirth, the impressive space-sim that grabbed a lot of attention a couple years ago, is finally ready to go. As the new demonstration video below shows, this game is… well, it’s incredibly, almost ridiculously ambitious. Look at it. Just look at it! Here’s a second video from Egosoft about the…
I’ve been intrigued by Project Spark, a build-your-own-game app for Microsoft platforms (Windows 8, Xbox 360 and Xbox One), since Jason first told me about it. Today, we’ll learn a bit more. Down below starting at 7:30PM Eastern, the game’s developers are doing a live hands-on demo of the game in action:
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