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Sonic Will Meet Sonic in Sonic Generations, and Other Amusing Revelations
I can’t take Sonic the Hedgehog completely seriously. He’s a gaming icon, but he’s also a punching bag. He’s the star of some beloved games and the subject of strange experiments. He’s got friends people hate; enemies people love and once, he controversially kissed a human female; another time, he developed the ability to turn…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 5, 2011 -
Watch an Expert Zip Through Sonic Generations‘ Two Re-Mixes of a Classic Sonic Level
I present to you a pair of videos from this fall’s Sonic Generations. To appreciate what Sega is doing with this new Sonic game, you’ll need to watch them both. The game takes levels from three eras of Sonic games—classic, Dreamcast and modern era—and lets players run through them either as skinny modern Sonic or…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 5, 2011 -
In Praise of Tough Questions
I heard yesterday that games journalist Brandon Sheffield gave a tough interview to some of the guys who made Rage, this week’s big new first-person shooter. “Hostile” was the word floating around in my Twitter feed. Pete Hines, marketing man for Rage publisher Bethesda and an overall good sport couched that. He described Sheffield’s role…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 4, 2011 -
Infinity Blade 2 Will Have New Weapons, Areas, Cloud Saves and Ridiculous Graphics
So much for Infinity Blade being the go-to game for chest-beating hardcore gamers on iPhone and iPad. Infinity Blade 2, coming December 1, looks like it’s going to trump it. As a sequel should, right? Announced at Apple’s big iPhone 4S keynote today, the new game will run on Unreal Engine 3 and be made…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 4, 2011 -
Infinity Blade 2 Hits in December, Exclusive to iOS
One of our favorite iPhone and iPad games is getting a sequel on December 1. Make way for Infinity Blade 2, from series creators Chair Entertainment and Epic Games. We expect more more levels, more weapons and… well, we’ll have more on Infinity Blade 2 very soon.
By Stephen Totilo Published October 4, 2011 -
This is Your First $10 Gears of War 3 DLC
On November 1, you can buy $10 more of Gears of War 3 in the form of the Horde Command Pack. The pack adds three maps to the game’s Horde and Beast mode (Blood Drive, Rustlung and Azura), three new characters (Onyx guard, Big Rig Dizzy and Bernie Mataki), two new weapon skins (Team Plasma…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 4, 2011 -
Watch Daigo Get Perfected in Super Street Fighter IV
Could you obliterate legendary competitive Street Fighter player Daigo “The Beast” Umehara? Could you perfect him in Super Street Fighter IV, keeping him from laying a finger on you? At the EVO 2011 fighting game tournament this past summer, a gamer named Poongko did. Marvel at this. Remember, in a different Street Fighter game, Daigo…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 3, 2011 -
You Can Kill and Rob Facebook Strangers in Mafia Wars 2
Your Facebook friends will help you in the sequel to Mafia Wars. They’ll help keep you safe while you take a bat to the knees of some Facebook stranger. Sorry, Facebook strangers, that’s the way it’s going to work. At least I won’t know your name or any real information about you as I step…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 3, 2011 -
Time Traveling Talk Amongst Yourselves
Folks, this is Talk Amongst Yourselves, your forum to talk about video games. It goes live at 10:20 AM every day, except for days like today when it’s 10:58 at the time of this writing and I cheat and put it back in time. Never mind that. It’s October and we’ve got a new image.…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 3, 2011 -
Super-Heroes Don’t Like to Smile Anymore, Not on the Covers of DC’s New 52
You’d expect Batman to grimace, but would you expect the Flash to frown or Superman to scowl? Throughout the month of September, DC Comics, publisher of those heroes and more, released 52 new super-hero comics books. Throughout this past month, I read them and reviewed them. An ad on the back of Superman #1 features…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 30, 2011 -
Gears of War 3 Dents Call of Duty‘s Xbox Live Dominance, Doesn’t Beat It
Gears of War 3 was the second most popular game on Xbox Live on the week it launched, topping Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 but failing to unseat the 10-month-old Call of Duty: Black Ops The rankings for the week starting September 19 were posted by official Xbox Live spokesperson Major Nelson and track…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 30, 2011 -
Portal 2 ‘Summer’ DLC Now Hitting October 4, For Free
Initially slated for summer, Valve’s first, free expansion to Portal 2 will be out for PC, Mac, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 next week. It’s called “Peer Review” and is made for co-op. “Peer Review” continues the game’s co-op storyline, according to Valve. “You and a friend will continue the story of loyal bots P-Body…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 30, 2011 -
The Toughest Xbox 360 Achievement You Can Get, We Think
To get the hardest achievement on the Xbox 360, Marcus Fenix had to do more than just kill a few Locust. He had to get his hands dirty. He had to put in some time. Those 100 points don’t come easy. The Achievement, Seriously 3.0 may well be the hardest Achievement to get on the…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 30, 2011 -
The Binding of Isaac is a Wonderfully Warped Old Testament Take on The Legend of Zelda
In a world crowded with games spawned from Super Mario Bros. how wonderful it is to see the progeny of the Nintendo Entertainment System’s The Legend of Zelda. That is The Binding of Isaac, a bloody dungeon adventure displayed from an overhead view. The game descends from Zelda, heart health icons and all, but its…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 29, 2011 -
Let’s Compare Battlefield 3 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC
You can play Battlefield 3 on a number of beastly machines. Surely, it looks best on PC (no surprise), but how about we let YouTube user Robbaz compare the game on PS3, Xbox 360 and PC? Go for it, Robbaz. You can contact Stephen Totilo, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can also…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 29, 2011 -
An Outer Space Facebook Game That is Honestly Worth Your Time
Most of the Facebook games that I try lack something important. They don’t ask me to make interesting choices. They just let me click a lot. They let me do obvious things like collect 10 of this thing so I can build one of that thing. Interesting choices, however, are what the best games are…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 29, 2011 -
Duke Nukem, Pokémon and Reviews of the The Final Wave of DC’s New 52
Here are our weekly new-comics recommendations. Plus! You’ve heard about DC Comics New 52? The reboot of the company’s entire line? This week, I’ve got capsule reviews of the final 25 books. I’m tired, and you’ve got some reading to do. There are some gems in there. Dare I suggest you buy a comic called…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 28, 2011 -
In the Case of the Inferior New Tetris Game, I Declare the 3DS: Not Guilty
How do you mess up Tetris? The answer, clever reader, is not: “Put it on the Nintendo 3DS.” The 3DS isn’t the problem. I bring you news (opinion, actually) that the new Tetris, made specially for the Nintendo 3DS is inferior, vastly, to the Tetris made for the Nintendo DS—five years ago. Yet I will…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 28, 2011 -
Somehow, They Turned Chemistry Into the Next Video Game You Should Play
A friend who was recently planning his amusement for a 14-hour flight asked me for a game recommendation. You will only need one game for the entire flight, I told him. Shortly afterward we sat down. I produced my iPad and proof. The proof is called SpaceChem. SpaceChem must be recommended with warnings. It is…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 28, 2011 -
You are Changing. Three out of Ten Xbox 360 Gamers Are Now Also Zynga Gamers
Do Halo fanatics secretly want to farm? Or do CityVille architects just want to get on the Kinect? Somehow, some-way, the number of people who play both Xbox 360 and Zynga games is rising sharply, according to research group Raptr, which claims to track more than 10 million gamers across multiple machines. They say that…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 27, 2011
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