I enjoyed Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood for many reasons. One more: It’s the first game in years to compel me to bring out a notebook to solve a video game puzzle. (Solution censored for your enjoyment.) Memories of drawing the map for Metroid!
The big new iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch game from id Software will receive Game Center support and might even gain a feature a fan suggested on a message board, the game’s lead creator John Carmack told Kotaku yesterday. Support for Game Center, Apple’s game-networking service for iOS games, will be added back into the on-rails shooter. Id…
John Carmack’s biggest gift to gaming was Doom, but he keeps on giving, releasing possibly the best-looking game on the iPhone and iPad yesterday. He’s been bullish on iOS gaming, but yesterday he was refreshingly realistic. Here was a game creator who had just released Rage, an on-rails single-player shooter with stunning graphics, ones he…
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To: Ashcraft From: Totilo Re: Nothing I spotted this sprouting from the New Museum in SoHo (downtown Manhattan, you know?) while I was walking out of our New York offices yesterday. It was dark, so I waited to shoot this picture until the morning. I have no story to tell you about it, but I…
February 2011’s Portal 2 is now April 2011’s Portal 2, according to publisher Valve. The PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 sequel will now be out the week of April 18. Valve calls this “the shortest delay in Valve’s proud tradition of delays” but tries to cheer us up with this: “[I]t represents the approaching…
Sure, video games let us shoot at Fidel Castro and play as former Presidents, but where’s the game that attacks our favorite conservative Supreme Court Justices? If you don’t mind spoilers or hate the Citizens United decision, keep reading. One more warning… we’re talking about Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, though we’re not talking about the main…
The two most-played games on Xbox Live are Call of Duty games, with Halo Reach in the third spot, according to the first Xbox Live popularity ranking released after several data-free weeks from Microsoft. Call of Duty Black Ops tops the list of unique users playing games on Xbox Live for the week of November…
Rage HD has been a contender for best-looking iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch game since we first saw it this summer. Today, you can download it for $2 and see for yourself. Or watch videos of us playing it. Rage HD is an on-rails shooter set in the same universe as next September’s PC and console game Rage.…
A LittleBigPlanet spin-off called Sackboy’s Prehistoric Moves will be out this December for download to the PlayStation 3. It’s multiplayer-only, requires a Move controller and… it’s not clear if you’ll have to pay for it. Sony’s PlayStation blog shares the details of what essentially is a 10-level co-op mission pack set in prehistoric times and…
L.A. Noire is a detective story, a refreshingly unrushed noir video game adventure. It also may be the toughest road to greatness the acclaimed creators of Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption have yet traveled, the destination not guaranteed. Earlier this week, I visited the New York offices of Rockstar Games to get a…
More demos of WiiWare games are coming — finally. But they’re still only going to be offered for a limited time and won’t be for all titles. For several years, Nintendo has been selling some terrific downloadable games in its WiiWare store: World of Goo, Thru-Space, Swords & Soldiers, Art Style: Light Trax, and plenty…
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Call of Duty Black Ops set a five-day record for getting people to part with their money, according to its creators today. $650 million in copies sold around the world in the span of a work week. Black Ops publisher Activision, you know, the one a lot of gamers love to hate because of their…
The people who make the games you either love or love to hate on Facebook have a new one coming out in a few weeks. It’s called CityVille, which looks like Sim City without the tornadoes or FarmVille with skyscrapers. We haven’t played the game yet, but we can show you video of it in…
I’d heard and read that some Dragon Age fans were worried about Dragon Age II, the upcoming sequel I finally saw and played today. Was this game really an example of role-playing game powerhouse BioWare abandoning its past? Well, don’t let your heart stop as I tell you that I was shown the game on…
I haven’t tried the Assassin’s Creed Facebook game. As into Assassin’s Creed as I am, I still thought I could skip it. But this video from Ubisoft, explaining how the Facebook game, Project Legacy, connect to Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, makes it tempting. The video’s narrator describes how the connected games unlock content in one another…
At first this kill video from Call of Duty: Black Ops multiplayer seems unremarkable. But then they slow it down and zero in on a single grenade that lands in the most sensitive of places. Best First Blood Impact Kill EVER! [YouTube]
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