I don’t really like fighting games. But I’ve always had a soft spot for Capcom’s Power Stone series, which broke free of the limitations of most other fighters and dropped you in a small 3D arena, meaning your combat felt more “real” than being trapped on a 2D plane. That series is long gone, but…
Playing through Homeworld again after all these years is weird Games are forever changing. Usually, they’re advancing. They progress not just in terms of visuals, but design. Shooters, for example, change the way you take cover and recover damage, while stealth games have developed smoother controls and give the player a greater awareness of what’s…
It’s hard not to marvel at the boundless (sometimes disturbing) creativity with which people approach Steam construction mega-hit Besiege. This, though, is different. Cold, mechanical precision. Infinite versatility. Doom. OK, maybe Niet Ivo‘s Doom Copter doesn’t look quite as intimidating as its suggests, but make no mistake: it will fuck your shit up. Well, if…
This is Masquerada: Songs and Shadows, an isometric RPG “built in the vein of Baldur’s Gate and Dragon Age”. Looks cool!
As Mortal Kombat escalated during its early years, the series introduced more ways to finish fights. Fatalities were just the beginning. Friendships, animalities, and babalities become part of the equation. Brutalities were in the console ports of Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, but disappeared from the franchise soon after. They’re back and very bloody in Mortal…
Recently, after I completed a mission in a popular big-budget video game, one of the “good guys” I was working for began yelling at me. Apparently, cutting off the nation’s drug supply was a bad thing. After yelling at me for a few minutes, she immediately asked me to go do another mission for her,…
UPDATE 3/4: Unfortunately, this has now been patched out on the 3DS! You can still do it if you don’t update, but it means not being able to play online. Original article follows: Some people turn their noses up at hacked Pokémon, in the same way that people look down, say, a fake Rolex. But…
The amiibo collection game is fierce. Rumors of gold Mario amiibos circulated for a while, and Nintendo finally confirmed their existence this morning. Pre-orders for the special edition went online at Wal-Mart today, sold out in 15 minutes, and have already spiked in price on eBay. You’ll notice the eBay listing above is for $79.95.…
Capcom has issued a statement apologizing for the PC version of Resident Evil: Revelations 2 not having local co-op, despite the Steam description saying the game would have it. PC Gamer reports the company is offering refunds for Steam owners. You can reach the author of this post at [email protected] or on Twitter at @patrickklepek
When invulnerable criminals go rampaging through the streets of Los Santos, it can be a terrible, wonderful thing. This video by YouTuberSly Shootershows that thwarting the efforts of the cops to try and shut down a super-crook can be both hilarious and an inspiration to pull off really impressive in-game feats. Invincibility is nothing new…
Above: one particularly-interesting section of a recent Nielsen survey that probes console owners about the factors driving their buying habits. There’s no data on just how many customers participated in this survey—could be ten people for all we know—but the listed factors are fascinating. Wii U buyers are all about that nebulous “fun factor” so…
At last night’s Itty Bitty Bash, an event to get Chicagoans in the same room to play games, I encountered something very strange. I’ve fought off an alien invasion millions of times, but I’ve never fired my lasers by entering numbers onto a rotary phone dial. This, friends, is Afterglow Afterglow comes from developer Jerry…
Riot put out a new patch for League of Legends this week—an occasion that the game’s legions of fans always await with bated breath. Anticipation curdled into disappointment once players realized the developer had made some unwelcome changes that could have a profound impact on one of the competitive multiplayer game’s key team positions: the…
Minutes after I walked through a metal detector—and some time before she was flocked by well-wishers at the best-attended gaming lecture I’ve ever been to at New York University—I recently listened to the media critic Anita Sarkeesian describe eight things she’d like to see changed in video games. To be specific, she was describing “eight…
République is one of the most remarkable mobile-first games ever created, and its PC/Mac port is 20% off today on the Humble Store and Steam. [Republique Remastered, $20] We see this sale from time to time, but it bears mentioning if you’ve missed out in the past. Outside of Black Friday sales, this is the…
Anyone should be proud for finishing Dark Souls II. From Software’s sadistic action games are punishing by any standard. The community around the games, however, keeps upping the ante. What’s one way to make Dark Souls II harder? Beating it in first-person with an Oculus Rift. Twitch streamer Dirtythekid finally pulled this off yesterday on…
In November of 2012, Nintendo pulled the Donkey Kong Country trilogy from the Wii’s Virtual Console. They gave no explanation, as is the Nintendo Way. And today, nearly two and a half years later, Nintendo announced that all three games are coming back, this time for the Wii U. We still don’t know why the…
The free-to-play mobile game Final Fantasy Record Keeper is coming westward this spring, Square Enix just announced. This is another partnership with Japanese social gaming giant DeNA; here’s hoping it’s better than that cashgrab All The Bravest
A remastered version of the snazzy stealth game République is now out for Mac and PC. And until March 4th, it only costs $20 on Steam, GOG, and the Humble Bundle. After that it goes up to $25.
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