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Reviewers Love Playing With Animals, Climbing Trees, and Stabbing People In Assassin’s Creed III
Swinging through the treetops certainly doesn’t seem like a particularly colonial pastime. And yet reviewers seem to love it. The newest entry in the Assassin’s Creed saga takes to the 18th century and the heart of the American Revolution. Can Boston and New York, in their fledgling states, measure up to Damascus, Rome, and Istanbul?…
By Kate Cox Published November 1, 2012 -
UncategorizedCreatorverse is One Of the Coolest Things You Can Do With an iPad
Released today by Linden Labs, Creatorverse is a playground for the inventive mind. Connect simple shapes, assigns colors, behaviors and physical properties, and then combine them into wonderful complex machines you can share with the world. Linden Labs was once known solely for Second Life, the virtual world completely built and driven by its players.…
By Mike Fahey Published November 1, 2012 -
UncategorizedHeck Yes I Would Play Descent Remade In The Unreal Engine
I’ll never forget playing Descent back when it first came out. More specifically, playing the demo, which I think came with PC Gamer magazine. I played the demo over, and over. Eventually I stopped spinning around in place and actually completed the demo mission, too. I would play the heck out of a new Descent…
By Kirk Hamilton Published November 1, 2012 - Uncategorized
Games Reporter Matt Hughes Dies In Apparent Suicide
Matt Hughes, a freelancer who wrote about gaming for outlets like GamesRadar, Joystiq, and Mac|Life, passed away Tuesday in Commerce, Michigan. On Tuesday, Hughes sent out an e-mail to several of the editors he had worked with at those sites. He said he would no longer be able to contribute or take on more freelance…
By Jason Schreier Published November 1, 2012 - Uncategorized
Original Mass Effect Available For PS3 On December 4, Some DLC Included
The Mass Effect Trilogy, due out for PC and Xbox 360 on November 6, will be available for PlayStation 3 on December 4, BioWare announced today. The trilogy brings the first Mass Effect game to the PS3 for the first time, although Mass Effect 2 and 3 were both available on the console. Where the…
By Kate Cox Published November 1, 2012 -
UncategorizedHere’s The First U.S. Wii U Commercial
And it’s not bad! Lots of diversity. Some people making faces that people don’t normally make while playing video games. Weird dubsteppy music. But at least nobody’s saying things like “I’m not a gamer, but…”
By Jason Schreier Published November 1, 2012 - Uncategorized
There Are 145 People Playing Competitive Halo 4 Multiplayer Right Now
Call it the calm before the storm. (And the calm after the Superstorm.) Only 145 people are playing competitive games of Halo 4 online right now-a fraction of the number that will be playing next week. Microsoft’s sci-fi shooter leaked on the Internet a while ago. A great deal of people have pirated and started…
By Jason Schreier Published November 1, 2012 - Uncategorized
After a Sandy Delay, CityVille 2 Launches Today
Hurricane Sandy’s reach extended far beyond the real world, causing the unexpected delay of the millions of potential virtual towns of CityVille 2. Originally slated for launch on Monday, Zynga’s brand-new 3D city-builder goes live today. The Baltimore-based Zynga studio working on CityVille 2 wanted to kick off this week with a flurry of city…
By Mike Fahey Published November 1, 2012 -
UncategorizedRise of the Collectible iPhone Robots
Backflip Studios takes the addictive formula of the wildly popular Dragonvale, swaps colorful lizards for quirky machine creatures, and guarantees that I’ll be obsessing over robot breeding and battling for the next year. I’ve written about Gizmonauts a couple of times already, back on that website that’ll be returning any day now, but I’ve been…
By Mike Fahey Published November 1, 2012 - Uncategorized
Anatomy of a Whale
Tonight, Lee’s iPad questioned him with a blue pop-up window: “Do you want to buy one Chest of Gems for $99.99?” Lee could use those gems to immediately fortify his army. He tapped “Yes,” almost without thinking. In less than a month of playing around two hours a day, he’d spent nearly a thousand dollars.…
By Mike Fahey Published November 1, 2012 - Uncategorized
I’m Surprised By How “Black” Assassin’s Creed Liberation Feels
History often seems lightyears away, doesn’t it? Even game franchises like Civilization-where you zip from ancient Rome to space flight in the span of hours-put a layer of abstraction over the experience that make it feel distant. The Assassin’s Creed games use history exceedingly well, but none of them have felt as personal as Assassin’s…
By Evan Narcisse Published November 1, 2012 -
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Who shoots first in Angry Birds Star Wars? Update: Dammit, Rovio
By Mike Fahey Published November 1, 2012 - Uncategorized
Nintendo Wants to Be Friends With Your Cell Phone
“We have two things to do,” Nintendo president Satoru Iwata recently said to what may have been the 1,000th person to ask him about the house of Super Mario is going to cope with that fact that people really, really love their cellphones and that that might hurt their ability to love Nintendo machines. The…
By Stephen Totilo Published November 1, 2012 - Uncategorized
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There’s a new Angry Birds Space update out, with a rather curious cameo.
By Mike Fahey Published November 1, 2012 -
UncategorizedAmazon’s First Mobile Game is a Fresh Take on Tower Defense
After mixing up the hidden object genre with its first Facebook game, Living Classics, Amazon Game Studios takes on tower defense with its first mobile game, Air Patriots. Create a squad of planes and guide them about the screen with your fingers, drawing attack paths in order to efficiently destroy enemy forces. It’s a more…
By Mike Fahey Published November 1, 2012 - Uncategorized
Dreamfall Chapters Is Real. Actually Happening. Ragnar Tørnquist is ON IT.
Adventure game fans, now is the time to begin squeeing and flailing with joy. Ragnar Tørnquist, the man behind The Longest Journey and Dreamfall-and recent MMO The Secret World-has formed a new studio and actually begun production on Dreamfall Chapters, Funcom announced today. In a press release, Funcom said that Red Thread Games, Tørnquist’s new…
By Kate Cox Published November 1, 2012 - Uncategorized
This Week’s Windows Phone Charts: Xbox SmartGlass is Not a Game
Our week of emergency visual representations of our daily top app charts continues with the latest and greatest for the Windows Phone crowd, who seem to be playing a lot of SmartGlass and Xbox Live Extras. My high score in SmartGlass would blow your mind. Cracking Sands continues to dominate the paid charts this week,…
By Mike Fahey Published November 1, 2012 - Kotaku East
This Hawkeye Figure Aims for the Bull’s-Eye
Adding to their long list of pretty amazing look-alike figures, Hong Kong collectible company Hot Toys has recently released the underappreciated archer, Hawkeye, to their Avengers lineup of the 6-inch Movie Masterpiece collection. The figure was originally slated for a September release, but was delayed until late October. Was it worth the wait? I’ve always…
By Toshi Nakamura Published November 1, 2012 - Kotaku East
The Rise of China’s Board Game Cafes
China is a big place but with its huge population (1.4 billion) mostly gathered in urban environments, space is becoming more of a commodity. Grown from this need for space, “board game cafes” began to spring out in major cities much like internet cafes did. In early 2010 a new trend broke out in China,…
By Eric Jou Published November 1, 2012