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Death Claims the Souls of Seven Darksiders II Game Reviewers
Most men of modern profession have the good fortune to face death but once in their lifetime. These brave and critical souls stared into those empty sockets for hours and did not flinch… much. Steadfastly refusing to spare anyone over ’til another year, Death rides his pale horse into the spotlight in Darksiders II, otherwise…
By Mike Fahey Published August 15, 2012 -
UncategorizedIt’s The Middle Of Shark Week And There’s A Megalodon Roaming Liberty City
Holy crap look out! There’s a huge freaking shark roaming the Liberty City Bay. It hasn’t attacked anyone yet, but it seems like it’s only a matter of time, right? In light of our recent list of the best sharks in video games (and also the one from Banjo Kazooie) comes this mod from JMoorfoot4…
By Kirk Hamilton Published August 15, 2012 - Uncategorized
Blizzard Prompting User Data Changes After Hack
Following an attack on Blizzard’s Battle.net service last week, the company is today prompting all North American players to update their mobile authenticators, change their security questions and read up on a new FAQ/guide that gives hints on improving their account’s protection. North American Battle.net Account Update [Blizzard]
By Luke Plunkett Published August 15, 2012 -
UncategorizedWatch A Cutscene From The Last Of Us Come To Motion-Captured Life
“Is that a banana-gun in your hand, or are you just happy to see me?” I like these motion-capture process videos that Sony keeps putting out—they let us see the increasingly involved process of bringing these characters to life, and they we get to check out some of the cutscenes early, too. This one shows…
By Kirk Hamilton Published August 15, 2012 - Uncategorized
Team Fortress 2’s Hats Just Turned It Up To Eleven
It’s the third and final day of reveals for Team Fortress 2’s big Mann vs Machine update, and Valve has saved the most important for last. Well, most important if you’re the kind of person who’s still playing TF2. Because if you are, you probably enjoy hats. The robot wars will include a game mode…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 15, 2012 - Uncategorized
PlayStation Plus Members Will Get Counterstrike: Global Offensive‘s Demo Downloaded Auto-Magically Overnight
Itchy trigger fingers everywhere are waiting to unleash all-new kinds of carnage when Counterstrike: Global Offensive hits on August 21st. But if your trigger finger is attached to a PS3 owner, there’s a good chance that you’ll be amongst the first players to get online with Valve’s new shooter. Over on the PlayStation community boards,…
By Evan Narcisse Published August 15, 2012 - Uncategorized
Holy Crap It’s A Far Cry 3 Leopard Attack
Man, I’m starting to think that Far Cry 3 is more of a “Big Cat Hunter” game than the action game that Ubisoft is describing it as. How else to describe the fact that the best screenshots from the game all feature giant jungle cats doing rad stuff? Ubi dropped a passel of their trademark…
By Kirk Hamilton Published August 15, 2012 -
UncategorizedGrand Theft Auto is Too Big. Yakuza is Too Small. Sleeping Dogs is Just Right.
Creating a compelling and enjoyable open world experience is more than just giving the player as much real estate technologically possible to play in. It’s a delicate balancing act between character and scale. Somewhere between Grand Theft Auto‘s size and Yakuza’s personality lies Sleeping Dogs That’s not to say that Grand Theft Auto IV or…
By Chris Person Published August 15, 2012 -
UncategorizedIt Turns Out, This Is A Really Awesome Year to Love Gorgeous Adventure Games
I would never have expected 2012 to turn out to be such a phenomenal year to be an adventure game fan. And yet, here we are. This new one is Primordia, brought to us by Wadjet Eye Games. Those are the same folks who brought us 2011’s Gemini Rue and this summer’s fantastic Resonance Primordia…
By Kate Cox Published August 15, 2012 - Uncategorized
Witness Dead or Alive 5‘s Latest Fighters Engaged in a Quaint Dinner to the Death
There’s only one way a meal between the boisterous Brad Wong and boyish Eliot in Tecmo Koei’s Dead or Alive 5 can possibly end. Or they could fight I guess. That works too. In an amusing departure from the over-the-top fighting stages we’ve seen from the game so far, Brad and Eliot make their debut…
By Mike Fahey Published August 15, 2012 - Uncategorized
Halo 4’s Spartan Specializations Change the Way You’ll Play Multiplayer
The big changes to Halo multiplayer keep coming to the next entry in the sci-fi shooter franchise. Microsoft’s just announced that a new set of class-based Specialization ranks that players can earn after they hit level 50. As explained on Halo Waypoint, specializations dole out armor modifications designed to enhance certain playstyles. So, the Wetwork…
By Evan Narcisse Published August 15, 2012 - Uncategorized
I Finally Tracked Down The PC That Taught Me To Love Games. It’s Uglier Than I Remembered.
This morning on Twitter, a friend linked to a site featuring early advertisements for the personal computer, circa the 1970s. With thirty or forty years of distance, the ads are, of course, dated and even funny, in a way. But one of the images featured an early Atari computer, an Atari 800 from 1980. And…
By Kate Cox Published August 15, 2012 -
UncategorizedA Dramatic Look at the Story of Neverwinter
Every time the terms “Dungeons & Dragons” and “story” appear together and I don’t find myself in a 10×10 room with four other people, checking for traps, I’m just the tiniest bit disappointed. This is Neverwinter, the action-MMO take on the classic franchise, as previewed by our own Kate Cox earlier this year. Specifically this…
By Mike Fahey Published August 15, 2012 - Uncategorized
The Secret World Unveils an Ambitious Plan to Beautify New York City
Though The Secret World has gotten off to a stumbling start, Funcom continues to aggressively roll out fresh new content, like the August 28 release of Issue 2: Digging Deeper and the promised New York City raid, which in the next few months will give the city a real reason to never sleep. I’d say…
By Mike Fahey Published August 15, 2012 - Uncategorized
Razer Making Non-Star Wars Version of its Fancy Star Wars Keyboard, and the LCD Panel May Actually Be Useful This Time
Not so long ago, in a galaxy that’s right here actually, there was this Star Wars-themed keyboard from Razer. It boasted not only a number of impressive features for a keyboard, but also a big ol’ tie-in to a now-troubled MMO Want the features without the branding? Razer’s got you covered. Razer announced the new…
By Kate Cox Published August 15, 2012 - Uncategorized
PC Dev Offering $5,000 Reward To Anyone Who Finds Their Stolen, Unreleased Games
PC developer Larian is not having a great time at the Gamescom trade show in Germany this week. The dev sent us a note to share that two PCs were stolen from their booth at the show. On those PCs were early copies of their upcoming games Dragon Commander and Divinity: Original Sin. Not good!…
By Jason Schreier Published August 15, 2012 -
UncategorizedCheck Out Black Ops 2‘s CODcasting in Action
In a live demonstration streamed direct from Gamescom in Germany earlier today, Activision and Treyarch showed off Call of Duty: Black Ops 2‘s exciting new multiplayer broadcasting tools. Finally a way for an unskilled loudmouth like me to enjoy Call of Duty! I can imagine my first broadcast bout already. I’ll pick an overlay, set…
By Mike Fahey Published August 15, 2012
