Pikmin 3 Plays Well, But I’m Not Sure Which Controller is Best For It

I finally played a new Pikmin game yesterday, which I’ve been waiting to do for eight years. The game looks great, but the tiny sliver I played got me wondering what the best way to play the game will be. Pikmin 3, like the GameCube Pikmin games before it, is about playing as a tiny…

Narco Terror Screens

Everything You Should Know About The Vulgar, Wonderful South Park RPG

Next-gen graphics? Innovative controls? Nonsense. The best thing I’ve seen at E3 so far is a video game based on an animated TV show. Likely you’ve heard of South Park, the immensely popular, surprisingly insightful, almost-always-hilarious Comedy Central cartoon by Trey Parker and Matt Stone. You may have even played one of the old Acclaim-published…

These New Aliens: Colonial Marines Screenshots Will Make You Drool

Hot off the e-presses, here’s four new screenshots from Aliens: Colonial Marines for your viewing pleasure. In the images, we get a glimpse of two aliens, a look at iron sights in action, and a peek at what the multiplayer lobby looks like. Aliens: Colonial Marines is due out February 12 for PC, Xbox 360,…

Who Is Our Mystery Microsoft Interviewee? [UPDATE]

Among the batch of interviews we have lined up for E3 with top game developers and captains of industry, we have a mystery interview today with someone important in the world of Xbox. Who could this mystery man or woman be? Microsoft won’t tell us, so we will leave it to you readers to speculate:…

Hawken is Everything I Ever Wanted in a Mech Shooter

For more than a year now Adhesive Games’ indie PC mech shooter Hawken has tantalized us with breathtakingly gorgeous scenes of giant robot carnage amidst dystopian cityscapes that combine anime sensibilities with Moebius-level intricacy and detail. The aesthetic has won us over time and time again, but what of the gameplay? It’s even better. My…

Why the Wii U Literally Can’t Stand Up

Unlike a Wii, an Xbox 360 or a PlayStation 3, the Wii U console can’t stand up. You can’t prop the system up vertically without it falling over. Horizontal is the only option. The new Nintendo console must lie on its belly like a Nintendo Entertainment System or a really lazy house cat Why? “I…

Carmack Being Carmack: A Dozen Minutes With One of Video Game’s Smartest People

There is nothing quite like having John Carmack tell you about a technological breakthrough that excited him. The id Software programming genius who co-created Doom and launches rockets in his spare time will just unload on you. And—this is flattering—he will assume you can keep up. Yesterday at E3 in Los Angeles, I pretty much…

Sizing Up Its Competition, NBA 2K13 Will Stick to the Way It Plays the Game

Let’s go ahead and say it: NBA 2K13 is right back where it was two years ago—locked in the only meaningful head-to-head competition in sports video game publishing. It’s a fight it won quite decisively, too, when its competitor failed to launch and then sat out 2011, while NBA 2K turned in its two best…

This is Why I Never Could Get Into EVE Online

I’ve tried to get into the universe of EVE Online countless times over the years, but I’ve never managed to form a lasting relationship with the game. During my E3 meeting with CCP, EVE Online creative director Torfi Frans Olafsson explained why with a single sentence. EVE Online is a game driven by the players,…

Talk Amongst Yourselves

E3 continues to roil and rage and froth about our heads, yet there remains a place where like-minded video game fans can gather and talk in relative peace about their love affair with interactive entertainment. If only we could find it. Today’s #TAYpic comes from the fertile mind of Neo-d1ngo, though I can’t seem to…

The New Gears of War Campaign Gets Harder As You Get Better

Last night, I had a chance to play OverRun mode, the great-looking new versus multiplayer in Gears of War: Judgment. Today, I sat down with Epic’s Cliff Bleszinski and People Can Fly’s Adrian Chmielarz to hear the first details about its single-player campaign. There are a number of substantial-sounding tweaks to gameplay, all of which…

Metro: Last Light‘s Decomposing Bones Will Make You Hallucinate

Metro: Last Light is a shooter. But it’s nothing like a Call of Duty, and developers 4A Games resent that comparison. Metro: Last Light is much more about an Eastern perspective on a post-apocalyptic, everything-went-and-got-crazy world. Mutants large and small still terrorize Moscow, as they did in the first Metro title. And I imagine they’re…

In Dead or Alive 5, A Super Move Can Make a Giant Robot Clown Face That Can Sneeze You to Death

You know how it goes when you’re facing another person in a fighting game round: both players have whittled off some chunks off the other’s life bar and the match seems up for grabs. That’s where I was while playing Dead or Alive 5 at Tecmo’s booth today. The person manning the display already whupped…

Disobey Orders In Company of Heroes 2 And Your Comrades Will Shoot You Down

Company of Heroes is a franchise that prides itself on several things. For one, it’s a well-regarded real-time strategy game. For another, historical accuracy is paramount to developers Relic. This means weapons and vehicles are true to history, and the snowy weather has an actual impact on your game. But it’s more than just that.…

Pick Your Poison (No, Really.)

Gender-bending Poison is a gaming favorite. And it’s no easy task to pull off her hot pants, whether you are male, female, or somewhere in between. And do folks ever like dressing up in Poison’s skimpy threads. So let’s find out who wore the character best? Regarding the character’s gender, the story goes that Poison…

My Brief, Fast Ride in an E3 Ferrari

I got an e-mail over the weekend from Microsoft public relations: “I have some sweet rides available to take you to the Halo Showcase, courtesy of ‘Forza Horizon’ if you’re interested. We’re going to have four cars around for E3: a Ferrari California, a Lamborghini Gallardo, an Audi R8 V10 and a BMW 6 Series.”…

Neverwinter Takes a Fast-Paced, Streamlined Stab (and Swing, and Zap) at D&D

I sat down in Perfect World’s E3 demo room on Tuesday unsure what I should expect from Neverwinter. I remember trying Dungeons and Dragons Online back in 2006 when it was new, and I’ve poked ineffectually at Neverwinter Nights a few times in my life, but neither ever captivated me. I respected those games’ goals,…

Let’s Get Down and Dirty with New Dead or Alive 5 Screens

As Dead or Alive 5 developer Team Ninja explained last month, the upcoming fighter will show character clothing changing over the course of the fight. Sweat, it seems, can make shirts see-thru; however, this recent batch of game screens just shows character clothing getting down and dirty. Dead or Alive 5 will be out this…

The Last Guardian Will Come Out When It’s Damn Good and Ready

While many wonder where the hell The Last Guardian is, Sony has this to offer: It will be out when its ready. Sony’s Scott Rohde told website GameSpot, “I will not give you a detailed update, but I will say one thing. It goes back in my mind to innovation and to gamers and to…