Stormy Ascent was a level in the first Crash game that originally got scrapped because it was ultimately considered too difficult. During a panel at San Diego Comic-Con, Vicarious Visions revealed that the lost level would be available as a free download via the PlayStation Store.
Bungie announced today that the New York-based studio Vicarious Visions is helping out with Destiny. Readers of this website may remember that we reported that back in September, alongside news that Destiny 2 is coming to PC and will likely involve a total level/gear reset.
Everyone suspected that a Crash Bandicoot revival might be in the works, but when the N. Sane Trilogy was announced at this past E3, people weren’t sure what to make of it.
The latest entry in Activision’s annual toys-to-life video game franchise has that new car smell.
Normally when a big-name video game releases a version on tablet devices, it's either a pared down version of the console experience or a completely different game altogether. Not only is Skylanders: Trap Team's tablet offering the exact same game as on consoles, its portability and convenience makes it the superior…
I didn't fully appreciate the next generation of consoles until last Friday, when I got the chance to play Skylanders: Swap Force for a couple hours on the PlayStation 4.
The party ended for the once-mighty Guitar Hero series in 2011, when Activision finally decided that the world had played enough guitar video games.
E3 is a time for a lot of huffery and puffery about video games, much of which turns out to be true—just not all of it.
Infinity Ward may have created Call of Duty but publisher Activision has always wanted to take the hit war-game series into different directions. Most of those efforts stalled—like the third-person variant that dev studio Sledgehammer was working on—and the public never gets to see what might have been.
Here is how you take a three-inch high plastic figurine and pull him into your 3DS, without wires, memory cards, or the device's camera. Just set your character from Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure on that portal, and aim the 3DS at him, and wait for the beam of light. When I did it, I swear I felt the slightest tug…
If you're asking industry heavyweights to make a video to fire up kids about math and science, it's probably no surprise that the video game maker is the one getting the most views.
Activision reveals the next entry in the Guitar Hero franchise, Warriors of Rock, featuring more than 90 tracks, a Gene Simmons-powered quest mode, and new challenges for every track in the Guitar Hero catalog. Check out the first 35 tracks!
Don't get excited about this screenshot. It's from the console version of Transformers: War For Cybertron. But the game still might turn your head. [UPDATE: DS screens added below.]
Marvel's mightiest heroes converge once again in Activsion's Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 to face a foe far deadlier than any they've encountered thus far: themselves.
In this latest developer diary for the title, we're told all about the things the team did to ensure the original Dead Space experience wouldn't be watered down.
There aren't quite enough DSi owners around yet to justify Vicarious Visions adapting their portable version of Guitar Hero to work with Nintendo's latest portable, the developers told Kotaku this week.
This trailer also shows off Face to Face's Disconnect, but I'm pretty sure my parents won't care about that. They'll probably be happy to see the drop-in, drop-out play mode and the part where we won't have to fight over who gets to play guitar, but I could just be projecting.
The last time I previewed a Guitar Hero game, I was drawn to the Wii version because it attracted a less-competitive crowd of music fan. Now I'm drawn to it to kick some ass.
