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NBA 2K13 Starts to Tease its Next Cover Star
News and notes from around the world of sports video gaming: • The second week after E3 is typically when 2K Sports cranks up the hypeotron for NBA 2K, and we’re hearing the engine hum right on schedule. The game’s social media operation is asking people to tweet what they hope or want to see…
By Owen Good Published June 20, 2012 -
How Long Can NCAA Remain Above the Anger Against Madden?
Both are made by EA Sports. Both are American football titles. Both are made under exclusive license, and both come out every year. Speak the name of NCAA Football, and no one brings up NCAA College Football 2K3. But say anything about Madden, and every gamer with a commenting account starts chanting for the ultimate…
By Owen Good Published June 20, 2012 -
The Best Diablo III Forum Thread You’ll Read Today
This Battle.net forum thread by user Furiant has been making the rounds on the Internet today. It’s pretty entertaining. Give it a read: First, thank you for addressing so many of the important issues in this patch. After playing a couple of quests tonight, however, I’ve realized that the fight against exploiters will never truly…
By Jason Schreier Published June 20, 2012 -
Stan ‘The Man’ Lee Soaring Gracefully Over New York Might Be the Most Beautiful Thing I’ve Ever Seen
I was initially skeptical about Stan Lee’s cameo appearance as a playable character in The Amazing Spider-Man. Now that I’ve see this video, I might be persuaded to buy an entire Stan Lee game. Stan’s mission to save his script pages, likely written by someone else, is an Amazon.com exclusive preorder bonus for Beenox’s The…
By Mike Fahey Published June 20, 2012 -
Why StarCraft II Still Doesn’t Support Local Multiplayer
In StarCraft, you could play multiplayer games with your friends on local area network connections. In StarCraft II, you can’t. It’s online or bust. This is a decision that has driven some fans crazy, and over the past couple of years, developer Blizzard has received no shortage of flack from infuriated gamers. Sometimes they don’t…
By Jason Schreier Published June 20, 2012 -
Brand-New Indie Game Resonance is the Best 1990s Adventure Game I’ve Played in Years
I am a big fan of adventure games. They’ve been my favorite genre for decades. I like them quite a lot. Enough to have named my cat Guybrush. I have sampled and enjoyed many indie adventure games, both old and new, this year. And I mention all of this so that you will realize the…
By Kate Cox Published June 20, 2012 -
Divinity: Original Sin Turns a Single-Player Killfest Into Turn-Based, Group Combat. And Succeeds.
Larian Studios’ Divinity franchise has had an uneven past. The first game, Divine Divinity, was very good, but others have been more mixed. At E3 this year, Larian showed off two games set in the Divinity universe. One, Dragon Commander, is a real-time strategy game focusing on the dragon knight idea introduced in Divinity II.…
By Kate Cox Published June 20, 2012 -
Any MMO Can Take You to Hell. The Secret World Takes You to an Amusement Park
My first guided tour of Funcom’s upcoming paranormal MMO The Secret World saw me descending into the depths of hell. Many massively multiplayer online role-playing games go there; it’s a popular spot. But only The Secret World follows up hell with a visit to a demented theme park. Funcom’s Craig Morrison escorted a group of…
By Mike Fahey Published June 20, 2012 -
The End of Chivalry, Cheesy Action Movies, and Fascist Elves: A Chat With the Man Who Runs Paradox
The first morning of E3, I sat down to talk with Fredrik Wester, CEO of Paradox Interactive. Paradox has, in the past, generally specialized in careful, strategic games with historical settings. But their upcoming titles all deviate from that scheme in some way. While The War of the Roses is historical, it’s anything but a…
By Kate Cox Published June 20, 2012 -
Watch 20 Minutes of Resident Evil 6 in Action
At E3, the press got to see a whole bunch of Resident Evil 6 in action. Evan noted how much more action-packed the game is than even past Resident Evil games. Now, you can see it in action for yourselves. The video above is actually part 2 of the two videos that have been posted,…
By Kirk Hamilton Published June 20, 2012 -
It’s Almost Impossible to Solo World of Warcraft Monopoly
After months of teasing us with reveals of colorful money, plastic towers and murloc-infested cards, World of Warcraft Monopoly is finally available ready for public consumption. Want to see what’s inside? I’ve been sitting on an advance copy of World of Warcraft Monopoly for weeks now, eager to rip open the game and get my…
By Mike Fahey Published June 20, 2012 -
Watch These Guys Beat Diablo III on its Hardest, Most Unforgiving Difficulty Setting
You may think that you play Diablo III, clicking on enemies and looting bodies, but there’s a good chance you’re actually playing a kiddie version of the game. At the game’s higher difficulty levels, it opens up into something far more difficult and engaging than its borderline Facebook-game-level normal difficulty. And at Inferno, Diablo III‘s…
By Kirk Hamilton Published June 20, 2012 -
A Terrific Riff On Magic: The Gathering, Starring Video Gaming’s Real Heroes
The Kotaku guest appearance on one of Giant Bomb’s marathon E3 podcasts a couple of weeks ago appears to have wrought two things: The world’s best Hawkman-inspired Kotaku -esque site A very cool prototype for a video game industry version of Magic: The Gathering, featuring some of the coolest (mostly)-creative people in gaming. The first…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 20, 2012 -
Ascend: New Gods Has a Case of The Demon’s Souls. This is a Good Thing.
It usually takes a couple of years for good ideas from one game to seep into another. It appears that late 2009’s Demon’s Souls has spilled some into Ascend: New Gods, one of the wilder games I saw at E3 earlier this month. Demon’s Souls popularized—or re-popularized—a style of single-player gaming that is perpetually affected…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 20, 2012 -
I Really Hope This Action-RPG Comes To The U.S.
Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu has some screenshots for the newest Ys game, Ys Celceta: Sea Of Trees—a remake of Ys IV that is slated for PlayStation Vita in Japan this September. Looks pretty, no? Hopefully U.S. localization house XSEED brings it over to U.S. shores. They’ve brought over some of the other Ys games (including…
By Jason Schreier Published June 20, 2012
