Dishonored: What Next From the Publishers of Skyrim?
Posted by Game Spot on Mar 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Man-eating rats, prostitutes, and death by steaming. If only all stealth-action games were as exciting as Dishonored.
There’s often a correlation between the amount of fun you have in a game and the utter ridiculousness of its weapons. Saints Row: The Third has its dildo bat, BioShock has its swarm of bees, and Dishonored…well, Dishonored has rats. Lots and lots of terrifying, swarming, man-eating rats. There’s really no greater way to vanquish your enemies than to have...
GDC 2012 Preview: Sleeping Dogs
Posted by Game News on Mar 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment
There weren’t too many big games to be excited about at this year’s Game Developer’s Conference but Square Enix’s upcoming open world action title, Sleeping Dogs, was definitely one of them. After the stylish live-action trailer Square released a month or so ago, Sleeping Dogs had a lot to live up to. Fortunately, the demo shown to members of the press this week indicates chances are good that upon release, the game will meetor even surpassexpectations.
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GDC 2012 Preview: Game of Thrones
Posted by Game News on Mar 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment
At this year’s Game Developer’s Conference, online game publisher Bigpoint won my vote for coolest exhibit floor propa lifesize replica of the Iron Throne from the HBO hit series, Game of Thrones. In addition to bringing uncomfortable seating, Bigpoint also brought their latest online, free-to-play venture, an MMO version of author George R. R. Martins Game of Thrones novels. Although the presentation was a strictly hands-off affair, Bigpoint did present a fairly convincing argument...
MMA Games: Room for One More?
Posted by Game Spot on Mar 09, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Do you have room for another mixed martial arts game in your collection? The team behind Bellator: MMA Onslaught certainly hopes so.
Games like UFC Undisputed 3, EA Sports MMA, and Street Fighter X Tekken have more in common than the fact that they involve a lot of punching and kicking; they also employ complex control schemes that can be intimidating for newcomers. Developer Kung Fu Factory is hoping to address this with its recently announced Bellator: MMA Onslaught–a...
The Witcher 2 vs. Skyrim: A Different Kind of Fantasy
Posted by Game Spot on Mar 08, 2012 | Leave a Comment
These role-playing games have less in common than you might expect–and that’s why you should be excited for The Witcher 2.
The Witcher 2 made its original debut as a PC title in May 2011, well before all-conquering Skyrim came along, but Polish studio CD Projekt has been readying its game for a second bite of the cherry. An “enhanced” version for the Xbox 360, with half an hour of new cinematics and an extra four hours of questing*, is on the way, and it still looks...
PC Game: We’;re Going To Need A Lot More Rum
Posted by Game News on Mar 07, 2012 | Leave a Comment
The sea is an unforgiving place, and the same can definitely be said for Risen 2: Dark Waters. A sequel to the fantasy RPG Risen, Dark Waters takes the story in a swashbuckling direction while keeping its RPG roots and Piranha Bytes’ reputation for hands-off gameplay.
The hero from Risen, now a troubled Inquisition member drowning his past in rum, sets out to infiltrate a notorious pirate’s crew and find a weapon that will stop the Titans that are rising to threaten the world. His companion...
Fighting Wars in Medal of Honor: Warfighter
Posted by Game Spot on Mar 06, 2012 | Leave a Comment
2010’s Medal of Honor reboot was a good shooter, but it didn’t set any new standards for the genre. After 18 months, can the sequel Warfighter fare any better?
The Game Developers Conference is fast becoming the place where EA unveils its marquee first-person shooter of the year. Last year, it was Battlefield 3 and a memorable 15-minute demo that gave us a first glimpse at not only the game, but also DICE’s now-ubiquitous game engine Frostbite 2. Compared to Battlefield,...
XCOM: Enemy Unknown: What’s New, What’s Not
Posted by Game Spot on Mar 06, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Time units and procedural levels are out; fog of war and permadeath stay in. So what else is in new (and old) in Firaxis’ XCOM reimagining?
Whereas the upcoming XCOM shooter got the cold shoulder from fans of the PC classic, news of a strategy-based “reimagining” had a much warmer welcome. But by the same token, the weight of expectation is bigger. And when the goodwill of fans comes from your game better resembling a revered original, how far from it can you successfully...
Adventures in the Fluffy Dimension
Posted by Game Spot on Mar 05, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Dr. Seuss meets Portal in Quantum Conundrum, a lighthearted, brain-teasing puzzler from Portal co-creator Kim Swift and Airtight Games.
Quantum Conundrum is confounding. Played in first person, the game casts you as a kid dropped off on the doorstep of your uncle, Professor Fitz Quadwrangle. Of course, something has gone horribly wrong, and you must use your uncle’s inter-dimensional shift device to bend reality and best his puzzles. Developed in partnership with Square Enix and Airtight...
PC Game: Pendulo’;s Growing Up
Posted by Game News on Mar 05, 2012 | Leave a Comment
While adventure games have more or less been shuffled off to the outer edge of the gaming universe, those that follow them have quite a few shining stars that they have come to know and wait anxiously for their next offering. One such bright spot is Pendulo Studios and their well-known trilogy, Runaway.
Not only did those games bring the Spanish developer into the forefront of adventure gamers, but it helped established the company’s unique visual style that blends hand-drawn backgrounds...
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