Uncharted 3 Post-E3 Q&A
Posted by Game Spot on Jun 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment
We talk to Naughty Dog about some of the finer points of the developer’s impressive E3 demo.
Naughty Dog turned the Electronic Entertainment Expo on its ear back in 2009 with a show-stealing demo of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. We all remember how that particular story went: boy meets helicopter, helicopter tries to kill boy, boy escapes collapsing building. This year, Naughty Dog brought along another exciting demo for the upcoming sequel Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception, but...
Guild Wars 2 Hands-On Preview – Engineers, Dungeons, and Underwater Combat
Posted by Game Spot on Jun 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment
We go hands-on with the engineer profession and brave the unknown both on land and underwater in Guild Wars 2.
Guild Wars 2 is shaping up to be a very different experience from its predecessor. While both online role-playing games, the original Guild Wars was heavily instanced and tailored for the individual, whereas its sequel will be one giant, persistent world driven by hundreds of dynamic events. We’re going to break out of the cookie-cutter formula of other MMOGs, said ArenaNet...
BioShock Infinite Preview
Posted by Game Zone on Jun 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Anticipation is high for Bioshock Infinite as Ken Levine and his crew of developers over at Irrational Games build the next stage in a game series that deconstructs ideologies and erects worlds around them. The flying white city of Columbia is a beautiful place, and even caught in the middle of an ethnocentric American ideology and the chaotic ideals of the Vox Populi, players will see both sides of early twentieth century political beliefs torn asunder.
Beliefs and identities are always going to...
Nora and the Time Studio First Look Preview
Posted by Game Spot on Jun 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment
We get a glimpse at the upcoming Nintendo DS RPG from Atlus featuring time-related item-crafting.
The most obvious thing to point out from our recent eyes-on with Nora and the Time Studio for the DS is the game’s look. The title’s aesthetics are filled to the brim with saccharine cuteness and bright colors thanks to the character art direction of Yuji Himukai, who last contributed to Etrian Odyssey. The heroine herself is a cute googly-eyed blonde girl who displays a wide variety of...
Lucius Impressions
Posted by Game Spot on Jun 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment
In Lucius, you play as a boy who is possessed by the devil and who has to kill his entire family in a series of orchestrated accidents.
Lucius is a new adventure game, from Finnish developer Shiver Games, that’s inspired by ’70s horror movies such as The Omen and The Shining. You play as the titular Lucius–a six-year-old boy who finds himself possessed by the devil. This supernatural event forces Lucius to kill off his wealthy family one by one, using a variety of objects...
Quarrel First Look Preview
Posted by Game Spot on Jun 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment
We grab land and spell our way to victory in this downloadable anagram game.
E3 2011: Described as a mixture of well-known board games, Boggle and Risk, Quarrel is an upcoming downloadable game that aims to bring the fun of building empires with the challenge of un-jumbling letters to form real words.
Each map is divided into colored islands with up to eight characters on one team per chunk of land. Each of the four players (or you and three AI competitors) takes turns attacking and defending...
Blackwater Kinect First Look Preview
Posted by Game Spot on Jun 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment
We duck and weave through the lounge room minefield with our first look at upcoming Kinect shooter, Blackwater.
E3 2011: You don’t have to be American to have heard about private military contractor, Blackwater, and its exploits abroad. Branded video games are the latest path of exploration for the group, and while the company has rebranded to Xe, this game still bares the Blackwater brand used for the company’s military training services and accessories. During E3, we had a...
Yakuza: Of the End Updated Preview
Posted by Game Spot on Jun 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment
We clear out a zombie-infested Kamurocho with two different characters in Sega’s latest entry in the Yakuza franchise.
It’s clear to publishers that zombies, no matter how trite or cliché the concept, can always draw a crowd (Call of Duty: Black Ops’ recent DLC being a good example). Sega and producer Toshihiro Nagoshi seem to have followed this train of thought because the man behind the Yakuza series has put Kazuma Kiryu and his friends in an alternate timeline inspired...
Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary Preview
Posted by Game Zone on Jun 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment
It’s hard to think that the original Halo: Combat Evolved has been out for ten years. A decade ago I was getting ready to enter high school, and here I am now, an “adult” ready to “take on the real world.” I could find some solace in replaying the original Halo—a nice way to recapture naive youth in these scary times of being a grown-up.
Microsoft and Halo-development studio 343 Industries must feel similarly, having announced Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary at their E3 keynote...
UFC Personal Trainer Q&A – Tony Sheets on shaping up at home
Posted by Game Spot on Jun 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment
THQ’s Troy Sheets discusses getting players motivated, keeping them exercising, and the celebrity talent involved in the game.
Video games have long been blamed for the ill health of children and adults. The stereotypical gamer sits alone, pasty-skinned, and socially inept when, in reality, nothing could be further from the truth. Everybody now games, and like the kilos shed while playing the fitness games that have taken the market by storm, the once-assumed image of gamers has fallen...
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