Of course, Shank‘s not a game on a disc so there’s no actual physical copy to win. What you can get, though, is an Xbox 360 download code for Klei’s gritty stab-em-up. All you need to do is sound off in comments and tell me who’s been the toughest, most macho hombre in video games [...]
There continues to be a lot–and I mean, A LOT–of talk about how digital distribution is the way of the future for the games business and how brick-and-mortar stores will all go the way of the dinosaur in, oh, five years or so.
The beauty of Shank is that it doesn’t overreach. The downloadable brawler makes good on a simple mandate: stabbing, shredding and shooting a whole lot of bad guys.
How manly is Shank, the eponymous hero of the new downloadable game that’s out this week? He swings a chainsaw with no problem, beats up Mexican luchadores and regains health by drinking a 40 oz. bottle of malt liquor. The side-scrolling stab-em-up features an inviting cartooniness that somehow meshes with extremely hyper-violent gameplay. It’s a [...]
Lara Croft’s an icon. She’s arguably gaming’s most recognizable heroine, having graced countless magazine covers and been adapted to the silver screen twice. But the problem with being an icon is that expectations about the character in question get formulaic. Any attempts to diverge from “what makes a character iconic” run the risk of being [...]
The problem with games that try to wow you with gee-whiz mechanics or overblown presentation nowadays is that they can come across as nervous, insecure efforts even when they work. Where a bigger, burlier features of a game like Crackdown 2 might be the equivalent of a shout, Limbo is a whisper. The efforts of Swedish [...]
Yes, I know I’m broadly generalizing. Deal with it. But, still, things generally grind to a halt when the heat comes out. Microsoft–being run the smart people that do the smart things they do over there–realizes this, too.
While the summer months tend to be a wasteland for new packaged games, it’s been a booming time for digitally distributed ones. Last year saw Shadow Complex and Battlefield 1943 hit XBL and PSN, where they became big hits in the process.
