Last night, at video games’ equivalent to the Oscars, ‘Red Dead Redemption’ racked up the most wins, but ‘Mass Effect 2′ walked away with Game of the Year. It came down to epic space opera vs. lonesome Western drama at the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences’ annual Interactive Achievement Awards ceremony, and Commander Shepard [...]
If you love me, Techland readers, you’ll have checked out this week’s review of Limbo. That dark and twisted game is an Xbox exclusive, so PS3 owners won’t be able to experience Limbo‘s maddening puzzles and morbid vibe on their systems. Unless, of course, someone tried to re-make it using the game creation tools in [...]
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.
