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Mr. Freeze Makes Things Chilly in New ‘Batman: Arkham City’ Trailer
It’d be pretty hard to disagree that Batman has the best rogues gallery in superhero comics. (But, you can try. That’s what comment sections are for.) The Dark Knight took down a slew of his nastiest villains in the hit Arkham Asylum a few years back, but lots of fan-favorite felons didn’t make the cut.
However, with a sequel due out …
Playing ‘The Witness’: Hands-On with the Next Game from the Creator of ‘Braid’
Three years ago, Braid came out and changed people’s perceptions of what video games–especially independently developed ones–could be. The time-manipulating platformer gave players an experience that channeled the ephemeral nature of selective memory and the sting of lost love. Braid became a bona fide hit on the Xbox 360, thanks to …
Spec Ops Survival Mode Gets Detailed in New ‘Modern Warfare 3’ Trailer
A few weeks back, I talked about my hands-on experience with the new Survival Mode in the Spec Ops multiplayer portion of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. Activision’s finally released a video showing off some of the features that I got to see and implement.
You’ll see the upgrade system interface in action in the clip as well as a few …
‘The Gunstringer’ Preview: Finally, a Bad-Ass Kinect Game
Child of Eden is currently my favorite Kinect game. Tetsuya Mizuguchi’s latest masterpiece makes me feel artsy and connected and like I’m floating in the future. All good things, to be sure.
But it doesn’t make me feel like a bad-ass.
Thankfully, that’s where The Gunstringer comes in. It’s the first Kinect title from Twisted Pixel, …
Cat vs. Bat: Hands-on with ‘Batman: Arkham City’
My hands-on time with this year’s Bat-game revealed a few things to me.
The new criminal ghetto in the sequel’s Gotham City is big. Very big. You’ll face off against even more thugs–and more kinds of thugs–in Arkham City. But Batman will have a powered-up set of attacks and gadgets. The combat system features tiers of execution …
First Steps: Impressions of the ‘Journey’ Multiplayer Beta
Journey may be simultaneously the simplest and trickiest game to describe in quite some time. There’s been a veil of secrecy around the upcoming PSN exclusive for months now, with eager fans only getting the vaguest hints about the multiplayer game from dev studio thatgamecompany. But the makers of artsy cult hit Flower launched a …
Tasty ‘StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm’ Details Divulged
Just like that, Blizzard’s teasing StarCraft II expansion numero duo details, including a teaser that probably shouldn’t have been teased yet. See what happens when you take a day off?
As expected, the expansion—dubbed Heart of the Swarm—continues Blizzard’s epic sci-fi soap, including scruffy brooding cowboy-type Jim Raynor’s …
The Elder Scrolls Skyrim Looks Like Park City, Utah
Known for its ski resorts and the Sundance Film Festival, Park City may also be synonymous with…Skyrim? That’s right. Nestled among Utah’s picturesque, snow-capped peaks, the small town recently hosted Bethesda Softwork’s annual press event, where chapter five of fantasy-RPG franchise The Elder Scrolls stole the show. I didn’t …
Riddle Me This, Batman: Just How Dark is ‘Arkham City’?
So, maybe my preview of the upcoming Batman game didn’t do it for you. Maybe you need to see just how massive and expanded the Dark Knight’s next adventure will be. Well, this new trailer shows off the new locomotion elements, upgraded combat and, of course, thugs and villains galore.
In addition to all of that, Arkham City will …
On the Brink: Hands-On with 2011’s Experimental Shooter
While other first-person shooters will be vying for gamers’ thumbs in 2011, no game next year will look like Brink. The characters look lived in, with pockmarks, scars and receding hairlines all among the options for customization. And that customization’s amongst the best I’ve ever seen in any game in recent memory. Sections of the …
Preview & Contest: Get a Beta Code for “LittleBigPlanet 2”
In his play “No Exit,” French existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre famously observed that “hell is other people.” Sony’s LittleBigPlanet games have proven the opposite, that heaven is other people. Or, to be more specific, the ingenious user-generated levels that other LBP creators have …