Deus Ex amounts to a sacred text for video game enthusiasts. The 2000 release designed by Warren Spector and Harvey Smith changed the way that people thought about playing through a video game story.
It’s getting to the point where Anonymous is like the Eye of Sauron: You don’t even want them looking in your general direction. As reports of the internet bogeyman collective’s splintering eke out, people formerly affiliated with Anonymous–who may or may not be responsible for the Playstation Network outage–continue to wreak havoc on video game-related [...]
Get ready for the next chapter in competitive gaming since Super Smash Bros. The newest Mario title for the Wii, Mario Sports Mix, will be in stores in February 7, 2011 for North Americans, according to a press release from Nintendo. We’re a fan of the multi-player and easy-to-learn gameplay, which means even more of [...]
Video games’ first ever sex symbol will be getting an all-new look in an upcoming game. Lara Croft, starof the long-running Tomb Raider series, undergoes a radical re-imagining in a new title simply entitled Tomb Raider. Publisher Square Enix issued a press release that teased the new game:
For lots of people, the Final Fantasy series stands the cream of the crop of the RPG genre. The series has dozens of spinoffs and reboots from the time of the NES to the present-day, with the latest landing on the Nintendo DS. Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light comes from Matrix, the studio [...]
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 [...]
After posting initial impressions and images of Square Enix’s upcoming Gun Loco earlier in the week, I was really hoping a trailer would help me understand what to expect. Well, after watching the trailer five times, I still have no idea whether the sprint-action shooter is going to crazy good or crazy bad.
Long known solely as the Final Fantasy company, Square Enix has been exploring the notion of games that appeal games outside of their hardcore RPG constituency. They acquired Eidos (home of Tomb Raider heroine Lara Craft) last year and have had recent hits with the adrenaline-filled explosion fest Just Cause 2. They’ll also be releasing [...]
At first, Just Cause 2 seems like it’s barely evolved beyond its 2006 predecessor, which itself was just another GTA clone. It’s an sandbox-style game with a solo protagonist who uses his martial talents to reset the status quo of the game world. You’ll see a lot of familiar open-world mechanics in Just Cause 2: [...]
