Gamers and comic fans all agreed: Batman: Arkham Asylum was not only the best Batman game ever made; it was the best superhero game ever made. Many of the classic Bat-elements were there in the game’s detective sequences, hand-to-hand combat and glorious gadgets.
Still, one thing was missing: Gotham City itself. The sequel to B:AA aims …
Even though Angry Birds boasts more than 75 million downloads on nearly every mobile platform imaginable (and, with the PlayStation Network version on PS3, at least one home console), you’d figure that Rovio’s battling animals mega-hit would have reached everyone who wanted it. At GDC this weekend, Rovio’s “Mighty Eagle” Peter …
EA’s hoping to storm to the top of the modern military FPS heap with Battlefield 3, ending Call of Duty‘s recent reign as the number one shooter franchise. The man leading the charge at the DICE development studio making the game is executive producer Patrick Bach. Bach’s been at DICE for nine years and spoke with me about what DICE …
Beyond Good & Evil HD
Publisher: UbiSoft
Developer: UbiSoft Montpelier
Systems it’s available on: Xbox 360
ESRB rating: Teen
System reviewed on: Xbox 360
I already know what I think about Beyond Good & Evil HD, which hits Xbox Live today. I freakin’ love it.
That foreknowledge comes of course from having played the original, …
Last night at the 2011 Game Developers Conference, EA and its DICE development studio unveiled a look at Battlefield 3, the newest installment of the blockbuster open-world military FPS series.
Powered by an all-new Frostbite 2 engine, the threequel looks to be EA’s big bet on dethroning the shooter hegemony that Activision’s …
Those hopes you had for playing a Battlestar Galactica MMO on the bus ride to work? Shattered.
Panasonic’s let out word that the Jungle–that weird little gaming handheld they announced last year–won’t be released to a curious public.
According to Reuters, the consumer electronics giant won’t be returning to the gaming sector …
Listen: If you’ve played almost any Wii game since the console’s launch more than four years ago, it’s probably not escaped you that many of the gestures–the waggle, the pump and the thrust, for example–can be rather, erm, porn-y.
But for all the Wii-nis jokes that sexualized the functionality of the revolutionary Wii remote, that …
Everyone’s all abuzz about the NGP, Sony’s touch-tastic, dual-joystick successor to the PSP. No one knows how much it costs yet and the PlayStation powers-that-be will probably be keeping that under wraps until E3 comes up in June. (Sony Unveils the NGP, the Next Evolution of Portable PlayStation Hardware)
That said, there’s still …
Apparently, the blokes who classify games Down Under have just been hipped to the fact that fighting to the death often involves blood. In a decision handed down yesterday, the Austrialian government has denied Mortal Kombat classification, effectively banning Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment’s game.
Mortal Kombat‘s …
Bulletstorm
Publisher: Epic Games/EA
Developer: People Can Fly
Systems it’s available on: PC, PS3, Xbox 360
ESRB rating: Mature
System reviewed on: PS3
First there was a minor kerfuffle, dubbed #Boobstorm, that started on this very site as a result of an interview I did with producer Tanya Jessen, where she talked about the …
Killzone 3
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment
Developer: Guerilla Games
Systems it’s available on: PS3
ESRB rating: Mature
System reviewed on: PS3
Pity poor Killzone. The FPS franchise that’s lived on two iterations of Sony’s PlayStation game machines always gets compared to other exemplary franchises. The first Killzone was …
Microsoft’s made history with the record-setting launch of the Kinect sensor for their Xbox 360. While the games released at launch were generally a bit twee, much of the buzz around the device came from hackers who made Kinect useful in ways that weren’t necessarily intended. Everything from holography to Super Mario interoperability to …
