Fans of super-successful web series The Guild know Felicia Day best as Cyd/Codex, the shy MMO-addicted violinist who has trouble navigating relationships IRL. She’s also portrayed monster-slayer-in-training Vi on the late, lamented Buffy the Vampire Slayer and teamed up with that series’ creator Joss Whedon to play Penny on Dr. …
Adventure!, Half-Life 2, Final Fantasy VII… the argument about what the greatest video games of all time are has raged since the medium went mainstream. But, now, one of America’s greatest artistic and educational institutions tries to settle the debate, one mouse-click at a time.
Here at Techland, only one television program manages to tie into so many of our geeky obsessions all at once. Superheroes, mythical creatures, action figures and barely believeable sci-fi all flop onto each other on the glorious cavalcade that is The Venture Bros. Cartoon Network’s just started airing the series from the start and …
Marvel vs. Capcom 3
Publisher: Capcom
Developer: Capcom
Systems it’s available on: PS3, Xbox 360
ESRB rating: Teen
System reviewed on: Xbox 360
Marvel Vs. Capcom 3’s biggest achievement doesn’t come in the graphics department, though the visuals are stunning. Nor is it in gameplay, despite the fact that it sports a sharp and …
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 …
Sony introduced their Move motion controller last year to a fair amount of buzz. While the device arguably had a better launch slate than Kinect, with more than 8 million Kinect sensors sold since its November launch, there’s no question that Microsoft’s revolutionary peripheral trounced the Move at retail. But the device’s chief …
Double down on what works; jettison anything with risk attached. That’s the message that came out of Activision’s fourth-quarter earnings call yesterday. What got jettisoned? The upcoming True Crime: Hong Kong, the future of the Guitar Hero franchise and 500 employees, or about seven percent of its work force. Reports are also saying …
2009’s acclaimed Batman: Arkham Asylum game won awards and generally gets regarded as on the best superhero video games ever made. But it was curiously missing a link back to the medium that spawned it. There was an Arkham-centric miniseries that came out during the same year as Rocksteady’s hit game, but it had nothing to do with …
Uncorking one of the better kept secrets of recent months, the publisher of BioShock and NBA 2K11 announced today that they’ll be releasing a sequel to The Darkness, a 2007 FPS inspired by the Image/Top Cow comic of the same name.
I had the chance to ask 2K president Christoph Hartmann about the upcoming game and why the time is ripe …
Video Game Awards Season is in full swing, with the games of 2010 having already been assessed in tons of Game of the Year round-ups all over the web. Now come the professional and organizational awards, where developers and other groups recognize outstanding creativity in the video game medium.
The Writers’ Guild of America …
If fighting games have taught us anything, it’s that any dispute can solved with a roundhouse kick.
No, wait… If fighting games have really taught us anything, it’s that fighters come in all shapes and sizes. Skill level, too, varies and Capcom’s introducing a feature that will let even the most neophyte of warriors have a …
Gamers everywhere are eagerly anticipating a return to Gotham City when the new Batman game comes out later this year and new screens have surfaced showing off two of the bad guys who’ll be running wild in Arkham City.
The new game will apparently give us a tougher, meaner Harley Quinn, as the Joker’s main squeeze drops the Gothic …
