You’d be forgiven for mistaking the new XCOM: Enemy Unknown launch trailer for a Halo Reach 2 teaser. It’s a slick, one minute, 38 second guns-and-aliens action brief — a festival of body armor, jetpacks, green plasma and …
Resident Evil 6 is in a pickle, caught in a narrow, lightless corridor of its own design and swarmed by critics using words like hacked off limbs to bludgeon it into Metacritic mediocrity.
I’m probably exaggerating a little. …
Neil Young claims he’s going to change the way we listen to digital music by pairing a new iPod-competitive Pono music player (I see “Ponyo” — how about you?) with an audiophile-caliber music download service. The claims are …
Last week Sony released a surprise three-quel PlayStation 3 — an even slimmer, lighter rendition of its six-year-old games console. It then dropped that into a new bundle, raised the price by $20 and declared it “the ultimate …
Mapping the insides of anything in real time is hard. Certainly harder than it looks in movies like The Dark Knight, where, near the end, a bat-suited Christian Bale dashes through a high-rise, taking out small squadrons of …
Sony’s PlayStation Network-related announcement on Tuesday about “Day 1” digital game downloads was both unexpected and inevitable.
Inevitable because digital storefronts are flourishing and putting significant pressure on …
Imagine the unthinkable: Sony’s next PlayStation, or whatever it’s ultimately called, arrives not next year and not the year after that, but sometime in 2015. Three years out — a lifetime in console years. Could you live …
To quote George Oscar Bluth, “I’ve made a huge mistake” — I chose to play Torchlight II at the maximum difficulty setting. That would be “elite” in Torchlight II parlance, intended for the very best players.
I’m not …
I lived near London, England for nearly two years. I now live roughly as near London, Ontario (yes, such a place exists) from my haunts in southeast Michigan. Apple Maps, Cupertino’s new substitute for Google Maps — which no …
Thanks to Kickstarter, Project Eternity is funded, and just like that, an isometric-era roleplaying game by three major “name” designers, responsible for some of the most well-thought-of RPGs in computer gaming history, will …
If you woke to the news yesterday morning wondering why Sony chose the Tokyo Game Show to out a new slimmer-than-slim PlayStation 3, well, just do the math: The PS3 outsells the Xbox 360 in Japan roughly six to one, whereas …
You know that scene in the film Contact where the “Machine” is spooling up, its three spinning rings kicking out crazy light and an electromagnetic field powerful enough to pitch nearby Navy battleships sideways, as Ellie (Jodie …