Violence, sex, race, religion.
Certainly controversial topics on their own, but perhaps even moreso when they’re depicted in a video game.
Techland’s seemingly never-ending list features (we totally admit it) continue as we look at the most controversial games of the 2000s.
Though video games have been around for quite a while, …
Video game screenshots are a dime a dozen, and they’re used as carefully parsed-out marketing tools for video game PR.
Instead of posting every screenshot we get, we decided to look at a few of the ones released every week and, in the spirit of box art reviews, make fun of them give our commentary or try to guess what’s happening …
Hello Techland Readers-
Hope this finds you well. In the spirit of holiday fun and other shenanigans, we’ve teamed up with the Xbox team to bring you two chances to win an Xbox 360 Elite Holiday Bundle that includes – you guessed it – an Elite Xbox 360, one wireless controller, headset and copies of Lego Batman and Pure.
We have …
It’s new comic book day! And not just for retail stores.
Today Sony is launching their new digital comic book service for the PSP. Comic book readers around the globe who own PSPs can purchase, download and read comics directly on their handheld gaming device. For now, just Marvel and Disney comics are available (no DC yet), but North …
StarDefense is a twist on the classic desktop tower defense game: it restages the combat in three dimensions instead of two. In StarDefense you’re not defending a plane, you’re fighting on the surface of a sphere — a tiny little-prince-style planetoid.
Tower defense isn’t a genre that really needed much twisting. Put an IV in my arm, …
With the news that Green Day would be getting their own Rock Band game a la The Beatles, that made us wonder… what other muscians should get the Rock Band or Guitar Hero treatment?
In addition to The Beatles: Rock Band, we’ve gotten Guitar Hero: Aerosmith, Guitar Hero: Metallica, Guitar Hero: Van Halen (out next week) as well as a …
Today Valve announced the first downloadable content for Left 4 Dead 2.
And if you thought just four characters were loquacious for a game about killing zombies, now we’re getting eight characters all at once. The add-on, called “The Passing,” takes place after Left 4 Dead 2‘s Dead Center campaign, which will have players encounter …
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves may have won the top kudos of the night at Spike’s annual video game award show over the weekend, but the televised event also had a lot of buzz surrounding all the new game trailers and announcements.
Since we couldn’t make it over to Los Angeles for the geek-filled gala, we decided to give out our own …
I dread the day when all video games will only be available via digital distribution, and there will no longer be box art. But until then, I will continue to judge video games by their covers.
Without further ado, here are this week’s box art reviews…
Safe Cracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Challenge! (DS)
What’s on the Box: The front …
I don’t want to talk about geoSpark yet. I want to talk about Doodle Jump for a second. Hear me out.
Doodle Jump is an awesome little app. You play a little Qbert-like jumping beastie. He jumps. He jumps up a series of platforms. Sometimes the platforms move. Sometimes they have springy things on them that sproing him upward, or a …
FULL LIST: Techland’s top video games of the 2000s.
It’s not easy to go back through 10 years of gaming and choose just 10 titles to represent the best video games of the decade. (See the other “best of the decade” lists here).
Especially since Lev, Peter and I have different tastes; we went back and forth on games we personally …
Two things that are hot right now: vampires and Facebook games. So it was only a matter of time before some company took advantage of these trends. That’s where City of Eternals comes in (try it now).
Made by San Francisco-based developer ohai, City of Eternals is a massively multiplayer online game set in a world of modern vampires …
