It was a long weekend for one Mr. Cliff Bleszinski. When the planned reveal of two major video games got bumped by the shifting sands of late night talk show booking, the design director for Epic Games found himself with a whole weekend in Manhattan. Over the weekend, he caught a Broadway show with his girlfriend Lauren, went to Morimoto …
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The Forecast Calls For Death: Epic Games and EA Unleash Bulletstorm
So, hear anything about Epic Games this weekend? The House That Gears of War Built had its secrecy spoiled by a flurry of leaks, but it’s finally been confirmed that they’ll be co-publishing Bulletstorm with Electronic Arts. The sci-fi FPS is being developed by People Can Fly, the Polish dev studio responsible for Painkiller. …
Thief of All Ways: Mass Effect 2 Kasumi DLC Review
According to Bioware exec and Project Lead Director for Mass Effect 2 Casey Hudson, there’s a lot of downloadable content coming for Mass Effect 2. That brings up a question: how do you evaluate DLC for a game like it? I’m not talking about whether it’s objectively good or bad. When I reviewed the free Firewalker pack, I found it …
Don’t F.E.A.R. The Threequel: Horror FPS Gets New Installment
FPS fanatics should get ready to get freaked out all over again when another dose of F.E.A.R. hits consoles and PCs later this year. Warner Bros. Games announced the threequel to the scare-centric first-person shooting franchise with the trailer on the game’s official site. The F.E.A.R. series originated with the Monolith development …
“I Want to Be a Part of It…”: Crysis 2 Comes to Consoles
Every gamer or tech enthusiast knows Crysis. Owning a PC that could run the futuristic military sci-fi first-person-shooter became one of those mythical achievements that separated mere mortals from would-be gaming gods. The game’s sizzling visuals and technical brilliance served as a double-edged sword, though, one that saw Crysis …
Batman: Arkham Asylum Goes 3D For Game of the Year Edition
Batman: Arkham Asylum was one of my favorite games of last year. It broke a string of really bad Bat-games by boiling down the core elements of Batman into really enjoyable gameplay mechanics and delivering top shelf visuals and vocal performances. The great story by Paul Dini didn’t hurt either.
So what would make all that better? …
How the West Was Won: Red Dead Redemption Hands-On
Video game westerns tend to be weird beasts. Games like Call of Juarez or Gun tend to focus on the gunfighting aspects of the cowboy genre, which is a natural fit. But this fixation on shooting winds up making them feel generic, like every other weapon-based combat game dressed up in a ten-galloon hat.
Red Dead Redemption won’t feel …
Two More Members of Infinity Ward Go AWOL
According to Kotaku last night, the development studio responsible for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has apparently seen the exodus of two more members. Lead Designer Todd Alderman and Lead Software Engineer Francesco Gigliotti appear to be no longer working at Infinity Ward, if the screen caps from LinkedIn are accurate. Alderman’s …
Mako the Best of It: Mass Effect 2 Firewalker DLC review
Players of the first Mass Effect will remember the Mako. It was the deeply flawed wheeled personnel vehicle from ME1. People hated that thing and it’s easy to see why. The Mako jumped like a three-legged dog trying to snatch a biscuit it didn’t really want. Lining up targets with the transport’s guns was scream-inducing, since …
Paperboy: A Fistful of Newsprint coming exclusively for Playstation Move
Lot of old-school gamers will remember Paperboy in its original iteration, which was an arcade cabinet with a unique handlebar controller. A few updates have come out in the modern era but none have been able match the physicality of tilting and steering of the arcade version.
Until now.
Get ready to dodge those crazy poodles, …
First Look at Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions
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Details are starting to emerge about this year’s Spider-Man game and it looks like it’ll be a stark visual departure from Activision’s most recent web-slinging games. Actually, make that several visual departures. Shattered Dimensions looks like it’ll feature some reality-hopping elements, …
The Loadout for March 30, 2010: New Games to Attack the Week With
Welcome to the Loadout. Our philosophy is that the working week is a recurring boss battle that you’ll need the proper weapons to take down. The supplies at hand won’t always be pretty but you might just be able to hold out until the weekend. Green means add it to your arsenal, yellow leaves it up to your discretion and red means …