Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon is one of the most enticing downloadables of recent memory. Using the Far Cry 3 engine and title to leverage a stand-alone piece of insane content that feels much more like a full-fledged game than most downloads. In truth, the deciding factor for whether or not you should play Blood Dragon is how much you can relate to the new theme.
Without reaching beyond the surface, Thomas Was Alone is simply a minimalistic puzzle platformer. Originally released in July 2011 on the PC and Mac, Mike Bithell along with Bossa Studios have brought this indie hit to the PS3 and the PS Vita, featuring the “Cross-Buy” feature. In Thomas Was Alone, as with any platformer, the mantra is ‘up and to the right’. It’s such a simple concept, but with the help of a multitude of polygonal friends, and narrator Danny Wallace, this [...]
The developers at Tecmo Koei will be repackaging their 2012 fighter Dead or Alive 5 one more time in the form of Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, coming this Fall. It will include new modes and features introduced in Dead or Alive 5 Plus, or DOA5+ for the PlayStation Vita, including a tutorial mode, Camera Mode, being able to save replay footage, and new character Mila and Rig. Also included in the new [...]
One thing about going back and replaying classic games from a decade or so ago is that the graphics are rarely as good as you remember them. What’s nice about HD remastered versions of these games however is that you can revisit the memories of playing PS2 games from back in the day (you know, back when you were in your late 20s), without having to deal with blurry textures, spotty frame rates, and muted colors. In the case of [...]
I think Tomb Raider 2 was the first game I ever played. It was either that or Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee, but being the (slightly) less scary of the two, it was Tomb Raider that stuck around. We were a great team, Lara and me, and I’d spend hours sitting on the floor in front of the TV, the cogs and gears inside my infantile mind ticking away while solving the puzzles. Lara was a pretty great companion for a kid [...]
As far as over the top games are considered, the Saints Row series continues to not only set the bar, but break it over the closest living things head in spectacular style. The franchise can basically do what ever it wants and this trailer titled Meet the President delivers this message quite clearly. The gameplay looks like that of Crackdown infused with a WWE flavor and, of course, Saints Row’s patented humor. It seems to be coming along nicely and is set for [...]
Much like Ezio having to relive a memory in the Animus, it feels like history is repeating itself once again. Patrice Desilets, the game designer best known for creating the Assassin’s Creed series, has left Ubisoft after a brief reunion brought about by the publisher’s acquisition of THQ in January. Desilets quit Ubisoft back in 2010 for THQ, and ended up back there, no doubt leading to him feeling this way. This news is all very sudden, and each party [...]
Everyone’s favorite platform-hopping, Disney-nostalgia-inducing game series is coming out with an HD Collection for the PS3, now available for pre-order. With Kingdom Hearts: HD 1.5 Remix, Square Enix is offering players the opportunity to experience some of the games they may not have had a chance to play before. After all, in order to have played all of the Kingdom Hearts games, you would have needed a console and 4 different handhelds. The collection will include Kingdom Hearts Final Mix (previously exclusive to Japan) and Kingdom [...]
May 6th is a day of celebrations. Not only is it my wedding anniversary, but today is also the 10th anniversary of the launch of EVE Online. EVE is a game that not a ton of people play due to its incredibly complex mechanics, but it is easily one of the most fascinating MMOs out there. It runs on a single server cluster, which means everybody in-game is playing in one persistent sandbox and fighting over the same resources. What [...]
Need more sci-fi puzzlers in your life? Don’t worry, Magrunner: Dark Pulse has you covered. The game follows Dax, one of seven young geniuses enrolled in the Magtech deep space exploration training program. The kicker? You’ve got a glove that magnetically charges objects. By assigning colors, and thus polarities, to various objects, players must move through test chambers that promise to test both their minds and their reflexes. The trailer released by Focus Interactive today briefly lets us see this game mechanic in [...]
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