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 [...]
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 [...]
Today, Rockstar released a trio of trailers for the much-delayed GTA V, following their traditional style of focusing on characters and context over gameplay. Giving snippets of each of the three playable characters, it’s clear that each of the three are hugely different people from very contrasted areas of Los Santos. From the top, we have: Michael, a man rich in everything but human companionship, Franklin, a gangbanger whose background is reminiscent of 2004’s San Andreas, and Trevor, a shameless, [...]
Update: Since this story broke, Comixology’s site has been flooded with people trying to download the free issues. For the most part, people haven’t been successful because of the immense strain the servers have been under. In response, Comixology’s CEO, David Steinberger, released this statement earlier today: “…we’re pausing the Marvel Comics #1 promotion for the time being. For those of you that want to take advantage of the offer – you will get your comics! Until we are able to reinstate this [...]
If you’re as old as I am, you remember PC gaming as the only real gaming a person could do in the early 90′s. Games were developed for the PC first and ported to consoles last. PCs had the power to play and later on, the internet well before any console could figure it out. LAN parties were a thing that happened and game mods were awesome things that developers didn’t include on the game disc and charged you $15 [...]
To celebrate the porting of steam games to linux, Steam is holding a celebration sale for a variety of games. Here are some of the deals: Amnesia: The Dark Descent: 75% off- $5.00 Spacechem: 50% off- $4.99 Trine 2: 75% off- $3.74 Killing Floor: 66% off- $6.80 Bastion: 75% off- $3.74 Crusader King II: 75% off- $9.99 These are only some of a sweet deals available until the 21st. Check them out!
Playfire and Green Man Gaming are sweet enough to give out four totally free PC games available for download, as long as you’re signed up for both sites and link them together, like so. From February 8th to the 11th, there will be one game made downloadable at no charge for 24 hours, so be sure to check every day, otherwise you might miss out on the others. It should also be noted that these are not Steam keys; they [...]
Every once in a while, an indie game developer comes around, leaves us a lovely little puzzle-adventure game on our doorsteps, and hides in the bushes to watch our reactions. The best games in this genre leave us with a comfortable blend of wonder and anguish. If that’s exactly what you have been itching for lately, a certain new title may just be the solution. Alexander Bruce brings us Antichamber, a brand new contender in the genre, a game that [...]
25 years of lore, adventure, nostalgia, and green tunics have been packed together into a single volume known as The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia. Nintendo has compiled truckloads of concept art and information as well as the long-anticipated and speculated series timeline and served it in the form a beautiful hardcover book, sure to make most hardcore Zelda fans clawshot their way into unbridled gamer bliss. Decades in the making, find out if Hyrule Historia is worthy of your [...]
SouthingtonSOS, a group stationed in Southington, Connecticut had previously organized a drive to collect and incinerate all forms of violent media, specifically video games, in their town. As of recently, however, they have claimed that the program, deemed Violent Video Game Return, is no longer necessary. There was a lot of outcry from the outside public and experts toward their original plan, claiming it would do more harm than good. John Myers, the chairman of the Southington YMCA shared a [...]
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