Category: Previews
THQ and Relic Entertainment recently invited GamerNode to have our first in-depth look at the newest videogame adaptation of the popular Warhammer 40,000 tabletop war game. Unlike previous Relic efforts, however, which focused more on the strategy environment from which… Read More »
To say that The Darkness II, sequel to 2007’s comic-book game The Darkness, is gruesome and gory is a bit of an understatement. The upcoming first-person shooter by 2K Games and Digital Extremes is both of those things, but it… Read More »
Red Faction: Armageddon is a departure from previous games in the franchise in a number of ways. Not only is the single-player campaign more linear and carefully directed, with a greater emphasis on its central narrative, but this fourth entry… Read More »
Red Faction: Guerilla had Wrecking Crew and Armageddon has Ruin mode. If the name doesn’t tip you off, Ruin is all about destruction, arguably the best feature of the next-gen Red Faction titles. Giant smokestack next to a laboratory? Toppled…. Read More »
L.A. Noire is set to come out in about a month-and-a-half and it’s shaping up to be a great game. Now it looks like the film industry is also recognizing the upcoming title. In a press release from Rockstar Games,… Read More »
When Guild Wars was first released in 2005, it brought with it some revolutionary concepts and ideas to the MMO genre. No monthly subscription fees or mandatory micro-transactions, only a limited amount of skills to be used in combat as… Read More »
Games that oscillate between 2D and 3D perspectives are old news. Super Paper Mario? Turned there. Lost in Shadow? Flipped that. So what does Polytron and Trapdoor’s upcoming downloadable title FEZ offer that hasn’t been done before? It’s seamless. Imagine… Read More »
One man uses his genius to protect, the other to destroy — it’s the old trope of heroic struggle from any age, place, or reality. Double Fine has adapted the classic battle for their latest project, a downloadable title called… Read More »
Maturity is a familiar word in the videogame industry. Its root, mature, has its own rating level in the ESRB. Most "maturity" found in games showcases sex, graphic violence, and explicit language. In many of these situations these things aren’t… Read More »
Imagine a truncated, more adorable version of the Wiggler from the Mario Bros. series. Sound sweet? Now give him the ability to phase short distances through walls, barrels, and other inanimate objects. Still cute? Now imagine that the little bug… Read More »