Category: Previews
Pretend is a comfortable setting for video games. The light-hearted silliness endemic to interactive media (see the "Halo Hump," friendly fire) muddles efforts by game designers to add "realism," cramming more pixels into alien facial textures and apocalypse scenario explosions…. Read More »
Sony was the second of the "Big Three" to hold its press conference, and here is a rundown of what happened during the presentation. Things started off with a fairly lengthy preview video showcasing various games including Uncharted 3 and… Read More »
With E3 around the corner, the usual bouts of speculatory news stories are rife. Launch titles are always a fantastic way of generating hype, none so much as the NGP/Vita/PSP2’s. The following list is being marked as "rumour" even though… Read More »
Developer Naughty Dog announced last month that an Uncharted 3 multiplayer beta would be coming soon, and now the company is revealing specific details regarding the upcoming preview. In total nine different multiplayer modes will be available, including Team Deathmatch,… Read More »
In addition to our hands-on time with Red Faction: Armageddon‘s multiplayer modes, THQ and Volition also recently afforded GamerNode ample hands-on time with the game’s single-player campaign. Armageddon follows different design philosophies than its predecessors, opting to provide players with… Read More »
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 »