Category: Previews
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 »
The Behemoth has remained relatively quiet about their latest project, BattleBlock Theater, since its announcement last year, but the twelve-person studio arrived at PAX East 2011 with plenty to show. Six hand-made arcade cabinets, two of which featured DLC for… Read More »
One of the most recent achievement lists to hit the Net delivers plenty of the expected and a little surprise. Given the list, Homefront looks to supply gamers with all the military action of other modern AAA shooters but only… Read More »
The battle is raging in furious chaos. Soldiers are dropping left and right. My team and I are trying to hold on to the objective points to win the battle. Our enemies had fought back our previous advance and now… Read More »
Destruction. That’s one word that just about sums up what made Red Faction: Guerilla entertaining. If you came across a structure filled with enemies, the answer was to just whip out your biggest toys and blow the whole place to… Read More »
A game starring Russian stacking dolls sounds like a bizarre, absurd, and downright ludicrous idea at first. Old, outdated toys that haven’t been in mainstream demand for nearly a century would not be anywhere near most people’s top 50 ideas… Read More »
