Did you know the first two Die Hard movies were based on pre-existing novels? Or that eight videogames based on the Die Hard franchise have been released? Or that Al Powell once showed up on an episode of Chuck?! If not, settle in, as we’re going to take you through the inspirations for and spinoffs [...]
This review is a bit late, yes. Although it was because, in truth, I simply can’t stop playing this game. As I said in my demo impressions a couple months back, there has been no shortage of controversy surrounding Capcom’s reboot of their groundbreaking Stylish Hard Action series, Devil May Cry. A graphics engine that [...]
Platinum Games has finally shown off a bit of the Nintendo Wii-U exclusive Bayonetta 2, which is already looking pretty good even in development form. The director on the first, Hideki Kamiya, has taken the role of supervising producer on the sequel while Yusuke Hashimoto, producer of the original game, takes over the reins as [...]
After playing the demo for Visceral Games’ highly anticipated Dead Space 3 last night and getting some hands-on time with both the single player and co-op components of it, I can say with great relief that Dead Space 3 is still as scary and intense as ever, if the bit I got to experience was [...]
I’ve always liked puzzles. Growing up I was constantly buying various types of Rubik’s Cube-esque contraptions to fiddle with. I remember, as a teen, being at the house of some friends of my parents’. They had this little plastic puzzle. It was four interconnected cubes with a big red ball trapped inside one of them. [...]
There are bigger and tougher and deadlier animals than the Komodo dragon in Ubisoft’s jungle-island shooter Far Cry 3, but it’s the dragon I continue to hear in my head after I shut the game off for the night. It’s that hiss. That horrible, horrible hiss. It’s the stuff of nightmares. When you hear it, [...]
The demo for Capcom’s reboot/reimagining of its beloved Devil May Cry franchise has finally arrived, and I’m trying to remember the last time I was so anxious for a demo to release. It was probably when Konami announced that Metal Gear Solid 2′s demo would be packaged with Zone of the Enders. Regardless, it’s fair [...]
The most important thing for a videogame to be is fun. It’s job one. Borderlands 2, Gearbox’s insane, loot-happy FPS, is unquestionably a lot of fun. I’ve been playing nonstop for a few weeks and haven’t yet tired of shooting crazed desert bandits in the face with a myriad of outlandish weapons. And yet I [...]
Dear Capcom, We’ve had a relationship, your company and I, for well near three decades now. The Capcom brand has always synonymous with a quality gaming experience for me. Ghosts’n Goblins, Street Fighter, Speed Rumbler, Commando, Gunsmoke, 1942, Bionic Commando, Mercs, Captain Commando, Section Z, Strider … and that’s just naming the obvious ones. Capcom [...]
I doubt it was an accident that BioWare made Dragon Age III: Inquisition official on Monday. They probably wanted to build up a little bit of goodwill before the next bit of company news broke a day later, when BioWare founders Ray Muzkya and Greg Zeschuk both wrote blog posts announcing their retirement from the [...]
E3 kicked off today in Los Angeles, and it was all Halo … blah, blah … Call of Duty … blah, blah … insert your favorite over-hyped, overdone franchise here. But halfway through Microsoft’s Xbox presser, Matt Stone and Trey Parker came out to showcase Obsidian’s upcoming South Park RPG The Stick of Truth, which [...]
Warning: Massive Mass Effect 3 spoilers follow. Do not read until you’ve completed the game. Up until finishing Mass Effect 3 a few days ago, I mostly stayed away from discussion over its much-maligned ending. I had read enough headlines to be aware of the controversy, but I wanted to head into the game’s final [...]
