Gears of War: E-Day innovates in all the right ways while keeping the core and heart of the franchise intact, stamping the series’ return with one of, if not its best, entries to date.
There are terrible bad games that you should avoid at all costs, mediocre bad games that disappear from your memory when they leave your field of view, and then there is the difficult-to-define good bad game.
We traveled to Chengdu, China, to check out Eclipse Glow Games’ debut game, Tides of Annihilation, and talk with the team about mixing Chinese action with the Legend of King Arthur.
Gears of War: E-Day innovates in all the right ways while keeping the core and heart of the franchise intact, stamping the series’ return with one of, if not its best, entries to date.
With the holidays behind us, welcome to the first episode of Blog Herding for 2013, a weekly feature designed to highlight a collection of noteworthy blogs and user reviews submitted by the Game Informer Online community over the past week.
An art student recently put a pinball machine to work making modern
art. If cats can do it, why not pinball machines. Jackson Pollock eat
your heart out.
BioWare recently made Star Wars: The Old Republic free-to-play, but
the company isn't done with the MMO. The game will soon be getting new
operations, flashpoints, difficulty modes, player-versus-player areas,
and same sex sex.
Who's cooler than a band's lead guitarist? Certainly not the singer. Maybe that's
why Activision's Sing Hero never made it past the early development
stages.
The Walking Dead is at the top of it's game right now, but
Activision's upcoming FPS based on the AMC television show doesn't look
like it will stand up to the franchise's usual level of quality.
The Walking Dead is at the top of it's game right now, but
Activision's upcoming FPS based on the AMC television show doesn't look
like it will stand up to the franchise's usual level of quality.
The next Lego game won't be based on an outside license, but on on
Lego's own brand of fantasy-themed Chima sets. It also won't be one
game, but three!
Nintendo Buddha, Shigeru Miyamoto said that he didn't like the design
choices made during Pikmin 2, and that the third entry will be more in
line with the first Pikmin game.
Start the New Year off right. Go eat a whole pizza, take a five hour
nap, and then watch this Zelda-inspired animated short entitled Link’s
Triumph. Now it's time to go back to work playing video games; you can't
slack off all year.
If you are the kind of gamer that likes to wait a year or two to buy
your sports games then you might want to know that EA will soon be
shutting down it's online servers for many of the games it released a
couple years ago.
Ubisoft has been on a push to turn many of its properties into big budget films. Splinter Cell, Assassins' Creed, and Watch Dogs are all in various degrees of development, but Ubisoft isn't stopping there; next up on the list is Ghost Recon.
The sequel to Runic Games popular Action/RPG Torchlight easliy rivaled Blizzard's Diablo III, but considering how well Torchlight 2 sold, many of you already know that.
Fez was one of our favorite indie
games of the year, but if you don't have an Xbox 360 then you probably
haven't had access to it. That changes next year.
