The famed composer behind Journey, Sword of the Sea, and The Banner Saga reveals he'd been working on the canceled Mass Effect's soundtrack in the wake of BioWare's closure.
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.
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.
Backed up by a fun campaign, thrilling multiplayer, and loads of new modes and content, Modern Warfare 4 serves as a solid sendoff for the rebooted subseries.
Tenebris Somnia's effective blend of classic adventure game design and live-action filmmaking results in a captivating, spooky, and well-crafted adventure.
In a recent earnings call, Electronic Arts COO
John Schappert touched on the company's view of 3D gaming. It's not as
rosy as all the television manufacturers would like.
2K Sports and Visual Concepts found a new recipe for raking in cash
money: Build around the greatest basketball player of all time, and have your
rival bow out of the competition.
Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello reassured investors in clear terms
on a conference call yesterday. "At half a million subscribers, the game
is substantially profitable," he said.
UPDATE: More news has come out about EA's last financial quarter,
including the fact that Madden NFL 11, FIFA 11, and Battlefield: Bad
Company 2 all sold over five million units.
A lot of developers and publishers create limited edition swag to
help advertise their games, but rarely is the final product as cool as
what THQ and Double Fine cooked up for its upcoming XBLA adventure game
Stacking.
According to a WhoIs profile search, Microsoft bought the rights to the
website KinectHalo.com. Does this mean the next Halo will be motion
controlled?
Thanks to the Bethesda Blog Twitter account,
I was reminded that developer id Software was founded exactly 20 years
ago today. I decided we should not only wish them happy birthday but
celebrate with some memories.
Like most of you, my first question about any hardware is: "What does
it cost?" Sony's not revealing that yet about the NGP, and I have a bad feeling about
that.
Video game streaming service OnLive has launched its
Netflix Instant Watch-esque subscription service, giving gamers
access to a 38 games for a flat monthly fee.
The last time I had this much stupid fun blowing things up in a video
game was years ago with Painkiller. My time with Magicka was cut short
before I'd had my fill of its flexible combat system, though, and not
because of any impending deadline.
THQ-owned developer Relic Entertainment put up the word on its official
site this morning: The plug is being pulled on Company of Heroes Online
before it even releases.
Who wants to play video games when you can read them instead? Lucky for
us English majors in the audience, one of the most well-loved games of
last generation will soon be available in novel form.
