Most world-strategy games involve the global marshaling of massive military forces – think Risk. Now, just in time for a presidential election that may well be won by a champion of unfettered global capitalism, comes a strategy game for our time, one that you win, literally, by having more money in
In a recent interview with Edge Magazine about the making of Assassin’s Creed 3, lead developer Alex Hutchinson made his feelings known on the inclusion in games of difficulty modes meant for casual players: “A lot of games have been ruined by easy modes,” he asserts. “If you have a cover shooter an
Noteworthy developments in the worlds of gaming, gathered from Kill Screen stringers embedded in hotspots around the universe. -The various races of the failed state Tyria signed a landmark ceasefire Monday. The humans, the norn, and the asura agreed that their decades of squabbling had distracted t
In the final installment of this four-part series, Joseph Bernstein attempts to deal with review scores in the age of Metacritic. When did fun factor stop being a factor, and why is it so depressing to argue with numbers?
