E3 trampled us underfoot today with these crushing news stories: -Microsoft puts the Zune out to pasture. -Square Enix shows its next-gen engine to rival Unreal 4. –New F-Zero game revealed inside NintendoLand. -Sony discusses the PlayStation 4. -Hideo Kojima hints at a new game series to focus on
There has always been an apocalyptic appeal to Call of Duty games, from the fire-lit night shootouts of the first game to the collapse of the Eiffel Tower in Modern Warfare 3. Seeing the edifices of modernity reduced to a smoldering aftermath answers a morbid “what if?” that we can never seem to get
video One of the key charms of Borderlands was its ability to visualize everything that was happening onscreen, from the satisfying blip of evaporating health points that appeared with every bullet strike to the colorful beacons of light that marked dropped loot after a firefight. The Borderlands 2
Shooters are so saturated in videogame culture that you can almost imagine how a whole game will play out based on a few short glances. A military shooter in a sand-swept Middle-Eastern city: this will be familiar turf for a lot of people. Spec Ops: The Line wants to unseat a lot of those predictabl
video Periodically the calls went out for Nintendo to build an actual theme park. Like Disneyland, fans craved a magical environment where Mario, Link, and Donkey Kong became incarnate creatures inhabiting the open spaces between roller coasters and gift shops. For its forthcoming Wii U console Nint
