Minecraft, the game championed worldwide as Lego’s for grown-ups. An endless sandbox of worlds to create, skins to download, and pigs to ride. Affinity runs deep amongst Minecraft aficionados who wow with their sheer brilliance (I’m looking at you, Circleight) and the more amateur novices, like myself, who feel successful if they kill a spider [...]
Articles By: Becca Gray
The Second String Gamble: Can Baird Carry GoW: Judgment?
Spin-offs are dangerous territory. With predominantly low success rates across the board, the highlighted trials and tribulations of supporting casts-turned-protagonists have never seemed to be enough in the entertainment world. And it makes sense. They’re called “support” characters for a reason. Their job is to help carry the emotional conflicts of the heroes and story, [...]
Remember Me First Look
The mind, often touted as the last great frontier, has always been a hallmark setting for the science fiction genre – how to control it, how to alter it. The possibility of someone losing their free will and cognizance to an outside force sets up a powerful, emotional conflict, and French game developer, Dontnod Entertainment [...]
Five Horror Franchises (and Games) We Really Miss
I read recently that Haruna Anno, a Japanese mega-star in retro gaming, was disappointed in Resident Evil 6. She thought the Resident Evil series overall had lost its way and its roots of survival-horror in between the 90′s and now. I – and if the number of negative reviews is any barometer, many others — [...]
Metal Gear Solid Fans, Rejoice!
Metal Gear fans have it pretty sweet. Not only is Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance due for a Q1 release next year, but Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes was announced and confirmed at PAX as the prologue to a future Metal Gear Solid 5. Can you say “winner?” Even more recently, Kojima Productions (somewhat infamous for [...]
Battlefield 3: Armored Kill DLC Coming in September
FPS fans with a taste for vehicular slaughter should start shopping for Cloud 9 real estate. Battlefield 3 is adding the third of five new DLC packages to its arsenal this September called Armored Kill. Focusing squarely on tanks and other heavy armor vehicles and boasting “the biggest battle map in Battlefield history,” Armored Kill [...]
The Sims 3: Supernatural
The Sims 3, the third rendition of one of the most popular reality simulators, is releasing its newest expansion pack this September titled Supernatural, and players can expect a healthy dose of fresh characters and items even Agent Mulder would have a hard time rationalizing. So, puppet masters, it’s that time again. Time to raise [...]
Dead Space 3 Preview
At some point, you just have to feel bad for Issac Clarke. His girlfriend’s dead, as are his crew mates. He’s lost his memory and, on occasion, his sanity. He’s crash-landed everywhere. The man even had to stick a surgical needle in his own eye. Add to the fact that secretive government factions and Unitology [...]
Games You Missed: The Saboteur (Xbox 360)
I’d never heard of Pandemic’s 2009 release The Saboteur, and when I found it for $17, I picked it up. Why not? There’s nothing too tempting out at the moment, and you get to kill Nazis. That’s fun, right? So without expectations, I loaded her up, and for the first time in a game, I [...]
NBA 2K13 is Kinect Ready
2K Sports‘ newest edition to the NBA simulation franchise, NBA 2K13, is already aiming to be the next big game. The box art, recently released on Amazon.com, announces Jay-Z as, oh you know, the executive producer and soundtrack designer. The game will also be Xbox 360 Kinect Ready. Whether this means the game will function [...]
