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After watching the new trailers for Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy 13 and Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2, I’m cautiously optimistic for both of these big sequels. But, holy hell, do they have some melodramatic dialogue. Which one’s worse? Be the judge for yourself, but it’s a mighty close contest,
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If Grand Theft Auto 5 says one thing about games, it’s that guns and cars still rule. But if it says something else, it’s that virtual worlds are beautiful, lifelike, and huge. Take a scenic cruise past the Vinewood sign through the hills and into the countryside and the immensity will soon dawn on
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I’m having trouble looking away from this YouTube video of every single NES start screen (and Famicom game?) played back-to-back from The 3D Battles of World Runner to Zombie Nation. Why am I still watching it, twenty minutes in? I don’t know, but it has the same strange appeal as watching the movie
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There are multiple reasons to pay attention to musical artist EMA. She writes intense, noisy, industrial ballads. Her previous album Past Life Martyred Saints was one of the best albums of 2011. And in the video for Satellites, the first single on her upcoming album, she travels to a desensitized an
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We all believe the Internet is great. But according to Pope Francis, it may be divine. In a statement released today, the outspoken Pope called the internet a “gift from God,” continuing to prove his mettle as a progressive thinker. The pontiff has previously expressed openminded views towards homo
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It’s been pretty widely covered that, between now and the 27th, Jason Rohrer is giving away free money, $3000 to be exact, to players of The Castle Doctrine, his MMO about stealing from others while protecting your own home from burglary. This is a lot of money for Rohrer, who once practiced simple
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The ongoing saga of Capcom’s fickle business model continues, as the giant Japanese publisher plans to bulk its in-house talent by hiring a staggering extra 100 people in software development a year, at least until they come up with a likely far-worse idea. This should give them a sizable army to m
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I once went rappelling with my uncle. OK, that’s a lie. But if I had it would make a good conversation starter for A Story About My Uncle, which was announced for Steam yesterday. The game about first-person jumping through a forest with the assistance a glowing, mystical grappling device started ou
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Is this thing even funny? Is that the point? Since when is my phone capable of eyeball detection? Is there something wrong with my left eyeball, since the left eyeball reticle isn’t moving? Has my Bell’s palsy came back? Why afterwards am I shown a clandestine photo taken of me while I was looking s
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The word around the Internet is that there have been some seedy deals going down on YouTube channels, with major players directly or indirectly paying content providers to promote their gaming products. Specifically, Microsoft paid one of their partners, Machinima, who in turn paid YouTubers a lousy
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Daniel Benmergui has been working on Storyteller—his critically acclaimed, experimental, narrative-generating puzzle game (phew!)—for a long time. As we detailed in an in-depth feature on him at the end of last year, it’s his passion project, and a rallying cry for videogame developers in Latin Amer
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When it comes to big open-world games, size matters. That’s why we typically don’t see on Kickstarter games with the span of Kingdom Come: Deliverance, the medieval open-world RPG that will feature around thirty hours and 3.5 square miles of horseback riding, crusades, smithing, and historical slaug