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Stop the presses! Unearthed: Trail of Ibn Battuta is an unbelievable Uncharted copycat from Saudi Arabia
The internet is a source of limitless amazement, as evidenced in this new trailer for Unearthed: Trail of Ibn Battuta, an Arabic developed knock-off of the Uncharted series, which has surfaced on Steam Greenlight. If you think the game’s treasure-hunting protagonist Faris Jawad looks familiar, you’r
Gunman Clive returns the western, and shooter, to the small screen
Last summer, Brainy Gamer himself Michael Abbott compared the first-person shooters of today to the Westerns of the late 50s. Each surged in popularity that sustained for over a decade; each eventually saturated the market with washed-out, predictable versions of each other, until the public moved o
We await the coming of the Michelangelo of code
We’re all in agreement here that videogames are a form of art, right there with hip-hop and architecture and the animated GIF, but what about code, that intangible string of 1’s and 0’s running in the background, managing the possibilities for interaction with the structure of a game. Could that too
Why Final Fantasy: All the Bravest isn’t the portent of doom you think it is.
Final Fantasy All the Bravest released for iOS last week. The game is a boiled-down experience of nothing but RPG combat. If turn-based battles were your favorite part of Final Fantasy but the story, relationships, exploration and sense of adventure got in the way… here’s your game. Our old editor J
Kevin Bacon and the wrong way to show violence on-screen
David Bianculli is the propreitor of TV Worth Watching and is the tv critic for NPR’s Fresh Air. He was generally pretty pessimistic about the lack of creativity in 2012 and 2013 isn’t off to a better start. While reviewing The Following, a new crime drama starring Kevin Bacon on the trail of a seri
Want to know what the inside of Far Cry 3’s world looks like? We took a closer look.
A couple weeks ago, I headed up to Montreal, where it was colder than Hoth, to look beneath the hood of Far Cry 3. For each of the Kill Screen episodes on Creators Project, we’ve picked a specific angle for the game to hone in on. In this case, we looked at what it means to build a virtual world, sp
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