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“The best part is poking around a little bit, seeing all of the comments and responses from people saying ‘I thought they already were part of Sony!’” Sucker Punch’s co-founder Chris Zimmerman joked during a phone interview aboutSony’s acquisition of the studio. “For us, it felt like we went from …

Rockstar has announced one last DLC hurrah for loyal fans of Red Dead Redemption’s online mode. The “Myths and Mavericks” pack is on track for a September release, and will unlock fan-favorite characters for online multiplayer, as well as new locations for matches. In a “show of appreciation for the …

Some games may have trained you to run head first, guns blazing into a situation, but sometimes you can get just as much done with words. Our newest video in a series of exclusive, behind-the-scenes vignettes explains how Deus Ex often gives players an option to solve their problems by …

For Gears 3, series creator Cliff Bleszinski has gone one up on the eminently-gameable skill-matching that traditionally – and roughly – eases players into the world of online chainsaw bayonets. The game features a “casual” multiplayer mode available only to those who’ve never played Gears online before. Likened by Bleszinski …

Winner: Shadows of the Damned Many in the Japanese games industry talk gloom and doom for their future, but if they’d all just shut up and make games as crazy, funny, action-packed, and unique asShadows of the Damned (opens in new tab), everything would be fine. Headed up by the …

How do you like your gun-swinging, high-kicking witch protagonists to look?Happy witha figure-hugging catsuit made of hair that drops off a second’s notice? Or would you prefer a big set of sci-fi boots and a long coat? Or maybe something more akin to a Steampunk Harley Quinn would be more …

All gamers are carnivores and savages. Oh sure, some of us rarely eat meat in real life, but when we’re in a game, the thing we most want to see is our enemies turned into meat, the more rare and bloody the better. There’s something almost primal about seeing your …

Hey, videogames are a visual medium. Therefore, graphics are part of the package. How large a part they play is one of those things gamers will argue about for hours, withlots ofphrases like”graphics whore”, “frames per second”, “gameplay first”, and “realism vs art” thrown about. We say don’t overcomplicate things …

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We’re not so sure Deus Ex: Human Revolution should have been on the show floor. E3 is rock concert loud, and it’s hard to concentrate for any amount of time on tasks that require any amount of cerebral thinking. Usually, developers choose a section of their game that works well …