For a game ostensibly about cooperative play, Hunted: The Demon’s Forge never capitalizes on its own premise – two fantasy badasses working together to slaughter hordes of monsters. The basic ingredients are there: Caddoc, the cautious but beefy human, is melee oriented while (sigh) sexy female elf E’lara plies her …
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During the Sony press conference on Monday, Nathan Drake made a literal splash as Naughty Dog unveiled a previously unseen cruise-ship level for Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception. The level looked great, showing off a good mixture of stealth, furious gunplay (now with a close-quarters kill in which Drake pulled the …
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Pssst.Hey, how are youdoing? Yeah, you.We hear you’re looking for agaming podcast. Well we’ve got one here and it’s a bloody beauty. One ofa kind style shit. Interested?Why are we acting so secretive?Erm, no idea. But our mysteriousstance has built up a swell ofintrigue inside you that will only be …
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Game: Star Wars: Republic Commando Song: Vode An Composer: Jesse Harlin Vode An (Brothers All) is the title screen music for the criminally underlooked Star Wars FPS Republic Commando. To me, it is an extremely well done war chant that captures the spirit of brotherhood and camaraderie pervasive throughout the …
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Gears of War: The Board Game is the brainchild of tabletop designer Corey Konieczka, whose previous works include board game versions of Battlestar Galactica, StarCraft and Lord of the Rings (aka Middle-Earth). His latest creation based on Epic Games’s third-person shooter is advertised as a “cooperative board game of fierce …
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Shadows of the Damned may be the bizarre love child of the creators of Resident Evil, No More Heroes, and Silent Hill, but it’s the over the comedy that stands out most when you play it. Everything is a little off, if not completely insane, and that includes Johnson, a …
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Guys. Guys. I don’t want to jump the gun and make a bunch of preemptive, hyperbolic statements, but I think Shadows of the Damned is going to be one of the coolest, craziest games of the summer. We’ve got a preview build in the office and in just the first …
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After months of rumors and leaks that all but confirmed the existence of a new Hitman game, IO Interactive and Square Enix made it official today with an annoyingly brief and enigmatic teaser trailer for the game. And just as we guessed (opens in new tab), it’s titled Hitman: Absolution. …
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With that in mind, it’s hardly surprising that so many fans have felt compelled to fill in the blanks with their own works of fiction – and that some of those works have gone to some pretty dark places. Most of you have probably already seen Handre de Jager’s (opens …
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A conveniently skewed view of history. Corrupt religious leaders. Serious men in silly white dresses who leap flamboyantly about withknives strapped to their wrists.Jade Raymond. What do these things have in common? They’re hallmarks of Assassin’s Creed, which has quickly grown from a single, divisive game to one of the …
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