Winner: Fez Read the Fez review. The best puzzle games have the ability to make the player feel inversely smart and stupid. Fez takes this further than any game we’ve ever played, giving us the feeling of being both cackling genius and babbling idiot within minutes of each other. It’s …
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What if we turned our head to the left and looked at the blocks from this angle? What if we jumped every time there was a slanted line, and held the left trigger whenever there was a square? What if the secret to opening this door involves standing still for …
Read More »The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim takes GDC Awards top prize
The Game Developers Choice Awards were held last night during GDC 2012, and paid tribute to industry’s best games and game makers of 2011. Bethesda was the big winner of the event, scoring the night’s Game of the Year award for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (opens in new tab), …
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2011 was indeed a great year to be a gamer. Heres our buyers guide of the top must-own games from the calendar year. Have you played them all? Portal 2 Portal 2 review (opens in new tab)Portal 2 screens (opens in new tab)Portal 2 videos (opens in new tab) Batman: …
Read More »9 video game objects that would make better Christmas presents than the crap youll actually get
Come on, we all know what your Christmas haul will look like. You’ve asked for Batman: Arkham City on 360 but you’ll get LEGO Batman for Wii. You’ve asked for a Superdry hoodie but you’ll get a jumper from M%26S. You’ve asked for rare Deadpool graphic novels from eBay but …
Read More »Alleyway 3DS review
Price: $2.99 Size: 32 Blocks First Released: 1989 Whacking a ball around with a paddle in hopes of breaking stuff is an age-old pursuit, and dusting off this Game Boy launch title reminds us of how much fun a decent block breaking game can be – even if it doesn’t …
Read More »Professor Layton film finally coming to North America
Good news for gentlemanly purveyors of devious puzzles, fine teas and refined animated cinema. Viz Media, a San Francisco company specializing in the localization of Japanese entertainment for English speakingconsumers, announced during theAnime Expo 2011 (opens in new tab)in Los Angelesit will be bringing the anime film Professor Layton and …
Read More »Robotic engineer builds Portal 2 Personality Core replicas
On a scale of one to “holy crap these are awesome,” robotic engineer Chris Myles’s replica Portal 2 PersonalityCores fall somewhere between “damn I want one now” and “seriously, I would kick a puppy for these – just say the word.” Granted, this rating system needs some fine-tuning, but you …
Read More »Portal 2 turret plushie is all heart, zero bullets
Portal 2’s turrets are so gosh darn charming, it’s easy to forget that their main function is to straight up murder your ass with cold, remorseless efficiency. Sadly, it’s this one small detail that makes them all but impossible to market in the real world, but one Canadian tinkerer has …
Read More »Portal 2 Co-op
Chris, Tyler and Lizzie are joined byPC Gamer (opens in new tab)’s Evan Lahti and Anthony Valva for a SPOILER-FREE look at Portal’s brain-wrenching co-op mode. Get this straight, readers: Several of us in the office have played through Portal 2 several times already. I personally played through myself and …
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