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Though flying out to Japan for Tokyo Game Show was loads of fun, TGS was all the weaker thanks to the absence of The Last Guardian, as the beautiful looking game that we once hoped would hit the PS3 this year seems to be a ways off. Still, we could …

Sure, playing as Wolverine is fun, but being able to feel immersed in a new character can be even better. Letting us choose our own path and create our own story can make us feel like the character is an extension of ourselves, instead of feeling like we’re a kid …

Sometimes it’s hard to jump into a sequel without playing the original. The story, the characters, the mechanics – they’re often lost on new players. 2K Games is hoping to avoid this pitfall with The Darkness II by releasing a trailer entitled “What is The Darkness,” in which Johnny Powell …

There are some actors you just have a gut feeling will make good directors. Judging by the many indelible characters he’s created and the fact that he pals around with Shane Meadows, Paddy Considine was always one of them. You can see Considine’s been taking notes from his regular collaborator: …

As the countdown ticks steadily down to Battlefield 3’s October 28 release, the storm of promotions surrounding it has been quickly ramping up. The latest weapon in Battlefield 3’s advertising arsenal pulls in the help of world famous rapper, producer, and entrepreneur Jay-Z. It’s a gameplay trailer set to be …

We don’t know how the gameplay will turn out just yet, but the story behind Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken is stupendous. The hero has his name because as a little chicken fetus, he was hardboiled inside his egg. That’s… disgusting, but also sets the proper tone for this 2D action/platformer which …

Here’s a preview trailer for Diabolical Pitch, Grasshopper Manufacture’s upcoming Kinect-enabled Xbox Live title. The game is a veritable checklist of things that Japan and America have in common: despite a checkered mutual history and vastly different cultures, you won’t find two nations more devoted to the game of baseball. …

I like to think that ‘Ico’ means ‘beautiful thing’ in some exotic foreign language. Because it is truly a thing of beauty. I’m not just talking about the dreamy fairytale vistas surveyed from the game’s many vertiginous parapets, or the golden radiance of the sun flooding through some towering window. …

They’re coming to get you…

There are some famous equations out there. E=MC². The Pythagorean Theorem: a² + b² = c². Now James Cameron has added a new one: more frames = better 3D. Higher frame rates seem to be the way Hollywood is going and Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit is currently being shot at …