New World Interactive‘s Insurgency is an Early Access Title available through Steam, currently in Beta. New World Interactive has stated their intent to create a “community driven development experience,” and to bring about an “indie revival of the tactical shooter genre.” I have to admit that I find it hard to imagine a world where any part of the
As a simulation of the gaming industry that places you in the driver’s seat of a studio making games, Game Dev Tycoon is meta to the point of textbook definition, but its execution is infectiously charming. Each industry has tricks, tools, hazards and obstacles, and Game Dev Tycoon functions as commentary on the very nature
On a “gaming addiction” scale from one to ten, the Sims franchise tops out somewhere around eleventy-billion. The franchise is on a completely different level of financial impact, with 3 flagship Sims titles across every conceivable platform and countless expansions. Its addictive design-and-micromanage game-play is married with a charming art-style, intuitive controls, and endless customization.
It may bear marked similarities to other juggernauts in the category, but there is no question that Titanfall looks, well, just awesome. Titanfall comes to us from Respawn Entertainment, a brand new development house with a load of displaced veteran talent from studios like Infinity Ward. The infantry/mech combat title gave another stellar conference showing at
Diablo III garnered a mixed response upon its release, being plagued by network errors and a critical reception of its always-online requirement. For all that, it was a runaway success for Activision Blizzard with a record 3.5 million units sold in the first 24 hours, and a robust 12 million units over its first year.
Element4l, from i-illusions, isn’t like anything you’ve ever played before. Each individual element of game-play might spark memories of another work, but its genre is beautifully beyond classification.
Company of Heroes 2 is the long-awaited continuation of one of the most consistently well-received Real-Time-Strategy franchises on the market. Rising from the ashes of now-defunct THQ, Relic Games has delivered another satisfying and unique experience, set in the chaos and destruction of the Russian Front of World War II.
Neverwinter, a new Free-To-Play Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game from genre titans Cryptic Studios and Perfect World Entertainment, gathers more momentum with each passing day. It’s rare for a F2P title to be marketed both so broadly and so aggressively, rarer still for such a title to produce such consumer buzz, especially before its release.
In a move that we can confidently say no one saw coming, The Elder Scrolls Online, a MMO-RPG set in Bethesda Softworks venerable fan-favorite Elder Scrolls universe, has been confirmed for PlayStation 4 and Xbox ONE. It has also been confirmed that while PC and Mac users will be on the same server set, the