Seldom has a game infuriated me so as Mass Effect 3, and it’s not even because the majority of the game is bad. If anything, the remarkable quality of the rest of the game is just the salt in the wound. Mass Effect 3 is around twenty-five to thirty hours of positively inspired gameplay, evocative
Well, it’s official. The Blizzard site has set Diablo III‘s release date as May 15, 2012. Digital preorders and downloads are already available, and World of Warcraft players who want to get in on the action free can do so on the Annual Pass until 12:00 A.M PDT on May 1st. Retail copies will be
The world has its first, eerily The Patriot-esque glimpse of Assassin’s Creed 3, now firmly confirmed to take place during the American Revolution. Ubisoft’s next entry in the Assassin’s Creed series, starring a Native American-English protagonist, will be released on the Playstation 3, Xbox 360, and the upcoming Wii-U. Predictably, the tale will include the
It’s hard to review Asura’s Wrath like any conventional game. Thanks to long years of clichés, you’ll think this is a fancy way for me to praise it. It isn’t. Asura’s Wrath at times tests its classification as a game, because the actual game design is elementary bordering on novice. Like independent production Dear Esther,
The Darkness 2‘s valiant straddling of poignancy and savagery is so deliberate it makes me wonder if it isn’t a commentary on the shooter genre. This is something of a trend these days with shooters, now that game developers have finally realized there are other avenues for people to get their vicarious violence on. After
Mass Effect 3‘s marketing is getting downright meta. Now we have a short (just shy of a minute) trailer for another trailer, which in turn is (presumably) a trailer for the game proper. We’re going deeper! The full trailer will be shown on February 19th during AMC’s The Walking Dead. It’s hard to say much
Developer Double Fine’s ambitious project to fund a new independent adventure game on Kickstarter raised a million dollars in one day. They had hoped to raise $300,000. That took about eight hours. And there’s still thirty-one days to go. What sort of project gets this much fan enthusiasm? Well, when the development team headed by
There’s been talk of a Mass Effect massive-multiplayer-online-game going ’round, much as there’s talk of an MMO any time a franchise is successful. On the surface such talk is often tempting. An open-ended exploration of a favorite franchise! Revisiting beloved locations and characters! Taking part in the ongoing story of the setting! But like many
Trauben’s Overall The Consumer Electronics Show is one of the largest and most daunting conferences to cover, and the menagerie of high-tech gadgets and gizmos is staggering. After a day at CES the scope and scale of the electronics industry is unmistakable. The variety, however, is sometimes a little more in question. The electronics industry