Evoland (PC) Review: A Decent Tribute, An Under-Cooked Game
Remember that brief pocket of time when pre-rendered 3D backgrounds were so hot? Yep, Evoland has them.
There’s a character standing alone in a monochrome display. You’re told to move him right, then left. Up, down, all around. Over the course of hours, Evoland introduces you to new features, better graphics and more health as it takes you down a road inspired by twenty-five years of role-playing games. Unfortunately, it doesn’t make for a good game on its own merits.
Do Backwards-Compatible Consoles Matter Anymore?
Will you need to keep your old Xbox around? Probably.
A big question that lingered over the launch of this generation’s consoles was that of backwards compatibility. With their chests puffed huge, showing off PlayStation 3 hardware that was still partially imaginative, Sony announced full compatibility with all previous systems, the PlayStation by emulation and the PlayStation 2 by physically including an Emotion Engine in the hardware. Microsoft had a slightly different tack to getting their recent console working, though.
Guncraft (PC) Beta Preview: Far More Than Meets The Eye
It’s “Block” Gulch. Geddit?
It would be far too easy to cast Guncraft off as a Minecraft-with-guns knockoff. I certainly did. In fact, after the first few matches, you may still do that. Dig a little deeper and you’ll find a pretty clever multiplayer shooter that just happens to use its blocks for all the right reasons. Guncraft pulls from a number of different sources – Worms, Call of Duty, or even Halo – all to such an effective extent that there’s plenty to be happy about.
‘Mega Man’ Was To Become A First-Person Shooter By ‘Metroid Prime’ Guys, Cancelled
Very fast, very deadly…
I won’t snuff out Polygon’s fire here, but they’ve got a helluva scoop. Before Keiji Inafune left Capcom in 2010 – he was the big man behind Mega Man, Lost Planet, and virtually every Resident Evil – he had Austin, Texas-based Armature Games begin work on a first-person reboot of Mega Man called Maverick Hunter. After he left, it went, too.
‘Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon’ Leaked, We Dig Into The Scenario
It’s all neon laser guns until someone gets hurt.
Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon is still nearly a month away, but some lucky PC gamer has managed to acquire the neon-soaked spin-off. The subsequent playtime resulted in a fifteen minute video that made its way around the internet before Ubisoft pulled off some rapidfire takedown actions to suppress it. We managed to snag a copy and give it a look. There doesn’t appear to be any spoilers, so we’ll recap what we can!
‘Star Citizen’ Talks Customization: This Ain’t No Cookie Cutter MMO
The Hornet. Supremely flexible… with the right parts.
One of the bigger problems with MMO games of all genres has always been customization. What looks like a million customization options in the beginning ends up turning into one or two cookie cutter builds as the game progresses and it becomes clear that one build is vastly superior to the rest of the possible combinations due to game mechanics. Once this happens we realize that we’re stuck with hundreds or thousands of players playing the same character, wearing the same armor and carrying the same weapon as every other character of that type. Read the rest of this article…
‘StarCraft: Ghost’ May Still Be A Real Game, Was Never Canceled
I was this close to playing history.
StarCraft: Ghost is a large chunk floating in Blizzard’s pool of unfulfilled potential. Announced at the beginning of the sixth generation of consoles in 2002, the game was postponed indefinitely in 2005 as new consoles were arriving. To the casual observer, it seemed that Blizzard’s protracted development cycles seemed inflexible for the strict lifespan of a console life. Notice, I didn’t say it was canceled in 2005 and neither did Blizzard, because apparently it still exists somewhere over a decade after its announcement.
PC Gamers Already Hatin’ On Next-Gen Xbox, PlayStation 4, But Why?
Sometimes people want a keyboard and a mouse and a joystick and a dedicated thumb input. Sometimes they don’t.
With all this rumbling going on regarding Sony and Microsoft’s next-generation consoles, (some) in the PC gaming community feels the need to play defensive. The PC gaming versus console gaming debate is an age-old one, but what’s sillier than debating video cards versus Xbox Live Arcade is the fact that some people honestly believe they’re mutually exclusive things. Holding a Dual Shock 3 automatically disqualifies you from playing World of Warcraft with authority. Murdering dudes in Hotline Miami means you have a super-gaudy, massive gaming PC with annoying LED light leaking everywhere. With new hardware, the battle continues!
‘Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon’s Neon Sights And Blasting Beats Make Me So Hot
Yes. All of this.
Did you think last year’s amazing Far Cry 3 could’ve been, I don’t know, weirder?This game’s been making the rounds in the past few weeks, but there’s now enough information out in the wild to guarantee that Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon is my most-anticipated game of the moment. Taking place in the distant year of 2007 and featuring 80s sci-fi star Michael Biehn (Aliens, The Terminator), this game’s link to Far Cry 3 seems pretty tenuous, but who cares? It looks so siiiiick.
Microsoft to Unveil Next-Gen Xbox On May 21? Yeah, Sure.
Okay, it probably won’t look like this.
Thanks to Peter Moore, Microsoft had a real schmaltzy way to unveil the Xbox 360: an MTV special. Airing just after the climax of their “The Colony” ARG, back in the Spring of 2005 and starring the Lord of The Rings‘ Elijah Wood, viewers got to see celebrities play classy titles like Perfect Dark Zero while The Killers played. Now, we can’t say that MTV will be involved, but it looks like Microsoft is going to unveil their new console ahead of E3, which makes a lot of sense.
