‘Hotline Miami 2’ Is A Real Thing That’s Coming And I Want It
More senseless blood and gore? Oh yes. Oh… yes.
Hotline Miami was this close to being my game of the year of 2012 and so it brings me great joy that while the Dennaton guys were about to hop off to a new IP altogether, they’re actually bringing us a sequel that’ll take place in the 90210-themed nineties.
Unreal Engine 4 Makes Next-Generation Graphics Look Real Good
Death has never looked so pretty.
It’s been two years since Epic unveiled Unreal Engine 4 and while it was classy, the demo indicated graphics that were still so many years away to matter. Well, with next-generation consoles due out later this year, Epic has ramped up their game (ha!) and brought us a massive presentation of their new Unreal tech.
Activision Shows Off Next-Generation Rendering Engine Technology At GDC [VIDEO]
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Welcome to uncanny valley, a place where humans don’t look quite like humans, which is super freaky-deaky. It’s amazing how realistic real-time CGI is getting, just as you can see in this tech demo from Activision. What’s awesome is that this isn’t super high-end hardware running this. Read the rest of this article…
OUYA Console Starts Shipping to Kickstarter Backers, Retail Launch Announced
It looks pretty cool at least.
At GDC, OUYA announced that their console will be available online and in retail stores starting June 4th for $99.99. They also announced that Kickstarter backers will be getting theirs over the next few weeks. Read the rest of this article…
‘Injustice: Gods Among Us’ Demo Coming To Xbox 360, PS3 Soon
Batman + Kryptonite = Superman gets pwnt?
I love demos. I’ve loved them ever since publishers started making them and I’ve loved them even more since they started becoming widely available. Let’s be honest, nobody likes seeing some trailers and reading a couple of biased, hogwash reviews, then going and dropping $60 on a game that turns out to be a steaming pile of crap, right? That’s the great thing about demos, they allow us to get a feel for what the game is really like before we spend our hard earned cash on it. Today, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and DC Entertainment announced that a demo for the upcoming DC Comics fighting game Injustice: Gods Among Us will be available for Xbox 360 on April 2nd and PlayStation 3 on April 3rd.
Organ Trail: Director’s Cut (PC) Review: Zombie Survival, Plain And Simple
With the recent release of The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct, it’s hard to find a decent zombie-survival based game to play these days. Sure, you’ve got Valve’s Left 4 Dead, Telltale’s own take on The Walking Dead, and the ARMA II mod DayZ, but I need more. Amongst the indie titles are a few examples that stand out to me, one being a well-adapted strategy game called Atom Zombie Smasher, and another, the subject of this review, called Organ Trail. Read the rest of this article…
Pre-order Bonuses Could Not Save GameStop From $270m Loss Last Year
This is probably the fanciest one I’ve ever seen.
If you’re a gamer and you surf the internet, chances are you’ve been targeted by a GameStop ad. They’re not the worst, but their publisher-blessed facsimiles are pretty darn close. Blaming customers weary of a console cycle that’s gone on far too long, GameStop reported a $269.7 million loss last year compared to a $339.9 profit the year before.
GDC 13: Japan’s Indie Game Scene Rising Because Phil Fish Thought Their Games Sucked
A controversial comment stirred a sleeping giant.
It’s hard to believe it’s been a year since Fez‘s Phil Fish told a Japanese developer that modern games from his country “just suck”. Fish received a harsh wave of criticism regarding his comments, which came at the end of a screening of Indie Game: The Movie at GDC, but he seems to have survived. Now it appears someone else took advantage of the comment: Japanese developers.
‘Tactical Intervention’, The New Shooter From ‘Counter-Strike’ Creator Minh Le, Opens Today
A shooter with scenarios? Pretty cool.
Since I’m not very quick on the draw, that whole wave of fast-paced shooters that washed over us in the late nineties and early aughts was something I was able to surf over. Unreal Tournament? Quake III? Counter-Strike? Yeah, didn’t play any of those. You may find yourself in love at the sight of Tactical Intervention though, Counter-Strike creator Minh Le’s ten-years-in-the-making follow-up. Because the game’s totally not in my alley, I decided to give it a try, anyway.
Sniper 2: Ghost Warrior (PC/PS3/Xbox 360) Review: Blowing Up Heads And Having Fun Doing It
Too soon?
A while back I talked about the impending release of Sniper 2: Ghost Warrior and dropped a clip with some gameplay footage. Well, the game has released now and I’ve had a chance to play through the whole thing, popping domes, splitting wigs, making the pink mist and generally busting fools up.
