A Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? video game adaptation is going to be released soon, but this isn’t just any typical television show adaption. It seems that developer Appeal Studios is giving Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? an overhaul to make it better appeal to the core gaming audience. Specifically, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? is getting a Battle Royale mode that will let players compete against up to 99 players....
Last week PAX East 2014 attendees were treated to a substantial chunk of Wolfenstein: The New Order gameplay, about 30 minutes’ worth in total. The demo featured our hero, B.J. Blazkowicz, doing what he does best: killing futuristic Nazis. However, for those gamers who were unable to attend PAX East, developer MachineGames has taken to regularly streaming big chunks of gameplay for their upcoming release. The first gameplay stream took place just a few days ago, and has been archived above for your viewing pleasure....
The new XCOM series is a modernized recreation of the dated and similarly titled X-Com franchise, which made its debut to the world in 1994. Touted as the pinnacle of strategy games, the original UFO Defense was declared a ‘benchmark in the evolution of strategy gaming’. Now under the wings of 2K Games and produced by Firaxis Games of Civilization fame, XCOM: Enemy Unknown is prepared to reinvigorate the highly-acclaimed franchise and make a bold attempt to push a turn-based strategy game onto console gamers....
The Ys games date all the way back to the late 80s and have spanned roughly eight sequels. Ys Origin is the first game in the series not to star protagonist Adol Christin and is a prequel, taking place 700 years before Ys I — a nice chance for new players to pick up and play without the requirement of previous series experience. Nearly six years after its Japanese release, Ys Origin hits North America through Steam, but does this installment of the long running Ys series get all A’s, or a big, fat F?...
There are a lot of game awards to win these days. There are the Game Awards, founded by Geoff Keighley, that many people are familiar with, but there are so many others, too. Many countries or regions have their own award shows (Japan Game Awards, the Slovak Game of the Year Awards, or the Deutscher Computerspielpreis), not to mention how many gaming publications will write their own lists at the end of the year....
Released in 2008, Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon is a remake of the very first entry to the Fire Emblem series. A faithful recreation of the first entry in the series, the game included numerous quality of life changes that make it the ideal version of the game to play. However, in being a faithful remake, the game had excluded numerous gameplay mechanics from other entries in the series, leading many to view the game as a watered-down experience by comparison to games such as Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn which had been released the year prior....
Boston’s post-apocalyptic wasteland is a brutal place where difficult decisions will sometimes have to be made. The Sole Survivor’s prime directive is to find their son and they will stop at nothing until he is found. No job is too dirty, no enemy too daunting, no terrain too hostile. However, not all severe acts are born from desperation. Some are choices that the player can make to benefit themself at the expense of others — decisions many will classify as “Evil” or “Wrong....
In October of 2020, Age of Empires 3: Definitive Edition made its way onto PC platforms across the world. Many new players will be trying out this grand strategy RTS for the first time and finding satisfying rewards from this challenging experience. There will be one gigantic snag, though, that will likely keep new players from being able to appreciate the game even a little bit. The issue is that people have been playing this game since 2005 and slowly learning from each patch, each expansion, and each update....
In the age of the blockbuster, at a time when cinema tickets are getting more expensive, audiences often demand more bang for their buck. These days, tentpole films frequently run to more than two hours. While it’s nice to get your money’s worth, let’s face it: we’re all busy people. There’s nothing like a brief, 90-minute chiller to scare the pants off you and then let you get on with your day....
Nowadays, gamers tend to complain if the newest title doesn’t at least maintain a solid 60 FPS in full 4K. That’s a far cry from gaming’s early days when the humble NES was showing that console games didn’t need arcade-level hardware to stun us with some truly visually impressive games. Granted, back in the ‘80s, we were happy if a game just kind of looked like its box art. While the NES is still beloved for the massive steps forward it took from earlier consoles, and for introducing the world to the likes of Super Mario Bros....
Games don’t incorporate secrets or hacks like they used to, and that’s not a knock on them, just a mere acknowledgment of today’s trends for that industry. Most gamers today can look back at their childhoods and remember how interesting it was to see what kinds of secrets they could find if they looked and played around enough. Many of these secrets have gone down in gaming history, but some still slipped under the radar, never having been found until years after their games initially released....
While the hot days of summer mean plenty of hours to kill with games that may have been overlooked, there’s no shortage of gamers who are eagerly awaiting the arrival of fall for a chance to once again play as Gotham City’s masked vigilante in Batman: Arkham City. With San Diego Comic Con in full swing, the developers at Rocksteady have been kind enough to release a brand new trailer revealing two of Arkham City’s new villains....
When it comes to being a gamer, you typically fall into one of two categories: either you’re primarily a console gamer, or primarily a PC gamer. And though there are a number of differences between the two groups, one area in which the two meet is the need to play catch-up. Console gamers have to shell out plenty of money whenever the big companies create the newest console, containing the latest advances in gaming technology....
Electronic Arts invited us to attend the unveiling of Battlefield 4 this evening, and while we couldn’t make our way down to San Francisco, we can always count on leaks to provide us with the information we’re missing. And with that, the UK version of the first teaser trailer of Battlefield 4 - and the first look at in-game footage - is here, and as expected, it looks like Battlefield 3 but with more Rihanna....
Listen, kiddos. Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel is coming to to PC and last-gen consoles later this year and we couldn’t be more excited about this next/previous chapter in the vibrant, violent Borderlands franchise. While sequels are often about adding more features, one thing that’s been dialled back quite a bit in this pre-sequel is the gravity, since the story takes place on the bouncy landscape of the moon. 2K Australia provided an early look at the new verticality offered in Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel in a demo at E3 2014 (which we got the chance to try out), and the studio has now released a full video of that demo accompanied by commentary from producers Joel Eschler and James Lopez....
Has it really been six whole months since the release of Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto Online? Initially piggybacking in on the runaway success of GTA 5, this free-to-play multiplayer mode has surmounted untold issues, glitches and infuriating griefers to arrive at its currently stable state. Now it falls to the game’s dedicated set of devs to flesh out the online experience with new and exciting features. First came the ‘Content Creator,’ a limited scenario editor that allows players to tweak races, deathmatches and more — followed shortly thereafter by ‘Capture’ mode, a multi-tiered take on the ever-popular CTF premise....
It seems like with every positive (like the new Reputation system) that is revealed in regards to Mass Effect 3, there follows a negative (like the copious amounts of paid DLC) that keeps fans’ excitement in an almost neutral state. Sure there are plenty of reasons to get excited about Mass Effect 3, it is the culmination of two game’s worth of storylines, but it almost feels like with each passing day BioWare hits us with yet another unfortunate “surprise....
With Infinity Ward on deck to follow next week’s Black Ops II from Treyarch in 2013 - the rotating developer dichotomy has produced annual Call of Duty iterations since 2005’s Call of Duty 2 - it wouldn’t be shocking for the developer to announce yet another continuation in the Modern Warfare series with Modern Warfare 4. Sure, anyone who witnessed the conclusion of Modern Warfare 3 is familiar with the… finality the storyline seemed to end with....
Welcome to our regular gameplay impressions and video post where we record our first 10-30 minutes with a new game, and provide some general impressions on that early playthrough. Today’s game is: Octodad: Dadliest Catch from developer Young Horses. The original Octodad was a freeware game made by a group of college students back in 2010. It featured some rudimentary, but clever, mechanics whereby players controlled the various limbs of an octopus masquerading as a human....
From thuggish Presidents to shotgun-wielding strippers, the Saints Row series has never really been known for its fleshed out cast of characters. Equal parts outrageous and obnoxious, coif-haired cutthroat Johnny Gat was as close to a franchise mascot as the series had ever had, until [SRIII Spoiler Ahoy!] developer Volition decided to kill him off. Now the Gat is back, and by the looks of things, he’s none-too-fond of Saints Row 4’s latest extraterrestrial threat....
