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The Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater franchise has always been about pulling off massive combos and netting high scores, and none of that has changed with the recently released Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. With the gameplay from the later games put into the levels of the first two entries, experienced players can easily pull off multi-million point combos, even surpassing the coveted ten million point mark....

Horror games are pretty notoriously hit-or-miss, despite the fact that the medium sounds like it would be ridiculously well-suited to the industry. Instead, there are tons of half-baked run-and-hide messes that are meant mostly for streamers to scream incoherently at. That being said, there are definitely a ton of hidden gems in the genre, in addition to a few really solid triple-A titles. One of the biggest issues with the genre is that a lot of the games are pretty slow to start....

This month saw the release of the much-awaited Cyberpunk 2077. Despite a rocky launch, the game has acquired a pretty large player base. And under all the issues is a pretty solid game. And Night City is one of the best worlds to be made in a game in recent times. The city is its own entity, alive and indifferent to the player’s attempts to make it big. It is welcoming and hostile, with characters and alliances shifting around based on the player’s decisions....

The PSP and PS Vita never managed to reach the same heights as their main competitors, the Nintendo DS and 3DS, but they were still beloved by Sony fans. Both platforms had a particularly strong lineup of RPGs. There were so many RPGs, many were lost in the shuffle. This list aims to shine a light on some of the forgotten gems. Hardcore RPG fans of course probably know these well, but you may learn something new if you only casually dip your foot into the genre....

Nine years after releasing Rage, Bethesda has continued the franchise with Rage 2, which is proving to be a fun romp in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. The game has expanded a lot from the successful elements of the first game and introduced some new concepts to the sequel. While the combat and progression is relatively straightforward, there are some things that beginners will need to keep in mind to get the most out of this game....

Predator: Hunting Grounds is the newest addition to the expanding world survival games with the chance to go toe to toe with the Predator. In Predator: Hunting Grounds, you get the opportunity to play as the Predator or play as its victims, struggling to get to the choppa. While most players will try their luck and go running headfirst into the action, trying to take on the predator mono a mono, there are strategies to deal with it that don’t involve getting anyone killed....

For years, fans dreamed of a day when they’d see one of the most popular Japanese RPGs ever made make its triumphant return for a new generation. A few years back, Square Enix made it clear that Final Fantasy VII was being remade from the ground up. Just last month, Square was able to provide a more in-depth presentation of the game we’re going to get our hands on next Spring....

With games like Jedi: Fallen Order, gamers continue to be able to pick up a lightsaber for some single-player Star Wars action. But it wasn’t all that long ago that The Force Unleashed games gave us the same experience. Telling an original story set between Episode 3 and 4, players took control of Darth Vader’s secret apprentice and explored a galaxy in the grip of the Empire. Like any good Star Warsgame, The Force Unleashedthrew in plenty of easter eggs and secrets for fans to find, and not just from Star Warseither....

Strutting into an enemy encampment carrying a dead-body decoy, a baklava covering his face and full Arabic garb his body, it’s clear that Sam Fisher hasn’t regressed to cutting corners. That said, the 11 minutes of Splinter Cell: Blacklist gameplay footage released today by Ubisoft clearly trumps its seven-minute counterpart from E3 2012 by giving its level another run-through. Coinciding with Ubisoft’s Gamescom press conference today, the video, released through IGN, walks us through the same capture mission in a small village on the Iran/Iraq border....

In their move from the NES to the SNES, Nintendo and its development partners often relied on using 8-bit games as the basis for 16-bit innovations. While that approach helped move us towards the future of gaming, it also meant that many SNES games felt spiritually similar to NES titles. That also means that many SNES games retained that arcade-like difficulty that would, in some ways, define over a decade of gaming....

Dejobaan Games has been around for quite some time, making a name for itself in the indie developer world. Like many indie developers it was only a matter of time before they brought their talents to the exponentially growing mobile market. AaaAaa!! (Force = Mass x Acceleration), or F=ma, is their first title for iOS. F=ma is a version of Dejobaan’s popular Steam title AaaAaa!! A Reckless Disregard for Gravity developed specifically for the iPhone....

Helicopter implementation in warfare is just as important as sending in the fast-movers. Choppers provide stable support platforms, troop transport, and just that extra layer of comfort for the boots on the ground. Ace Combat: Assault Horizon will feature helicopters for the first time in the series’ history, and it looks pretty good so far. after all, who doesn’t like raining down lead in an AH-64 Apache? To celebrate the chopper gameplay, new screenshots depicting the game’s various helicopters, bomber planes, and jets have been released alongside a video of the game in action....

Rovio, the studio responsible for the fastest-selling mobile application of all time, has one-upped itself: the collective games from the Angry Birds franchise have officially been downloaded over one billion times. Fans of Angry Birds can rejoice at the idea of well over a trillion pigs being put in their place – and rightfully so! Nobody likes hearing their snickers. It’s no secret that the original Angry Birds was one of the first widespread successes on the iOS Marketplace, and since spreading to Android, has gone on to capture a massive slice of the mobile gaming market....

When one observes just how much of a game-making machine Ubisoft has created over the past decade, it’s easy to think that the French publisher (and the leadership at its Montreal studio) has game development down to a science. But even when a franchise becomes are large and successful as Assassin’s Creed, somebody still has to keep it moving forward in the intended direction. One of those people is Assassin’s Creed’s brand content manager, Jean Guesdon....

For fans of pirates, there’s only one game on their radar for the coming year: Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag. Although the developers have been emphasizing the ability to explore the high seas for hours on end, exactly how that open-ended gameplay will interact with story progression hasn’t been clear. Not that we’re criticizing the decision to put shark battles into what is typically seen as a story-driven series, but we continue to receive hints at the systems operating behind the randomized environments....

It’s no secret that the launch of Assassin’s Creed Unity was much closer to a disaster than the publisher would have liked. In recent weeks we’ve highlighted just a handful of the numerous issues being encountered by players, from character missing faces, framerate issues and matchmaking troubles. Ubisoft Montreal, the studio responsible for creating Unity, has been hard at work updating the game and providing fixes. In fact, Patch 3 released today, bringing several updates to stability and performance, gameplay, AI and crowd animations, matchmaking and connectivity, mission tweaks and updates to the menu and HUD....

Earlier this week, Irrational Games’ Ken Levine provided an update on the highly anticipated BioShock Infinite DLC saying, “Game development takes time.” In other words, he wanted to assure fans, especially Season Pass owners, that the DLC is coming. Now, it appears we might have a reveal date for the BioShock Infinite DLC — not a release date, mind you, just a date when Irrational might show the expansion content off....

Hot on the heels of the reveal trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 comes a handful of screenshots that delve into the nitty gritty of Treyarch’s vision of 2025. Though the trailer does a great job of selling the futuristic warfare we had been teased about for weeks, these screenshots give closer looks at the destruction, and the crazy weapons that players will have at their disposal and be fighting against....

Blades of Time is a new action adventure game from Gaijin Entertainment, published by Konami, and on the back of the box it promises guns, swords and booty. That last item is referring to the game’s protagonist Ayumi, who provides some significant eye candy to those playing. Unfortunately Ayumi is about the only redeeming factor in the spiritual sequel to Gaijin’s 2009 title X-Blades. Ayumi and her massive brute of a sidekick Zero are treasure hunters and they set out to gain a major payout by breaking into a temple which holds a magic portal....

Randy Pitchford has been vocal about his desire for a PlayStation Vita version of Borderlands 2. As it turns out, there is a portable version of Borderlands on the way - and soon - but it won’t be for Sony’s handheld, and it won’t be a port of Borderlands 2. Instead, an all new game has been crafted for mobile platforms and tablets: Borderlands Legends, due before the end of the month....