Can’t see the zombies for the trees Deep Silver has squirted a slick offering ofDead Island Riptidescreenshots for your viewing delight. Low on the zombie visuals, this latest gallery seems intended more to show off the tropical environments which, I can confirm, are a lot busier than the original game. We’re playing the game right now for review, and we’re happy to report there’s a lot of kicking zombies in their heads and asses....
It is the season for deals, and it’s only going to get better as the year goes on. Deal North is on the job! Target is coming out swinging with a buy two, get one free deal, good on any videogame, including PC games. Being new game season, I’m sure there’s more than one or two games you’re wanting. Just need accessories? PS3 accessories are 20 percent off at Target....
The Dunwall Demo Five months after the fervor has subsided, Bethesda’s looking to cash in on a few more residualDishonored 2sales. The “try before you buy” model has proven itself proficient in the past — especially when there’s no real threat that it might scare off customers who were willing to pay — so that’s the route Bethesda’s going. On April 6,Dishonored 2will get a trial on PC, PS4, and Xbox One....
It’s like playing a whole new game Ok, so I tried to cram all of this information into a single post, but it hit the post character limit. So with the General and Item changesout of the way, here they are, the Hero balance changes from the recentDota 26.79 patch. Did you unlearn what you knew about gold, day/night, the jungle, and lane equilibrium? Good, now prepare to do the same for just about ALL THE HEROES....
Dragon Fight Do you enjoy endless runners but can’t stand their procedural generation? Have you ever wanted to playBit.Trip, but with the main character fromBeasts of the Southern Wild? How about mixing those things with a dash ofShadow of the Colossus? That just about sums up withEarthNightis, even if it doesn’t do the game justice. When I arrived at the Cleaversoft booth, I was taken back by the loud music booming from their guitar-amp-looking speaker....
Just wanna play video games every day A lot of hoopla has been flopping around in recent months about games that focus on boobs. Specifically, some of these games are eithernot being brought out of Japan, or are having their “boob features”diminished upon releasein the U.S. and Europe. This has also happened with afew gamesthatfeature crotches, but for the most part, it’s a boob problem. Games thatfocus on sexand/orboobscan be great, but it looks like they may be too risky at the moment for Japanese game publishers like Nintendo, Capcom, and Koei Tecmo, all of whom are currently struggling to stay on top in the West....
This new video ofFinal Fantasy XIII-2shows how you can recruit monsters to your party. Once you catch a few, you can then assign them to slots in your party and use them in battle. I tried this feature out in a preview and found that it was pretty deep. You can really dive into strategy by assigning and switching up monsters for specific fights. Beyond this, you can even level them up and have them use other monsters’ abilities....
First little video made entirely with Rockstar’s in-game tools Here’s the first video made with the “Rockstar Editor” that’s coming toGrand Theft Auto Von PC tomorrow. Trevor takes a run through southern California in Forrest Gump cosplay and various states of facial hair. Rockstar commissioned 8-BIT BASTARD to make the video with its new editor. I don’t know why the group censors the “bastard” in its name in the video credits and not elsewhere....
Love (and bullets) in the air The fourth installment in theBorderlands 2series of “Headhunter” DLC expansions will be releasing next week.Mad Moxxi and the Wedding Day Massacrehas been announced by 2K as arriving on February 11 for Steam, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, just in time for its tale of romance to coincide with Valentine’s Day. I never made it through the original Season Pass DLC content, let alone spent real time with a Headhunter pack, mostly due to my primarily playingBorderlands 2with my wife and simply not being able to get it together to play more than once in the last year....
Kirby turns 25 next year SoMetroid’s30th anniversary came and went. We got a 3DS theme out of it, a spinoff game, and….the complete disavowalofa pretty rad fangame. Kirby, a franchise its creators seem to actually care about, is getting off to a good start with a 25th anniversary Twitter account, though. Just this week Nintendo kicked off an official account for the little guy, who will provide “multiple announcements” for the fluff ball’s anniversary....
Nearly half of IO laid off When you think of IO Interactive,Hitmancomes to mind. MaybeKane & LynchorFreedom Fightersas well — sorry to reopen old wounds — but the long-running stealth franchise is certainly right up in there. We’ll be seeing more of Agent 47 and not much else as “significant changes” unfold at the company, reportsGamesIndustry International. “The studio will focus resolutely on the future vision for theHitmanfranchise and is in pre-production on a new AAAHitmanproject,” reads a statement....
Go Green Ranger GO! In my quest to bring you the strangest things I can break or play, I dusted off an old CD I found at a Flea Market, I put it in a gaming console thing, and next thing you know Power Rangers were kicking things. Red Ranger, you owe me a new lamp. When the Power Rangers were around, I was in that age of life where I was too cool to watch the show because only kids watched it....
‘We don’t want to show too much’ Sony gave us a look at the long-awaitedThe Last Guardianat E3— just enough to whet our appetite. Confirming that “Yes, it definitely still exists,” we were shownseven minutesof boy palling around with bird-dog-thing. It wasn’t meaningful outside of the context of, again, “Yes it definitely still exists.” That was all by design. In an interview withGameSpot, PlayStation head Shuhei Yoshida said that Sony’s intentionally withholding footage because of the nature of the game....
