This is arguably the most influential and important year in a consoles lifespan. With both the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 now upon the world and gamers shoveling the consoles in by the boatload, the only factor that will decide which one stands victorious in the console war will be the games. Let’s put together a quick list of what games you should be most excited for this year, shall we? (In no particular order…) Project Spark Wow, this one just truly blows me...
Signups for the Titanfall Alpha have gone live, originating in an email coming from Titanfall’s publisher, EA, stating that they were looking for a small number of candidates to participate in a closed trial. While mainly speculation, it appears the only players eligible to recieve an invite were those who had played a copy of Battlefield 4 on Xbox One and had premium. When signing up myself, I was told I was approved and allowed to sign the NDA. My girlfriend, on the...
Peggle is back, and it really is better than ever. The formula is all the same: shoot your balls and hit the pegs in a great mashup of plinko and strategy. You aim your shots and shoot your balls, gaining points and multipliers for every peg you remove. The goal is to remove all of the orange pegs from your board and get the highest score you can without running out of balls. With very little core gameplay changes, aside from the addition of new “armored pegs”...
LocoCycle is the first next-gen game from the brilliant minds over at Twisted Pixel – the team that brought the world Splosion Man, Ms. Splosion Man, The Maw, and other fan favorites on the Xbox 360. LocoCycle follows the crazy talking bike Iris and her Spanish speaking mechanic Pablo on their trip to get to the Scottsville Indiana Freedom Rally. Problem is, they’re in Nicarauga and everyone from BIG Labs – the company that made Iris) wants to kill them. Oh, and Pablo...
“Today at Hammond Robotics, we’re building a new era of machines.” Titanfall showed off a new Titan today at the Spike VGX Awards. This new Titan, “The Ogre” is a heavy armored robot that appears to operate as the “Heavy” of the game, doing 50% more damage, while being a little bit more slower. The Ogre has special finishing move as well where the Ogre rips off the opponents arm and kills them with it. The Stryder Titan was also...
Spike’s VGX Game Awards have come, and with them, the collective internet gods have decided to tell us what the best of the best were for 2013. Didn’t get a chance to watch the awards? We’ve got you covered. All the winners are below. Best Fighting Game: Injustice: Gods Among Us Best Xbox 360 Game: Brothers: A tale of Two Sons Best Voice Actor: Troy Baker as Joel in The Last of Us Best Voice Actress: Ashley Johnson as Ellie in The Last of Us Best Racing...
Hello Games has just announced one of the most ambicious titles coming to the next generation. A massively multiplayer world set in an open world. You can explore miles upon miles of water, space, and land. Look up in the sky and see a star? That is a real sun, you can go visit it, you can visit every single planet in its solar system. All those planets have a food chain and an ecosystem, and you’re not necessarily the king of it. This is a game that, for me at least...
As if Telltale didn’t already have enough on its plate with The Walking Dead, The Wolf Among Us, and Tales from the Borderlands, they’ve just announced at Spike’s VGX awards a partnership with HBO to bring us an episodic Game of Thrones game next year. Telltale says the game is still going to be about the story – not a constant hack and slash or giant fight sequence that we see in most games. They plan to utilize fully the political spectrum that is...
Square Enix and Crystal Dynamics today announced Tomb Raider: The Definitive Edition coming to the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 at the VGX. The definitive edition of Tomb Raider has been rebuilt and remade completely for the next-generation consoles by adding TessFX to Lara Crofts hair and increasing the graphics to 1080p. The definitive edition also includes all of the DLC released throughout the lifetime of the game including multiplayer maps, skins for Lara Croft, and extra...
Telltale and Gearbox have just announced a new game coming in 2014, “Tales from the Borderlands”, a new episodic experience set in the Borderlands universe. The characters aren’t vault hunters, and the game will be very story driven. Announced at Spike’s VGX Awards, the trailer showed two “wanna-be vault hunters” talking to Marcus, who was telling them they aren’t vault hunters and want nothing to do with them. Randy Pitchford...
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