Ok. So you’ve played Diablo 3 about as much as you can bear and you are tired of losing the player versus player tournaments in Avenger’s Alliance on Facebook. Where do you turn to get your Marvel Universe gaming fix?
2K Sports set the bar for great sports sims with the introduction of their “Jordan Mode” in NBA 2K11. With NBA 2K12 set to release Oct. 4th, 2011, they look to continue the trended.
Downloadable content has seen great additions like completely new single player episodes and areas to explore such as The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion expansions or Mass Effect episodes. However, they’ve also seen bare bones changes to customization options or run of the mill map packs such as Street Fighter costume packs or Call of Duty multiplayer map packs. To say the least, gamers have mixed reactions to the different strategies used when developers release new in-game content via online marketplaces.
The mighty Lu Bu returns to wreck havoc upon your plans for legendary status in the Three Kingdoms! Koei has returned with Dynasty Warriors 7 and has brought back a formula that long time fans of the Dynasty Warriors series will rejoice over. To top things off, they’ve gone yet another step further to achieve something the few other DW games have achieved… they actually tell a story.
What do you get when you mix an undead samurai dishwasher with a cyborg vampire ninja? Well if you ask the founder, James Silva of the one man game studio Ska Studios, he would undoubtedly say, “buckets and buckets of blood!” The Dishwasher: Vampire Smiles is truly a raging spectacle of speed, vengeance, metal music, nightmares and bullets.
Have you ever found yourself laughing as you watched someone or something die? Ok, ok, unless you are truly psychotic, the answer is probably no. Well, thanks to the miracle of video games and the good people at Hothead Games all of us can with the new downloadable game Swarm!
The founders of Runic Games merged the talents of developers that worked on games such as Mythos, Fate, and Blizzard’s epic series Diablo. Clearly looking to recreate the magic and addictiveness of the Diablo action/RPG dungeon crawl, Runic blessed PC gamers with Torchlight back in 2009. Since that point, Torchlight has become the favorite stepson of the Diablo saga by holding true to what made the game so much fun. So when it was announced that Torchlight would find be making its way to Xbox Live Arcade as an Xbox 360 exclusive, the console world buzzed with anticipation. But, with the need to redesign the controls to utilize a controller, would Runic manage to thumbstick their way into XBLA greatness?
Whether you call yourself a geek, nerd or fanboy, the comic book reading, sci-fi/fantasy, superhero movie loving group has been elevated in status over the last decade. It seems more people have begun to embrace it and many people are getting an eye opening awakening towards the fact that a lot of this material isn’t just for kids. Nick Frost and Simon Pegg, who also wrote the film, certainly try to embrace this group but routinely go for the low brow jokes, juvenile humor and ass-grabbing. I for one do enjoy all those jokes but that humor is a lot more fun hanging out with my buddies than it is when seen as been-there-done-that crude humor on the big screen. There were certainly some funny gags in Paul but too much good talent was wasted in this film.
Street Fighter 2 turns 20 and the king of modern day fighters still lives on. It's great to see a franchise like this still cranking out hits. With all of the iterations of just this version of Street Fighter that came out, it is amazing that we are only at SFIV if you think about it. So, let’s see how many iterations of SFII there really were!
Splash Damage and Bethesda Softworks want to change how we all play first person shooters from now on. With Brink, their first multi-console FPS set to release in May 2011, they have crafted an ambitious new IP that seeks to emphasize team play moreso than kills and killstreaks. Earlier this month, I fragged with Lead Writer Edward Stern and Splash Damage CEO Paul Wedgwood during a hands on preview event for the game.
