Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures is a mildly entertaining take on "my baby's first platformer," but won't hold the interest of more competent gamers for too long. It simply doesn't come close to comparing with the genre's better efforts.
Cabela's African Adventures is a functional slog that has no real redeemable qualities other than hey, it works. It certainly doesn't do anything to justify any price tag, even if it were free. I can honestly say that going to your local laundromat to watch the dryer cycle would provide more of a thrill than anything you'll find here.
After an applause-worthy (yet inconsistent) third season, it's understandable for fans of The Walking Dead to be nervous about another showrunner taking the reigns from someone who had an absolutely solid run with the show. Fortunately, Scott Gimple, The Walking Dead's new showrunner, pretty much makes us forget about all the behind-the-scenes switching -- and who would have thought that all we needed was a full-sized zombie mistletoe complete with gorgeous Christmas-red entrails to let us know that we're in for a good season?
It's always been a bit of a bummer in the Assassin's Creed series that you never had anywhere near the amount of freedom to explore the present day (Desmond's stomping grounds, that is) as you did the incredibly detailed backdrops of Jerusalem, Italy, and Revolution-set America. Once you were outside the ancestor-reprising machine known as the Animus and on your feet in the present, your exploration boundaries were very confined. Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag looks to rip that small aspect a new one, promising even more hours of exploration.
If you're the type to vent your gaming rage a bit more aggressively than the norm on social media sites such as Twitter, then you better hope that you don't have a Sony Online Entertainment subscription. Linda Carlson, director of SOE's global community relations, has stated that people who abuse other users on Twitter have no business being their customer now or ever.
Last month, Xbox 360 gamers got to enjoy the Apocalypse DLC, Call of Duty: Black Ops II's final piece of season pass content. The pack included four new maps entitled Frost, Dig, Takeoff, and Pod as well as throwing in a rather robust zombie mode that sees everyone's favorite brain eaters come out of World War I soil. The latter mode is called Origins and it features the original z-slayers from Call of Duty: World At War's zombie mode. Fortunately for those PS3 and PC gamers waiting for their turn for the Apocalypse-boost in their Black Ops II experience don't have to wait much longer.
After the South Korean Game Rating Board rated an alleged new Metal Gear Solid bundle titled Metal Gear Solid: The Legacy Collection a few days back, Konami opted to not beat around the bush and confirm that the collection is indeed coming. The borderline all-encompassing collection will include the core titles Metal Gear Solid, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty HD, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater HD, Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker HD, and the Trophy-enabled version of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. If that wasn't sweet enough, they went ahead and threw in Metal Gear Solid: VR Missions and two graphic novels done by Ashley Woods. Now that's a hell of a fine way to celebrate 25 years if you ask me.
Bank of America, the runner-up to this year's Worst Company in America poll, was notorious for horrendous customer service and was even sued by the friggin' federal government. That's a pretty bad year for any company and despite their terrible performance, videogame mega-publisher EA still managed to suck in the majority of the votes (around 78 percent!) in the duel between the two. This makes it the second consecutive year that EA has been voted as America's most hated company among voters this year -- now that's just...impressive?
Each month the NPD releases information on what the top-selling games of the month are. Unfortunately, they never factor in the slowly growing digital downloadable numbers. We have to rely on and hope that a game's publisher will release the information on how well a game sold digitally and this rarely happens. Thankfully, we've gotten a nice little update on how the digital side of game sales is faring -- it's nice to know that the digital numbers aren't being completely ignored.
As soon as the trailer for the mysterious and seemingly new IP, The Phantom Pain, was revealed during last year's Spike Video Game Awards, many gamers called it a bluff and hypothesized that The Phantom Pain was actually Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain or at least another installment in the revered franchise. It was allegedly being developed by a Swedish-based developer called Moby Dick Studios and to be published by Konami. Fast forward to GDC 2013 and to the non-surprise of many, The Phantom Pain is indeed the fifth installment of Metal Gear Solid.
