Clementine’s journey through the bleak zombie apocalypse world of The Walking Dead continue next week, when the latest episode of the hit series arrives on multiple platforms. Here’s the rollout schedule for Episode 3 of The Walking Dead Season 2: May 13th: PC/Mac via Steam, the Telltale Online Store and other digital distribution services; on…
Alaska is far. And cold. But, there are beautiful stories there. Like many remote places, it’s home to a rich culture that many people might never learn about. How best to tell the world the tales that come from such a place? Make a video game. The first trailer for Never Alone appeared overnight and…
Look, we know you’re looking at a screen without the benefit of red and blue lenses right now. But don’t let that stop you from admiring that Chun Li artwork. It’s good, isn’t it? Every year, the Toronto Comics Arts Festival mounts a gallery show that has comics artists and professional illustrators creating work that…
Meet the cast of Watch Dogs in this all-new trailer. There are a lot of guns in the clip above, no? The open-world hacking action game comes out this month.
Originally planned for a 2014 release, free-running zombie apocalypse game Dying Light is now being aimed at a February release next year. A post on the game’s official site says that developer Techland is taking more time to make Dying Light live up to their expectations.
Awesome: a new Soul Calibur game is out today! Not awesome: it’s a collectible card game made for touch-screen devices. Now, there’s nothing inherently wrong with CCG titles or touch-screen games. Just look at Hearthstone. But, Soul Calibur: Unbreakable Soul looks like it’s taking the most fun part of the weapon-centric martial art series, namely…
If anyone can make indie games, then where are the Black and Latino people? Developer Shawn Allen—one of the relative few people of color independently spearheading the creation of their own games—gave a talk at New York University’s Game Center that looks at the dearth of diversity in the video game creator talent pool. Allen’s…
Two games from the long-running creature-collecting series are getting remadefor the 3DS. Here’s how Nintendo’s describing the upcoming titles: Announcing Pokémon Omega Ruby and Pokémon Alpha Sapphire for the Nintendo 3DS family of systems! Prepare for an epic adventure exploring a world filled with Pokémon! Pokémon fans first enjoyed Pokémon Ruby Version and Pokémon Sapphire…
Think back. Can you remember a year when there wasn’t a Need for Speed game? The long-running racing series has punched in at least once every twelve months. It’s a bit of a surprise, then, that calendar year 2014 will come and go without a Need for Speed entry. Annual releases for the Need for…
Swords are great, sure. But we all want to shoot things with a bow and arrow from The Legend of Zelda, don’t we? The work done by Tony Swatton and his Man-At-Arms crew is formidable. But they’ve mostly stuck with replicating one kind of video game weapon. The new season of Geek and Sundry’s Arcade…
Remember when sports games used to be weird? Sportsfriends does. There was a time before the Madden-ocracy ushered in a hegemony of simulation-centric sports titles. In games like Ring King, Epyx Summer Games, and Track & Field, you’d be doing weird shit that vaguely resembled a sporting activity but with an energy and fanaticism that…
CEO Bobby Kotick has revealed that Activision is spending $500 million to try and make Destiny a hit. That’s half a billion dollars, which is very likely more money than has ever been spent on a video game before. Dang. Kotick’s remarks—which came in an interview with Reuters—are a big deal, given how tight-lipped big…
Treachery in Beatdown City looks like it could be something special. The indie game from Shawn Alexander Allen is promising a fusion of strategic, tactical combat and side-scrolling brawling. In addition to the intriguing genre mash-up, Allen wants to give players a far more diverse cast of playable characters than most other games. If any…
Ever since the first Iron Man movie, there’s been an expectation about the post-credit sequences that pop up at the end of superhero films. And, yes, there’s one at the end of The Amazing Spider-Man 2. It’s a little different, though. You might even call it a crossover. Here’s your spoiler warning. See, once the…
Before they made people boogie in living rooms with Dance Central or shred plastic guitars with Rock Band, the people at Harmonix made Amplitude, a fantastic, underappreciated rhythm game for the PS2. Folks have been asking for more Amplitude for a long, long time now. Those fans might be getting their wish. The catch is…
Folks got all excited when the makers of The Walking Dead games said they were working in the Borderlands universe. Judging from a few new screens from Tales from the Borderlands, that excitement was warranted. The glimpses below offer a look at new protagonists Rhys and Fiona, as well as already known Borderlands vault hunters…
You’re going to die so much when Super Time Force comes out. After giving us sublime trailers and a look at how you can play as a piece of poop, indie dev studio Capybara Games has announced that their time-rewinding action game will be out on May 14 for Xbox One and Xbox 360 .
Used to be movies and TV shows adapted from Marvel Comics’ superhero universe were almost guaranteed to be terrible. Then, the publisher angled itself into a position of decision-making and control. It’s a strategy that’s led to creative and financial success for movies tied to Captain America, Thor and Iron Man. Now, it seems that…
The great thing about this Peter Parker is that you believe it when he cries. WARNING: Mild spoilers follow for the plot of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 I wasn’t a fan of the first Amazing Spider-Man film when it came out two years ago. Director Marc Webb’s initial take on Marvel Comics’ renowned superhero didn’t…
Ok, Game Boy, you’re 25 years old. Let’s turn you into awesome things. Back when Nintendo’s iconic video game handheld was an actively thriving platform, the Game Boy morphed into a variety of cool shapes and sizes. Luckily for us, artist André Farinha has plenty of Game Boy hardware, enough to modify it into an…
Mode
Follow us
