This video isn’t as sexy as it sounds (unless you start up some simultaneous saxophone). For those interested in the PlayStation Vita but who haven’t laid hands upon one, however, it is practical It’s a good look at the handheld’s thumbsticks. And its tiny (though excellent) buttons. And its very shiny rear touchpad.
I’ve got to play Battlefield 3 twice this week at Gamescom. Once on PS3 and once on PC. One was OK and one was amazing. We’ll start with the OK one first. That version was the PS3’s. Making its playable debut at the show, the PS3 edition was there to show off the game’s co-op…
Slick teaser trailers for…pinball machines? It’s a wonderful world we live in.
Or, at least all the crap that used to be associated with them. At the back of Sega’s Gamescom booth this year, where Sonic Generations is displayed front and centre, is a small memorial to the heyday of the furry blue hedgehog. It may look like a bunch of old junk, but one man’s trash…
Germany being mad for the PC like it is, there are a ton of PC accessories, peripherals and other pieces of kit available at Gamescom. Easiest on the eye are these, the PC cases. These are some of the nicer ones we saw during the show. Note that these aren’t custom or handmade ones; they’re…
When we first started playing Assassin’s Creed, all the way back at the beginning of the first one, if you wanted to kill a man you usually had to stab him somewhere. As the series has progressed, though, we’ve slowly been given more and more ways to kill a man from a distance. Knives, pistols…
As appealing as the idea may sound, not everyone wants to drive a giant mech in a video game. Some people just want to watch other people drive them and tell them what to do. At least, that’s what From Software is hoping for with Armored Core V The latest entry in the long-running mech…
Look out! It’s a special Gamescom edition of Fine Art! And when we’re talking about Dontnod’s Adrift, fine is the optimal word. As we saw in the game’s debut trailer, all that’s been released so far of Adrift’s vision of a future Paris is concept art. Which for a feature about concept art is fine…
First announced three years ago, Ubisoft’s I Am Alive has barely been seen or heard of since. It’s widely assumed to have been canned (or at least be in a very deep sleep), but if you feel like checking out what it looks like (or once looked like) anyway, here’s a brief look. Given the…
A big criticism of EA Sports’ annual games, and one that I for the most part agree with, is that each new version is often too similar to the last. The recent exception to that rule, however, is FIFA. In 2009, the game underwent something of a revolution, an all-new system of ball control (the…
Warning: the “game” I saw today wasn’t much of a game at all. All I saw was some concept art, all I heard were some basic outlines of gameplay and a very detailed description of the game’s universe. But as a singleplayer junkie who values story in games and loves pretty art, it won my…
We’ve seen indie PC game Tiny & Big before. It looked pretty good! So when I found out it would be playable at Gamescom, I made sure I could go check it out. Cut some rocks up. Shoot a cactus with a rocket. That sort of thing. To recap: Tiny & Big is a game…
One of the quiet hits of Gamescom so far has been Wildstar, a freshly-unveiled MMO from NCsoft. While it won’t be of much interest to anyone outside the world of MMOs, it does have a great art style, and its blending of fantasy and sci-fi design (along with BRIGHT COLOURS EVERYWHERE) making it very easy…
You know, not every game at this year’s Gamescom is an international best-seller. Some games are made with a more local audience in mind, and few are as German as this one. It’s called Landwirtschafts-Simulator 3D, and puts you in control of…tractors. Just chugging around a farm. Doing farm stuff. We’re not doing much farm…
The Earth is burning. Mankind stands on the brink of extinction. And all I can think about is how pretty I’m going to make my future space gun look. And how much I like an old friend’s new haircut. The Mass Effect 3 demo I caught at Gamescom came in two distinct parts, one a…
Were the Old Republic any other MMO in existence, or even in development, I’d have probably walked away from its Gamescom presentation thinking “oh, this looks slightly interesting”. Considering the license it’s using and the developers behind it, though, I couldn’t help but end up a little disappointed instead. I am a lifelong Star Wars…
We’re big fans of Jonathan Mak’s (Everyday Shooter) upcoming musical platformer Sound Shapes. It looked good at E3, and is again one of the quiet stars of the show at this year’s Gamescom. Here’s why. Sound Shapes is a two-headed beast. One head is the platformer, where you roll around a stage avoiding death and…
Sorry. By “let’s!”, I really mean, “watch me and Mike play them for a bit”. As you can see, Mario Kart is, well, Mario Kart! Super Mario 3D Land was a lot more fun, as it’s the only game I’ve yet to play on the 3DS that’s actually and genuinely improved (thanks to some clever…
When it takes up half your living room floor and doesn’t stop you from coming dead last, you need to question the worth in investing in a WiiCanoe. Note: German Wii attendants become slightly creeped out when you get into the canoe with them.
Microsoft isn’t kidding around when it comes to a Gamescom presence. The company’s booth is enormous, encompassing everything from Kinect bubbles to Forza demo stations to the largest bank of computers playing Age of Empires I’ve ever seen
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