In: Articles by Leah "WhiteGodiva" Haydu
13 Mar 2011Realistic racers with realistic cars don’t appeal to me very much. If I’m going to drive around a track during my gaming time, I want stuff to blow up every once in a while. Seems like a reasonable request, right? Developer Isopod Labs and publisher Autumn Games oblige my taste for virtual fiery doom with [...]
In: Articles by Nick "Alsop Live" Dinicola
12 Mar 2011One of my main goals at PAX East this year was to play Brink, the upcoming multiplayer shooter from Splash Damage, since my fellow GameHounders had made such a big deal out of it at PAX Prime last year. After finally getting my hands on a PS3 version of the game, I can safely say [...]
In: Articles by Anthony McGill
12 Mar 2011Warner Bros. has taken the Mortal Kombat series back to its roots in the truest sense. The only Mortal Kombat games I’ve ever really been into were Mortal Kombat 2 and 3 on the SNES. Thankfully, developer NetherRealm Studios embraced the series’ golden age and made some great choices in recreating a classic gameplay and [...]
In: Articles by Leah "WhiteGodiva" Haydu
12 Mar 2011Hey, StarCraft fans, you know how awful it was to wait for the sequel to be released? While strategy games have never really been my thing, I’ve had to wait almost as long for a sequel to American McGee’s Alice, and now that the wait is almost over, I confess, I feel your pain. Alice: [...]
In: Articles by Leah "WhiteGodiva" Haydu
11 Mar 2011Imagine that when you wake, your world is falling down around you, and you must pull together the shards to start again. As “The Kid,” hero of Supergiant Games’ Bastion, that’s exactly the case. Your world and everything in it have been ripped apart by “The Calamity,” which is precisely what it sounds like: An [...]
In: Articles by Leah "WhiteGodiva" Haydu
11 Mar 2011I actually didn’t even have the upcoming Housemarque-developed, Ubisoft-published platformer Outland on my radar until I happened to pass by and notice its distinctive visual style, which intrigued me enough to go in for a closer look. Outland samples from the plates of several different games that have come before it, but it doesn’t glut [...]
In: Articles by Nick "Alsop Live" Dinicola
11 Mar 2011You’re sitting in the back of a truck, across from your three squadmates who look exhausted and lost in thought. Their heads hang down, swaying and bouncing with their gear and guns as the truck rumbles along. Suddenly on of them speaks, “I just realized I forgot to pay my taxes.” So begins the live [...]
In: Articles by Leah "WhiteGodiva" Haydu
8 Mar 2011Yes, I know it’s March. I’m not late; I’m retro. Anyway, since everyone else has already had his or her say, I wanted to put my two cents in and talk about my favorite games of last year. My “best of” lists tend, in general, to be a bit different from most people’s, largely because I [...]
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