After the gaming blizzard that was October and November, publishers are winding down the year with only a handful of releases in December. Still, a month that features Far Cry 3 and Hawken can't be completely forgettable, can it?
Now that the world hasn't ended after all, let's pretend we got caught in the apocalypse anyway, as we pick our the top wastelands we'd like to inhabit...
Think every game this generation was brown, grey, or orange? These 14 games will prove you wrong...
Whether
they’ve advanced menacingly toward our camera lenses, hidden their faces when
we look at them or just sort of hovered aimlessly, ghosts have been a semi-constant
threat in videogames almost since the medium was invented. One of the great
things about games, however, is that they’re a way to explore unusual
viewpoints – and every once in a while, they give us a chance to see through
the eyes of these undead phantoms, and find out what it’s like to flit
insubstantially through an earthly plane that’s perpetually, almost comically
afraid of us.
Only
a handful of games have actually offered a chance to see things from the proverbial
Other Side, but these are our favorites...
You know what they say about walls, right? They're made to be broken...
There are plenty of real-world truths that make their way into video games--even if they're often a tad exaggerated...
Bethesda, Blizzard, DICE - we know they make the hottest games in the world like Battlefield 4, Skyrim and StarCraft II - but what did they work on before they became famous? What strange games lurk in their back catalogue? We dig into the pasts of 8 huge studios and find some real surprises.
You think you've fought some huge video game enemies in your day? These big bosses will make those guys look like pipsqueaks...
You know what they say about walls, right? They're made to be broken...
It might be the release of the '80s-tastic Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon that did it, but we've lately been thinking about how the more 'direct' approach of old-school game heroes would fare against the nuances of modern gaming. Really well, as it turns out...