On paper, it sounds great: a battle against werewolves in a rain-lashed village at night, a chase through haunted woods, clinging to your horse as you get battered on both sides by monstrous creatures – ridden by more werewolves, no less. But the demo of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow was, for me, a big disappointment. [...]
Following the teaser trailer for the third BioShock game, the first gameplay footage is due to be released on Tuesday 21st September on Xbox Live and Xbox.com. For those who can’t wait, there’s also a short snippet on the latest episode of Gametrailers TV, sandwiched between discussion of Force Unleashed II. The footage so far [...]
Brian Wood, lead developer on Relic Games’s Company of Heroes Online, died on Friday 3rd September in a car accident. His pregnant wife Erin, was hospitalized, though her injuries were thankfully minor. In a statement on their site, Relic said: “Brian was the Senior Designer on the Company of Heroes franchise and a key member [...]
The death knell for PC gaming has been sounding for a while now, but it’s still a fertile ground for interesting and unusual titles. Horror fans seem to be doing pretty well out of the arrangement, with titles like Cryostasis, Necrovision, and Penumbra offering platform-exclusive scares. The latest is Amnesia: The Dark Descent, from Penumbra [...]
Brian Michael Bendis, writer of Daredevil, Ultimate Spider-Man and Powers, is Ken Levine and Shawn Elliott’s guest on the latest Irrational Interviews, a new series of podcasts where the BioShock creators chat to other creative types. The conversation covers the importance of setting in storytelling and the ways in which games and comics bring it [...]
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