As a lifelong gamer who’s lived through six generations of home consoles and their concurrent hype, I don’t impress very easily. I’m not completely cynical, mind you; I can appreciate nice visuals and inventive concepts when I see them. It’s just not very often, these days, that a well-executed game will get more than a [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 22, 2008
The British are coming! Also, the French, Russians, and possibly the Ottomans are coming, to Empire: Total War for the PC, the 18th Century addition to the Total War franchise. Until they get here, however, we’ll have to settle for preview coverage, like the demonstration we got last week at the E3 Summit while visiting [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 22, 2008
We were just about to leave the show floor at E3 2008 for a private appointment, but saw something beautiful out of the corner of our eye. Rain, thick and as realistic as we’d ever seen, was completely drenching a gritty, war-torn world just the other side of a large LCD screen. We had to [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 21, 2008
At last week’s E3 Summit, we stopped in to visit Eidos, and check up on what Lara Croft has been up to since her anniversary. It would seem she’s staying active, which is nice for a franchise her age. Eidos treated us to a sneak peek at Tomb Raider: Underworld, showing us a few of [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 21, 2008
GameCyte gets all buddy-buddy with Far Cry 2’s narrative designer. Who knew an free-roaming FPS could tell such tales?
Continue reading...Friday, July 18, 2008
I believe the record will show that Rhythm Tengoku is one of my very favorite titles. The GBA cart still occupies my DS, and I’ll still break out a few quick rounds when stuck on a bus, or plane, or if someone is boring me. So, when a trek through the E3 show floor led [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 18, 2008
I think it’s fair to say that the most impressive thing Harmonix and MTV Games did at E3 this year had nothing to do with their game. Still, I was invited to come and take a look at Rock Band 2 at a quick presentation, and I got to spend a little time with the [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 18, 2008
To give you a general idea of the sheer destructive fun to be had in Mercenaries 2: World in Flames, consider this: at the very beginning of my hands-on demo at E3 2008, I hijacked a tank. Guided through a quick-time event via a series of on-screen button presses, I leapt onto the armored behemoth’s [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 18, 2008
Out on the show floor at this year’s E3, the Microsoft displays rotated between a few of their new Xbox Live Arcade titles. When Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2 was made available to play, the colorful, frantic graphics drew me in, and when the controller got into my hands, I was hooked. I was able [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 18, 2008
Holy plastic shrapnel, Batman! A visit to Warner Bros. Interactive’s booth at E3 gave GameCyte a guided tour, and some hands-on gameplay, with LEGO Batman. A representative of Traveller’s Tales was on hand to guide us through the latest installment in the developer’s surprisingly fun LEGO game series. We were able to play an entire level of [...]
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Tuesday, July 22, 2008
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