The first two words of this game’s title trigger thoughts of stealth action, sprawling tales of global conspiracy and a kind of stylized hero who’s always been ready for the big screen. That’s why the last two words (Rising and Revengeance) are so important in understanding the departure Metal... Read More
If you ignore the voice-over actor doing his best TMZ announcer impression, the info included in this fresh trailer for Gears of War: Judgment is good stuff for those of you thirsty for multiplayer details. For months, the promise of OverRun has dominated my expectations of the game's multiplayer component.... Read More
This game will dominate. The pedigree of Activision (Call of Duty) and Bungie (Halo) is enough to instantly and forever put Destiny on the minds and in the hearts of gamers everywhere no matter what happens. That is, months from now, Destiny could be a steaming pile, but because of the history of the... Read More
The damsel-in-distress thing has been such a staple of video games and movies for so long because the premise always works like gang busters. Heroic dudes need things to be heroic about and a chick that needs help always fits the bill. You think Luke Skywalker would've been swinging on ropes and shooting... Read More
In the midst of our recent trouser-troubling cosplay enthusiasm, we’ve egregiously overlooked gaming’s first lady: Lara Croft. 1996‘s Tomb Raider introduced the first balls-out, action hero lady-protagonist gaming ever had (a bosomy Arnold Schwarzenegger, if you will. Which is a sexy, as opposed... Read More
Image source: iofbeholdermen. Spoiler: No. No he hasn’t. [caption id="attachment_2395391" align="alignright" width="200" caption="Refusing to pwn noobs since 1732."][/caption] Happy (almost) Birthday, Mr. Washington! As the great man himself once proclaimed, “video games -and I really must... Read More
So you can take control of the Enterprise like a kind of space flight combat game, play cooperatively with Spock and Kirk in third person shooter action and walk around the Enterprise as a game world environment. What else would you want from a Star Trek-based game? Check that, a rebooted Star Trek movie-based... Read More
Okay, this retro "documentary" series on the mysteries surrounding the floating city of Columbia featured in Bioshock Infinite is really starting to creep me out...but in a good way. I didn't even know that was possible. I remember watching investigative reports and documentaries made in the 1970s and,... Read More
Yes indeed, gentlemen. It’s not often that you get to make a headline of that caliber, so let’s revel in it awhile. Show us your reveling faces. ...No, that one’s more constipated drug addict... that’s Jack Nicholson shoving his stubbly face through the ax-ravaged door in The Shining... Marginally... Read More
You know the drill: Crysis 3 has a pre-launch video series created by Albert Hughes who directed the pivotal documentary "American Pimp" once upon a time. In this clip you'll be treated to some fine post-apocalyptic style visions of New York City where the left over bits of skyscrapers have been overgrown... Read More
Who in the bloody hell would challenge Aquaman to a fight underwater? We just have to start there in this discussion about the latest trailer for Injustice: Gods Among Us. Aquaman, the King of Atlantis, the Fishiest of the Fishy is a bad ass with his ability to control sea life with but a thought and... Read More
About 71 years from now --according to Capcom's upcoming action game Remember Me-- there will be special agents that can steal and rewrite memories by directly interfacing with our brains and change the world in the process. Sounds pretty awesome, because clearly nobody would ever do anything nefarious... Read More
We’re all familiar, gentlemen, with the old adage stating that men think about sex every determined-by-bullshittery-and-lies quantity of seconds. How this is remotely plausible for even the randiest of dudes (our good friend and compatriot Hobo Joe, the horniest hobo in the U.S, and his blue balls... Read More
The animated film "Wreck-it-Ralph" had a clear focus on arcade games and the now-nearly extinct arcade culture where ornately decorated wooden cabinets, specialized monitors and game-specific controls once ruled the day. When the movie-going public took their kids to this latest Disney money magnet,... Read More
Not that it wasn’t already, naturellement. We’ve been propelling high frequency incontinence-inducing gameplay excitement of this caliber into your faces for some time, after all. (See also: this blade-brandishing lunacy, for instance). As such, it’s plain to the more attentive of us -or just those... Read More
