(opens in new tab) Think web series are just failed movies cut up into three-minute chunks and shoved online? Think again. Going online today, post-apocalyptic drama H+ was made specifically for the web, and boasts top-notch sci-fi talent including X-Men director Bryan Singer and Buffy ’s Alexis Denisof. It’s set …
Read More »RaiderZ closed beta key giveaway
Try out one of the newest MMO’s from Perfect World Entertainment, RaiderZ. Create your character, gather a group and battle giant monsters as they try to smash, grab and eat you alive. RaiderZ doesn’t tote the average MMO tropes, instead it features real-time combat where you’ll have to actively block, …
Read More »Angry Birds Trilogy preview Leaping out of phones and onto a TV near you
We recently had a chance to go hands-on with the console version of the Angry Birds Trilogy, which plays just like the Angry Birds you’ve already put a few hundred hours into with its iPhone or iPad incarnations. You pull back on the slingshot with the analog stick (or circle …
Read More »Persona A beginners guide
The newest fighting game from the Arc Systems, the team behind Guilty Gear and Blaz Blue, is out this week and for most fighting game fans, that’s all they need to know. But the game in question, Persona 4: Arena, has a ton of history attached, reaching back as far …
Read More »Transformers battle card game coming to Android and iOS
If you are looking for a new mobile game to help your commute time flow a bit faster, you might want to keep your eye out for the newest title from mobile games developer ngmoco.Transformers (opens in new tab)(working title) is a battle card game that looks to have some …
Read More »Why the notion that games need photoreal graphics to tell better stories is backward nonsense, whatever 2Ks boss says
A lot of nonsense gets talked in this industry. And a lot of it is best ignored. But sometimes you come across a statement so wrong on so many levels that it’s like a delicately-balanced Jenga stack of wrongness, with so many multi-layered wrongs intricately holding each other in place …
Read More »3DS XL review
Though everyone expected Nintendo to release a hardware upgrade for the 3DS, no one really thought the first revamp would be the 3DS XL. In the past, Nintendo has iterated on its handhelds with leaps and bounds, creating gigantic upgrades in the early years of the system’s life. The DS …
Read More »BLASTERMIND The Numbers Game
Searching desperately for a theme to this week’s quiz, we grasped onto the straw known as “ Warehouse 13 ’s fourth season premiere”. Yep, this week’s selection of films and TV shows all have numbers in their titles! And what’s more, as well as identifying them, we want you to …
Read More »Guild Wars 2 has us excited to finally play an MMO with friends
Guild Wars 2 sports plenty of clever modifications and changes to the typical MMO formula (which you can read about in our last Guild Wars 2 preview) – but none have us as optimistic as the leaps ArenaNet has taken towards fixing the biggest problem with massively multiplayer online RPGs: …
Read More »BLOGBUSTERS Fantasy Franchise Crossovers
Mash-ups are for life, not just for a Glee episode. They’ve also been around for ages and are just as prevalent in movies, books and TV shows. Marvel and DC creative teams would regularly, secretly, hint their characters were in the same universe during the 1970s; Pixar loves hiding the …
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