With next-gen fever now hitting its stride as we near the May 21 “Xbox 720” unveiling and continue to receive PS4 news from Sony, Bethesda Softworks today unveiled a new Wolfenstein game, Wolfenstein: The New Order, for both the PlayStation 4 and “Xbox 720 / Durango.” The game will also release for the current-gen PS3 […]
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The battle over the next-gen consoles took an intriguing turn today, as word leaked out of Japan that Nintendo is actively investigating the possibility of allowing smartphone games to be played on the Wii U console. The report, which didn’t attribute its news to a source, said Nintendo is looking at enabling the Wii U
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Techland, the developers for Dead Island and Call of Juarez, today announced their next big game is a co-cop slasher for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC called Hellraid. According to the developers, Hellraid features a story-driven hack-and-slash single-player campaign as well as a multiplayer mode “full of intense ‘coopetition’ [in which players] destroy the denizens
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Seth McFarlane, you can do better. For the fans of FOX’s Family Guy, Activision — the storied publisher behind Call of Duty, Doom and Wolfenstein, as well as tons of licensed games — created Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse. The action-adventure game stars Stewie and Brian Griffin and continues the storyline of the “Road
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The oddly-titled Runner 2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien is a great example of a casual, side-scrolling game that keeps players engaged while still keeping things simple. Imagine a combination of side scrolling, forced running and rhythmic Whack-A-Mole, and you have an idea not only of the general gameplay, but of the reasons for this
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Let me preface this Urban Trial Freestyle review by saying that I hope you, dear reader, find this review to be an acceptable length. It’s hard to be verbose when a game stinks. Either I predicted this game years ago, or I’ve played it before, and in either case there’s a reason I’m not playing
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Nintendo reported a slim annual profit in its most recent fiscal year, but an analysis of the company’s sales figures shows a far less-encouraging data point for Nintendo, and one that may not bode well for the company’s new Wii U console. Nintendo was the first out of the next-gen gates last fall when it
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Bethesda Softworks today took the wraps off The Evil Within, a new survival-horror game from Shinji Mikami, but the biggest news may not be the studio’s partnership with “the father of the survival horror genre,” but the fact that The Evil Within is being developed for the PS4 and the next-generation Xbox, aka “Durango” or
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Nintendo’s disappointing sales of the 3DS are well documented, so the most poignant discussion point has been how Nintendo plans to breathe new life into the handheld system. Today we learned how: launching a sequel to The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, an SNES classic and one of the most-beloved Zelda games
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Disney Interactive is hard at work on a game tied to the upcoming feature film “Disney’s Planes,” with every Nintendo platform slated to get a version. Owners of an Xbox 360 or PlayStation device, however, won’t apparently have the same opportunity to take to the skies with characters from the movie. Disney’s Planes, a flying
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