Insomniac Games has expanded well beyond the Ratchet & Clank franchise during this console generation, beginning with the PS3’s Resistance: Fall of Man and continuing with their newest game, Fuse. Published by EA, Fuse marks Insomniac’s most public multiplatform escapade, shipping on Xbox 360 in addition to the developer’s traditional PlayStation home. But even with […]
The discussion about whether playing violent video games causes real-life gun violence has been raging for years. A new report today by Media Coalition Inc. is bound to fuel that fire, claiming that the harm of violent video games has “skewed the debate and fuels misguided calls for censorship.” Although the report’s headline focuses on
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So much for all that pro-Sony momentum coming out of E3…. For all the goodwill and the subsequent rush on PS4 pre-orders at Amazon and GameStop, Sony undid much of the positive press this week when a faulty PlayStation 3 firmware update to version 4.45 bricked “a small number” of PlayStation 3 consoles. Now, Sony
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Man of Steel is doing its best in the theaters to beat back the kryptonite of Week 2 blues, but that’s not stopping Warner Bros. Interactive from leveraging the film’s awareness by announcing a new Superman-themed round of DLC for Injustice: Gods Among Us. The latest DLC for the game, which is comprised of two
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With just a few weeks before The Lone Ranger hits theaters (and Johnny Depp tries to pull off Tonto), now’s a great time to discuss the Disney Infinity Lone Ranger Play Set, which we got to play at Disney Interactive’s E3 booth. The game world included in the play set will provide a host of
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The creators of BioShock 2 are hard at work on The Bureau: XCOM Declassified, and today we learned about their plans for the pre-order and post-launch downloadable content (DLC) for the game. The first DLC pack will be available exclusively to Xbox 360 players. The Bureau: XCOM Declassified is currently slated to release for Xbox
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In the days following E3, we’ve been discussing the newest toys-to-life craze in the videogame world: Disney Infinity. Borrowing a page from Activision’s Skylanders games, the latest of which (Skylanders Swap Force) we’ll be previewing extensively soon, Disney Infinity uses real-life toys that can be placed on a portal so that figure appears in the
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One of the busiest booths at E3 2013 was Disney Interactive, largely because of their t-shirt press but also because of Disney Infinity, a new game a la Skylanders where real-life toys can be placed on a portal to have that figure/character appear in the on-screen game. I’ve long been a fan of the Disney
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One of our initial stops at E3 2013 was the Disney Interactive booth to see Disney Infinity, a new game a la Activision’s Skylanders in which players can place a real-life toy on an NFC-enabled portal to have that toy appear as a playable character in the game. The Skylanders games have been two of
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There’s a new puzzler on the XBLA landscape today called Storm, which has been referred to in the past as a cross between Braid and Flower. Certainly that’s a good comparison, so you may just want to take note and download it today. PS3 owners, you’ll have to wait until next week, as the game
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