Is there a genre more resilient than the puzzler? Seriously, decades pass, fortunes wain, oceans rise and platformers give way to shooters, yet puzzle games are always just quietly getting on with things. Timeless to look at and effortless to pick up, whether you’re shifting cubes, connecting lines or chaining colours, this kind of fun is never going to grow old….
Despite the interactive entertainment industry’s manic obsession with relentless technological progress, improved audio visual capability and cutting-edge artificial intelligence, the enduring popularity of vintage software proves that good old-fashioned gameplay remains the biggest draw for most players. All three current console manufacturers offer the ability to digitally download past classics to their systems, and on the PC, retro enthusiasts are ably served by the likes of Steam and GOG….
It fits that a game about precognition should be so ahead of its time. Playing through Free Radical’s psychic-themed stealth shooter today is to tick off a checklist of features big and small that have since become vogue. And yet, in other ways, Second Sight arrived just too late – a misadventure born of unlucky scheduling and scuffles with publishers that led to it launching against the superficially similar Psi-Ops and then being overshadowed by 2004′s heavy hitting sequels to Halo and Half-Life….
Ubisoft and Nintendo would doubtless prefer that one of the biggest news stories of the week never happened. The release of gameplay video showing off the forthcoming Rayman Legends apparently running on Wii U revealed some great stuff: superbly animated 2D visuals spliced expertly with polygon 3D elements, topped off nicely with beautiful cartoon animation and some lovely dynamic lighting….
Beneath my bearded, haggard exterior and receding hairline lies the soul of a 13 year old girl. I like my drinks neon and sweet, got teary during The Muppets and often emit high pitched squeals around fluffy creatures – cats in particular. Though the App Store has no shortage of adorable games starring felines, Kitten Sanctuary might manage to out-cute them all with its delightful mix of traditional match-three style puzzling and pet simulation….
It’s just like old times. There’s a new massively multiplayer online role-playing game out this week! In a box and everything!
This was a much more common occurrence back when I joined Eurogamer in 2008 to work on coverage of MMOs. World of Warcraft’s singular success was about to turn into a boom business and everyone was invited, we very wrongly assumed….
There has never been a worse time to be involved with the games industry. Whether you’re a consumer or a developer, a punter or publisher, we are all infected by a creeping malcontent. The combination of a double-dip recession, ageing console technology and poorly financed corporate monoliths have left us with an industry that’s too scared to try anything new; where the almighty COD buck has shaped the very creativity and structure of an art-form, leaving anything with a jot of personality or artistic ambition dead on arrival….
Ratchet & Clank HD Trilogy has had its PlayStation 3 release date pushed back from 16th May until early June, developer Insomniac has announced.
A note on its Twitter feed earlier today stated, “We’ve been informed the Ratchet & Clank HD Trilogy has been pushed back a bit in Europe to early June….
Early concept footage of what would later become Assassin’s Creed has found it’s way onto the web, showing that Ubisoft’s mega-selling franchise started out as a Prince of Persia spin-off.
The clip is part of a show reel featured on the website of a sound designer who used to work at Ubisoft, spotted by Twitter leak-hound Superannuation….
A report last week that South Korean mega-publisher Nexon was considering an attempt to buy-out EA was apparently a little wide of the mark, according to the news outlet that originally ran the story.
A new Bloomberg story has clarified that the mooted discussions between the two parties were actually concerning the possibility of Nexon distributing the next FIFA Online offering in Asia….
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