Security stand with umbrellas in front of the event tent set up for the unveiling of Microsoft’s new Xbox in Redmond, Washington May 21, 2013. REUTERS/Nick Adams
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Hack the planet with Watch Dogs
I’m just going to jettison all pretense of cynical aloofness here and say it: It’s been a long, long time since I’ve wanted to play a game as badly as I want to play Watch Dogs.
Recap of video game chat
QMI Agency’s Steve Tilley hosted a live chat on the latest in video game news on April 23. Read the recap here.
God of War: Ascension review
The always-angry Kratos returns today in God of War: Ascension. Is the game worth your time and your dollars?
He’s cleaved hundreds of creatures in half with his whirling chain-blades, plundered thousands glowing orbs from heavily guarded chests, bedded a dozen perky-breasted nymphs – often more than one at a time – and used his inhuman strength to literally move mountains.
Kratos, the big, bald badass we’ve come to know and love over eight years of God of War games, has every reason to be tired. And in God of War: Ascension, his weariness is finally beginning to show.
New Castlevania delivers the goods
“Great to see you, Ted. You’ve really lost weight!”
Any new release in the Castlevania franchise is a pretty big deal, and fans have been especially eager for Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Mirror of Fate, which lands on the Nintendo 3DS today.
Our resident video editing/producing guru James Groome somehow overcame the technical barriers of capturing gameplay footage off a Nintendo 3DS screen, and put together an awesome standalone video review. Check it out here.
Tomb Raider is a reboot done right
Hollywood’s appetite for reboots is so insatiable that you can almost count the minutes between a franchise running out of steam and the announcement that it’s being revived. Spider-Man 3 sucked? Reboot the series! That Superman reboot didn’t work out? Just reboot it a second time! Christopher Nolan’s all done with Batman? Maybe he is, but we aren’t! Reboot!
Video game reboots used to be a relative rarity, but with Halo 4 marking the return of Master Chief and DMC: Devil May Cry giving the demon-slayer Dante new moves and a new haircut, it makes sense that video gamedom’s most famous heroine is being reinvented for a new decade.
Assassin’s Creed IV sets sail, mateys
Yo-ho, yo-ho, an assassin’s life for meeeee.
The first time I played the seafaring segments of Assassin’s Creed III, I thought, “Wow, this looks really cool. But why would Ubisoft go to so much trouble to design all this naval warfare stuff? It seems like a lot of work for such a minor part of the game.”
I think we now have the answer.
Sony’s PlayStation event recap
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Watch the recap of our coverage of Sony’s PlayStation 4 announcement in New York City.
L.A. Noire bloopers are hilarious and amazing
But officer, I have an alibli… an alibia… I was someplace else!
Rockstar Games’ period crime thriller L.A. Noire wasn’t a perfect game, but it tried something interesting by requiring players to study the faces of in-game characters and determine if they were being honest or lying. This hinged on a new form of face-capture technology in which actors’ faces were filmed from various angles and recreated in stunningly realistic detail in the game.
But what happened when the actors muffed their lines?
Is this the PlayStation 4 controller?
Destructoid has posted an image of what looks like a (prototype?) PlayStation 4 controller, plugged into a development kit. That, or clever mock-up designed to fool suckers like us.
The source of the image isn’t immediately clear, but it actually looks pretty legit. Thus, time for some observations and wild speculation!
