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.
Posts Tagged ‘PC’
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.
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?
Globe & Mail says Assassin’s Creed III “distorts history”
This just in: video games are not historically accurate.
In an editorial that sparked a minor twitter firestorm Thursday, the Globe & Mail lashed out against Ubisoft Montreal’s action-adventure game Assassin’s Creed III, claiming the game “distorts history” by imagining a Native American hero who fights against the British redcoats during the American Revolution. That sound you hear are thousands of gamers’ palms simultaneously slapping against their faces.
Don’t be fooled, youth of Canada. This Native American assassin killing redcoats as part of a secret war against the Templars, as experienced by a guy from 2012 who is inside a high-tech brain-scanning machine that also allows him to visit the First Crusade and the Italian Renaissance, is NOT historically accurate.
Skyrim wish list comes to life
Riding into battle against a giant in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim? Um, yes please!
I love The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. For all its little flaws and bugs and nuisances, it’s a meal I intend to keep nibbling on over time, stretching my Skyrim experience out as long as possible. Maybe 100 hours, maybe more. We’ll see.
But after seeing this video, my love for Skyrim feels slightly tainted.
Asus G74Sx, The Gaming PC of Christmas?
At Christmas time, it can be hard for tech-impaired parents to pick a great PC for their game crazy kids, especially if the kid is actually a 21-year-old with a Battlefield 3 or Skyrim addiction like me.
So I was really interested when I got a peek at Microsoft’s Premium Collection of PC’s this week. The software giant put together a list of super-powered computers for this Christmas, each with a different user in mind, including gamers.
While you can check out the full Premium Collection at Best Buy, I asked Marc Aube, Product Marketing Director at Microsoft, why they chose the Asus G74Sx as the best gaming PC under the Christmas tree this year.
Steam database hacked
Steam, Valve Corporation's popular online gaming platform and digital store for the PC and Mac, is the latest victim of hackers.
In what’s becoming an all-too familiar tale, the immensely popular online gaming service Steam has apparently been compromised by hackers, as was speculated when the site’s forums were taken offline yesterday.
The return of Grand Theft Auto
Grand Theft Auto V will see the series return to the fictional city of Los Santos. Apparently Dead Rising's Frank West lives there.
It says something about Grand Theft Auto that the release of a mere preview trailer for a new installment in the series generates more buzz than some game franchises get over the course of their entire existence.
