For all the problems gamers have had with Diablo III, Blizzard has done a good job about listening to fans, at least from what I’ve seen so far. I doubt it’s easy to take wave after wave and mob after mob of upset fans, especially if your legendary weapons aren’t up to snuff to match […]
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I’ve been thinking a lot lately about pen-and-paper role-playing-games. For one thing, I’ve been trying to devise one that can be played with my kids – or at least my eldest, who is five. This is no small task. Or rather, it takes a very big idea and requires you to harvest out only the […]
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Developers need to make loot matter more in games, in ways that go beyond buffing stats.
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A brief look at just-released Xbox Live Arcade hit ‘Dust: An Elysian Tail.’ “It’s like Dark Souls for me,” my five-year-old daughter told me when she learned there were blacksmiths in Dust: An Elysian Tail. She’d hacked her way through several hordes of goblins in her trek through the opening forest of the game, made it […]
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Blizzard makes truly lovely cinematic trailers and cut-scenes. The Diablo III cinematics were brilliant. The problem, for me at least, is that watching that awesome, giant panda kick the snot out of the orc and human really makes me want to play a game that looks and feels like the cinematic itself. Combat in World of […]
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Two upcoming Sony exclusives take innovative approaches to storytelling in an inherently visual medium.
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Media Molecule’s upcoming PS Vita title takes full advantage of the Sony handheld. There simply isn’t an app for this sort of game.
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Sony unveiled its new ‘Puppeteer’ sidescroller at GamesCom, and it looks like a fascinating twist on the genre.
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Tower Defense in Assassin’s Creed: Revelations was really annoying. I hope Naval Warfare in Assassin’s Creed III is actually fun. It looks fun, but I worry that it will serve more to detract from the actual assassin experience rather than add to it. To aid my more hopeful side, PC World’s Alex Rubens says his own worries that […]
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I’ve only played one LEGO game – Pirates of the Caribbean – and it’s actually quite a lot of fun. Puzzles, sword-fighting, lots of humor, a well-designed co-op mode. A good, light-hearted adventure all around. As a much bigger fan of Lord of the Rings, I’m happy to see it get the LEGO treatment. In spite […]
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