Xenoblade's Director Talks Witcher 3, Zelda Wii U, And His Favorite RPGs
Nintendo has been releasing more and more information on Xenoblade Chronicles X, the next gigantic RPG from Monolith Soft due out on December 4. We recently got a chance to sit down with the game's...
View ArticleThe Future Of Halo's Universe: Video Interview With 343's Bonnie Ross
The Halo franchise is home to a massive number of novels, short stories, comics, podcasts, and of course video games. In the time between Halo 4 and the upcoming Halo 5: Guardians, that list of...
View ArticleRead Our Most Popular E3 2015 Previews
E3 has come and gone and it left us plenty excited, so excited that we filled our website with tons of previews. Keeping track of everything isn't easy during the show. We complied our most popular E3...
View ArticleBlog Herding – The Best Blogs Of The Community (June 25, 2015)
It was a crazy week of blogging thanks to E3. Everyone seems to have a different takeaway from the show, making this week's collection of blogs a great one. Feel free to weigh in on E3 in the comments!...
View ArticleOpinion – Sony And Suzuki Need To Come Clean On Shenmue Budget And Funding
Last night, Shenmue creator Yu Suzuki posted an update to the Shenmue III Kickstarter. The note amounted to an apology for deception regarding the game’s budget and outside investors, including Sony,...
View ArticleThe Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited - Returning To An Expansive...
Day two of my latest adventure in the lands of Tamriel on PlayStation 4 begins with me dodging town guards – apparently stealing every loaf of bread has drawn the ire of the city. It didn’t help that I...
View ArticleAfterwords – Broken Age In Retrospect With Tim Schafer
Double Fine's Tim Schafer answers our nagging questions about how their adventure game wraps up and the increased puzzle difficulty....(read more)
View ArticleA Guided Tour Of Halo 5: Guardians' Newest Map, Fathom
Developer 343 Industries iterates on multiplayer maps for thousands of man-hours before it lands on a design that feels endlessly repayable. This means that even the slightest details of a map are...
View ArticleGenetically Engineering Our Perfect Jurassic Park Game
With the record-breaking box office success of Jurassic World, the Jurassic Park franchise has rampaged its way back to relevance. This got us thinking about Jurassic Park’s many video game iterations....
View ArticleE3 2015 Attendees Choose Their Game Of The Show
Game Informer has already chosen its game of the show for E3 2015, but we wanted to see what the average attendee would choose. Amidst the chaos of E3 2015, Game Informer's Ben Reeves walked the show...
View ArticleThe Origins & World Of Horizon Zero Dawn
Horizon Zero Dawn was one of the games that got gamers buzzing at E3. Its mix of primitive man and animal-like machines in the distant future caught fire with our imaginations. We saw the game...
View ArticleReplay – Marc Eckō's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure
Released in 2003, fashion designer Marc Eckō proved he was also a fairly capable game designer with Marc Eckō's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure.In the game, players play as Trane, a budding street...
View ArticleMario Maker's Makers On The Added Super Prefix, Mario Paint, And LittleBigPlanet
During E3, we had the opportunity to speak with Super Mario Maker producer Takashi Tezuka and director Yosuke Oshino about creating the Mario game where you create. We posted a small excerpt from the...
View ArticleThe Charm Of Yarn And The Reception Of Yoshi's New Island With Woolly World's...
Takashi Tezuka has been with Nintendo since the mid-eighties with important credits on many of Nintendo's most memorable games. He has director and designer credits for games like Super Mario Bros.,...
View ArticleOpinion – Why Nintendo Won’t Give Us 2D Metroid And Other Sequels We Want
Every year when E3 rolls around, analysts and critics start whispering about the possibility that this year could be the year that Nintendo drops a new Metroid game on us. Most years we walk away...
View ArticleOpinion – Why Naughty Dog Shouldn't Make A Sequel To The Last Of Us
I beat The Last of Us a couple weeks ago, but that adventure is still ringing through my head like a brass bell. The game easily sits on my list of the five greatest games from this generation, and...
View ArticleOpinion – Batman: Arkham Knight Is A Brilliant Use Of An Unpopulated Open World
Batman: Arkham Knight delivers on many fronts, including the best narrative found in the series to date and improvements to the already stellar combat mechanics of Arkham games past. Following the...
View ArticleDon't Have Time To Collect Every Riddler Trophy? Here Are Arkham Knight's...
Given the headline, I don't think I need to give a spoiler warning here, but just to be safe here's your all-in-caps, different-colored font SPOILERWARNING!!! This article dives into subject matter...
View ArticleAn Epic Return: The Music And Sound Of Halo 5
The audio team at 343 Industries is putting an enormous amount of effort into the sound track of Halo 5: Guardians. They spent time recording the series' iconic Gregorian monk chants in one of the...
View ArticleOpinion – The Final Fantasy VII Remake Needs To Make Changes
The unveiling of Square Enix’s upcoming Final Fantasy VII remake at E3 seemed almost too good to be true. With the reveal, Final Fantasy fans united in joy and surprise at the prospect of the RPG...
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