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Prominent Voice Actor Says Publishers Unwilling To Negotiate Proposed Fee,...
Yesterday, a number of well-known voice actors began sharing their decisions to vote in favor of a strike called by the SAG-AFTRA union. Given the high-profile nature of voice work in the gaming...
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Looking At Metal Gear’s Non-Canonical Entries
We're all playing Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain right now, and as a result, we all have the series' complicated lore and story on our minds. Not all of Metal Gear's entries, however, play into...
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A Look At The Voices Behind Gaming’s Iconic Characters
Voice actors do so much for the characters we spend our free time with. While writing is critical to shaping each character, so much of a character’s personality is driven by a voice actor’s...
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Rise Of The Tomb Raider’s Lara Takes Cues From Terminator’s Sarah Connor
When Rise of the Tomb Raider was first announced at E3 2014, it was done via a surprising trailer. What stands out isn’t Lara as an adventurer or hero. It’s that she was in a psychiatrist’s office as a...
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Blog Herding – The Best Blogs Of The Community (September 24, 2015)
This week we get some blogs about what your lives would be like as video games, Pokémon battles, and a success story about changing the PS4 hard drive. I'd say it's been a pretty good week of Blog...
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Never Played Shenmue? Watch Us Play The First 17 Hours
With Shenmue 3's Kickstarter officially funded, numerous people in Game Informer's community sent in requests for complete Super Replay playthroughs of the first two games in the Shenmue series....
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One Year Later: The Surprisingly Playable Assassin’s Creed Unity
Assassin’s Creed Unity was a complete mess at launch. That fact can’t be sugar-coated; an array of technical issues prompted an outcry from gamers – resulting in an apology from Ubisoft and the...
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Seven Crazy Things That Happened In The Star Wars Battlefront Beta
Everyone is having a great time in the Star Wars Battlefront beta (including our own Brian Shea) and we learned today it will actually be going a little longer, which is great news. Reddit has become a...
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The Big 2015 Parents' Guide To Skylanders: SuperChargers, Disney Infinity,...
Over the past five years, the unlikely success of Activision’s Skylanders franchise has blossomed into a full-blow genre. This year, there are three major entrants in toys-to-life space (not counting...
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How Mafia III's Story "Pushes Boundaries"
We've already given fans a look at the reinvented gameplay of Mafia III, but with this feature we wanted to dive into a crucial aspect of the Mafia franchise: storytelling. With a new creative team at...
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Worried About Gaming Getting More Expensive? It Already Has
Over the past five years, publishers have gotten more creative with how they monetize games. It used to be that the $50 or $60 people paid at the register was the maximum lifetime value publishers...
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Our Hopes & Fears For Assassin's Creed Syndicate
I'm a fan of the Assassin's Creed series, and with AC Syndicate on the horizon (out October 23) I'm excited to once again dive into the boots of another Assassin fighting against the Templars. There...
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Friday The 13th: The Game Stalks Kickstarter With Jason Voorhees Actor
When Summer Camp was announced last fall, its setting and tone evoked memories of the classic Friday the 13th films. It’s been a while since we heard from Gun Media about the game, and that’s because...
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Turning The Page On Star Wars: Battlefront III
This editorial piece originally ran in December 2012 after Free Radical Design's Star Wars: Battlefront III was canceled. With the upcoming release of Star Wars Battlefront from EA and Battlefield...
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What Works (And What Doesn't) In The Witcher 3’s First Expansion
Hearts of Stone, the first expansion for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, is launching on October 13 for $10. The expansion is a self-contained story in which Geralt accepts a monster contract and gets more...
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Test Chamber – Minecraft: Story Mode
The latest IP to receive the Telltale treatment is the wildly popular Minecraft. With no story previously existing in the game itself, Telltale had its work cut out for it in making it still feel like...
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[Update] The Definitive (But Evolving) List Of New-Gen Remasters
Update (10/13/15): We've added some new entries to our list of remasters, including reviews for recent releases like Tearaway Unfolded and Gears of War: Ultimate Edition, plus announcements for new...
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Spoiled! Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
Analyzing the story of Metal Gear Solid V is like unpacking a dusty old box of tangled Christmas lights – once you think you've straightened it all out, you're still left with some burnt-out bulbs....
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Who The Hell Is Mafia III Developer Hangar 13?
With our November cover story on Mafia III, we gave readers a mountain of information on the game. After a shift away from Mafia II's creators 2K Czech (which now serves a support role in development),...
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Five RPGs Genre Fans Should Play This Holiday When They’re Not Playing Fallout 4
This has been a crazy year for role-playing games, both in terms of traditional turn-based PC-style options and action-oriented romps through nightmares and monsters. But the hundreds of hours of grand...
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