Top 10 Video Game Time Travelers
To celebrate the fact that October 21, 2015 is Marty and Doc's destination date in Back to the Future II, we're taking a look at our favorite video game time travelers. These character don't need...
View ArticleStar Wars To Mob Wars – The Career Of Mafia III's Haden Blackman
With our month of coverage on Mafia III, we've shown you gameplay and talked about the difficult process of founding of the new studio. Now we're taking a deep dive into the career of the game's...
View ArticleHere Are All Of The Multiplayer Specialists You’ll Be Playing As In Black Ops...
Treyarch is shifting the formula for Call of Duty’s multiplayer component with Black Ops III. In addition to taking a further leap into the future with its setting and technology, as well as...
View ArticleTest Chamber – Guitar Hero Live
The second of this year's big music games is finally out, and I spent recent weeks exploring its many songs for our review. To offer some further detail of the way the game works, Jeff Cork and I take...
View ArticleMove Over McFly – Video Games’ Alternate Future Visions Of 2015
Back to the Future II's vision of 2015 didn't quite pan out. With the exception of a Skype-like communication service that the McFly family uses within their homestead, most of the technology in the...
View ArticleActivision Blizzard Forms New Esports Division With ESPN, MLG Vets At The Top
Esports is already a crucial part of Activision Blizzard’s yearly operations, but the mega-publisher is looking to make it a corporate value. The company has hired former ESPN and NFL Network CEO Steve...
View ArticleIs The Xbox One Elite Wireless Controller Worth Its Premium Price? We Weigh In
The Xbox One controller is praised for its form and function, and is more than capable of handling the wear of the average gamer. But with the rise of competitive gaming, some now demand more from...
View ArticleBlog Herding – The Best Blogs Of The Community (October 22, 2015)
Want to know how Splatoon can be improved, if difficult games are worth it, and what it would be like to hang out with Resident Evil's Jill Valentine? Well, this week's Blog Herding is for...
View ArticleThe Gigantic List Of All Rock Band 4's Available DLC Tracks
Rock Band 4 makes the leap from last generation to the modern consoles with a massive catalog of existing Rock Band DLC, most of which is compatible with the latest game. That amounts to over 1,700...
View ArticleStar Wars Characters Who Deserve Their Own Spin-Off Game
A few months ago, we asked readers a simple question: What Star Wars character deserves their own game? Obvious picks like Boba Fett and a wide variety of Darths dominated the list, as well as a...
View ArticleTest Chamber – Dragon Ball Z: Extreme Butoden
A new Dragon Ball Z game released this week for 3DS, so Game Informer's biggest Dragon Ball fans decided to take it for a spin.Join myself and Ben Hanson as we try out the game's alternate story mode,...
View ArticleNintendo Confirms Tri Force Heroes’ Place In The Zelda Timeline
Once a source of great mystery and fan speculation, the Zelda timeline has now become official franchise canon following the release of Hyrule Historia, and Nintendo is more than happy to discuss where...
View ArticleTest Chamber – The Legend Of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes
Tri Force Heroes marks Zelda's return to a multiplayer focus, and we gathered three players to try out the cooperative play.Join myself, Wade Wojcik, and intern Marcus Stewart as we argue over the...
View ArticleWhere Assassin's Creed Should Go Next: The First Civilization
Now that Assassin's Creed: Syndicate is out in the wild, we wanted to revisit this conversation to get your thoughts on the current state of the Assassin's Creed franchise. This article was originally...
View ArticleCrescent City Criminals: Why Setting Mafia III In New Orleans Makes Sense
When you think about mob tales, New Orleans is far from the first city that comes to mind. The five families of New York City, prohibition gangland of Chicago, and glitz and glamour of Las Vegas are...
View ArticleAssassin’s Creed Syndicate: 10 Spoiler-Free Tips For Beginners
With Syndicate hitting retail shelves today, fans of Ubisoft’s franchise are jumping into Victorian London and discovering what’s familiar and what’s new for this year’s installment. For gamers who are...
View ArticleSubmit Your Questions For Our Mafia III Podcast
Our month of Mafia III coverage is coming to a close next week, and now that we're almost done sharing all the details we gathered from our trip to developer Hangar 13 in Novato, Calif., we want to...
View ArticleThe Science Behind Why We Love Loot
This article originally appeared in issue 68 of Game Informer's Australian magazine, written by Nathan Lawrence.A well-crafted loot system converts gamers into bowerbirds [a bird found in Australia...
View ArticleReplay – Evil Dead: Hail To The King
Join the G.I. crew for a terrifying look at the PS1 horror "classic," Evil Dead: Hail To The King. It's terrifying in all the wrong ways.Reiner, Joe, and I do our darnedest to motivate Tim through the...
View ArticleThe Legend Of Zelda’s Weird (And Sometimes Bad) Offshoots
The Legend of Zelda is one of video games’ darlings. It has set many gameplay standards and created numerous innovations for video games over the course of its tenure, and is cited by many as being...
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