Sony’s Shuhei Yoshida On The Lessons Of PlayStation 3 And The Future Of...
Earlier this week at Sony’s New York City PlayStation 4 launch event, we had the chance to speak with president of worldwide studios Shuhei Yoshida. During our conversation, we talked about the lessons...
View ArticleOpinion: Microsoft And Sony Show True Class At PlayStation 4 Launch
I’ve recently opined about the console wars and how the bickering that takes place between groups of fans isn’t the same thing as competition. Last night, Microsoft and Sony drove that point home by...
View ArticleLive Stream – Need for Speed: Rivals Multiplayer
Need for Speed: Rivals launched for PlayStation 4 today, and I'm playing the living hell out of it. I'm looking for a group of people to join me for multiplayer at 2 PM CT today. If you have your...
View ArticleWraith And Ranger: Shadow Of Mordor's Talion
In Tolkien's Lord of the Rings series, Aragorn and the other Rangers of the North - along with their counterparts in Gondor - have a mysterious and alluring quality. These scouts live off the land and...
View ArticleEverything You Need To Know About Xbox One
It’s been an exciting two weeks in the gaming industry. In less than one week, we’ll be welcoming a second next-generation console into our living rooms. Whether you’re biding your time for Xbox One...
View ArticleLords Of Waterdeep iOS Trailer
Playdek is bringing Wizards of the Coast's award-winning Dungeons & Dragons-themed board game Lords of Waterdeep mobile. Check out how it plays in this trailer. Lords of Waterdeep is a fantastic...
View ArticleReplay – Toy Commander
Odds are you've never seen Godzilla wearing a bunny outfit, unless you played No Cliché's excellent Dreamcast title Toy Commander. We take a look at this charming game in this week's episode with...
View ArticleSuper Replay – Cyberia 2: Resurrection – Episode 1
I don't know how it happened, but here we are again. Cyberia is the worst game that I've ever beaten (watch our Super Replay to see for yourself), and somehow the Replay crew has cornered me into...
View ArticleLessons From The PlayStation 4 Launch That Microsoft Can Learn
The launch of the PlayStation 4 is behind us, and for the most part it went off without any major catastrophes. Some people are reporting issues, and others are having trouble signing into the...
View ArticleTransforming PlayStation 4’s Twitch Streaming From Good To Great
Anyone who purchased a PlayStation 4 this weekend now has the tools to stream games with the push of a button. Most of the Game Informer staff dabbled in this a bit, and the results were generally...
View ArticleFreedom In Mordor: Middle-earth's Next-Level Sandbox
After decades working on sports and strategy games, Michael de Plater is leading the effort to put players in to the land of Mordor. As the director of design, de Plater is pulling from his experience...
View ArticleGame Informer's Xbox One Coverage Hub
The Xbox One is nearly here, and all eyes are on Microsoft to see if the company can meet or beat the expectations set by last week's debut of PlayStation 4. Prepare for launch by getting caught up on...
View ArticleFive Games That Did Motion Control Right
After the immediate success of the Nintendo Wii, the industry was seemingly obsessed with motion control for a few brief years. Sony immediately shoehorned motion control into the Sixaxis, and later...
View ArticleThe Strange And Compulsive Habits Of Gamers
Most gamers instinctively do something inexplicable while playing games. Some will spend hours managing their inventory in an RPG, as if placing a fire staff next to a book will actually cause a house...
View ArticleOpinion – What I Learned While Arguing About Knack
Gamers had all weekend to play Sony's launch lineup, and Japan Studio's new action/platformer has emerged as the most divisive title of the bunch. My time with Knack so far has been largely positive,...
View ArticleTest Chamber – Dead Rising 3
Capcom Vancouver's Dead Rising 3 is one of the most exciting titles leading the next-gen charge. This Xbox One title features a huge city packed with an obscene amount of zombies ready for slaying. We...
View ArticleOpinion: It's Not About Winning
Games have rules. Those rules are there to show us how to play the game, and we play that game because we want to win. Winning is the goal of almost every game. But winning is rarely the point. I...
View ArticleXbox One: What We Know, What We Like, What We Need More Time With
We’ve had the Xbox One in our offices for a while, and we’ve already reviewed the first batch of launch games. How’s the hardware itself, though? Just like the PlayStation 4, it’s a capable machine...
View ArticleHow To Make One of Tearaway's Papercraft Models
Media Molecule's Tearaway is one of the year's best games, and it's also got the year's coolest unlockables: real life papercraft models that you can print out and make in real life. Though I'm not...
View ArticleExploring Shadow Of Mordor's Place In Middle-earth
Update: Shortly after publishing this story filled with conjecture about the events of Middle-earth around the time Shadow of Mordor takes place, the official Twitter account for the game revealed that...
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