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Replay – Star Wars: Bounty Hunter
When I was constructing my Fall of the Empire editorial, I spent many days and nights looking back at LucasArts' catalog of games, fondly remember the hits and cringing at the mountain of missteps made...
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Five Noteworthy Video Game Betas
If you’re not playing the Titanfall beta at this very moment, you probably wish you were (I know I do). Respawn is creating a huge amount of excitement by letting players get their hands on its...
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Hideo Kojima Reveals New Details On The Phantom Pain
To go along with our March cover story on Metal Gear Solid V we've given extensive hands-on impressions of the main story mission in Ground Zeroes, but now we're looking to the future. While visiting...
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Five Elements of Earth Defense Force We'd Like To See In Other Games
There’s really nothing else quite like Earth Defense Force. With the new title, Earth Defense Force 2025, almost here, gamers are about to get more giant bug-killing action…but it’s a shame that more...
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Opinion – Making Room For Gaming Fluff
The current prominence and success of the video game industry owes much to blockbuster titles. Series like Call of Duty, Grand Theft Auto, The Elder Scrolls, and Halo have propelled into the mainstream...
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Analysis – Titanfall Is Poised To Set Industry Trends
The Titanfall beta is still in full swing, and if you’re available to play now, Microsoft is conducting a big stress test. Before you jump into your 20 foot tall robotic shell though, here are some...
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Test Chamber – Earth Defense Force 2025
An alien army full of ants, spiders, robots, and spaceships has descended on Earth. Who can stop them? The Earth Defense Force! The most recent entry in the EDF series in available right now (read our...
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How Metal Gear Solid's Artist Helped Pacific Rim
In this bonus video interview, we steer away from our month of coverage on Metal Gear Solid V to share the inside story on an unexpected collaboration. Metal Gear Solid's art director Yoji Shinkawa is...
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Test Chamber – Strider
The evil Grandmaster Meio is oppressing the citizens of Kazakh City once again, and Strider Hiryu sprints to the rescue. The PlayStation 3 and 4 versions are available for download today with the Xbox...
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Looking At Metal Gear’s Non-Canonical Entries
Metal Gear has been all over Game Informer this month, on both our cover and the site. While it has me excited about the main story of Big Boss and Solid Snake, it also got me curious about the Metal...
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Opinion – Younger Characters Are Making A Stronger Impact
Adolescence is a time of conflicting emotions. One minute life is carefree, and then growing up rears its ugly head, dealing hard lessons. Young teenagers are just starting to realize who they are, and...
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Midnight City – Approaching Video Game Publishing From A Record Label...
Midnight City appeared in August of last year with a video showcasing a collection of interesting independent games. The video inspired interest in the games on display, but did little to explain...
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Inside The Unique Technology Behind Metal Gear Solid V
With his roots programming games for Ubisoft in the mid-90s, Julien Merceron has worked his way through the halls of Eidos and Square Enix before becoming Konami's worldwide technology director in...
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Places: Kingdom Hearts' Hollow Bastion
There isn’t a world more iconic in all of the Kingdom Hearts series than Hollow Bastion. We were first introduced to it in Kingdom Hearts, which I came into as a kid who loved Final Fantasy. I was also...
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Wish List – Doom
In light of today's news that beta access to the new Doom game is accompanying pre-orders for Wolfenstein: The New Order, it got us thinking about what we'd want in a modern Doom. According to a Kotaku...
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Question Of The Month Reader Responses: Issue #251
A few months back we asked readers whether the concept of lives in video games is still relevant. While most respondents pointed to save states and checkpoints as the modern replacement, others believe...
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The Changing Definition of 'Gamer'
Every Tuesday, I co-host Video Games Weekly, a radio show on the local sports talk station (KFAN 100.3) in the Twin Cities. During our last show, we got a call from a young listener which got me...
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Five Mobile Ports Worth Tracking In 2014
The Android and iOS marketplaces have more than their fair share of Clash of Clans clones, pick-three games, and endless runners, but sometimes we want something more along the lines of the games we...
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Wish List – A New Jak And Daxter
One of my favorite series from the PlayStation 2 era of consoles was Naughty Dog’s Jak and Daxter. The developer has no announced plans to create a new entry in the franchise, but that doesn’t mean we...
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Hideo Kojima: The Full Interview
Game Informer traveled to Kojima Productions' headquarters in Tokyo, Japan in preparation for our Metal Gear Solid V cover story. In addition to playing through MGS V: Ground Zeroes’ main story mode...
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