Total Recall: Assassin’s Creed Announcement Trailers
Earlier today, Ubisoft delivered a new trailer for the seventh major Assassin’s Creed game. The franchise has grown and matured quite a bit since it was first announced, so we thought we’d look back at...
View ArticleRight When You Think It's Over: Gaming's Best Fake-Out Endings
Plenty of video game stories are predictable from beginning to end, so it's satisfying when developers try to shake things up a bit. In this feature, we take a look at points in games when you think...
View ArticleFive Licensed Famicom Games That Never Released On NES
On July 15, 1983, Nintendo released the Famicom in Japan. Though the console itself eventually made its way to North America (as the Nintendo Entertainment System), not every game released in both...
View ArticleTest Chamber – Abyss Odyssey
ACE Team and Atlus have brought us Abyss Odyssey, a 2D platformer meshing together fighter, roguelite, and RPG elements. Players descend through the ever-shifting Abyss to find the Warlock causing the...
View ArticleThe Wolf Among Us From The Outside – Part IV
Telltale recently released the fifth and final episode for The Wolf Among Us. This weekend, as part of a continued experiment, I sat down with my wife and watched as she played through it. We’ve done...
View ArticleMeet Battleborn's Thorn, Montana, & Reyna
This week we're taking a look at just a few of the unique playable characters in Gearbox's new cooperative and competitive shooter, Battleborn. On Monday, we revealed the newcomer-friendly space...
View Article35 Developers Share Their Picks For Best Games Of The Generation
You've dissected our picks for the best Wii and Xbox 360 games (and you'll see our PlayStation 3 list on Friday). But what do the developers think are the top games of the generation? We asked several...
View ArticleBreaking Down The Developer Top Five Lists
Now that you've seen the 35 developer lists chronicling their favorite games of the Xbox 360/Wii/PlayStation 3 console generation, it's time to crunch the numbers. Find out which game finished with the...
View ArticleTest Chamber - Magic 2015: Duels of the Planeswalkers
Magic: The Gathering's annual digital release is back with full deck customization and a smattering of fresh cards. Join PC Editor Daniel Tack and GI intern Dimitri Gedevanishvili in Magic 2015: Duels...
View ArticleChronicles – Taking On The Toughest Bosses Of Dark Souls II
Editors Dan Tack and Tim Turi return to the land of Drangleic to face off with an old flame and throw themselves at the mercy of an undead king....(read more)
View ArticleSuper Smash Bros. Ultimate Dream Roster
The current roster for Nintendo's premier character fighter already sits at over 30 characters. Nintendo has reached pretty deep into its well of icons (Wii Fit Trainer anyone?), but that doesn't mean...
View ArticleTop 25 PlayStation 3 Games
When the PlayStation 3 launched in November of 2006, some gamers wondered whether Sony's system would be able to catch up to the Xbox 360's one-year head start. However, even at a higher price point,...
View ArticleMeet Battleborn's Rath, Marquis, & Caldarius
Gearbox's new cooperative and competitive shooter, Battleborn, features so many playable characters that we've devoted an entire week of coverage to highlighting just a few of them. So far we've...
View ArticleThe New Identity Of The Xbox One
Microsoft and its Xbox One have gone through a number of changes since the system was revealed in May of last year. From dropping Kinect and changing leadership, to recently shutting down its TV...
View ArticleA Glimpse Into The Mind of Persona's Art Director
Atlus' Shigenori Soejima is best known for being the man behind the Persona series' art direction. The characters we see and worlds we inhabit are in part thanks to his talent and imagination. We had...
View ArticleReplay – Tiny Toons: Buster Busts Loose Vs. Buster's Hidden Treasure
Many of us hold fond memories of the 16-bit era of colorful, cheery platformers. The Game Informer editors love sharing our nostalgia with one another over uncontested classics like Sonic the Hedgehog...
View ArticleThinking Without Portals – How The Portal 2 Gel Mod Aperture Tag Came To Exist
Recently released on Steam, Aperture Tag rests somewhere between a substantial mod, DLC, and a full game release. It uses Portal 2's assets and and setting, but takes one if its mechanics – the use of...
View ArticleMy First Game – Working On Rygar Instead Of Becoming A Scholar Of Classics
Yoshifuru Okamoto is a producer with Valhalla Game Studios working on Devil’s Third with Tomonobu Itagaki. Along with his producer duties, he also says he is Itagaki’s drinking buddy and bodyguard....
View ArticleWhy Gearbox Is Making Battleborn And Not Borderlands 3
We unveiled Gearbox's next game Battleborn for our August cover story earlier this month. Even though Gearbox is assisting in the development of Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, a lot of fans are curious...
View ArticleTrends That Defined A Console Generation
Our month of features celebrating the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Wii is halfway done. If you have not seen our lists of the best Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Wii games, then spend some time deciding...
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