inFamous 2 hands on: Rekindling the spark
Sony Nice to see Cole make it to the sequel with his powers intact … InFamous 2 alreadycrept back onto my radar after its brief presentation behind closed doors at last year’s E3, but it came back in a...
View ArticleDeus Ex: Human Revolution hands on: Reclaiming the body
Square Enix Heading into a bright vision of the future (using robot legs). The gorgeous, amber-lit world of Deus Ex: Human Revolution feels a lot like “Ghost in the Shell” by way of “Blade Runner.”...
View ArticleBatman: Arkham Asylum demo: A knight on the town
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment Taking the high ground comes naturally to the Batman. Update: It’s now been confirmed that the Riddler will play an expanded role with more elaborate puzzles for...
View ArticleA first look at the first 3DS games
Launch titles are always an iffy proposition, and so it’s only natural to approach the first crop of games for the 3DS with some skepticism. With the 3DS, it’s a matter of the system’s new features and...
View ArticleTurtle Beach Ear Force PX5: Drawing a line in the sand
Console gaming is a pretty equal playing field, financially speaking. You either have the game to play or you don’t, and no amount of special-edition knick-knacks will change your basic experience with...
View Articlede Blob 2, Okamiden and PlayStation Move Heroes: A few familiar faces
THQ It’s great that we’ve had such a strong run of games in the first quarter of the year, but a lot of the bigger titles in the past few weeks seem to be lacking in personality. As ambitious as Crysis...
View ArticleHow many EA games is too many?
Electronic Arts Shift 2 Unleashed was a fun racer to review – but have we been covering too many games from the same publisher? Since Playing Games is a weekly column tied to the print version of the...
View ArticleYoostar 2 could use a bigger spotlight
Think karaoke, but with movie scenes. It’s not that much of a stretch to recite lines from a scene the same way you would sing the melody of a song. I missed out on the first Yoostar, but Yoostar 2: In...
View ArticlePlaying Games: Q&A with David Kushner author of ‘Jacked: The Outlaw Story of...
Writer’s note: Here’s the full Q&A with author David Kushner published in today’s 96 Hours. “Grand Theft Auto” is one of a handful of video game franchises that made a significant cultural impart...
View ArticleBART map gets the Super Mario treatment
Riding Bay Area Rapid Transit can certainly feel like living inside a video game, so it makes sense that graphic artist and actor Robert Bacon has designed a BART map inspired entirely by the Super...
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