Amnesia: The Dark Descent was one of my favorite games of last year.  Beyond being loosely based on H.P. Lovecraft’s The Outsider, which is a story I love, it creates a sense of dread and psychoemotional oppression that is very rare in the horror video game today.  I find it …

It is difficult to take a critical look at massively multiplayer online games.  They’re huge, for one thing and are largely dependent on extraneous variables such as the community that populates them and the quality of post-release support.  However, as a genre the MMO is an important and unusual entity.  We are …

“When you’re a kid there’s three things you want to do. Become an astronaut or become MacGyver or become… this,” says Christophe, a level designer for LittleBigPlanet.
The Playstation Blog posted this video from the ladies and gents at Media Molecule. The 8-minute mini doc tells the story of how two people …

It’s always difficult when you reach the end of a long journey. On March 27th, Nintendo is set to release the successor to its über-successful DS handheld. Ushering in a new era of glasses-free 3D gameplay, the Nintendo 3DS shares much of its design sensibilities with the dual-screen wonder that …

The team at 343 Industries has been handed the Halo baton from series creator Bungie. Now steering the direction of the series, 343 worked with studio Certain Affinity to complete the Defiant map pack for Halo: Reach. Things like map design, gameplay balancing, and weapons placement are things many might …

Last week, Sony and Naughty Dog corralled members of the gaming press to unveil the bane of Nathan Drake’s existence in the upcoming PS3-exclusive, Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception. Katherine Marlowe is the series’ new antagonist and from the sound of things, she and Victor “Sully” Sullivan have a past. Scandalous!
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Moonshot Games might not be as big a name as Bungie but four former Halo developers founded the company and have just released the first trailer from the studio’s upcoming title, Fallen Frontier. Details are slim at the moment regarding platforms and means of distribution but by the looks of …

The legal battle between Sony and electronics manufacturer LG has had a shocking new development. LG has just been granted a temporary injunction, blocking all shipments of Sony’s Playsation 3 console into Europe for a period of ten days. All PS3s are currently being stockpiled in a Dutch warehouse while …

Our upgraded Plasma cutter has barely had time to cool yet the guys and ghouls at Visceral Games have announced a price and date for their upcoming single-player DLC, Severed. The extra story missions follow Gabe Weller and Lexine Murdoch. Players of the once Wii-exclusive, Dead Space Extraction will remember …

We already knew the Nintendo 3DS was coming to North America on March 27th. Until now, details on launch games and software pricing were scant. Nintendo has finally revealed the games it’s shipping for next month’s launch including third party support. In addition to giving some concrete information on which …