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Latest The Last of Us Trailer Shows Why Joel and Ellie are The Last of Us

05/13/2013
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by Ethan Moses in: Previews, Trailers and Scraps

While I never thought that The Last of Us was going to be a wholesome family friendly experience, I may have been a bit naive about the lengths the main characters will have to go to survive. While I believe a “friendship first” approach is the most important strategy for surviving the apocalypse, the recent TV spot for the game makes it pretty clear that Joel and Ellie don’t feel the same way. Looks like I’m going to have to [...]

Monaco Invites You and Your Co-op Crew on a Heist on April 24th

04/18/2013
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by Justin Lacey in: Previews, Trailers and Scraps

Monaco: What’s Yours is Mine was winning indie game awards way back in 2010. Not bad for a prototype. Monaco will have you build a crew of thieves from a set of 8 character classes to “case the joint” and complete the perfect heist that Hollywood will surely use to make its next great movie. The top-down perspective, narration, special abilities of each character, and teamwork featured in Monaco has me ready to reserve a full game couch session with [...]

WTF Is This: Spin the Bottle for Wii U

04/08/2013
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by Justin Lacey in: Previews, Trailers and Scraps

I will say one thing that surprised me about the Wii U is that we didn’t get a flood of minigame collections. We are apparently getting at least one minigame collection, though, that makes me uncomfortable in all the right ways. Spin the Bottle is from Denmark developer, KnapKnok Games, which has worked on experimental party games such as “Dark Room Sex Game (an awkward no-graphics erotic rhythm game) and B.U.T.T.O.N. (a roughhouse game about pushing buttons and cheating.)” In [...]

More! Battlefield! Metal Gear Solid! Trailers!

03/27/2013
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by Justin Lacey in: Previews, Trailers and Scraps

GDC is certainly bringing the noise this year, surprisingly so for the most introspective of the major industry conferences. Of course when you have new tech, who wouldn’t want to show it off. EA and Konami certainly do so after feigning surprise at their worst kept secrets let’s bask in the explosive glow of a few new trailers. Battlefield 4 is coming this Fall? I am shocked. Frostbite 3, you say? Show me 17 minutes of that sexy engine: Wait [...]

Defiance Beta Impressions: Defying Expectations

03/26/2013
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by Ethan Moses in: Previews, Testing

I took part in the Defiance Beta event that occurred this past weekend, something that I’ve looked forward to since first hearing about the MMO-ish third person shooter. Trion has set out to do something that very few have gotten right in the past in ditching traditional MMO functionality for fast paced, reactive combat on a grand scale. Whether or not Defiance will be able to stand the test of time is not something I feel comfortable saying at this [...]

DuckTales Remastered is at PAX East

03/22/2013
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by Ethan Moses in: Previews, Trailers and Scraps

If you like DuckTales and really enjoyed the DuckTales game where you hop around in the guise of Scrooge McDuck, then I have a huge surprise for you (well I don’t, but the people that originally broke the story do). DuckTales Remastered has been teased as part of Capcom’s catalog at Pax EAST. Just watch the teaser trailer as I’ve had way too much to drink today. Hurray…hurray! Sources Joystiq Gamer’s Prey

Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons is Single Player Co-Op for Your Thumbs

03/21/2013
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by Justin Lacey in: Previews, Trailers and Scraps

Starbreeze has made some of my most memorable and atmospheric first person shooter moments of the last decade (Riddick, The Darkness, Syndicate). It has something a bit different in store for its next game, Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons. Brothers is a single player co-op experience where you will be controlling both characters at once. When using a gamepad that means one brother for the left thumbstick and trigger and one brother for the right thumbstick and trigger. Brothers [...]

In Indie News: Bastion Dev’s Next Game and Battleblock Theater Release Date

03/20/2013
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by Justin Lacey in: Previews, Trailers and Scraps

Bastion was a landmark achievement in the transition of indie games into the mainstream and one of our favorite games of 2011. Developer Supergiant Games has certainly been busy in converting Bastion to platforms we never expected for an action-RPG of this caliber (like Chrome and iOS), but that’s not all they have been up to. This weekend at PAX East, Supergiant will be bringing a playable version of its new game, Transistor. What is Transistor, Supergiant describes it on [...]

Saints Row 4 is Full of Even More Crazy Crap, Arriving in August

03/15/2013
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by Ethan Moses in: Previews, Trailers and Scraps

Deep Silver just took August from a crappy and hot stank factory to my most anticipated month of the year; Saints Row 4 has officially been announced! Fans of the original will be happy to find that all the insanity from Saints Row: The Third is back and then multiplied by a million. Those that didn’t care much for the last game, well you can go jump off a bridge. I don’t really know what else to say about this trailer. [...]

Charlie Murder Thickens as Ska Studios Reports In

03/13/2013
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by Justin Lacey in: Previews, Trailers and Scraps

Just in case you were worried about Charlie Murder, Ska Studios has just checked in with an overview video and let’s just say the game is a bit more ambitious than the sneak peek we got back at PAX ’11. Chuck (can I call you Chuck?) and his crew have evolved into a “BrawlPG” complete with character classes, tattoo upgrades, and Anar-chi all within a punk rock world. Charlie Murder does not have a set release date yet, but the [...]