GDC in a Nutshell
GDC 2013 was . . . . amazing. Inspiring. Eye-opening. Fun. Awesome. Life-changing. Did I already say amazing? Click here to read what your fellow GN-ers have to say about the story in the forums!
Mass Effect 3 “Take Earth Back” Extended Trailer
Hot off the heels from last Sunday’s debut, Bioware releases the extended version of their “Take Earth Back” Mass Effect 3 trailer. And without further wait, here it is: The trailer begins with a young girl playing on the fields with a Normandy ship replica. It then shows the Reapers invading Earth. The cinematic trailer...
Resident Evil: Revelations Review
Oh Resident Evil. How far you’ve come. The horror franchise hasn’t been the same since the release of Resident Evil 4. Some would say for the better, while others would say for the worse. But the latest offering, Resident Evil: Revelations, has something for both new followers and loyalists alike. With Revelations, Capcom has taken...
Unrequited Love: EarthBound’s Gay Tony
Shigesato Itoi’s playfully imaginative and offbeat EarthBound was one of the first Japanese RPGs that I had the pleasure of playing as a child. It’s a game that that holds a special place in my heart, and one that I learned to appreciate more as I grew older. Being only eight years old at the...
Gaming’s Top 5 Sexiest Men and Women of 2011
It’s the week of Valentine’s Day, so I thought I’d do something in the spirit of beauty, lust, and romance. I’m starting off the week by celebrating the sexy faces of gaming with a list of the top 5 sexiest men and women in 2011 (I consulted a lesbian gamer pal of mine to help...
Conservative Activist Speaks Out Against SW:TOR’s Same-Sex Romances
I think we’ve all come to expect a certain level of insanity when it comes to activist groups with the word “family” in them, and the Family Research Council is no different. Tony Perkins, president of the FRC, recently spoke out against Bioware’s planned inclusion of same-sex romance in their Star Wars MMO. Here’s a...
Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3: Will You Save the World or Rule it?
Perhaps feeling a bit unsatisfied with February’s release of Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds, this past November saw a relaunch to the game. After only eight months on store shelves, fans of the fighting franchise got Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3. How well did that sit with gamers? Not very well. To...
Final Fantasy XIII-2 Demo Impressions
On January 10, Square Enix released a demo for their hotly anticipated sequel to Final Fantasy XIII. Wanting to know exactly what all the fuzz is all about, I immediately grabbed the demo and had a chance to play around with it. The demo starts somewhere in “Episode 2″ of the game.
BlizzCon 2012 Cancelled, Returns in 2013
Citing a busy schedule with their focus on big releases like D3 and WoW:MoP, Blizzard has announced that the next BlizzCon will be held in 2013.
ArenaNet Finally Announces Beta Dates for Guild Wars 2!
It’s been a long, excruciating wait for those of us that have been begging ArenaNet for any news regarding the open beta for Guild Wars 2. Finally, in celebration of the Year of the Dragon, ArenaNet has announced that “select press” will be invited into a beta this February. An open beta test will follow in March...
Naughty Dog Unveils New Game – The Last of Us
After the massive success of Uncharted 3, Naughty Dog is in the spotlight again after showing off a new trailer for their upcoming game The Last of Us during Spike’s Video Game Awards. As of now, there’s very little information known about the game. The main protagonists are Joel (which looks like Matthew Fox from...
Piracy and DRM, finding the middle-ground.
In an interview with PC Gamer, developer Projekt Red, creators of this year’s underground hit The Witcher 2 announced yesterday that they had sold roughly over a million copies of the game since the it’s launch in May. However, they also concluded that the game has been pirated over 4.5 million times, maybe even more...
Square Enix Shows New Final Fantasy XIII-2 Trailer
Square Enix today released a new trailer for the upcoming sequel to Final Fantasy XIII. The trailer is called Battle in Valhalla. The trailer shows more about Lightning rather than the new characters that’s been previewed in the previous trailers. In this new trailer, it appears that a big battle is happening between two parties...
Minecraft Set To Release on Friday
Although it seems that everybody has been playing the game for several years now, Notch revealed the news on his Tumblr blog that the complete, non-beta version of Minecraft will be available this Friday, November 18. The last few weeks have been incredibly stressful and emotional in many ways, and I feel so relieved to finally...
Grand Theft Auto V Trailer is Here
After last week’s announcement, Rockstar kept its word of showing a brand new trailer for Grand Theft Auto V. And without further wait, here it is folks. As you can see from the trailer, the game’s location appears to be Los Santos, which could be the fictional city of Los Angeles and its California surroundings,...
Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City gets a launch date and new trailer
With a March 20th release date, Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City is poised to unleash squad-based action onto the streets of Raccoon City and rewrite the history of the events depicted in Resident Evil 2 and 3. Check out the new trailer and see the “missing piece” of the Raccoon City story – the events...
Lollipop Chainsaw’s Halloween trailer makes chainsaw massacres fun again
Blood, sex, and decapitations. Is there really anything more you could want in a game about cheerleaders and zombies? Oh, I guess rock and roll, but that’s there too. Just in time for Halloween, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has let loose a new trailer for Lollipop Chainsaw. And it’s done in grindhouse style! Needless to...
Editorial: Blizzard, jokes, and f-words. *sigh*
Oh Blizzard. You’re too big and cling to the spotlight just a little too much to avoid the wrath of the internet on a semi-regular basis. Like a teen pop star that drunkenly flashes her cha-cha when she passes out on the street, there’s absolutely no redeeming qualities to the video of George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher...
