Archive for the ‘Games’ Category

‘Splinter Cell’: Sam Fisher Gets a Partner

There are a couple of new trailers for Tom ,due this August before the fall Call of Duty rush. The game’s two-player co-op mode allows you to play as longtime hero Sam Fisher or his new partner, CIA operative Isaac Briggs. You’re tasked with retrieving a nuclear warhead from a group of terrorists. There are 4 mission types, 14 maps and a two-player split-screen option. +Continue Reading

‘Call of Duty’ Takes the Logical Step

After you’ve killed the enemy and they’ve come back as zombies so you have to kill them again, what’s the next logical step for Call of Duty? Ghosts. Of course, there aren’t many details about the plot in the game announcement, so “ghosts” could be a reference to some kind of new stealth mode for players, but let’s hope the idea here is that you’re supposed to take out spirits of the dead. +Continue Reading

George Washington, Tyrant?

Assassin’s Creed just released the final installment of The Tyranny of King Washington DLC pack for Assassin’s Creed III. The package imagines an alternate history where George Washington installs himself as King of America instead of becoming the first president. ACIII hero Ratonhnhaké:ton leads the resistance that wants to overthrow the tyrant and install democracy. +Continue Reading

‘Splinter Cell: Blacklist’ Tries to Save the Wii U

Last year at E3, we saw an excellent preview of Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Blacklist console game from Ubisoft and, even though we expected to see the title in stores by now, the official release date is now August 20th.

The extra time has given the producers a chance to create a long-rumored version for Nintendo’s new Wii U console, one that creates a “strategic mission interface,” designed to take advantage of that Wii U controller that looks like either a big smartphone or a small iPad, depending on your point of reference. The trailer shows off how the GamePad can be used for trirotor drone control, to operate spy cams, select weapons and gadgets and to mark your targets. +Continue Reading

Simcity Has Issues But I Still Want to Play It

by Spawn of Shooter

So Simcity 5 came out abouta month ago and it was an interesting launch at best. Simcity 5 isn’t actually Simcity 5, but it is the fifth installment of the series. On the box it just says Simcity, because EA is stupid—everyone just calls it Simcity 5 or Simcity 2013 (this is the same naming protocol they’re using for the next Command & Conquer, which isn’t Command & Conquer Generals 2, it’s just Command & Conquer). +Continue Reading

Cranking Up the Battlefield Hype Machine

Electronic Arts unveiled a 17-minute gameplay for Battlefield 4 at the Game Developers Conference on Tuesday and posted the video on YouTube. Less than 48 hours later, the clip has over 4.3 million views, proving that all the ailing videogame business really needs is a couple of technological breakthroughs and a hit game to fix its problems. +Continue Reading

The ‘Rivals at War’ Smartphone Experience

The full-blown shooter game experience hasn’t yet translated to Android devices or the iPhone, so the brand-new free-to-download Rivals at War takes a different approach to smartphone gaming.

You assemble a team of warriors, assign them weapons and sit back and watch to see your battlefield strategy unfold. The computer AI controls both teams during the shooter portion of the game, a decision that allows Rivals at War to take advantage of higher-quality lighting and graphic rendering techniques.  +Continue Reading

Defiance: Video Game or TV Show?

Defiance is massive $105 million bet on the future of entertainment. A join project between gaming company Trion Worlds and the Syfy cable network, Defiance arrives next month as both a massively multiplayer online third person shooter game launching April 2nd. and a sci-fi TV series premiering April 15th. +Continue Reading

Surprised by ‘World At Arms’

By Spawn of Shooter

BLUF: I went into this expecting to hate the game. At first glance it looked like a carbon copy of other games I’ve really enjoyed, with some of the disadvantages of playing a phone-based game added in. I wasn’t just wrong, I was way wrong. I’ve been playing this game as close to non-stop as I can get away with for nearly two weeks.

So I was expecting World of Arms from Gameloft to be your basic RTS (Real Time Strategy) or TBS (Turn Based Strategy) game, but it’s not, not really anyway. There’s more of an element of chance to it, influenced by how you play the game and how you use power-ups on the field. Having more advanced weaponry allows you to kill your enemies more efficiently, obviously. You get advanced weaponry with in game currency gained by leveling or you can purchase things with premium currency (which is bought irl with actual money). It’s not a new idea, but it’s a good one. Once you’re sucked in you’re going to want to use some of that allowance to buy a ‘Charger’ tank. +Continue Reading

Blacks Op 2: Getting Started

Gettin’ ready to pop smoke for the day and open up this package of FPS goodness.

Okay, we admit. We expected this game to suck. We wanted this game to suck. Gotta say though, so far.…

This game decidely doesn’t suck. +Continue Reading