Tron 3.0? Disney’sTronis so ripe for video game adaptation, but there has been a curious lack ofTroninspired games. We’ve only seen a few official titles and basically nothing else I can think of. What happened to those neon colors and harsh geometric shapes coalescing into an 80s view of the future? At the indie arena at RTX this weekend I happened acrossBlack Ice, a game that could be mistaken for aTron 2....
What a pleasant surprise Blood Omen: Legacy of Kainis the latest in a long line of PC games to elicit an “Oh sweet, it’s easily playable on modern machines!” The top-down action-adventure game with the sick af box art isback via GOG— it’ll be $6.99 normally, but for a limited time, it’s just $6.29. Whether it’s tangled-up IP rights — which seems to be themain factor herebetween Silicon Knights, Crystal Dynamics, and Square Enix — or other outside factors holding back a re-release, you love to see a piece of gaming history like this pop up out of the blue....
Inside the mind of Claptrap During today’s Inside Gearbox panel at PAX East, Gearbox unveiled the trailer for the fourth piece ofBorderlands: The Pre-Sequeldownloadable content. The story content picks up after the end ofThe Pre-Sequeland leads into the beginning ofBorderlands 2where the player meets Claptrap in the tundra of Pandora. Jack learns that his recently murdered boss Tassiter had valuable software hidden away inside Claptrap’s mind, so he digitizes the Vault Hunters to go retrieve it....
This episodic sci-fi title will apparently respond intelligently to spoken English Controlling a game with your voice has long been a dream of some developers but most of the time, technology isn’t able to cope with the complexity of speech.Bot Colonyis an episodic, sci-fi adventure game from Canadian studio North Side that is going to allow players to converse with robots in the game through intelligent voice recognition. Players will take control of Jeff Philips, a specialist in robot cognition, who has been sent to a Pacific island being used as alarge-scalerobot testing ground....
It’s beginning to look a lot like Inaba Quite shamefully, I only sawDie Hardfor the first time two years ago, in December and in a packed movie theatre. It was only then that I could fully appreciate the classic argument that rages about the film. No, not whether Hans Gruber is actually a bit tasty (RIP Alan Rickman), but whetherDie Hardis a Christmas film or not. The argument is really just an example of how the seasons and religious holidays interact with both films and computer games....
Bag yourself a fancy set of Future Wheels As part of today’s Xbox Games Showcase, CD Projekt RED (and Keanu Reeves himself) announced that it is opening pre-orders onPhantom Liberty, the delayed DLC expansion for its rollercoaster release,Cyberpunk 2077. The DLC is available to pre-order now on all platforms, priced at $29.99 or local equivalent. Anyone pre-ordering thePhantom LibertyDLC will receive a bonus item in the form of a snazzy muscle car, the Quadra Vigilante....
I’ve seen enough anime to know… Yesterday evening, Double Fine teased some new developments on the classic LucasArts adventure gameDay of the Tentacle. Today and all this weekend, Tim Schafer’s studio will be showing offDay of the Tentacle Remasteredat Indiecade in Los Angeles. For those of us who aren’t near the City of Angels, we have some screenshots to gander. They sure are crisp. It’s especially cool to see howfaithful the translation is to HD....
While there’s a lot ofDestiny 2news to get excited about between the newOnslaught horde mode, areturning and retooled slate of weaponsvia the Brave Arsenal, and theHall of Championssocial space, one glossed-over detail deserves more attention. During the second of threeInto the Lightstreams, Bungie noted that the Gift of the Thunder Gods cache, or one just like it, would appear in the Hall of Champions. For those who might not remember, the last and only other time this chest of goodies appeared was during Season 18,Season of Plunder....
If player accounts are anything to go by, it seems there was anotherDestiny 2bug amid the recent deluge of issues that accompaniedthe Dawning holiday event. Bungie created three limited-time Emblems for the event featuring Commander Zavala, Ikora Rey, and Crow. The Emblems were supposed to be extremely rare at the event’s launch and progressively become easier to earn as the event went on. However, it doesn’t seem like that’s how everything played out in-game....
If you pay any attention whatsoever to gaming reviews, surely you are familiar withMetacritic, a site which presents aggregate scores for games, movies and more based on the reviews of many reliable websites. Recently they have had a bit of trouble with user scores for popular titles such asLittleBigPlanetandResistance 2,with user scores rating far lower than the Metascore — so much so that it seemed people were intentionally abusing the privilege of being able to contribute their own reviews....
The 94+ PTG/MYM/TOTT/GOTG Heroes/FUTTIES T1 and T2 PP SBC has returned toEA FC 24Ultimate Team, and it’s even more rewarding than the last release. While the requirements are same, the pool of available cards have become larger, and it includes FUTTIES items from Team 2 as well. However, it’s always beneficial to check all available rewards to ensure that the card you want can be obtained in the first place....
OnceEA FC 25goes live, Manchester United might not remain as attractive a proposition as it is inEA FC 24. If you believe the latestsocial media rumors, the overall ratings of several footballers are going to take a hit. The rumored overall ratings of Manchester United’s first-team squad come from @exofifa. Of course, any rumored number, before it’s made official from EA Sports, should be taken with a grain of salt. The rumored ratings, do match my expectations and predicted ratings I had done for the club....
The Black Tower is an RPG epic in the style of classic Square RPGs What becomes antiquated will eventually become cool again. It happened to 16-bit sidescrollers and voxels, so why not pre-rendered backgrounds and world maps?The Black Toweris a love letter to PlayStation Japanese RPGs, currently developed by a three person team. The Black Toweris only the second game designed by Simon Mesnard, who released Myst-like adventure gameASA: A Space Adventurein December....
