Videogame Previews
The American Revolution that is… Ubisoft has offered up a new set of screens of Assassin’s Creed III, and yes, it’s looking great. Most importantly, ACIII looks to cure “Assassin’s Creed Fatigue” with a very different setting, period of time, characters and gameplay.
Square Enix continues to take the Final Fantasy series in unique directions, and with THEATRHYTHM Final Fantasy for the Nintendo 3DS, they may have topped themselves. Read on.
LittleBigPlanet Karting is coming, and today Sony made it official. Being developed by United Front Games, and Media Molecule, the game will take the Play, Create, Share functionality of LBP and Modnation Racers and mash them into a brand new karting game. [Update: More screens and pre-order link]
Starhawk is finally nearing completion, and so far, it is looking to check off all the required boxes for an awesome experience. Single player, local and online competitive and co-op play? check. Awesome transforming vehicles? Check. Action and strategy? Check.
Dishonored is looking more and more like a mash-up of Assassin’s Creed, Hitman and BioShock, and the latest batch of screens offered up by Bethesda and Arkane Studios shows off the unique style pretty effectively.
Avengers Assemble! Zen Studios this morning has announced that tables based on Marvel’s The Avengers Movie, World War Hulk, Fear Itself, and The Infinity Gauntlet are headed to the to Xbox LIVE Arcade, PlayStation Network, and for the first time, the PlayStation Vita.
Today, Rockstar Games fired over an attractive new set of Max Payne 3 screens and as you can see, both bad-ass bald Max and his hairier self are represented in this new batch. Read on.
Namco Bandai this morning released a batch of exceptionally dramatic new Ridge Racer Unbounded screens. Sure, it’s not the Ridge Racer we’ve grown to love or hate, but at least Namco is trying to take the series in a slightly different direction. Right?
Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles and Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles, previously available on the Wii, are headed to the PlayStation 3 (via PSN) this summer in the form of the Resident Evil: Chronicles HD Collection.
Play, Create and Share was so 2011… in 2012, thanks to Sound Shapes for the PS Vita, we’re all about Play, Compose and Share. Check out the latest media and details for the PS Vita musical sidescrolling platformer.
Konami this morning announced that Metal Gear Solid HD Collection will be coming to the PlayStation Vita this Summer, TRANSFARRING included. Check out a new batch of media also.
This morning, Square Enix finally blessed us with a new selection of screens and artwork for Kingdom Hearts 3D [Dream Drop Distance], their upcoming Nintendo 3DS title.
The good news: EA and Maxis are teaming up to reinvent the famous city-building franchise for the PC. The bad news: You’ll have to wait until sometime in 2013 to get your hands on it.
As rumored for a few weeks now, EA and Danger Close tonight officially revealed the next game in the rebooted Medal of Honor series, Medal of Honor Warfighter. Take a look at the first media and details.
And just like that, Ubisoft officially reveals Assassin’s Creed III. The existance of the game was sorta leaked out last week thanks to retailer listings and box art, but the company has made it totally official.
As the other of the pair of new Fable titles revealed at Microsoft’s Spring Showcase 2012, Fable Heroes is more of an action oriented co-op XBLA title and somewhat of a fresh spin on the franchise. Check out the info and media.
As one of two upcoming Fable titles in attendance at Microsoft’s Spring Showcase 2012, Fable: The Journey is finally the Kinect project that hopefully fans have been looking forward to since it was revealed quite some time ago.
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