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First look: Command & Conquer 4’s offline mode
When you boot up Command & Conquer 4 , it starts a front end from which you have to log in, much like you would get for an MMO. But then you're in the game and it's mostly like any other real time strategy game. You can play the campaign, a skirmish, or... »
Gamespotting: Brooklyn’s Finest
Early on in Brooklyn's Finest , we're introduced to a group of drug dealers working for Wesley Snipes' character and infiltrated by Don Cheadle's character. They have a room where they play videogames. »
Scribblenauts sequel gets big, blue, hairy, etc.
Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment announced the next Scribblenauts game (not pictured; that's the original up there) for the Nintendo DS, due out this fall. ...players use the stylus and touch screen to help Maxwell, the game's hero, acquire the "Starite," the prize earned from solving the puzzle in even more robust challenges and... »
Details revealed, Portal 2 no longer a mystery
If you're like me and not smart enough to follow elaborate ARGs that announce new games, you might not have caught all the details Valve has recently dribbled out about Portal 2 . For instance, the above image was hidden away on some old-school BBS, indicating co-operative gameplay. But now VG247 has culled... »
March 8, 2010: wallet threat level yellow/green
I imagine a lot of you care deeply about the release of Final Fantasy XIII , but it's completely beyond my ken. I wasn't even sure if it was the MMO one »
Nexon runs out of ideas, offers a million dollars if you can help
Nexon is mostly known for publishing online Korean games. They've just announced the Nexon Initiative. Wait, I spelled that wrong. »
To what depths did EA go to promote Dante’s Inferno?
Adfreak.com has a postmortem of Electronic Arts' shenanigans to promote Dante's Inferno. Last year, the company set about trying to educate the public not only about the game but about a 14th-century literary classic and the very nature of human morality. What ensued was one of the most complex campaigns in video-game history,... »
Silent Hunter 5 features pants wetting realism
The naval simulation site Subsim has posted an extended hands-on preview with Silent Hunter 5 , Ubisoft's upcoming World War II U-boat game. The preview has a lot of the exhaustive detail-oriented fussing that only a hardcore simulation nerd would appreciate. But it's also got some good stuff about the new approach to... »
Activision’s Blur lets you bug your friends while you race
Now that so many videogames support Facebook spamming, Twitter is falling behind as a way to bug your friends about what you're playing. »
Gods & Heroes: Rome Rising raised from the dead by unlikely publisher
I remember seeing Gods & Heroes four or five years ago at E3. It seemed at first like a typical fantasy MMO, but with ancient Roman trappings »