Uncategorized

July 27, 2012

Hands-on with the Nintendo 3DS XL

We unbox the new Nintendo handheld and transfer content from an old system for your infotainment!…

Read More…

London 2012 Olympics Review: A Below Average Performance

The video game tie-in for the Summer Olympics is stuck in an infinite game design paradox….

Read More…

GameStop CEO finds digital used market ‘interesting’

GameStop CEO Paul Raines mentioned recently the company finds used downloadable goods “interesting,” but “it’s not a meaningful business yet.” Speaking to…

Read More…

Battlefield 3 ‘Aftermath’ DLC in December, ‘End Game’ in March

Battlefield 3’s “Aftermath” DLC pack, leaked way back when and then finally confirmed but a day ago, will find itself in the…

Read More…

Free survival game Pulse emerges from Vancouver Film School

Vancouver Film School’s game design program is on a roll with two Unity Awards 2012 finalists emanating from its wheelhouse; Pulse and…

Read More…

The Age of Jam: Five NBA Jam Ripoffs that Weren’t on Fire

Midway's insanely popular take on basketball inspired more than a few wannabes….

Read More…

Sleeping Dogs “Hard-Boiled Gun Action” Gameplay Trailer

Sleeping Dogs will let gamers hit the mean streets of Hong Kong armed like there’s no tomorrow. Thanks to explosives,  destructible environments,…

Read More…

The TouchArcade Show – 62 – A Wicked Case of Banana Mouth

We’re much more on-topic in this week’s episode of The TouchArcade Show. At the top, we note our zombie fatigue and talk…

Read More…

Diablo 3’s long-term planning failures

This is a weekly column from freelancer Rowan Kaiser, which focuses on “Western” role-playing games: their stories, their histories, their mechanics, their…

Read More…

EA’s Battlefield 3 ad campaign on Facebook shows 440 percent return on investment

A major part of Facebook’s business, in addition to keeping an accurate and exceedingly detailed log of the horrible web of lies…

Read More…

A walking (and shooting) tour of Crysis 3’s NYC

The overgrown NYC biosphere is strangely beautiful in Crysis 3, even though, as packed with the ruins of civilization as it is,…

Read More…

eSports Spotlight: Jay Snyder — Becoming A Champion

(With The Games happening in London, now would be a good time to take a look at our own virtual athletes. Jay…

Read More…

That siren means it’s the first Silent Hill: Revelation 3D trailer

When the above debut trailer for the movie sequel, Silent Hill: Revelation 3D, hit the office, the Joystiq crew was derailed from…

Read More…

Retro/Grade flies backwards into PSN on Aug. 21

Retro/Grade, the, uh, backwards shoot-em-up that you control with a guitar, finally makes its way to PlayStation Network for PS3 on August…

Read More…

Indie Platformer Laika Believes To Be Episodic, Demo Playable At Pax

Back in March I told you about indie platformer Laika Believes, a game from Minicore Studios with a very interesting premise and…

Read More…

Scared Stiff: Turning a horror trope into a treasure

If it’s horror, Colette Bennett knows it. ‘Scared Stiff’ is a column dedicated to everything frightening gaming has to offer, from ghostly…

Read More…

Can I Get a Pulse?

You’re reading Reaction Time, a weekly column that claims to examine recent events, games and trends in the industry, but is really…

Read More…

Transformers: Fall of Cybertron Multiplayer And Customization Video From Comic-Con 2012

Comic-Con 2012 was the perfect opportunity for G4 to chat it up with High Moon Studios’ Creative Director, Dave Cravens, about their…

Read More…