If you enjoy a game built around violence, upgrades, jumping really high, having big sword arms and running up the sides of buildings, then you're probably going to want to sit down and get the good word on Prototype 2. It has all of those things. This sequel picks up in the wake of the original game. The first adventure had players strap in as Alex Mercer, a scientist overcome with an...
This morning, SEGA announced the return of everyone's favorite blue hedgehog in Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed. Sonic and friends will race their way across land, air and water yet again in SEGA's newest racing thriller. If you're familiar with the original Sonic and SEGA All-Stars Racing, you know that this isn't your typical racing game. Not only will you race through the...
The Walking Dead: Episode 1 – A New Day is the first in the five episode run from Telltale games. This game features a plot that's independent (yet linked) of the narrative in Robert Kirkman's books. Players will take on the role of Lee Everett, a man convicted of murder, as he groups up with a small girl and a pack of varied adults in order to survive the zombie horde. Mechanically,...
One of the first things you'll be greeted with as you embark upon The Witcher 2's lengthy campaign is a tutorial. This is new for the Enhanced Edition. You'll be shown the ropes with a quick combat lesson and then you'll be tossed into an arena. Inside the arena, you'll fight waves of baddies until you die. Once you die, the game considers how far you've made it and then it suggests a...
Purchasing tech always causes a little anxiety. Shelling out a ton of cash for a shiny thing that will soon head to the obsolescence pile is rough, particularly for tech geeks and early adopters. It takes nerves of steel to jump right in there, but you know you need the upgrade, so you summon your courage and throw caution to the wind. “Can I split this up across four credit cards?” you...
A $35 PC? Can you even conceive of such a thing? Well, good thing Eben Upton did. Model B of his credit-card-sized Raspberry Pi computer, which is sure to be the envy of computer science classmates far and wide, is finally shipping to pre-order customers. (Yay!) Make no mistake, this tiny morsel of USB-connected hardware is a full-fledged computer. From the FAQ page: What SoC are you...
Early this morning, EA took the wraps off of their highly anticipated Crytek developed shooter, Crysis 3, via press release. Players will yet again take on the streets of New York City as Prophet in the year 2047. They'll be fighting to take back the city from the corrupt Cell Corporation after learning the motive behind building the quarantined Nanodomes. Prophet will be equipped with...
With a Retina display now in its iPhone, its iPad, and its iPod touch, Apple’s only mobile devices without a super high-resolution are its MacBooks. Until now, the problem has been finding a processor that supports such a display. But with Intel’s latest Ivy Bridge processors, that problem has been solved. At the Intel Developer Forum which took place earlier this week, Kirk Skaugen,...
Medal of Honor: Warfighter is EA and Danger Close's next attempt at relaunching the Medal of Honor brand after a few years of leave. The series once stood tall next to Call of Duty, but the most recent game didn't register much of a blip in the eyes of gamers. Will that change with this upcoming title? Warfighter apparently looks to embrace the best elements of storytelling, special...
The "BBB" in question here is the Better Business Bureau; the group responsible with servicing the businesses and consumer marketplaces in North America. One writer and employee of the Bureau took to its blog to explain that Mass Effect 3 was, in fact, falsely advertised by EA. The writer, Marjorie Stephens, Director of Communications at BBB of Northern Indiana, breaks down the...