The Mind – A Cooperative Game That Doesn’t Allow Cooperation
After years filled with playing a lot of games, the appeal of novelty in design becomes increasingly compelling. That’s why I’m fascinated by The Mind, the new game published here in North America by...
View ArticleReplay – Spider-Man: Web Of Shadows
Many of you are playing a great Spider-Man game right now. Why not take a break from that web-swinging action to check out a bad one? In this week's Replay, we dive deep into Spider-Man: Web of...
View ArticleCrafting Chaos: How Treyarch Is Building A Battle Royale Map
During our trip to Treyarch, one thing became very clear: the studio is very conscious of its fanbase. From establishing lore over the years in its zombie modes (which we’ll talk about more later in...
View ArticleHere Are The Best Photo Mode Pictures Of Spider-Man
Insomniac's Spider-Man launched yesterday, which means players have had a whole day to screw around with game's photo mode. We asked our community to send us their best shots of the web-crawler, and...
View ArticleTrade Secrets: The Making Of A Pokémon Card
Since 1996, the Pokémon Trading Card Game (TCG) has exceeded all expectations. It rode the fever pitch of the Pokémon craze that swept the world in the late ’90s, selling millions of packs around the...
View ArticleHow Sega Continues To Create Compelling And Ambitious Adventures In The...
Following a tumultuous early-2000s that saw internal strife and change at Sega, the publisher was looking for new paths. Fresh from its exodus from the console-manufacturing business, Sega had to face...
View ArticleHere's How Treyarch Plans To Support Black Ops 4's Battle Royale Mode After...
Battle Royale emerged into the wildlands of early access, crude and technically unstable, but with enough promise that a huge audience attached itself to PlayerUnknown Battlegrounds (PUBG). This...
View ArticleA New Field Of Play
*/ /*-->*/ Nearly everyone who plays sports dreams of being a pro athlete, but the numbers of those who actually make it that far is extremely small. With each step up from high school to college...
View ArticleOne Week In With Destiny 2: Forsaken
In partnership with High Moon Studios, Bungie launched Forsaken last week to tense anticipation. Without anyone from the developers saying so directly, it’s clear that this is a make-or-break moment...
View ArticleWhat If Insomniac Games Made Spider-Man 2?
The revelations that occur in Spider-Man’s final story sequences show us Insomniac Games is making a sequel or is terrible at wrapping up stories. The teases are not subtle, and if Insomniac sticks to...
View ArticleSpider-Man's Quiet Moments Are Its Most Important
In 2009, Rocksteady’s Arkham series brought superhero video games to new heights by marrying the tragedy of Batman and his gallery of rogues to an addictive rhythm-based combat system as well as a...
View ArticleScience-Fiction Weekly – Predator, Gunheart, Time Carnage, Destiny 2: Forsaken
We're still in the throes of our Destiny 2: Forsaken review, but we're loving what we've played thus far. Game Informer's resident guardian, Matt Miller, is in week two of his playthrough, and is...
View ArticleCan We Cool It With The Spider-Man Hot Takes Already?
Spider-Man is taking the video game industry by storm right now, which can only mean one thing: It’s HOT TAKE TIME! Everywhere you look, someone’s got a J. Jonah Jameson-worthy Spidey rant vying for...
View ArticleGame Informer's Top Scoring Reviews Of 2018
Each year, the Game Informer staff reviews a ton of games. Despite hundreds of games coming across our desks each year, only a select few are able to obtain special commendations reserved for the...
View ArticleWeekend Warrior – Look Out! Here Comes A Spider-Man!
We're already in September, which means we're just about at the final quarter of the year and the inexorable march of time stops for no one. If you chart your year by game releases, it's been fairly...
View ArticleReplay – The Commodore 64 Spectacular: Part 1
On this episode of Replay, we invite you to travel back to 1982, to a time where gamers were freaking out over a new computer that packed a wallop with color graphics and 64KB of RAM. That beast of a...
View ArticleIt's Batman Day – Here Are All Of Our Batman Video Game Reviews
September 15 is Batman day, which is a great excuse to look at the Dark Knight's mostly disappointing video game legacy.With the impressive success of the Arkham series of Batman games, it's easy to...
View ArticleThe Positives & Negatives Of The FIFA 19 Demo
EA Sports and developer EA Vancouver have released a demo for FIFA 19 on the eve of the game's release, and while some tweaks may still occur before that time, the demo is indicative of what we'll see...
View ArticleTGS Side Quest: A Delicious Trip To The Pokémon Cafe
Through the years we've visited many different video game-themed restaurants. From one devoted specifically to Dragon Quest to another that encompassed all the Capcom properties, these are always a...
View ArticleSubmit Your Questions For Our Call Of Duty: Black Ops 4 Podcast!
All month long we've been rolling out exclusive features covering Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. We've asked the game's developers hundreds of questions, and now it's your turn. Please leave a comment...
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