Assembling video game trailers is tricky business. With the ever-increasing scope and complexity of games, it can be difficult to begin to communicate what a project is in the narrow confines of a sizzle reel. Some publishers stick confidently to what they have and wrap it in a flashy package to get audiences…
For a kid in the early ‘90s, knowing somebody with a Game Genie was tantamount to knowing a character from the movie Hackers. Somehow, this awkward-looking chunk of plastic billed as a “video game enhancer” could give you infinite lives, better weapons, or let you skip levels altogether. It was essentially magic, and…
If you’re a gamer of a certain age, the name “Leisure Suit Larry” probably still strikes you as scandalous. Before sex became more or less commonplace in gaming blockbusters, the idea that there was a game out there built around the pursuit of sex was a blush-worthy one. As MEL Magazine puts it in a new breakdown of …
To quote a time-honored African-American turn of phrase, video game developer David Cage owes black people a check.
Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off our weekly open thread for the discussion of gaming plans and recent gaming glories, but of course, the real action is down in the comments, where we invite you to answer our eternal question: What Are You Playing This Weekend?
E3 is winding down, meaning the big announcements like the new Halo and the new Smash Bros. have already been made, leaving only the announcements that are—to be fair—not as exciting as a new Smash Bros. or a new Halo. One such announcement comes from Telltale Games, the studio behind a lot of well-regarded adventure…
The next game from the makers of The Witcher 3 is looking impressive, and perhaps most importantly, it looks like a real video game. A 50-minute behind-closed-doors E3 demo of Cyberpunk 2077 showed attendees proper gameplay, played live, that appeared like something we might actually see in the next year or two.
Earlier today, Nintendo devoted 25 whole minutes of its E3 Nintendo Direct news blast to introducing the new Super Smash Bros. for the Switch. The game was teased earlier this year, without so much as even a name reveal, and the company made up for those few months of silence by dropping as many details as the human…
We’ve spent years trying to figure out what Death Stranding is, beyond it being the new game from Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima and his new Kojima Productions studio, but Sony’s bizarre E3 press conference/performance art presentation finally gave us our best look yet. As it turns out, Death Stranding is a game…
Sony took a unique approach to this year’s big PlayStation E3 showcase, opting to corral its audience into an ominous church tent before letting them into the usual big theater show. It turns out the set was an echo of the first demo of the night: The Last Of Us Part II. The publisher had shared two…
With Fallout 4 finally giving fans of Bethesda’s massive, open-world adventures their post-apocalypse fix, it was time to start clamoring for a new entry in the studio’s other series, The Elder Scrolls. It’s been nearly seven years since The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim was released and took over the damn world, and now,…
The first big surprise of Bethesda’s E3 2018 showcase is Doom Eternal, a newly announced sequel to 2016’s reboot of the classic series. Just as Doom II: Hell On Earth did back when it built off the original genre-defining shooter, Doom Eternal will be taking the Doom Slayer back to Earth in the wake of a massive…
Microsoft just wrapped up its E3 2018 conference, making a bunch of big announcements and showing off a ton of games that’ll be making their way to Xboxes and PCs in the coming months. We got the standard Microsoft trifecta: a new Halo, a new Forza (Forza Horizon 4, which is set in Britain), and a new Gears Of War …
Acclaimed Polish game developer CD Projekt Red teased its next RPG, Cyberpunk 2077, way back in 2012 and has remained almost completely silent about the project ever since. With The Witcher III now fully out of its system, the studio is finally returning to its ambitious sci-fi outing. Microsoft’s E3 2018 showcase…
Microsoft kicked off its E3 presentation with the announcement of a new Halo game, and since the company only has one other series on a similar level as that one, it meant there was a very good chance we’d be seeing Gears Of War by the time the show wrapped up. Sure enough, near the end of the presentation, we got…
Microsoft has had an issue courting third-party developers recently, with most of the good stuff landing exclusively on PlayStation 4 instead of appearing on Xbox, but during its E3 presentation Microsoft revealed a new trailer from a studio that’s synonymous with “good stuff.” We’re referring to FromSoftware, the …
Microsoft kicked off its E3 2018 showcase with the most teasing of teaser trailers for the next game in the Halo series. It’s called Halo Infinite and, well, that’s about all we know about it. It’s in development at Microsoft’s in-house Halo team, 343 Industries, and whenever it comes out, it’ll be hitting both Xbox…
Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off our weekly open thread for the discussion of gaming plans and recent gaming glories, but of course, the real action is down in the comments, where we invite you to answer our eternal question: What Are You Playing This Weekend?
On The Level examines one small part of a larger game.
You do not need us to tell you that Twitter is bad. Nor do you need us to tell you that video games are, by and large, good. Both are compulsive time-sucks, one giving us naught but tension and a vague sense of apocalyptic introversion and the other one giving us big, interesting places to explore and mechanized…
