When we caught our first glimpse of The Darkness II back in March, we didn’t exactly see Jackie Estacado in his finest hour. Oh sure, he’d become a top crime boss since we’d seen him last, amassing his own “family” after being possessed by a demonic force known as the Darkness in the first game. And that same demonic force still allowed him to tear a bloody swath through any thugs that stood in his way, now more gruesomely than ever. However, it hadn’t been enough to keep him out of the hands of a menacing group called the Brotherhood, who – when our very first demo started – were in the process of nailing Jackie to a huge wooden cross. Our latest hands-on with the game took us back to that scene, showing how Jackie wound up in that awful predicament – and what happens to him afterward...
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Want to be a game developer? Start scribbling in class. That's how Benjamin Friedrich came up with the designs for his gorgeous, clever game filled with bizarre characters and levels.
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We don’t know how the gameplay will turn out just yet, but the story behind Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken is stupendous. The hero has his name because as a little chicken fetus, he was hardboiled inside his egg. That’s… disgusting, but also sets the proper tone for this 2D action/platformer which combines cute cartoon art with shockingly gory violence. In the Rocketbirds universe...
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Deus Ex: Human Revolution's story -- a grandiose tale stuffed to the brim with mythological references, hefty moral questions and dystopian predictions -- is not very good at making you care about it.
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TOKYO and CHIBA, Japan — Wired.com’s staff came into Tokyo Game Show excited to get our hands on the PlayStation Vita. One endless bus ride, an aimless excursion on a boat and lots of polite rejections later, we were no closer than when we began. Sony is launching PlayStation Vita in Japan on December 17 with [...]
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