Ryse was originally announced as "Codename Kingdoms" during Microsoft's E3 2010 press conference. During last year's Microsoft press conference, it was revealed to be a Kinect-enabled "core" title. During this year's E3, it wasn't mentioned at all.
"We're still building Ryse," corporate VP of...
"We're not the biggest first party." Phil Spencer
Nintendo's booth was filled with surprises, surprises that perhaps would have been better revealed during the company's uneventful press conference, but surprises nonetheless. Project P-100, a collaboration between Platinum Games (Bayonetta, Metal...
I sat through Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo press conferences at E3 this year, in that order. The creamy, meat-puree fillings of every keynote are game announcements, which are a mix of long-awaited sequels, short-awaited sequels, and the rare new property from a well-established developer.
Typically, press conferences trace up and down hierarchical trees. You have a mega-exec, who tosses to a...
Developer Tequilaworks' Deadlight is awash in its influences. For modern audiences, those will likely mean one particular avenue of connection — to the hopelessness of George Romero's Day of the Dead and other similar genre fiction. It's not just that there are zombies and the fall of civilization but also the aesthetic and particulars of the setting, a dingy 1980s Pacific Northwestern U.S. full of anachronisms like loading screens that feature cassette tape spindles winding in reverse.
But to other, older players, players that grew up at the dawn of rotoscoping with Prince of Persia and saw it mature, there will be an entirely different kind of association. Deadlight looks and plays like nothing so much as the memories the aforementioned player might have of Out of This World or its successor, Flashback.
After a sleeper run at...
Deadlight looks and plays like nothing so much as the memories the aforementioned player might have of Out of This World or its successor, Flashback
At first glance, Of Orcs and Men, the upcoming RPG co-developed by French teams Cyanide and Spiders, may look like another generic fantasy game. It has the various races and locations, the tactical combat, and the loot fixation that you've seen in hundreds of games like it before. But something...
John Edwards, Lead Designer at NetherRealm, the creators of the recent Mortal Kombat reboot, said the studio's upcoming DC Comics superhero fighting game, Injustice: Gods Among Us, won't include decapitations or disembowelment.
"There's a place...
Thundercats fans might be head-over-heels for the reboot of the 1980s cartoon series, but those who were hoping for a cool show tie-in game will, unfortunately, be disappointed.
Unless, of course, the appeal is all in the retro-ness. Thundercats for the DS - yes, the DS - is a...
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Bullet Run gives its...
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"I'll tell you the one thing that really bothered me about the reaction was...
The decision to turn classic tabletop game Cyberpunk 2020 into a video game comes with a pleasant surprise: A brand new edition of the pen-and-paper game is in development.
Speaking with Polygon during E3 last week, CD Projekt RED co-founder and current CEO Marcin Iwiński said that the tabletop...
According to a tweet by Xbox Live's Larry Hryb, Microsoft is rolling out an update containing "behind the scenes improvements" to a few select Xbox 360 owners this week with a full release next week. The update, version 2.0.15572.0, will reportedly place the Avatar store in the social pane in addition to creating a "Manage Exercise Info" field in the player profile for upcoming fitness titles. According to Hryb, the update will also lay the groundwork for future enhancements, such as Microsoft's Smart Glass technology, which was debuted at E3 last week.
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If you own a PlayStation Vita, you were probably hoping that E3 2012 would be a boon for your handheld, with a wide-ranging list of dozens of games arriving this year. A good sign that you were going to be disappointed: Even Sony spent hardly any...
My overwhelming victory behind the wheel of Big Daddy during my PlayStation All-Stars: Battle Royale demo is probably reliant on one of two factors: My skill, or my drill.
The BioShock mini-boss, which was announced for PlayStation All-Stars:...
Game developer Tak Hirai is no stranger to mixing videogames and music. Once known primarily for his work on Shenmue, Hirai went on to help create such beat-heavy classics as Space Channel 5 and Meteos. Now Hirai runs his own studio, Neilo, and is...
Though not on the E3 show floor last week, developer Zeboyd Games set up in a hotel across the street with an almost-final version of Penny Arcade: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness — Episode 3. And during an appointment, Zeboyd...
Polygon scoured the floor of E3 last week, drinking in all the show had to offer before regurgitating it into your waiting mouths like beloved baby birds. Then we delivered our Editor's Choice Awards to the best of the bunch. Check out all of the articles about our favorite games of E3 here.
