Tetris was already great on its own-- just look at last year's Tetris Effect --and splicing battle royale mechanics in there only embellished the whole multiplayer experience. As the game has received some single-player and local multiplayer modes since launch, Arika and Nintendo's game has cemented itself as one of the best Tetris titles of all time. It's becoming a mobile game too . That's always a good sign, ri
But earning those power-ups isn't as simple as spending one's earned coins, it's actually facilitated via the game's coolest feature. After each level players accumulate a certain number of dice rolls, which determine the improvements they have access to. Rather than being able to increase your damage percentage outright, players have to hope they roll the appropriate number and land on that space. It's quite an ingenious little addition, and helps keep that carrot-on-a-stick always out of re
Just looking at the game on a strictly technical level makes it abundantly clear that this is not the Fable fans will be expecting. Much of the interesting design that Lionhead has established has been made more palatable and also less visually appealing. In plainer terms, since that's what the game was shooting for, the project looks too "kiddy." But even that would have been understandable if the game had decent collision detection or didn't constantly suffer from frame-rate probl
There is also the matter of Seren herself. There are some great horses in video Adventure Games Walkthrough: Epona in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and (especially, so far as I'm concerned) Argo from Shadow of the Colossus . Seren won't be joining that list, despite Lionhead's intentions to the contr
The show starts off strong on Thursday with familiar titles such as Dead Rising 2 , Assassins Creed: Brotherhood , and Halo: Reach all on display. Friday follows much in the same vein, as we will see Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 , Gears of War 3, and Twisted Metal Returns . Saturday, the last day for video games at Comic-Con, might be the day with the most variety to offer, with panels ranging from everybody's favorite dancing studio (MTV Games) to everybody's favorite cartoon mouse ( Disney Epic Micke
Dead Rising 2 , the highly anticipated sequel to Capcom's multi-million-selling zombie action video game is here! Dead Rising 2 executive producers Keiji Inafune and Shinsaku Ohara unveil development stories, provide a live demo of creating new weapons, and reveal other exclusive content. Followed by a Q&A sess
Half-Life 3 is one of the biggest mysteries in the gaming world today. Going even beyond that, Half Life 2: Episode 3 is one of the biggest mysteries in the gaming world today. While Valve has officially announced that they won't be making any more episodic content , the plans to make an Episode 3 were revealed long ago. As if to say it's never coming, Valve has it listed as arriving along with the Rapture on their Valve-Time development release schedule p
While Fable proper was about taking one's player through a pre-determined life cycle — making life-altering decisions along the way — Fable Heroes puts up to four players in control of a wide variety of Fable archetypes. Rather than giving each player the gameplay mechanics present in the RPG version of the game, Heroes designates each player's "puppet hero" with a specific skill. There are a handful of puppets to choose from, some of which hearken back to key moments in Fable 's history, but all basically fall into one of three roles (ranged, melee, mag
Fable Heroes feels like a cash grab in the truest sense of the word — a game that has no business carrying the Fable moniker. While each entry in the franchise does fall short of some lofty expectations , they at least aspire to do something original. Fable Heroes , on the other hand, gets a few things right, but they're not worth your t
What's most likely is that a big Half-Life 3 reveal will come when Valve is ready to unveil a brand new game engine to the masses in the same way that they did with Half-Life 2 and their Source engine. But will that be at this E3? It doesn't seem likely , but we're still keeping our fingers crossed as Half-Life 3 remains the most elusive PC game of the last half decade, and is pushing for a much bigger gap than that between Half-Life and Half-Life 2 . We still want to know what happens to our world, just who the G-Man is, and just how humanity is going to survive the continued Combine thr
See the latest trailers and get the inside scoop on all of Capcom's most highly anticipated games for 2010 and beyond: Marvel Vs. Capcom 3, Sengoku Basara, Okamiden, Bionic Commando Rearmed 2, Ghost Trick, Dead Rising 2, and more. On top of all that, hear details on an exciting new game announcement by Capcom legend Keiji Inafune, the father of Mega
Maxis Studio ( The Sims and Spore video games) has just announced their next project, a brand new, Sci-Fi Action-RPG based on the DNA of Spore . Join key leads from the dev team, Thomas Vu, Paul Sottosanti and Lauren McHugh, for the first game reveal to the pub