What To Expect: BioWare will show attendees a similar demo to the one at E3 2014, which focused on the open world and tactical combat in Dragon Age: Inquisition . Panelists will also answer questions about the highly anticipated third g
Before moving any more forward with recent photo modes in games, let’s take a step back. The photo modes we know and love today are a pretty recent feature, in the grand scheme of things. Ten years ago, people weren’t clamoring to take in-game pictures; that is, until Skate came along with its “skate.reel” feature. The now-retired skateboarding simulation was the first time I recall wanting to record every moment of my journey to becoming a (fake) pro ska
One of the most underrated open-world games of all time is The Saboteur. It’s about an Irish man who attempts to free Paris from Nazi control during World War 2. The guy has a lot of skills that help him on his mission, including his brilliant parkour abilit
The 2013 show, co-hosted by Joel McHale ( Community ) was more about the developers and awards, more about new announcements and loving the community. Despite a lot of awkward moments, last year’s event was an improvement over years past but this year, Keighley is out. He and Spike (and owner Viacom) gracefully parted ways (apparently) and instead, Geoff Keighley is hosting a brand new, non-network-reliant game show, simply titled The Game Awards 2014 . And he’s doing it with the backing of Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony and bevvy of top game publish
Who Will Be There: Panelists include actors Doug Cockle (Geralt of Rivia, The Witcher franchise), Dark Horse Comics author Paul Tobin (The Witcher House of Glass), Nick McWhorter, CD PROJEKT RED’s game developers Damien Monnier and Lukasz Wnek ( The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt ), and Rafal J
Large portions of Bartol’s novel were based on historical facts and it was these elements that were used in the first Assassin’s Creed game. The line “Nothing is true, everything is permitted,” which serves as the Creed’s maxim , also came courtesy of Alamut , though the wording was changed slightly; most likely in the interest of brev
Naturally, those challenges can’t actually happen in the game, but you can use your speed to traverse buildings. To do so, jump to the side of a structure, and sprint up it. Therefore, the power simultaneously makes both the best cars and planes obsole
In some games, the climbing consists of jumping atop waist-high boxes. Other titles, however, allow you to scale pretty much anything. And some of the time, you don’t even need convenient ledges or windows for assistance. Instead, you can just walk up or jump to a wall and start your ascent. Here are a few examples of games that allow you to scale anyth
His science-fiction novel of the same name provided more or less the entire premise for the game, while his subsequent work has continued to influence the series. The author collaborated directly with 4A Games on the first Metro title and even helped to write the story and dialogue for the game’s sequel, Metro: Last Lig
Who Will Be There: 343 Industries’s executive producer Dan Ayoub , senior producer Dennis Ries, and franchise director Frank O’Connor, along with Certain Affinity’s president and original Halo 2 multiplayer designer, Max Hober
While Saints Row started out as a pretty grounded series, it has become wackier over time. The fourth game, in particular, ups the ante by giving the protagonist various superpowers. One of the powers is super speed, which makes you capable of challenging The Flash or Quicksilver to a r
We have no idea what’s going on with the Spike VGX this year or even if there will be one. The annual celebrity-fueled, ad-hungry video games event was consistently chock full of controversy and disdain from the gamer community which is why last year host and producer Geoff Keighley helped re-brand the Spike Video Game Awards into the Spike VGX. It was a ratings success but still begged the question of whether it should contin
Having already sought inspiration from the literary world for the Stalker series prior to setting up 4A Games, it wasn’t all that surprising when the developers behind Metro 2033 did so again just made a post few years later. This time, however, it was the work of the Russian-Israeli author and journalist Dmitry Glukhovsky which caught their collective
Like the games themselves, Parasite Eve can at times be quite terrifying through its exploration of human biology and helped the author to win numerous literary prizes. There was even a movie adaptation of the novel in Japan, which managed to rake in almost a million dollars despite its limited theatrical rele
Throughout Shadow Of The Colossus , you travel across expansive worlds, looking for a Colossus to take down. Along the way, you often have to get past some large obstacles. Thankfully, the protagonist is an excellent climber, meaning you’re able to scale just about anything as long as you have enough stam
