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App Review: Haunted Hollow Demonstrates How To Handle In-App Purchases
There’s quite a lot of extra content available for purchase in Haunted Hollow, the spooky new iOS strategy board game from Firaxis, creators of XCOM: Enemy Unknown. Between new creatures to add to your arsenal and special item unlocks, you could spend upwards of $18 on the free-to-play game, but that’d be stupid — the season pass is only $8.49.
Watch Gearbox Punk People With A Borderlands Midget Hiding In A Vending Machine
Gearbox has been pulling this stunt at PAX East this weekend, and today during their panel they showed this video of a whole bunch of people getting punked.
Borderlands Legends Is Better (And Cheaper) Than Ever Before
When making a mobile spin-off of a major console/PC game, one neat thing to include would be some equivalent of the most popular features of the franchise proper. There were no gun loot drops in Borderlands Legends for the iPhone and iPad. Now there are.
The Smartest And Dumbest Things Take-Two Interactive Did In 2012
Sometimes you just have to buckle down and put out good games. Take-Two Interactive — and their branches, 2K and Rockstar — did a minimum of futzing around this year, instead releasing a relatively slim, high quality roster. Almost all of Take-Two’s sequels improved upon their predecessors.
What Does A Marine Think Of Spec Ops: The Line’s Violent War-Critique?
It’s coming up on the end of the year, which means it’s time to start looking back. And amid the Kickstarter campaigns and DRM-debates that kept 2012 so interesting, one game keeps coming back up: The brutal Spec Ops: The Line. It was a clever game that despite its hum-drum third-person shooter trappings was also a surprisingly successful look inside the mind of a killer, and an at-times subversive critique of the military shooter genre.
BioShock Infinite Won’t Have Multiplayer
Back in August, we told you that we’d heard BioShock Infinite was having problems with its multiplayer, a feature that hadn’t actually been publicly announced. They’re problems that, come November, seem insurmountable.
