Digital Extremes

PC

Does The Gore In The Darkness II Make You Squeamish?

8:30AM January 18, 2012 | Nick Vannucci

Ready for a bit of the ‘ol ultra-violence? Featured here are the grossest, gnarliest and most stomach-churning moments contained in the demo for upcoming video game The Darkness II. More »


PlayStationBrought to you by

Was The Darkness II Modified For Australia?

Flag
12:30PM January 15, 2012 | Logan Booker

Digital Extremes hasn’t had much luck with our Classification Board. The developer’s Dark Sector had to have dismemberment and decapitation removed before it could be sold here. Now, there are two entries for The Darkness II in the classification database. Does that mean we’re getting a censored version of it too? More »


PC

The Sex And Extreme Violence Of The Darkness II

1:15AM January 14, 2012 | Stephen Totilo

The Darkness II is a video game about restrained sex and unrestrained violence. It’s the kind of a game that will show you, through a half-cracked door, the back of a fully-dressed woman giving a man oral sex, but will let you stretch a man, supine, across the length of your TV screen — suspended by the demon arms protruding from your protagonist’s body — and than penetrate one of those arms up into his back and then through his chest, murdering him as he gurgles his last bloody breath. More »


PlayStationBrought to you by

The Powers, Weapons And Cursed Heroes Of The Darkness II’s Vendettas

12:30AM December 7, 2011 | Brian Crecente

The Darkness II’s four new characters, each cursed with Darkness-imbued weapons, were all created by renowned comic book writer Paul Jenkins. More »


News

The Darkness II Slips From Crowded Fall To Early (Still Crowded) 2012

6:40AM July 20, 2011 | Michael McWhertor

The thinning of the fall and winter 2011 video game herd claims a victim today, as 2K Games delays Digital Extremes’ The Darkness II. Originally on the books for an October release, 2K is now aiming the first-person shooter for February 2012. More »


PlayStationBrought to you by

Star Trek Sets Its Phaser For Thrill

3:00AM June 13, 2011 | Owen Good

So, yes, I saw the Phaser. The PlayStation Move attachment showed off to oohs and aahs at Sony’s E3 press conference is, indeed, a beautiful thing. More importantly, so is the game that’s arriving with it. More »


PC

New Star Trek Game Boldly Goes Where No Star Trek Game Has Gone Before

12:40AM June 4, 2011 | Mike Fahey

Just as J.J. Abrams brought us a fresh new look at the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise in the 2009 theatrical revamp, Paramount Digital Entertainment’s 2012 Star Trek takes the series’ games in an exciting new direction, casting players in the role of Kirk and Spock in an epic co-op action adventure. More »


PC

The Murderous Maths Of The Darkness II’s ‘Quad Wielding’

12:30AM April 30, 2011 | Brian Crecente

Balancing the Xbox 360 controller lightly between pinkies and thumbs, I twiddle four trigger fingers in occasionally rhythmic bursts. Each squeeze dispenses death in different, surprisingly creative ways. Bad guys die by gun blast, slashing tentacle, severing cab door, skewering light pole. More »


PC

The Darkness Returns With Hellish Quad-Wielding Action

3:00AM February 9, 2011 | Mike Fahey

Four years after his tremendous video game debut, comic book anti-hero Jackie Estacado returns in The Darkness II, and this time he’s bringing all four of his arms to bear at once. More »


BioShock 2 Multiplayer Lobby Preview: Yes, The Lobby

10:00AM December 24, 2009 | Stephen Totilo

The multiplayer mode of BioShock 2 isn’t just supposed to be a fun activity for multiple gamers. It’s supposed to be a prequel to the first BioShock. A prequel told through multiplayer? How absurd, I thought, before entering its lobby. More »