PC

Borderlands 2 Dev Talks New Art, Improved AI, And Why PC Gamers Won’t Get A Port This Time Around

By now, you’ve probably seen the leaked footage of the most recent Borderlands 2 demo, and read our own Michael McWhertor’s impressions of the game from Gamescom. Last weekend at PAX, I caught up with Gearbox’s art director Jeremy Cooke to chat with him about the new characters, guns and art tech in Borderlands 2, as well as why PC players will be getting a much more customised version this time around.


PC

Chasing Aurora Can Be Your Origami Bird-Racing Game

Confession: I was faking comprehension of Chasing Aurora when I saw it at the Penny Arcade Expo. I don’t blame Clements Scot, the developer who talked me through the video demonstration you can see here.


September 3, 2011
PC

One Of The Main Brains Behind Portal Explains Her New Idea

This is Quantum Conundrum, the first-person puzzle game coming out early next year from a development team led by Kim Swift. She’s someone who has earned my gaming trust, since she was a senior member of the team that made Narbacular Drop and the more famous game it was turned into, Portal


Xbox

War Of The Worlds Game Keeps Reminding People Of Out Of This World

I heard at E3 that the new downloadable War of the Worlds game might remind people of the lovely, spooky black-and-white side-scroller Limbo. But when I saw the downloadable game at the Xbox 360 booth at the Penny Arcade Expo, I and two other passersby all made a different comparison: Out of this World.


September 2, 2011
PC

5 More Things I’ve Learned About Skyrim, Murder And Encumberance

Fifteen minutes of play time with the fifth Elder Scrolls game isn’t enough. Skyrim is massive. A quarter of an hour in it illuminates the game’s world about as well as stepping just outside of an airport terminal explains a new city.


PC

The Jamestown Video Game Set On Mars Seems Historically Inaccurate

They grew corn and tobacco in colonial Jamestown on Mars back in the 1600s. Sir Walter Raleigh took up arms, via a spaceship, to fight the Spanish-Martian alliance.


Xbox

The Splatters Is About The Cheerful Suicide Of Blobs

Before I saw The Splatters this month at the Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle, our own Brian Crecente saw the game, then called Confetti Carnival, at the DICE convention in Las Vegas back in February.


PC

Monaco, The Multiplayer Heist Video Game We Need, Looks Prettier Than Ever

With so few great heist video games out there, the wait for Monaco has seemed especially long.


Nintendo

The Paperboy Is Now A ‘Smut Peddler’ In Retro City Rampage

Retro City Rampage, the top-down Grand Theft Auto-looking game that pays homage to old-school video games when it’s not having some fun at their expense, is nearly done. At last.


September 1, 2011
Mobile

Tetris Plus Tower Defence Yet Again, But Better This Time

In game designer Eitan Glinert’s mind peanut butter must be tower defence and jelly must be Tetris, because for the second game in a row, the young creator has smushed the two great gaming styles together. He’s just done it radically different this time, as if switching from making PB&J sandwiches to — I don’t know — PB&J tacos.