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Prototype Creators Shutting Down

Radical Entertainment, the 20-year-old game studio behind games like Prototype and Scarface, has shut its doors.


Prototype 2: The Kotaku Review

In very few games have I truly inhabited the persona of a goddam-right-I-am badass, whose demonstrations of power were as personal as Prototype 2‘s. And it’s not because I’ve imagined any of the superpowers you wield in this game, or how I’d perform with them. It’s because of the very normal, very pissed-off man in charge of them.


Hell Yeah, It’s Time For Some Human Bowling Pins In Prototype 2

Here’s something I didn’t expect in Prototype 2: a human bowling minigame. That’s the best way I can describe “Collateral Damage”, one of the Radnet challenges that the game will be offering week-to-week, with character skins, experience points, powers and other goodies as the payout.


Prototype 2 Makes You A Meaner, Blacker And More Powerful Weapon Of Destruction

The first Prototype made me feel ugly. Radical’s open-world action game tore through the city I love and live in, having me eat people — some of them innocent civilians — and destroy city blocks in the name of its plot. Prototype 2‘s probably going to make me feel worse.


New Prototype 2 Digital Comics Explain Why New York’s Such A Hellhole

At the end of the first Prototype, the island of Manhattan suffered tons of property damage after hoodie-wearing protagonist Alex Mercer completed his quest to dish out viral justice. From what we’ve seen of Prototype 2, the city’s become NYZ, a massive hot zone seething with poor, Blacklight virus-infected citizens that new hero James Heller needs to hunt down. So what happened between then and now?


Prototype 2′s Protagonist Started Life As A White Dude

Sgt James Heller from Prototype 2 is not a white guy. He’s a black guy. But he didn’t begin his life that way.


Let This Prototype 2 Trailer Bring You Up To Speed

Didn’t play the first Prototype, but want to play the second and don’t know what the hell is going on? Well, watch this trailer. Even if you know what’s going on, watch it.


Prototype 2 Makes It A Date: April 24, 2012

Prototype 2 will release for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC on April 24, 2012, Activision said today at San Diego Comic-Con.


You’re Gonna Lose Yourself In Prototype 2′s Tendril Dismemberment

Look, if you had one shot or one opportunity to seize everything you ever wanted and tear it apart with your writing tendrils, would you capture it, or just let it slip? Are you ready to drop tendril bombs in Prototype 2?


Let’s Watch A Few Seconds Of Prototype 2 Gameplay Footage

In the first Prototype game, protagonist Alex Mercer was the good guy. In the second game, he’s the bad guy.


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