If you’re headed out to the North East, don’t forget to stop by the Penny Arcade Expo which takes place in Boston, Massachusetts. Next spring, the expo is at it once again from April 6th-8th. Pre registration is now open and you can take advantage of discounted ticket sales before the event. One day passes are going for $35 and 3 day passes are going for $65 USD. Don’t forget Read More ...
Recently at PAX Prime, GameTrailers held a panel with Ken Levine, Todd Howard and David Jaffe, in which Geoff Keighly talked to the trio about their inspirations and what makes games different from other mediums such as books and movies. As usual, David Jaffe, creator of God of War and Twisted Metal, had some interesting opinions.
In the days where RPGs have been played on multiple discs, much like BioWare’s Mass Effect series, Bethesda mentioned to one curious reporter about the size of the newest release of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Some games this year on Xbox 360 have moved from 2 discs to even three discs (LA Noire). With the large world, characters and environment you would come to think that Skyrim would Read More ...
The announcement of Halo 4 back at E3 earlier this year brought excitement to fans all over the world. Halo has 10 years of history behind and has grown into one of those franchises that is bound to last a lifetime much in the way Star Wars has. With 343 Industries at the helm of this direct sequel to Halo 3 they want to present Master Chief as both a Read More ...
It was announced from HaloFest this weekend in the Penny Arcade Expo that the upcoming new warthog in Halo 4 will be playable, at least in an interactive museum experience kind of way, in Forza Motorsport 4. In this new Autovista experience players get to see a first hand look at the Warthog. When players pick up Forza Motorsport 4 you’ll be able to interact with this Warthog in Read More ...
When Mass Effect 3 launches next year, BioWare has confirmed that there won’t be an origin-story comic to come with it to keep players up to date on the story. Instead it looks like we’ll be seeing something like “Previously on Mass Effect” videos before launch of the game to catch you up on the story thus far. So it looks like you’ll have to stick with playing Mass Read More ...
Looks like PAX East will be a lot of fun this year. The schedule was released recently and its looking like a packed weekend. Author Jane McGonigal, of “Reality is Broken” is doing the keynote this year. Check out the schedule here to use as your guide to plan your weekend of March 11th. Enjoy!
Some kind folk have uploaded a 9 minute long gameplay video of Portal 2′s co-op mode from PAX. It shows off some interesting portal mechanics and the ability to tag your environment to tell your co-op partner where you would like a portal. Have a watch:
Few stories in videogaming last as long as 13 years, but there has been a crucial saga that has made us gamers stand to attention and weep. The Duke Nukem Forever saga has been rumbling along since 1997, and the internet thought it was finally dead and buried in May 2009 when 3D Realms terminated the DNF development team. Well, I’m pleased to say that Duke Nukem Forever is now Read More ...
Red 5 Studios will be revealing its new team-based action shooter at PAX Prime 2010 in Seattle. The studio was made in 2006, and was founded by some ex-World of Warcraft creators. Not much is known about the game, but apparently Red 5 are aiming to create a game that changes over time based on players’ actions.
