This last week Sucker Punch released inFamous 2, the sequel to the shockingly good (pun intended) first game. The first inFamous game was a PS3 exclusive (as is this sequel) that generated praise from fans and critics, won an IGN award for “best story,” and even spawned a DC comic that bridges the gap between the two games! At the 2010 Emerald City...
The one major complaint that people had about the critically acclaimed Batman: Arkham Asylum video game was that while the story mode was fantastic, the game lacked multiplayer. A few weeks back the company behind the game, Rocksteady Studios, announced that they would be including a multiplayer co-op mode in the sequel to the game, Batman: Arkham City, which is...
Well, E3 2011 is officially over. Sony has cheap 3D monitors coming your way, Microsoft really wants you to buy a Kinect, and Nintendo has a new system on the way. But E3 isn’t just about fancy press conferences, it’s about developers being able to demo their latest creations to a bunch of gamers and journalists. With that being said, this...
Sony, in a surprising turn of events, managed not to be hacked during their E3 press conference (it would allegedly happen shortly thereafter, according to the hacker group LulzSec that has claimed credit for yet another hack). After a 15 minute delayed start, SCEA president and CEO Jack Trenton apologized for the inconvenience of the long PSN outage without...
Let’s be honest, the deck was stacked for Nintendo. After poor showings from Microsoft and Sony, the last member of the Big Three had all eyes focusing on their press conference. Under that kind of pressure, a lesser company would have cracked; however, Nintendo is no ordinary gaming company. The company most definitely out-performed their rivals, and with...
Microsoft kicked off E3 2011 with a pretty lackluster press conference, which seems to be becoming a bit of a tradition. They spent a lot of time talking about Kinect (and getting others to come on stage and do the same) without really offering much for the non-Kinect crowd. Below is a summary of what Microsoft did with their stage time. - The conference opened...
I probably don’t need to tell you that E3 2011 will take place next week. If you’re unfamiliar with the event, the Electronics Entertainment Expo (E3) is the biggest gaming convention on the planet. Publishers and developers create lavish presentations to demonstrate their product slate for the upcoming year. Comic Booked is going to be exploding...
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 for iPad? Can you be more ridiculous? As far as I’m concerned, Battlefield was a great game… for home consoles. Not for a mobile device that doesn’t have any buttons. The whole point of first person shooters in my eyes is the fact that you are in full control of a person and have the time to react to a threat or...
Leave it to Activision-Blizzard to figure out a way to further milk the Call of Duty franchise. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the arrival of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 will herald a new age of online gaming – but for all the wrong reasons. This fall, when players boot up the next installment in the mind-numbingly popular shooter, they will...
Well, imagine that – we’re all still here (except Randy Savage, I guess). Since we here at Comic Booked weren’t worthy of being vacuumed up into the sky, we’re delighted to bring you another exciting installment of Gamer Pulse, our weekly gaming news feature! As always, the industry was ablaze with news this week: this fall’s two...
The comparisons between Heavy Rain and L.A. Noire were bound to be drawn – while each does definitely have a unique spin on the detective/mystery genre, it’s impossible to ignore the similarities. Well, now that I’ve had a chance to really dig into L.A. Noire, I feel confident enough to stack up these titles against each other and investigate...
Rockstar’s much anticipated new game LA Noire came out this week. In a previous article called LA Noire Preview here at Comic Booked, I talked about the game and explained the premise, gameplay mechanics, and new technologies on display in this title. Now after extensive hands-on time (read: playing for hours and hours and days on end) I am ready to offer...
It’s Friday and we here at Gamer Pulse are celebrating our latest exciting installment! This was another big week for the gaming industry – the week started off with the return of the PSN (coming soon to a Japan near you!) and a leak of some Modern Warfare 3 information. After that, the news kept rolling in. Missed any of the big news from the week?...
While the Comic Booked Video Games team was out living life this weekend (or, in my case, watching two seasons worth of 30 Rock), the video game industry was positively ablaze with information. With plenty of little announcements, which we’ll touch on in this week’s Gamer Pulse, the weekend was dominated by two major announcements: the return of the...
