Tag Archives: Adventure

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker may have had some vocal detractors pre-release, but the years since it came to the GameCube have been remarkably kind. The original high seas variation on Link’s epic adventures is so worthy of all the praise heaped upon it that a remake hardly …

Humble Indie Bundle 9 (opens in new tab) packs six notable titles with more to come. Brutal Legend, Mark of the Ninja, Trine 2, and the beta debut of Eets Munchies are all available for the standard price of whatever-you-want-to-pay. FTL and Fez are both rewarded to above-average pledges, which …

Game design is an iterative process, which is to say everyone rips everyone off. Don’t believe us? Play a shooter after 2007 that didn’t have Gears of War’s cover system and Call of Duty’s leveling. Other times, developers seemingly ignore amazing ideas. Like Shadow of the Colossus–the fact that more …

Both The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds and Super Mario 3D World will release on Nov. 22, Nintendo announced today. The two hotly anticipated franchise titles for 3DS and Wii U respectively joined a suddenly-populated holiday release calendar from Nintendo. Nintendo will further overwhelm Nov. 22 with the …

Assassin and pirate captain Edward Kenway will take any port in a storm. Take as in conquer. And storm as in “of cannonfire.” Watch the bloodthirsty scoundrel and his crew of scallawags siege a naval base and read on for details on Assassin Creed IV: Black Flag’s Limited Edition. Historical …

Welcome to the Nonary Game… If you havent yet played Aksys Games unsettling Zero Escape series–consisting of Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors (aka 999) and Virtues Last Reward–youre missing out. Though they might not be the biggest names out there, these visual-novel adventures have received acclaim from critics and …

Halt, adventurer! Before thou progresseth any furthereth, thou shalt knowesteth that goblins don’t like fire. At least, that’s what our Pawns in Dragon’s Dogma told us, right before we obliterated a small army of the things. Watch as Ryan, Henry, and Lucas hop into Capcom’s action adventure RPG to get …

Lately, Nintendo is getting some grief from gamers for how it’s handling the Wii U post-launch, but how bad can a company be if it charges 30 cents for a game like Super Metroid? Ranked third on our list of the best games ever, the SNES classic just arrived on …

It’s around this time of year that the new releases well starts to dry up. Don’t panic, though, because while May’s list of anticipated titles might look slim, it’s packed with more than a few surprises, including radical DLC for Far Cry 3, Metro: Last light’s debut, Donkey Kong’s first …

Welcome to the city, there are spoilers here “There is always a lighthouse, there’s always a man, there’s always a city.” According to BioShock Infinite, these are the constants in an infinite universe of variables. In every world the cycle will repeat in one form or another, and there will …