Ray Kurzweil, the famed futurist and author of a tall stack of smart books, just predicted that artificial intelligence will surpass human intelligence by 2029. Who knows what game systems will be out then, but it would be awesome to have AI challenging even elite gamers to a tough fight.
In-game AI has a bad reputation [...]
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
Turok gets one thumb up and several hours from me the last few nights. Gameplay is smooth and fast and the dinosaurs aren’t as tough to deal with as I expected, but they’re still a fun distraction that can be used for a bit of tactical advantage during a big multiplayer game. Here’s a quick [...]
Saturday, February 2nd, 2008
Devil May Cry 4 looks like one of the best games (other than Super Smash Bros Brawl) there is to wait around for. These trailer (above) and gameplay (that’s HD, low-def here) videos are leaving me drooling to grab it on Tuesday (Feb 5th).
Gameplay is far more important to me than graphics or storyline (Gah! [...]
Friday, February 1st, 2008
The only part of Super Smash Bros Brawl not in the dozens of game trailers that have hit North America is the incredible Final Smash attacks. Now that the game has been released in Japan (and handily sold 500,000 copies despite Nintendo’s distribution problems) the Final Smashes are all over the internet. They’re a bit [...]
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
Squad control, air drops, and mechs are getting us excited about Tiberium. A first person shooter with buttery-smooth looking gameplay and a lot of multiplayer online promise as the in the Command & Conquer line.
The trailer (after the jump) is early and probably doesn’t have finished graphics (at least I hope they’re not done). We [...]
Thursday, January 24th, 2008
Developers at Nintendo and Sora get busy beating the pixels out of each other in the bestest, most unreleased game ever – Super Smash Bros. Brawl:
Looks ready for release to me. If it’s really not ready then maybe those developers could be nice to all of us and get back to fixing the problems instead [...]
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
Now that the Xbox Live version of Goldeneye has been halted the first leak in the wall of secrecy is above. Maybe some developer or laid-off game tester is ticked off that their work will never go live – maybe some fanboy just wants to screw with all of us. Regardless, we’re posting the vid.
Since [...]