During the Electronic Entertainment Expo in June, Ubisoft announced that the Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood multiplayer beta would take place only on the PlayStation 3. More details about this recently have been made available by the company. Apparently, only North American customers who pre-order the PlayStation 3 version from GameStop will get access to the game testing event. Read the rest of this entry »

Nintendo of America, as the publisher, and The Pokemon Company have announced that players of Pokemon Heart Gold and Soul Silver will be able to get, for about a month, a new item called the Engima Stone as long as they have access to wireless Internet through their handheld device. The Enigma Stone is a powerful artifact that can then gives fans of the Pokemon universe to catch Latias or Latios, a new Legendary level creature. The Enigma Stone giveaway starts on July 31 and ends on August 27. Read the rest of this entry »

Wherever “Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood” decides to end when it comes out this November, players may be in for at least a year’s wait before Ubisoft releases a follow-up. Despite featuring “Assassin’s Creed” on a list of third-party Nintendo 3DS titles at E3, the inside word from Ubisoft Montreal is that the franchise needs a “breather” for 2011. Read the rest of this entry »

As you probably know last year there was a remake of popular adventure game The Secret of Monkey Island. Lucas Arts’ series of remakes of the venerable Monkey Island adventure games continues with the second installment: LeChuck’s Revenge. Read the rest of this entry »

The first thing we scribbled down after beginning LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 was ‘GTA’., It’s a strange comparison to make but LEGO Harry Potter’s game world gives you a similar sense of freedom to do what you want, when you want, albeit in bite-sized episodes. The result is a game that is both familiar and very different in structure to any LEGO game that has gone before. Read the rest of this entry »

PC gamers got a nice little surprise in March when it was announced that the somewhat awesome Darksiders would be receiving a port to a personal computer near them sometime in June. But as you know June has come to the end, which makes the odds of making their target release date rather slim. Read the rest of this entry »

With the US release date for Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood already revealed within its E3 trailer (November 16th), Ubisoft have now confirmed that European gamers will be able to get their mitts on the not-quite-a-sequel that same week, on Nov. 19th. Thankfully enough the usual three day gap isn’t that much of a noticeable difference. Read the rest of this entry »

The Assassin’s Creed series has been a hit with gamers since the first title. The original game in the series was a smash hit and the best-selling new franchise of 2007. But despite the millions of copies sold, many gamers simply couldn’t get into the first game and were turned off by repetitive mission goals and pointless busy work. Read the rest of this entry »

Shigeru Miyamoto unveiled The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword during Nintendo’s E3 press conference held yesterday in Los Angeles, California. The game will ship exclusively for the Wii next year. The control scheme will rely on Wii Motion Plus, mixing the Nunchuk movement for the shield and the WiiMote swinging for the sword. Read the rest of this entry »

If you haven’t played a point-and-click, action adventure game in a while, Black Mirror II should be cause enough to bring you back to the old neighborhood. That’s not to say that Black Mirror II is the definitive version of the genre, but it contains some great improvements and innovations. It doesn’t stray too far from its roots, as this isn’t necessarily a hybrid of any sorts; it’s a true adventure game in virtually every sense of the word. And with that, you can expect some clichés. Black Mirror II isn’t revolutionary, it’s evolutionary. Read the rest of this entry »

Prince of Persia is a strong gaming franchise that rarely disappoints. The Prince’s unique acrobatic abilities, along with solid combat and quality platforming tend to make it an A+ action/adventure offering. Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands was announced just a few months ago (November 09), and all of a sudden, here it is, showing up in the middle of May like an early Christmas present! Read the rest of this entry »

Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands has thankfully forgotten about the whole Prince with “attitude” that we saw in Prince of Persia 2008. Now our Prince is a student of sorts looking to be a better leader. Much better than the joker from the previous game, but still a bit on the lame side. Read the rest of this entry »