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- Video Game Research Library
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- The History Of The Word “Metroidvania” And How It Spread – A Critical Hit (2025)
- Creator of Hit Game Shovel Knight Is at a ‘Make or Break’ Moment – Bloomberg (2025)
- Shadow of the Colossus: An oral history – Design Room (2025)
- In 2005, games started rewiring our brains – The AV Club (2025)
Most Recent: Xbox 360
Tomb Raider Collector’s Edition announcement washes ashore
If you’ve ever wanted to manhandle Lara Croft, Crystal Dynamics plans to give you the chance when Tomb Raider is released on March 5, 2013.
To get a bit more specific, the developer recently announced a Collector’s Edition for the game that’ll contain a fully posable 8″ action figure (which is definitely not a doll) of Ms. Croft. The Collector’s Edition will retail for $99.99 and come packed in a “survival tin.” Other items in the Collector’s Edition include:
- Endurance Survival Kit Packaging: A survival tin salvaged from the ill-fated Endurance. The tin houses a copy of the game.
- Play Arts Kai Lara Croft Figurine: Fully posable figurine with over 40 points of articulation. The dirt on her body and clothes has been realistically recreated to tell the tale of Lara’s fierce fight for survival on a desolate island. Comes with alternate set of three (3) hands, bow and arrow, shotgun, handgun, and climbing axe. Figure Size: Approx 8.0” Tall.
- 15” x 19” Double Sided Island Map and Poster: Discover key landmarks from the mysterious island of Yamati, where Lara Croft and her fellow castaways were marooned after the Endurance shipwreck. On the reverse is a poster size image of the box art that epitomizes Lara’s origin story.
- Lithographic Print: 5” x 7” heavy stock lithograph print with matte frame, designed by Crystal Dynamic’s Senior Art Director, Brian Horton. Painting by Brenoch Adams.
- Experience Shields: Three Iron-on badges of the game’s key icons: Animal Instincts, Climbing Axe, Fire Arrow.
- CD Soundtrack: Tomb Raider Original Soundtrack ‘Survivalist cut’: A collection of 10 tracks totaling over 60 minutes of music from the game.
- Downloadable Content: Weapons Pack – A selection of weapons to help Lara survive against the island’s inhabitants.
The Collector’s Edition is only available for the PS3 and Xbox 360. The pricepoint and bonus content for a download-only PC Special Edition will be announced soon.
Posted in News, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged Tomb Raider
Celebrate Xbox Live’s 10th anniversary with a free copy of Wreckateer
Microsoft is celebrating their Xbox Live service’s 10th birthday today, and instead of asking for gifts, they’re the ones doing the giving…
Today and tomorrow, all Xbox Live members will be able to download a free copy of Wreckateer. It would have been nice to give away a game that every Xbox 360 owner can play, but a free game is a free game. The Kinect-exclusive is regularly priced at 800 Microsoft Points ($10).
If Wreckateer isn’t your kind of game, Microsoft has also cut the price of seven of the biggest Xbox Live Arcade titles. Bastion (600 Microsoft Points), Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved (200 Microsoft Points), Castle Crashers (600 Microsoft Points), Fruit Ninja Kinect (400 Microsoft Points), Battlefield 1943 (600 Microsoft Points), Peggle (400 Microsoft Points), and Full House Poker (400 Microsoft Points) are all 50% off from today until November 22.
Xbox Live users can also download a special 10th anniversary Gamerpic this week. Doing so will enter you in a contest to obtain a special 10th anniversary Xbox 360 console. Yes, please.
Finally, Microsoft’s Major Nelson has given away 90 one-year Xbox Live Gold subscriptions so far today. He’s got 10 more he plans to give away in 15 minutes (at 7 PM Eastern), so head over to his blog and enter.
Posted in News, Xbox 360
Tagged Bastion, Battlefield 1943, Castle Crashers, Fruit Ninja Kinect, Full House Poker, Peggle, Wreckateer
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14 announced; will feature Arnold Palmer
EA Sports has announced that Tiger Woods will be teeing it up next year for the 16th time in Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14. In development for the PS3 and Xbox 360 at EA Tiburon, the game will likely be released next Spring.
As in previous years, Tiger won’t be going it alone on the cover of PGA Tour 14. Golfing legend Arnold Palmer, Mr. Iced Tea and Lemonade himself, will share the cover with Tiger. In addition to Woods and Palmer, more than 25 professional golfers will be playable in the game including newcomers Keegan Bradley, Bud Cauley, Stacy Lewis, and Lexi Thompson.
The publisher wasn’t ready to reveal much else about the game, but we do know it’ll contain 20 courses and that players who pre-order will receive a retailer-exclusive piece of bonus content:
- GameStop: Pinehurst No. 2 DLC Course
- Amazon: Bethpage Black DLC Course
- Best Buy: 1986 Jack Nicklaus Exclusive Character
- Target: Whistling Straits DLC Course
- Wal-Mart: Kevin Love and Andy Roddick Exclusive Characters
- Origin: Set of Exclusive Historic Golf Clubs
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Tagged Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14
Zombie Driver HD Review: Taxicab Concussions
If there’s one constant in video games, it’s zombies. Well, zombies and explosive barrels. OK – zombies, explosive barrels, and Quick Time Events. Regardless, a lot of action games these days usually contain one or more of the above. Case in point: Zombie Driver HD, out now on Steam and Xbox Live Arcade. While it may not include QTEs or barrels, Zombie Driver HD does supply you with a never-ending horde of the living dead. Your only weapon against the ghouls? A garage full of badass, weapon-equipped vehicles designed to make the undead… well… dead. (more…)
Posted in PC, Reviews, Top Story, Xbox 360
Tagged Zombie Driver HD
Black Friday Game Deals 2012: Best Buy
Best Buy will open at midnight on Black Friday this year and the blue shirts have plenty of great gaming deals for you.
Borderlands 2, Assassin’s Creed III, Forza Horizon, and Epic Mickey 2 seem to be the most popular games to discount this Black Friday and Best Buy has responded with a $34.99 sale price for each (except for Epic Mickey 2, which is $29.99). The retailer has also cut the price on Medal of Honor: Warfighter, Darksiders II, and Need For Speed: Most Wanted to a very nice $29.99. Those are “Doorbusters” so you’ll want to get their early on Friday morning if you’re interested in picking them up.
Finally, all you Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventures fans will be happy to know that Best Buy has single character packs priced at $2.99 (regular price: $8.99) for Black Friday.
Hit the jump for a complete list of Black Friday game deals from Best Buy. (more…)
XBLA Today: Planets Under Attack, Warlords
Welcome to this week’s Xbox Live Arcade update, which includes the strategic spacefaring combat of Planets Under Attack:
Humanity discovered a new galaxy rich with resources and wonders and it’s up to you to conquer it! Guide your space fleet through the depth of space, discovering new star systems and colonizing planets. Beware, you are not alone in the universe and other races also starve for living space and are ready to fight for it. Not to mention mysterious treasures, dark secrets, treacherous rivals and Bosses! Planets Under Attack is a fast and fun strategy game, easy to understand and to control, offering dozens of hours of tactical fun.
And the medieval combat of Atari’s rebooted Warlords:
Show no mercy and take no prisoners as you fight to the death for title of the almighty Warlord. Defend your castle from mischievous minions and ferocious fireballs in this whimsical reinvention of the beloved classic. In the ultimate battle of speed, strategy and survival, command your troops with shrewdness and skill to capture control points, collect power-ups and destroy the other warring factions!
Planets Under Attack can be downloaded for 1200 Microsoft Points ($15), while Warlords will only set you back 800 Points ($10).
Check out the second Grand Theft Auto V trailer
As promised, Rockstar has released the second trailer for Grand Theft Auto V and it is a doozy. Full of the Hollywood-style action appropriate to its Los Santos location, the new trailer gives gamers their first look at bank robber Michael, low-life Trevor, and repo man Franklin. If you weren’t excited before, you should be now.
Grand Theft Auto V will be released for the PS3 and Xbox 360 next Spring.
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Tagged Grand Theft Auto V
DMC: Devil May Cry demo available next week
Capcom has announced that a demo of DMC: Devil May Cry will be available to download from the PlayStation Store and Xbox Live Marketplace next week.
The demo, which will contain two levels and a boss battle, will be available in North America on November 20 and in Europe on November 21. Players who download the demo will get a taste of “a few of the game’s difficulty modes,” as well as the remixed Son of Sparda mode (which requires completion of the demo to unlock). A variety of weapon upgrades and “maybe a few secrets” also await those who test out Dante’s next adventure.
The full version of DMC: Devil May Cry will be released for the PS3 and Xbox 360 on January 15, 2013. A PC version will follow sometime later in the year.
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Tagged DMC: Devil May Cry