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Watch_Dogs is a new supervillain game set in Chicago from Ubisoft,. Chicago resident Alex Ross designed the cover. He told Forbes; I went downtown to a

This sounds like the next step in transmedia strategies for popular games franchises. At first glance, it all sounds great: active participation of the fan community, their unique stories from the game are stranger and more twisty and unpredictable, more suspenseful than the pre-packaged, dull, generic plotlines screenwriters will come up with, SyFy's DEFIANCE being a[...]

Patrick Dane writes for Bleeding Cool While I have always written about movies here at Bleeding Cool, I can be found elsewhere writing about games And writing about games is making me sad. Just recently we have seen lay offs at deveoper High Moon, Square Enix lost its CEO, as well as sufferin lay offs, and EA's[...]

Not "so bad it's good," not "uneven, but with bright spots," not "good except for awful glitches." If it had launched in its current state alongside Doom 3 in 2004, A:CM would've been laughed out of the room for not even surpassing id's graphics engine, enemy AI, acting, or missions. The comparison is apt: Gearbox Software[...]

It was even designed so that you can get it on with a variety of characters, in a variety of species… but only if they are the opposite gender to you. Which displeased some gay gamers, it seemed. PCGamesN reported: BioWare, in response to demand from fans, decided to bring gay relationships to The Old Republic[...]

Here's a look at the charts for 2012 for toys and games sold in comic stores and distrubuted in North America by Diamond Comic Distributors and Alliance Games. Naturally Marvel and DC superhero action figures to the toys list, with video game spin-off figures nudging their way in For once, Walking Dead doesn't get a look[...]

The argument was split between those people who pointed out this kind of attitude was not socially acceptable and those who cried "Political Correctness police" and that it was only fun and games and nothing more The latter tended to be unanimously men A few weeks ago, Forbes magazine even showed the trailer to a[...]

Round Jenga? Okay. Let's see how this works, then.

Adi Tantimedh writes; I get strange thoughts when I play video games Other people get them from using drugs or alcohol, but with me, it's games There's something about their inherent absurdity that never fails to get my brain going. I was playing the new XBLA stealth game MARK OF THE NINJA over the weekend[...]

Adi Tantimedh writes for Bleeding Cool; There's been a lot of talk this year about shooting games signaling the death-knell for the video game industry in its current state There are simply too many of them dominating the market now, and games companies are investing the greatest amount of money in games with shooting in[...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srl5A0dbtiw Silent Hill Revelations 3D is hitting theaters in 2012. Grace Randolph delivers a Comic Con interview with

High Moon Studios, it seems, are announcing a new Marvel game at San Diego Comic Con. It looks like it's Hit-Monkey based on the The website

Nerdy Show reports from E3 for Bleeding Cool. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCSxc_fIxc8[/youtube] Without a doubt, one of the games we're most excited about is Gearbox Software's Aliens: Colonial Marines It's an official, canonical part of the series.  We talk to Senior Producer, Brian Burleson in front of the ACTUAL alien queen and get a feel for just how deeply this[...]

Nerdy Show reports from E3 for Bleeding Cool. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d9yxEGGVFU[/youtube] The Nerdy Show crew had a chance to check out the first 20 minutes of the new episode of Telltale Games' Walking Dead Episode 2 Now we interview Richard Iggo about how the decisions players made in Episode 1 will affect Episode 2, the complexities of narrative-driven gameplay,[...]

Nerdy Show reports from E3 for Bleeding Cool. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oyx_flXBXzI Little Orbit’s forthcoming Young Justice: Legacy bridges the five

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX9FMdxaN_Y Nerdy Show reports from E3 for Bleeding Cool. Earth’s Mightiest Heroes Assemble for a new fighting game

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVg9D-qPzrE Nerdy Show reports from E3 for Bleeding Cool. The most talked about superhero game at E3 was the recently

Bloggers, gamers, even games developers (not of the HITMAN game, of course) and some commentators have reacted with the expected offense and outrage which triggered off the usual debates from trolls and idiots who claim equivalency in not seeing anything wrong with it, which were countered by arguments that the abuse of women and rape[...]

Originally Green Monster Games, 38 Studios is a game company in trouble But it may bring down a lot more than just itself. Founded by Curt Schilling, his games company received a $75 million loan guarantee from Rhode Island if Schilling would move his company from Massachusetts in 2010. This month, the company missed a million point[...]

Interesting weekend of video games as I watched a friend play the open beta for THE SECRET WORLD, an upcoming MMO game, and some MAX PAYNE 3 The two games are pretty much on opposite ends of the spectrum: THE SECRET WORLD is a subscription-based PC MMO role-playing game, MAX PAYNE 3 is a[...]

For the last few years, I've been trying to put my thoughts together about video games in relation to other popular medium like movies, TV, comics and books Video games are fast becoming the predominant form of pop culture consumed by people from their teens to middle-age, taking up the cultural space that used to[...]

Marv Wolfman, amongst many comic book acheivements, co-created the character Blade for Tomb Of Dracula. After the first movie was made, Wolfman sued

If you get preorder the LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes for Playstation 3 in advance from EB - and pay $78 for the privelege - you'll get this exclusive

By now, the game developer Bioware's message boards have accrued over 1,000 pages of outraged and heartbroken posts from fans about how disappointed they are in the end of the game, which is supposed to be the pay-off of a unique trilogy in games that first came out in 2007 And the game hasn't even[...]

What do you get when you mix The Lizard with The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? That's basically the question asked by the inevitable videogame tie-in to this year's hotly-anticipated Spidey reboot. The game follows on from the action of the movie, in which it seems reasonable to assume that the threat of The Lizard will be in[...]

GutterWatch: Thank you Gutters. Most appreciated, Now please hire me. ToyWatch: I was struck watching the Leveson inquiry yesterday, how much Nick Davies'

Little Orbit, creators of the Nintendo Wii/DS game Busy Scissors, to teach people hairstyling tricks, is making Young Justice Legacy video games for next year, for the Playstation 3, XBox 360, Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS Although by then, they'll all probably have different names Playstation 4, XBox 720, Wii U and the 4DS Anyway. Young[...]

This is Jessica Steele Allen as Chloe Frazer. She likes to Cosplay. She likes Uncharted, obviously. This is the last page of the first Uncharted comic,

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csTf2Z7xlQ0[/youtube] WARNING: SPOILERS ABOUT SAINTS ROW: THE THIRD AND THE GLORIOUSLY SILLY BOLLOCKS IT GLEEFULLY TROTS OUT. For the past week, the pop culture comedy that's had me hooked was not a movie or TV show but a game: SAINTS ROW: THE THIRD. The SAINTS ROW games take their cue from GRAND THEFT AUTO, where you play a[...]

It Over 6.5 million gamers signed up to take part in its its epic battles on that first day. Although gaming is an interactive medium in its own right it's still a natural response to describe some of the games big action set-pieces – The assault on New York, the sandstorm battle – as 'cinematic'. I asked[...]