Mafia II Trailer Puts You In The Shoes Of A Wise Guy

2K has a pretty solid release schedule for this year, and one of the highlights is definitely “Mafia II”. Other games have tried to put you in the roll of a gangster climbing up the ranks of organized crime, but “Mafia II” is looking to do it bigger and better than anything that’s come before it. Just check out the trailer above to see what you can expect when the game comes out later this year.

Dev Box Interview: Zoë Mode’s Producer Brynley J. Gibson

It usually takes a small army to create the video games that we play, and, most of the time, all of the focus gets put on the game itself, and not on the people that came together to make it. Our Dev Box interview series takes a look at some of the unsung heroes (developers, producers, artists, etc) that have committed their lives to entertaining all of us. In this week’s Dev Box we are letting Zoë Mode’s Producer Brynley J. Gibson, who recently worked on the the charity game “Chime” for Xbox Live Arcade (which if you haven’t picked up yet, you totally should – it’s for a good cause) provide us some insight into who he is as a gamer, and how he ended up working in the game’s industry.

Name: Brynley J. Gibson
Title: Producer
Company: Zoë Mode
Job Description: Help facilitate making something beautiful with fantastic creative people.
First title worked on: “The Movies”
Most recent title worked on: “Chime” but before that “Art Academy” for Nintendo on DSi

What game has most influenced you, and why? [Continue Reading]

Dante’s Inferno Review: To Hell And Back

Hell is a place that many different mediums have explored; movies, television, and comic books frequently venture to Catholicism’s home of eternal damnation. However, it’s a rich setting that hasn’t really been fully explored in video games, until now. Based on the classic poem by Dante Alighieri, “Dante’s Inferno” (the game) from EA, gives gamers the opportunity to step into the role of Dante as he journeys to the deepest sanctum of Lucifer to save his beloved. To steal a line from the marketing material, gamers can finally go to Hell. [Continue Reading]

New Moto GP 09/10 Trailer And Release Date Speed By

Capcom’s revealed a release date for their latest addition to the “MotoGP” franchise. “MotoGP 09/10″ will hit store shelves on March 16 as “the most definitive game of the MotoGP series yet.” It may not be every gamers’ cup of tea, but fans of moto racing should be happy with what “09/10″ is packing – and on two wheels, none-the-less. And if you absolutely can’t wait, there’s a demo headed to XBLA and PSN before release so you can start revving your engines a little early.

BioShock 2 Review: I Want To Be Under The Sea

2007 was a big year for video games; that’s an undeniable fact. So many great games came out that year that it’s hard to nail down one in particular as the best game of that year. However, there’s one game almost always comes out near the top of the heap; “BioShock.” Ken Levine and 2K Boston’s underwater masterpiece is something that gamers will always look back on as a true classic. “BioShock” was both a critical and commercial success, so a sequel was inevitable. However, “BioShock 2″ wasn’t handled by the same development team, with 2K Boston passing off the reins to 2K Marin, and it didn’t even feature the same characters. However, “BioShock 2″ somehow managed to be one of the most enjoyable and compelling games to come along in a while. [Continue Reading]

N3 II: Ninety-Nine Nights Trailer Wants To Destroy Everything

Whether you loved or hated the original “Ninety-Nine Nights” it looks like the Xbox 360 is about to get another dose of the horde-based hack-n-slash title courtesy of Konami. While the appeal of the original may have been a bit general gamer audience, partially because it came out really early in the Xbox 360’s lifecycle, and partially because it wasn’t really that much fun. However, it looks like developers Feel Plus and Q Entertainment are hoping to inject some fun into “N3 II: Ninety-Nine Nights” when it comes out later this year. Let’s keep our fingers crossed.

Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter Review: Heeeee’s Baaaaack

Releasing a remake of a game is always a tricky situation for a developer. What may seem like a simple concept of offering an updated versions of someone’s favorite game really boils down to how can you sell virtually the same product to someone twice. Such is the case for Majesco Game’s latest XBLA release, “Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter.” Based on the 2001 release “Serious Sam: The First Encounter,” this new release updates a handful of features, as well as adds a shiny new coat of paint to the original. But is that enough to get you to pick up this “classic”? [Continue Reading]

BioShock 2 Launch Trailer May Cause Hydrophobia

Well damn. If you weren’t excited about “BioShock 2″ yet, watch this trailer and you will be. AND … if the massive battle that goes down there doesn’t hook you, check out Multiplayer’s guide to all the plasmids in the game. Yes, it’s a sequel to an amazing game, and has lofty expectations that it may or may not live up to, but come on, going back to Rapture is going to be amazing.

Blood Bowl Review: The Football Video Game Based On A Board Game

Elves, Orcs, Dwarves, and other fantasy characters aren’t new to video games. They have become a cliche and are often seen in online roleplaying games to make a quick buck for investors. However, in those types of games you often align yourselves with friends to defeat a great evil or just grab some loot. None of these games give you the option of playing a violent variation of football. This is where “Blood Bowl” comes in; a grid-based board game developed by Games Workshop which made its debut in the 80s and still has a strong following today. This isn’t the first time “Blood Bowl” has been made into a video game, but it is the first to make use of the internet and the latest version of the original rules. [Continue Reading]

Deadly Premonition Looks To Be Super Creepy

My premonition about Ignition Entertainment’s upcoming game “Deadly Premonition” is that it’s going to be off-the-wall crazy. Just watch the trailer. It won’t make any sense, but it will look pretty awesome. When you’re done you may ask: What’s up with the shove-your-arm-into-a-guys-mouth attach? Does it matter? Really? The tree is bleeding. Won’t somebody please help the tree.

Yeah. It’s that kind of crazy. Your Xbox is even scared of February 23rd. [Continue Reading]

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