Announced at E3 last year, Heroes of Ruin is the new action RPG from Square Enix for the 3DS. Featuring unprecedented online connectivity for a Nintendo handheld, it will allow for drop-in/drop-out multiplayer and plenty of character customization. Check out this video to see just how much you can customize your heroes.
Shawn Vermette
A new game is released to market with a great soundtrack, superb writing and localization, a great visual aesthetic and sharp graphics and garners a slew of sterling reviews. It proceeds to fail miserably in sales, dooming this promising series to an early and undeserved death. It’s a tale that gamers are all too familiar with. Too many notable games have fallen into this hole and never recovered. For a while it looked as if EarthBound was going to avoid this fate as, despite its lackluster sales for the Super Nintendo in 1995, a sequel was shortly in development for Nintendo’s new 3D system, the Nintendo 64. READ MORE
In this installment of the Speculator, we discuss the potential return of the Ninja Turtles, a L.A. Noire follow-up and an Xbox without discs. READ MORE
This week, we have the return of a long-absent PC series, a long-quiet PlayStation Move action game and the long-ridiculed concept of Transfarring.
TOP STORY: SimCity V revealed
SimCity will be returning to PCs finally in 2013 compliments of Maxis. During its GDC event this week, EA revealed that this entry would use an entirely new game engine called Glassbox. This engine will enable SimCity V to contain fully-3D cities for the first time, along with curved roads. The only real details about its gameplay state that there will be both a competitive and a cooperative online component to the game. We expect to hear more about it at E3 this year, but if it doesn’t incorporate llamas in some way, it just won’t be SimCity.
Plants vs. Zombies has been released on pretty much every gaming system around, so chances are if you’re interested in it, you’ve already bought it in the past. It should be noted, though, that this is possibly the best version released to date. READ MORE
