A Tale in the Desert’s fifth Telling opens with a new Pharaoh and a fresh opportunity to build seven monuments, one for each of the game’s disciplines. New technologies and skills await, including increasingly difficult mining puzzles and a brand new fishing system. “In Tale IV, players created new technologies for Tale V players to unlock,” says creator Andrew Tepperson. “They came up with stuff that I hadn’t considered in seven years of Tales.”
The City of Heroes: Going Rogue expansion pack takes the MMORPG’s good-versus-evil war into new territory, allowing your characters to migrate from superhero to villain, or vice-versa. New characters find themselves in a place known as Praetoria, a previously-unseen parallel version of the game world. There, a man named Marcus Cole became Emperor of the world, rather than the superhero Statesman — fresh characters can align themselves with the Resistance or with Cole’s Praetorian Guard, moving from a neutral stance to superhero or villain in the process. Existing characters can also visit Praetoria and learn more about its secrets.
The enigmatic computer called Entity needs your help: build various types of towers — from basic gun turrets to lightning-dealing teslas — to stop the alien hordes threatening to overrun a desolate planet. The invaders come in 15 varieties, however, so you’ll need to plan your strategy carefully or they’ll escape with the power cores needed to turn on a dormant defense grid. “Be merciless. They are,” Entity advises.
“[StarCraft] isn’t a game you can hope to master in a weekend. It takes a lifetime to get good at it,” says Dustin Browder, game director for StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty. The Zerg, Protoss, and Terrans are back for an epic storyline starring down-and-out Terran Jim Raynor. The non-linear campaign lets you choose missions in any order. Browder and his team revamped StarCraft’s graphics with stunning 3D visuals and they painstakingly reworked all three races’ units for the optimal strategic challenge.
An evil samurai warlord is using Kuji magic to turn innocent animals into mindless minions. As a fellow Kuji adherent, only the fledgling ninja Hiro can stop him. With help from his fellow ninjas, Hiro travels the feudal Japanese countryside, defeating ever-more-powerful bosses as he makes his way to the dark fortress where said warlord resides. “We wanted to make a game with a wider appeal, so we could come home and play with our families,” level designer Ulrik Hauen-Limkilde says.
The definitive Tower Defense Strategy game that’s easy to pick up, engrossing to play, and hard to set down. Strategically place your towers on the map to prevent alien enemies from stealing your power cores. Play just for fifteen minutes or several hours.
No toy gets left behind in the movie and in Toy Story 3: The Video Game. The team at Avalanche Software was tasked with translating the film’s thrilling storyline to an interactive medium, and senior producer Vince Bracken notes: “During the development process, one of our pillars for success was ‘truth in toys.’” Find out what he means in our latest article.
You are entering The Devil’s Playhouse and its first chapter, “The Penal Zone.” Sam and Max – an affable six-foot dog and his companion with a Napoleon complex – return for new adventures that throw a smorgasbord of pop culture references in a blender and pour out a delicious mix of pun-filled chaos. Max has acquired new psychic abilities that are key to defeating General Skun-ka’pe, but he is just the first in a new series of villains who make Batman’s rogues gallery seem normal. Dive in with us…
An advanced MMOG (Massively Multiplayer Online Gaming) mouse, Razer’s Naga shifts the balance between keyboard and mouse by putting an unprecedented number of in-game commands in one place. It combines a multi-button thumb grid and a game interface add-on to place every selection you need in the palm of your hand. And its ergonomic form maximizes ease of use, so you can game in comfort for hours on end. With the Razer Naga, you will get Imba.
With nothing more than a web browser plug-in, you can enter the world of OnLive, where a wide variety of games are available for you to play with just a click of your mouse. No large files to download and install, no system requirements to worry about. All of the computing takes place many miles away, but it feels instantaneous, thanks to a variety of tricks employed by CEO Steve Perlman and his team. Read on to learn more about the phenomenon known as “cloud gaming.”